Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-06-28

ESTABLISHED
"a Little Fan Now and Then.
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Hayes and Wheeler into line! Z
Cincinnati has 4,693 manufacto
ries. I il n
4 1t is fashionable in Washington fol
women to go to horse races. is132H
A San francisco servant, assaulted
by the family cat, has brought a liam.
|age suit for $4,000. FG BIZ ai}g
/ There is town IN Kansas called
Woman's Waste. 1t Is without any
hustle to speak of.
i The Liverpool Courier says there
are indications that the Centennial il
beginning to attract passengers from
England. Y
4 There is some talk of a mass meet
ing of doctors at the Centennial: a
"blne mass" meeting of course. ia.
| Governor Hayes weighcs l85, ia
compactly built, and stands S feet, lO
in his boots. Although a man Of 81,
a stranger would take him for about
10. .F61
brigham Young is trying to win
Ann Eliza back to his fold. She has
cleared by her lectures $4,000 in
gold.
They must have careful kitchen
girls in China. That country sends
to the Centennial some plates and
dishes over thousand years old. Y
Peter Cooper won't hand ont cent
for campaign purposes, and his party
thinks of dropping him for = "better
man." .,s,,,s ~ .sss2
A married couple, near Atlantic,
.faged respectively Is and is years
have a baby. What's more, they've
separated, the wife keeping the baby.
In a French translation Of Shakes
peare, the passage, "Frailty, thy name
is woman" is translated, "Mademoi-
selle Frailty is the name of the LADY, p
Woman has many advantages over
man; one of them is that his will has
no operation till he is dead, whereas
hers generally takes effect in her life
time.
Some people are like telegraph
wires. They set themselves high up
inth air and congratulate themselves
upon their subtlety, their fine-drawn
sympathies.
/ Governor Hayes is not church
member, but regular church-gocr.
His wife Is q devoted Methodist
They have four children, three sons
and daughter. One of the SONS ia o
married man.
"Py Schiminy. how dot poy studies
de languages!" is what delighted
elderly German said when his four
year-old son called him a blear-eyed
son of a saw-horse.-Boston Globe. Y
Harvey discovered the circulation
of the blood before he was thirty
four Yet some editors get to be
over hundred before they can dis
cover the exact circulation of their
own newspapers. ~
Leo Miller, the free-lover of Min
nesota, spiritual brother to Victoria
| Woodhull, aud "so-se- husband te
Miss Matte Strickland, lectured in
the village of Waterford. Minn., q
night or two since. on his "atfinities,' p
and was frequently fencored with
spoiled eggs.
Al recent exhibition Of paintings
a lady and her son were regarding
with much interest picture which
the catalogue designated as: Luther
at the Diet of Worms" Having des-
canted at some length on its merits,
the boy remarked, "Mother, I see
Luther and the table, but where are
the worms? ?" et -
A young colorcd lawyer has been
dismissed from the communion of a
Baptist church, in Washington, for
playing croquet. The heiniousness
of this deeply sinful game is begin
mig to be understood in this land of
advancement.
A diapers shop at Paris, one OF
whose clerks swallowed table fork
two years ago, now includes the his
tory of its successful extraction in its
large posting advertisement. Pur-
chasers can view the fork and the
clerk, and OH departing are present.
ed with a boquet Of violets. sS
"lsn't that a beautiful piece of mu-
sic!" said one of Mrs. Clogger's fe-
male boarders as she turned from the
piano. IL like it very much," replied
Jones, particularly those long rests
that occur all through it,"
Cough has been severely snubbed
in GAINESVILLE, Wis, for daring to ask
S4O0 for a lecture in that city. The
Gazette says: considering the guam
fifty of potato bugs, the almost end
less number of chinch-bugs, the low
price of grain, the dullness Of trade,
and the lukewarmness in temperance
reform, Johns charges are too Steep"
A female witness in court in Plu-
mas county, California, asked permis.
sion to return to the stand for a mo-
ment. and this was her additional tes-
timony: ''Wcli, what l wanted to
say is, that the complainant's wife
had the reputation of wearing false
teeth and doing her hair up in papers
to make it cuil. forgot to swear to
II when was up here before"
A Dutchman lately attended the
law court in Boston to get excused
from the jury box. Il can't under.
sthand goot Englese." he said. :'What
did he say" asked the judge. u
can't understand goot Englese, re-
peated the Dutchman. Take your
seat, cried the judge ''that's no ex-
cuse You need not be alarmed, a;
you are not likely to hear any,"
i The Chinese are opposing Chris
tianity with Spiritualism. AT Shang
hal native mediums" 60 about repre-
senting the spirits Of deceased con
! verts as lowering miserably around
the earth, not being able to get int
heaven, and they implore their
friends to take warning by their fat,
. and turn a deaf ear to the missionar!
charmers. Imagine Chinese spiri
lowering around--pig tail and all
A Vermont court gave whole
some little lecture the other day to
, woman who applied for divorce OF
! the ground that her husband was
drunkard and abused her. The conr
, asked her if she knew that he was ,
drinking man when she married him
, and she admitted that she did. Tn
, judge said that when a woman mar
ries such man, with her eyes open
she ought to stand by the risk she ha
/ taken and a divorce should not b
granted. 4
The man Rivers, of South Troy, vt
who recently shot his wife, places
; the mnzzlc of the revolver close to tn
!, ear, and the ball passed into IL with
! out rupturing the skin, and lodged i
! the head Some days after, the ba
dropped from its Judgement, and, b.
ing extracted, was found to be mash
ell into the qnecrcst shape. Whe
: thc wnman was shot she WAS mr.