Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-06-07
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Peter Cooper is sc, and says he can't
run.
Jefferson Davis and family have
gone to Europe.
Commodore Vanderbilt will be 50
next Saturday. His health improves
slowly.
Sheridan Shook is said to be the
richest theatrical manager, worth
100000. In former years he was
a butter dealer.
New York has new law by which
a wife may testify in favor of her hus-
band in criminal cases.
Real estate in New York and vicin-
ity is just now held down so firmly
by the mortgage power that it cam
not rise at all.
California has struck "bed-rock."
The Governor is waiting upon de-
pleted treasury for his regular salary.
1t takes a smart man to speak in
seven different languages. But il
takes a good sight smarter ono to
keep still in as many.
The national debt which was re-
duccd in the amount of $46l7,5l5
during the month of May, is now
$25, 1867 1888 less than it was on the
3Oth Of June year ago.
An English doctor says that strong
passionate love will bring on hear
disease, and it stands us all in hand
to love mildly and with a good deal
of lethargy.-Detroi Free Press.
A ventriloquist fell overheard and
was drowned in Lake Erie the Other
day. When the cry of "Help, help,
came from under the guards, the deck
hands said he couldn't fool them,
and went right along with theil
work.-Boston Globe.
This is the season of the year wher
the father of eleven unmarried daugh.
ters wishes more than ever that they
had been born boys. New bonnets
cost from six dollars upwards, while
mems hats can be purchased for two
dollars apiece.
A wit will have his joke even al
the expense of his gallantry. 1t was
Lord HoughtOn, who, when lady
more beautiful in her own eyes thar
those of the world, was Boosting tina,
she had had hundreds of men at her
feet, remarked in an undcrtone
"Chiropodists."
One of the trials of a womans life
is keeping dinner waiting for hus
band. An elderly Danbury lady ha.
remedy for this. She saws she sit
down to eat as soon as the meal il
ready, and then he is sure to come
"a watched pot" she gracefully OBJ
serves, "never bilcs."
| Los ANGELES wine-makers cmplo,
the primative mode for crushin:
grapes by trampling with the barr
feet. About score of half NAKED
Indians do the tramping, and it is tru
ly delicious to witness the purple juic
squirting up through their toes ant
mingling with the perspiraton whicl
streams from every pore. Win
made by this simple yet beautiful
method must possess peculiarly fin
flavor, and is just the thing for weak
stomached persons and for medica
and sacramental purposcs.-,San Ber
narlino Times.
Square-toed remark by the New
York I1ibwne; "Thc whole bushes
of arraigning Presidential candidate
because at one time and another the,
have advised friends to invest in Pa
cific Railroad stock, is pucrilc. Blu
if the necessity of Presidcnt-makin,
compel it, let us have fair deal al
around. Mr.. Blaine tried to get
chance for one friend to invest 1926, GO
on the ground floor of Northern Pa
cific and failed. If Blaine is to b
condemned what in the world sha1
we do with Bristow? He did &C
scores of his friends to buy Texas Pa
cite. Hanging would be too good 70
him."