Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-05-24

I Tho man who popped the question
by starlight got his sweethaeart's con
sent in twinkling.ma l
| Thirty-two pages Of a Washington
newspaper, are filed with list o
property threatened with confiscatiol
for delinquent taxes. 3fflaf
| At the annual convention of ,Gyp
Isles, held a few days a go at Joliet
Lll., the chief laid out the route to bt
lpursued by each band during tn,
year. 3. ss .af i5..ya ,..s
That old Morse King hit the nail OF
the head who, when asked what hi!
religion was answered: "Ask my
wife, our women are nearer to God
than we are" .e.
The khedive of Egypt provides q
daily feast for the cats of Cairo, a,
the great Mosque and great is the tn.
multi at the hour of prayer, when they
all rush to the distribution priest fol
their allowance.
Josh Billings has written play
The principal part will be taken by
the hind legs of a mule, and the dra.
matte movements. will be hastened by
the business end of a hornet, skillful.
ly introduced. 4t
81 doesn't want no lawyer; Use
gwine to tell de troof dis time" il
what regular customer at the Re.
corder's Court, told his Honor when
that fanctionary inquired if he had
engaged legal assistance.
"What's use play poker,Y remarked
an almond-eyed denizen of Arizona,
the other day. "Me hold four kings
and lace; Mexican man hold all
same time four laces and king
whole week washee gone like wood
bine." aatt i ~
Equestrianism Is the fashionable
amusement in Paris this season, and
there is an especial rage for ponies,
for which great prices are paid. The
smaller the pony the better, and there
is often ridiculous contrast between
the size of the animal and its rider.
Boys and girls under ten years of
age are not hereafter to be permitted
to work i'm the factories of Massachu-
setts. The law passed by the Legis-
lature on the subject has gone into
effect against the opposition Of inter-
ested parties in Fall River and else
where.
A Chicago boy addicted to going to
the theatre to see the heavy, drama,
called his father to supper the other
day, by bawling out: "What, no,
there, base craven! Come hither to
thy vesperian hash" And when the
father and son came together it
sounded as if the belt had slipped off
a 20-foot fiywheel.
Do you know how a church fair
works? The principle is very inge-
nious one. Some ladies borrow mon
ey from their husbands, buy material
and make up fancy articles, which
they give to the fair. Then they
change places. borrow more money
and buy the articles back again.
PRUNING MELON vINEs.-Few per-
sons practice pruning cucumber, mel
on, and other similar kinds of vines !;
still, ii is just as benfiical, if properly
done, as the annual pruning of the
grape and other woody plants. The
pruning should be confined, however,
to the pinching OF of the ends Of
shoots only.
Prof. Goodwin Smith publishes i'm
the Canadian Monthly an article on
"rhe Immortality of Soul" i'm which
he holds that there is no absolute
proof of a future state, but, in the alb
sence of anything contrary, we are
bound to accept the great mass of ev-
idence which makes future life an
extreme probability.
The Rees River (Nev.) ReciHe says
that dead squaw and her living in
FAINT were burned together by the FL
atas at Yankee Rlado laet week.
They dug hole, threw in it the
squaw's body, laid the babe on her
breast, and covered them with brush.
In explanation, one of them said !:
"Baby no good, no got milk bimeby
heap cry; die pooty soon, anyhow"
In Barbados CIV. ~ 45O persons
have been arrested. The prisons are
full. Many persons have taken refuge
on vessels. There has been great de-
struction ofproperty. The estimated
damage done is equal to the total
value of the provision crop of the
island. The recurrence of the riot is
feared if the Government party show
the same insensibility as heretofore.
A Louisville chap thought he had
found something pure and fresh in
the shape of laughing sunny little
witch OF a girl, and was on the point
of proposing marriage, when she
scattered his fond hopes to the winds
by remarking one evening: "You
kiss and hug me more than any gen.
tleman am acquainted with, except
Charley Wallace, and he is steam
boat clerk and only comes here once
a month"