Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-06-21

IN postponed to allow the stricken
and father, who had recov-
red somewhat from the effects of his
portion of the poison, to 70 to his
lead. Yesterday two more of his
died in the greatest agony,
md it is feared that others will yet
lie. .
"A Little Fun Now and Then"
What the country now needs is an
iceman's bell punch that will ring
when they give short wcight.-New
York Express.
There are more visitors in Wash
ington now than at any time since the
war. In nearly all cases they have
been to the Centennial and are sstak-
ing in" the national capital in one
trip.
Several dozen wooden bottom Con-
federate army shoes, relics of the civ
il war, are exhibited in Lynchburg,
Va, store.
Prince Louis Napoleon is going to
visit the Gar of Russia, accompanied
Gen. Flewry. 1t will be remembered |
hat the Prince is out of a situation.
And new comes Boston woman
who, to Guido her fashionable sisters
with their twenty-button gloves, has
invented and wears forty-hutton
stockings.
The Prince of Wales is getting tired
of staying at 'ome again, and serious
ly contemplates visit to the Ameri-
can Centennial Exposition.
A Pennsylvania physician told sick
lady that she couldn't live a month.
She died that night from excitement,
and her husband sues for $4,000
damages.
The attendance of foreigners at the
Centennial has not yet been large
enough to affect the total of steam
ship travel. An increase of passen-
gers is, however, expected before the
season closes. =.
at is better" says a placard in a
store in SeabroOk, N. H., 'sto wear A
q calico dress without trimmings. if
1t Is paid for, than to owe the shop
keeper for the most elegant silk, cut
in the most bewitching manner"
Says the Norwich Bulletin: "The
man who is fortunate enough to
win a bet with a lady usually gets
it In clippers. The common de-
vice is blue silk rhinoceros root.
ing up yellow satin morass."
''In Eastern lands" when the. Gov
eminent wants to get rid of a trpub-
lesome subject, he is invited to dine
with the chief local official, and word
is sent to his family that s.his dinner
didn't agree with him." after which
he passes into history.
1t is remarkable that st. Louis pa
per should be SO frank. The Eren-
ing Republican says: at is a good
thing to go to church; still there are
men In st. Louis who would be more
benefited tomorrow by visit to a
swimming school than church.
Moliere was asked the reason WHY,
in certain countries, the king may as
sumo tho crown at fourteen years of
age, and may not marry before eigh-
teen. ut is" answered Moliere, .sbe-
cause it is more difficult to rule q
wife than a Kingdom
There is class Of people who ask
you why You "don't" come 10 their
house, but never say '.do." They are
nearly related to the gentleman who
has always got "a bill to take np''
whenever you wish to effect a small
loan from him. .
A merchant tailor of Dubuque, fiay-
ing failed recently and several times
before, his creditors had their suspic-
ions aroused, and put detectives at
work. The result is that a large
amount of goods are reported as
found secreted In an old building i'm
the upper part of the city.
The body Of man was found near
Pine Bluffs, Arkansas, recently, with
twenty-three bullet and buck shot
holes in ii, and the coroner's Jury,
after mature and exhaustive deliber-
alton, returned a verdict that sthe.sde-
ceased came to his death by sniside at
the hands of some parties to the jury
unknown"
| A young lady in New York, whose
father has received Princes at his
table, and is still enormously wealthy,
graduated lately as a Kindergarten
teacher, and is about to take position
in a kindergarten school. She saws
she has no notion of spending her
time futtering her feathers on the
sidewalk, and her father would moi
make it an object for her to become a
cook.
"Pa, are you in favor Of the Bible
in public schools Z" asked a youngster
the other morning. "Why, of course
l am" responded the father, plea ed
that such an important subject should
engage the attention of his youthful
offspring. "What makes you ask such
a question, my son?' ooh, nothing ?
reioined the Young hopeful, "only
thought may be you wasn't, as YOU
never had one at home"
All the tired young men will now
be for freeing the women. Susan B.
Anthony, in her last speech, spoke
substantially as follows: "She thought
that when the new dispensation were
come woman could WOO q man and
relieve him of the trouble of asking a
certain question. Then woman
possessed Of wealth and having a
beautiful home and surroundings
might be loved by modest, poor
young man, with too high sense Of
honor to beseech her 10 share his poy.
erty, and she could say, will you p
ETC., and relieve him of superfiuons
entreaty, and give him a good home
at the same time"
WHEN DOES A CHILD BECOME HU-
MAN BEING ?-This is a question which
has not in this State been settled in
law until the present week, when the
Supreme Court decided in a case
brought up from Floyd county. A
doctor was called to attend woman
in child birth. The child died. The
doctor was charged with killing the
child, was tried and convicted OF
manslaughter, under an instruction
Of the court, that if the jury found
the child was born alive, whether the