Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-04-12
Little Of Everythinx.

Icct SUCK. |.
Why is life fikc a conundrump Be-
cause many give it up. Il
When farmers cannot raise good
crops they do the other thing-raise
the prices.
When man is so busy that he can ,
not mind his own business, he should
have assistance.
Hundreds of bags of pulverized
grasshoppers are being imported into
France from America for fish bait.
The Wheeling Register says the
weather has been SO fine down there
that telegraph poles began to bud.
A single entry of sugar at the Bos-
ton Custom House lately weighed
over 3,OOOOO pounds, and the duty
on il, paid in gold, was $4,000.
Says country editor: "Who
drinks all the whisley made in the
United States is what staggers u.s."
1t is enough to staggcr anybody.
A young girl mother cut the throat
of her illegitimate offspring with a
Smn5n, Iast from Tho otiacIs If which
!, " d;nI ' va '' v
- ''o''
The Mariposa (Cal.) Express says
that u large Irish potato from the
Yosemite valley is OH exhibition in
.''s. 49, NV ~
:" 4"''''''
An old Dutchman i1pze his nose.
h,,e .n ;.' i5 ~. o osa v sa,tv rears mt
-, 10, ro'. t.ooan h;sSolf hsforn no
m nv ,u..a I;S ,;n%o
"""e' ''' VS. Il
"Don't come to see me any more Just
yet, John; father has been having his
nails aronnd his toes" wrote a guilcss
Eddyyillc girl to her adorer.
An old tombstone in the burylng
ground at West Lynn, Mass, mas TINS
inscription: "God took the good, too
to take away.' Rather rough on the
momrncrs.
| Inc sheflH OF Ahdubon county mas
so much machinery, winch he has Ia
Ken on executions, piled mp around the
court house that the place looks very
estahl;shmcnt
A constable at the Liverpool Police
Court described a prisoner rs pre-
latlc drunk. lie meant 'paraiytlcal-
~ drunk. The magistrate cautioned
HIM against any further reflections
"p'" ''e ''"'h " "'s"ops'
i A doctor attending a punster who
was very i'll, apologized for being late
one day by saying that he had to stop
to see man who had fallen down a
well. "Did he kick the bucket,
Doctor ?" groaned the punstcr.
Professor McAffee. of the Iowa
: Agricultural College, says that s.away
back in the years Iowa was covered by
Ian arid sea. and deposite what Is
known as the Potsdam sandstone,
which underlics the whole of Iowa.
!. two dollars per oath: on week days
i the rate is lowered to only one dol.
lar per oath. The law is rioid. and
, the proceeds. when collected. are to
90 toward founding lunatic asy-
, ium.
"your husbands shirt wishes "a
|, commune with YOU. ono matter
said the widow. aIf he's cot no moro
spirit in the other world than he
had in this. it's NOT worth botherino
about.o
) w;sh;no 20 nov he c.;o,5 com
, plimcnt, gentleman remarked: q
hear You. have very industrious
|; wife?" EYES," replied the friend
with a melancholy smile, t'she's never
idle. She's always finding something
for me to do"
n Tfron :, ro. 1ool, cn;.,
, - @ nao - oo o"uD Sill ~.
: immediately mt Won down in tho
catalogue ms Iohncrem Iacobus
+ |Smithiorium. Is II any wonder that
} Young man feels stuck mn under such
| circumstances
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do you ,sposc little girls have 70
s eat cat meal IN Heaven, mamma 8
5 " aa i.slaou :I.io is "
, a,,,;,, .1 was W. W. ,ss u'M 49,. 80.
innn;,'.iv -" a.aas, a, ~, ~ och'ni.
,vheatS ~, ,ha s"L;,a P'
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A general united effort of the
breeders of trotting horses, to show
: the different strains in direct cOmpe.
.Mh0h, VIII take pace IN .Septcmber,a,
lhiIadclpnia, at Ihe inaugural
r bfeedefs ocntehniai Irottlng Meet
ih9' d"fmS the EXPOSITION.
!, Brideet-"SureM Marie and me was
discushin over what was Thin thimDs
in the pitcher over the mantei. y
Mistress-"Why. Bridget. those arc
, Ralph angels" Bridget---"Och,th thin
Inc Dotn OF us was wrong l SAID they
Wuz TWINS, ana Marie said they were
bats.
A Waynsboro', Pa, bride tainted
at the conclusion of the marriage
ceremony. She was 20 years old and
when the bridegroom attempted to
p.eN n1l up nei poncs haPpea anu
.lacAeu me u p"hule oi dry aggots
ma s'a'e oi COMMISSIONER ooftyn
@Hy"s'
/ The French have discovered a
method OF detecting raised checks. 1t
is only necessary to photograph the
suspected paper, when, if there has
smre 10 chow IN ~. nhntn%,a - =
thouoh om;ie imnercentph,s T. H.
name, ;tsnif ''
~, go -,
Inc CoIlpIfol1er OF currency VIII
ISSUE no more 70 noles on inc mer-
chants Nationai BANK OF New bed
Ioru, Mass, those hoies having re-
feited. and the genuine ones in ,circn-
llation will be redeemed and de-
stroyed.
a. ,m,
a 1ass ve ane Nan, hoh hry Ne,S n;. mere
was u yer! niue BOY waning up 70
ms Ances, almost IN tne slusn Oh sum
~. ;..ee. ,a riay aa: e =. Wnen ,
|ain't You to school, young man I
l'Cos I've got the hoopin cough 7 . he