Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-01-05

There have been eleven earthquakes
in the United States This Year.
The Nebraska State Grange. now
in session al Fremont in that State. is
disconsolaic over the miserable man
agcmemi of the State Agency during
the past year.
The greatest circus now in exist
ence is that of J. w. Myers, an Amer
lean, who has travelled through Eu-
rope with it. and has now settled in
permanent quarters in Paris.
The most imposing petition of the
season was on Monday iiledat Speaker
kcrr's desk by Mr.. Randall. 1t was
one-eighth ola mile in length, con-
tanning over thirty thousand names
and prayed for the repeal ofthc stamp
check act.
An eastern paper says: "A CORES
pondent wants TO know the best way
to become literary man. Well. the
quickest way is for him to take 4
short voyage to sea. lie will then
very likely become Il contributor to
the Atlantic"
The Newburg Journal SAYS: ..The
father of the wife OF VIM. b. Aston,
the New York millionaire who died
last week, was Major John Arm
strong. the man who wrote the New
berg letters urging Washington To
make himself king al the close OF the
Revolutions.
The Allegheny Prcsbytery. which
met recently in Allegheny City, Penn.
took important action on the ques-
ton of Sabbath Observance. dcclar-
ing the publication and sale OF a
newspaper on the Lords day ineon-
sistent with membership in tho Pres
byterian church.
( A Danbury man. wishing TO en-
gage several bushels OF potatoes from
party in the suburbs, asked Il neigh
Dor what sort of II man he was.
well" said the conscientious neigh
Dor, Il don't know very much about
him. but l should think he would
make Il tip-top stranger"
A IIibernian female made her ap-
pcarancc ut the session OF the Board
natl, the other morning, and asked
them TO pardon out her ould man. be-
cause Ill the children had The small
poN. The ''shmall-poA" never broke
ont rs those Directors did on the
receipt Of this information.
Cats, foxes and weasels have al
ways enjoyed the reputation Of being
remarkably sly, and they no doabt
deserve ii ;but nothing can surpass
The slynoss with which ii woman, sur
priscd by an unexpected aallrr, viii
slip a sci of false teeth into her mouth.
-B,oohiy" Ayg"s.
| Scott-Siddons parts her hair on one
side, and the morning after her APP
pearance al Lewiston all The girls in
a Ia Siadons. But all the bows came
out i'll the afternoon with their hair
| parted in the middle, and the Siddons
style at once declined.
As watersdrinkers, New Workers
take The palm. They use 80 gallons
per capita every day, to the great an
noyance of the Water Commissioners,
who cannot see why they do not use
more beer. Strange 10 say, an aver
! age of 2O,O000O0 gallons per day more
are used in the winter than in the
summer, since 1l.D00 pipes and hy-
drants are left to run all day and
night, in order TO keep them from be-
coming stopped by ice.
| Tie Raleigh IN. CO Sentinel has
conceived a wondrons loye somehow
for The Methodist Bishops, Simpson
and Haven. A late issue says OF
them: Bishop Simpson is a hoary
headed apostolic gnide-posl TO peRdi-
! ton, according to North Methodism,
who does not 20 quite 50 far publicly
rs his MISUNDERSTANDING brother,
Gilbert Haven :and who has expressed
no third-tcrm opinions. For once in
his life he has lost a cheap chance for
| unconditional notoriety. Now what
viii the Bishops do, and how will
they get along?