Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-10-25
sQUIBs.


The fruit crop in England this year
is poor, and large shipments of APP
Piles are being made from New York.
Sturgeon says it is wicked to give
money for religious pnrpo es, SO long
as you have relative in need.
Robert Collyer says of the oyster
plant at is always just going to taste
like oysters, but it never does
| The Republicans of Maryland hope
to elect three Congressman and re-
duce the Democratic majority in that
State to 5000.
/ Powdered hair is again fashion
able. For use on butter it should be
very fine, and applied with drcdg-
ing box.-Danbmy Ncrs.
/ A Philadelphia bookseller once in
serted the following advertisement of
new publications: "Mill on Political
Economy. Ditto on the Floss
Fenton was fat poet, whose habit
1t was to lie in bed and be fed with a
IspOon. He was almost rs lazy as
Thompson, who died Of Incidence.
| Cabinets, tying-posts, and call par
Iaphernalia for performing or expos
ing spiritual manifestations" arc adj
vcrtiscd by a Washington manufact-
urer.
1t is the shrewd remark ola close
observer that women do not want
equal rights half so much as they
want more room in the street cars
Brooklyn argus.
Palestine is to have railroad, and
the cry will soon be: "All aboard for
Jerusalem. Passengers for Moab and
the Dead Sea will please remain in
the forward cary. Y. Commercial
Advertiser.
Now that Bishop James is dead,
Bishop Levi Scott, of Delaware, be-
comes the senior Bishop of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church. He has
: been Bishop since 1862.
The Liberal 1duocdte of Moravia,
' Africa, heads its columns: 'sThe love
of liberty brought us here;' "Chris-
tian Liberia, the open door to heath
:. en- Africa" "rerms--onc bushel of
unhulled coffee per year.
The Fat Contributor can't UNDER
y stand how man will struggle two
hours to climb a creased pole at a
y country fair when his health is too
: poor to permit him to split any wood
: at home.
= TIE OLD SToRY.-The democratic
Z confidence is sublime. They are GER
:, tain of victory. But so they were in
= 1872, in 1868 and in 1864. They will
be wiser in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
!. Times.
J. Again the trail of Charley Ross has
j. been struck at least il is so reported.
G Philadelphia detectives have arrested
} man who claims to know where the
g, lost boy is sccrctcd, somewhere in
d Pennsylvania.
n DIR. Barclay, a prominent 'reform.
" or" of Muscatinc, has lett that city on
le account of having been discovered by
% his wife in adtllterous intercourse
n with woman of that city named
Us Mrs. Russell.
- He came in and secured 25 cents fol
y poor orphan child awaiting burial
4 and then went around the corner and
. winked across the counter ut that un
- buried orphan with diamond
~ brcast-pin in his shirt, aud called fol
=. Monongahela ight.-Nen Orlean
70 Bulletin.
c. "A FRU1TFuL CAUSE OF PROFANITY
le We don't care how good he is, thu
lg man whose coat pockets always catcl
IN on the door knob as he goes out of ;
&c room, can get up most terrific rep
as utation for unbridlcd profanity
n Burlington Journal.
A COMMON COMPLAINT. - Ceda
Rapids merchants complain that to,
many of their customers are spendin,
ve their loose change in going to tn
I'd Centennial and leaving their littl
10 sugar and coffee bills at home unpaid
ct -Burltngton Journal.
Id There is cure for rheumatism.
W Connecticut man, bcdridden with
re for weeks, jumped up and ran half
n mile like a circus clown last week
O. when he discovered that some on
us had set the house OH fire under him
- The United Glass-mal,ers of Ger
r many, gave Herr Picper $4,000 70
n. his patent for tcmpering and harden
i, ing glass, which is done by submit
w ting the material, while it is in red
Az heat, to the action of superheate,
NJ steam.
ch A school of mackercl a mile lon
he and fourth Of mile wide wa
I'd struck not long ago by 4he fishin
20 smacks Of New London, Conn, an,
O. at single draw Of tho nets 10000
he fish were taken, which in their turl
n nettcd $4,000 cash.
u, A man WHO was about to be hang
:" ed In Indiana, sang, as he stood wit
!. the moose about his neck, ooh, Ill
=: bright angels arc waiting for mo.
Is Whereupon the local editor fiendish
~ ly wrote, "And then the angels stir
81 red up the fire and looked brighter.
Ill The American people are slecpin,
rs upon volcano, and do not seem t.
r. know ii. Precisely the elements tina
m prepared the way for the rebellion
between the first and second Monda,
in December, 1860, and the firing up
on Fort Sumpter on the 18th and 13tl
a, of April, 1861, arc again preparing t
Id seize the government.-Phtt0delphi
at Press.