Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-02
"A Little Fun Now and Then

The longest periods in a boys life
are those between meals.
Mr.. Caleb Cushing, American Min
lister to Spain, talks of resigning,
owing 10 bad health.
A western observer says nothing
will develop latent speed in a man
like Texas steer.
"Any ass says the Chicago Times,
''could make paragraph about the
Rev. Mr.. Bray" 1t would seem so.
pa" said little fellow to his un-
shaven father, "your chin looks like
the wheel in music box.-"Ner York
Herald.
a wild turkey weighing 40 pounds
and wearing beard eighteen inches
long, was lately shot in Ogeechee
swamps, Georgia.
Our patriotic sires never thought of
going to saloons for lager beer on
Sundays. They drank their New
England rum quietly at home.
A lady in st. Joseph, Mo, has be-
come so accustomed to watering her
flowers that she was out with her
watering-pot in the rain recently,
sheltered by an umbrella.
1t is estimated that it takes eight
cen centuries to form foot of coal,
but it ia a well-known fact that ton
of coal left ont on the sidewalk will
usually shrink so per cent. or more
in a single night.
Evans, the Welsh athlete, who il
supposed to be the strongest mar
living, let half ton gun be placed OIL
his chest and be fred of; and he i:
five feet eight inches high, just the
stature of Tom Sayers.
| Over a thousand miners are Oh
their way to the Cassear mines, il
Alaska, where there is probably more
gold that in the Black Hills. There
is the additional advantage in thi
case of being able to keep ones scall
as well as getting gold.
When a 2OO-pound darkey woma,
throws herself intoa Centennial roll
ing chair and pays over her sixt.
cents for an hours ride, the gloon
that settles over the gentleman.
white attendants face can be fel
from one end of the ground to tn
other.
A newly married couple in 81
Louis the other day had disagree
ment and used such language as wa
calculated to shock the moral sensi
bilities of the Young ladies living i
the same row of houses. A police
man was called i'm to quiet the dis
turhance. Just as he entered the doc
the light was extinguished and bot
man and woman bounced him an
pounded the stuffin' almost out Q
him, and placed his life in danger.
A Philadelphia hotel-keeper post
at his door this notice: "Englisl
/ German, Italian and Spanish spoke
here Arrives an Englishman an
in fantastic French asks for an inter
| prefer. "Monsicur," replies the wait
er, 'sthere is nonc." "What no inter
prefer? And yet you say on you
/ sign that all languages are spoke
{ here" "Yes, sir, by the travellers.
A man called at Post Office
: Maine. purchased a 3-cent stamp an
. requested the clerk to put il on til
= letter for him. This the accomm6
: dating clerk offered to do. but askc
/, him why he did not do it himself
= The answer was that he could neitl
err read, write or put on a stamp, bu
:. after some instruction he was pc
! suaded to try, and succeeding, w,
:. much pleased to discover that, a
though he was nneducated, he cou
4 lick postage stamp and atfix it
= an envelope.
n The Iowa City authorities have
e way of treating tramps that has {
g fectually rid that place of their pre-
h ence. The Mayor, a short time sin
e issued proclamation authorizil
le the arrest Of all persons found be
II ging, and providing that persons
l. found pay fine of $25, or work
le the stone pile for Y days. A ft
I; were caught at first, but now I
10 tramps give that place wide berI
IN and the citizens go to sleep withc
D. fear,