Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-19
Chips.

The reputation of no man is safe
until he Is dead and has no further
use for it.
5000 damages for calling wo-
man "a withered up old maid" in
Onondaga, N. Y.
They have woman at Nelson river,
Manitoba, who is credited with hay
ing eaten six human beings.
A Georgia preacher recently dcliv-
cred q sermon from the text: "And
the vale of the temple was wrapped in
twinc."
Long hair is glory to a woman
unless she neglects to clean the comb
and brush before her husband has
occasion to use them.
Julia Ward Howe says there are no
more bad men who walk the streets
nights than bad women. Julia says
mean things occasionally.
Miss Hawk of New York wants the
Legislature to change her name. This
is leap year. Let her swoop down on
some male chicken and make him
change it.
A washerwoman i'm Appleton died
last week, leaving husband an two
children without visible means of
support. Women seem to get more
thoroughly heartless every year.
10 Sing, of Chinese descent, cast at
Cincinnati last week the first vote re-
corded by Mongolian cast of the
Mississippi. He is tricky fellow
and voted the Democratic ticket.
Nothing will dry woman's eye
and check her sobs quicker, at flu.
neral, than the detection of new
style OF flOunce on q neighbOring
mourners dress.-Brooklyn Argus.
A couple of Usage men disputed
over matter of 80. 1t took Justice
two lawyers and several witnesse;
and jury three days and one night
to settle it, and the costs were $12O
A man who can sit with his feet IN
hot water, and yard of red flame
around his throat, and not feel tn.
sweet influence of spring, is dead II
the subtle instincts which link human
ity to nature,
Silver Change. will probably com,
into circulation in very short time
The Secretary of the Treasury is re-
ported as being already prepared to
begin to pay out silver coin in ex
change for fractional currency.
An Indiana girl at Vassar Colleg,
writes to her parents: "This is til,
most stylish hair-pin of a boarding
school / ever tumblcd to. can ca
four times day if want to, and &c
o fair hack at the hash every time"
Musical ssbees" have now been es
tablished in England, at which prize
arc awarded to the best amateur plan
players and singers at sight. CUES
tions upon musical topics are also in
cluded, and the plan is said to be yer
successful.
i Toledo Blade: A young lady 50
down emphatically on the sidewal
Oh Monroe street yesterday afternoon
and as she arose and shook the sno,
from her garment, she was heard I
remark something about having
man to hang on to by next winter.
Texas papers are holding up thei
hands in holy horror over a mucl
married chap, who proves to hay
wives in no less than ten dificrel
cities. The in-ten-city of that fe
lows affections fully justifies their e,
clamations.-New Yor& Commercit
Advertiser.
. In Anoka, Mimi, recently, 81,
year-old girl was overheard tellin
her playmate that she attended
church sociable the evening befor
and little boy had kissed her viii
they were engaged in play, but sl
said, "That's no harm, caus il was OF
preachers boy, you know"
II The New York Nal wants eac
one who has been partaking of I'll
Moody and Sankey spiritual feast I
step forward with five or ten-do
: lar note to assist in liquidating I'll
J llippodrome debt. That is a poe
{ religion which does not have fire
/; course to run and be gloritied throug
! a mans pocket book.
Iowa is becoming noted for shol
, horns. The sale of the Jacobs her
j at West Liberty last week attracte
the attention of noted breeders frol
abroad. One New York breeder in
vested nearly $4,000. For one he'll
er he paid $1,000. She was til
pet and pride of Mr.. Jacobs. Calve
/, sold right along at five hundred do
lars. --.