Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-10-18
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Inc fOOl OF SlIO0m III an undttrdCt'l
We sink hole of dirty water, sur
ounded by masonry. IL
A Chinese plant that changes color
hree times day has been received
It the Jardin dos Plantes. Paris.
San Franciscans pay 100000
rear for their Intoxicating liquors.,
he favorite drink being whisky
straight.
Cole Younger used to preach, but !!
after killing two or three men and
few trains, he kind of back
lid. Il
Kerosene is up to forty cents gall |
lon, and it begins to look as though
It would cost something to blow up
an old stove and q hired girl this
winter.-FMlton Times.
Four brothers in Hawkins county,
Tenn, married four sisters, about
thirty years ago, and now have "a
children, the average family being
13k
The Tallahassee (Fls.) Sentinel says
that from all parts Of that State come
cheering reports, The republicans
are working nobly.
The United States is to be visited
by the Prince Imperial of Austria,
who is about to make an educational
tour in Europe and America.
A Buffalo lady has just had her
handsome residence sold over her
head by the Sheriff, to satisfy jndg-
ment in favor of . young lady school
teacher whom she had maligned.
"WHAr's THE NEWS ?"-One Of the
beauties Of being a newspaper man
in these piping political times, is .
chance to answer the above question
about 1900, 600 times day.-Knr-
shall Times.
The vine disease is spreading in
France more rapidly than ever, and
dcfies all attempts at remedy. In
consequence, the price of land has
fallen one-half and in many vineyards
tho product of wine will not be one
tenth of what it used to be.
Gen. Harrison, in one of his late
speeches, gave Thos. A. Hendricks q
lively rap over the knuckles, saying
that he was the original ''man on the
fence" and that the only time COM
nlittee of five was ever known to be
equally divided was when Hendl icks
was member of it.-Peorsa Tran
script.
The Louisville Cousier-J Ou,'ndl
says: "Mrs. Sally Beers, of Clinton
county, Mich, works a farm of 100
acres and has nine children. If there
were few thousand such persons in
the world as Sally, more Of us might
escape work."
4 All Ice, of st. Louis, is what his
name implies--a Chinaman. His
wife is Irish. Of their progeny, the
boys are as unmistakablc Pats as were
ever baptized, and the girls are Of
clearly little Celestials as ever had
their feet cramped in babyhood.
Two Jews have just been elected to
the italian Senate, the first who have
ever held this honor in Italy. 1t il
hardly a decade since the Jews had
, no political and few social rights in
Italy, whereas, now every avenue o.
, lprefermcnt is open to them.
4 The Detroit Free Press believe,
t that s'the Milwaukee clergyman who
was stung between the eyes by
t bumble-bee as he assembled the pulpit
Q would have said it was warning hat
K the bee popped 1t to a man just as HI
e was going a-fishing."
: An Illinois girl who once swor'
that she would never marry homely
!, man, q Methodist preacher, sandy
= lcomplexioned person or one named
Jones, is now the beloved wife of thu
. reddest. headed man in the State, ani
. the homeliest preacher in four con
ferences-thc Rev. Mr.. Jones.
t There ia a considerable commerce
r in tOads between France and Eng
land. A toad of good size, and in fail
/: condition, will fetch about twenty .fiv,
cents in the London market, and ,
0 dozen of the extra quality are wortl
: five dollars. Market gardeners EN-
a ploy them to keep down the insects
The heirs of WIN. Penn still re
' ceive from the British Government
. $40, 600 a year in compensation fol
= their proprietary rights In Pennsyl
vania. 1t is in this manner that thu
!. British Government keeps its prom
Uses, even when those promises have
/. been obtained fraudulently. But il
! finds its reward in the reputation fol
I. good faith which 1t has established IL
every financial centre Of the world.
"Why," exclaimed campaign ora
: tor in Southern Illinois, to the can
!; didate who hired him to 60 out ani
. talk to a crowd, tho other night
8 "when begun to make a speech they
t egged me !" "Well," demanded Thu
. Indignant candidate, "did you sue
s cumb ?" "Suck 'em ?" exclaimed til,
Il wOuld-be orator, mo, you bet
? didn't; they want the kind to b,
sucked. They war spilled eggs !!
r Then the candidate paid of hi
+ stump-spcaker and let him go.
d On floor in Danbury home lie
, a little pile of sewing. Five month";
ago the head of the house wanted F.
, chair, and seeing but one handy, HI
dumped to the floor the sewing which
lay on it. His wife asked him to picl
it up. He said he wouldn't do it. Sh,
told him as he threw it there it couli
ROMAN until he got ready to pick i
: up. She would never touch it. Ant
there it remains, a memorial to indi
vidual spirit and united folly.-Dan
bury NeDs.
The French President MacMahol
: was lately preparing to get into tn
D train at Lucy. All at once an ole
q woman, in state of excitement, wa
q seen forcing her way through tn
+ crowd, and approaching the Duke o
Magenta, she exclaimed: ooh! linus
: see him once more before die =
9 The Marshal hasteneds to meet tn,
: peasant woman, clasped her hands
' warmly, and talked for few min
utes with her, until che somewhat re
: covered from her emotion. She wa
r no other than the nurse of the Mar
Q shall, the Widow Rinaud, aged 8
years.
Il 1t is reported that J. c. Pitkin,
D prominent citizen Of Sabula, ha
q eloped with Mrs. j. G. Leonard, wifi
, of well know gentleman of the sam,
place. The latter had agreed to
: separation from his wife last spring
but, having hope of winning hel
Y back, did not seek q divorce. Tn
4 ground of separation was her intima
). cy with Pitkin at that time, she pro
e lceeding to the home Of her parents ii
t Wellsville, N. Y. Mr.. and Mrs. L
s have two sons, aged II and 8 years