Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-14
ALL SORTS.

| Kossuth at seventy-four years of
age, says: "May hands are empty, but
Clean"
It is said that when a female child
is born in Indiana, the unhappy
father begins to save money to buy a
piano.
The supply for boots and shoes
made and consumed in this country
is equal to five pairs each per year
for Q very man, woman and child of its
population.
An Elgin, Gil. newspaper has this
advertisement; sFound-A buckskin
mitten. If the owner will leave the
other at this Office, he will greatly
oblige the finder"
Rev. Widow Van Colt wishes all
the galleries in Methodist churches
would burn up, SO as no longer to
give refuge to misunderstanding
sinners.
A man in New Orleans advertises
that he will give tuition In law, reli-
gion and journalism, tsfitting nybody
to become an able lawyer, clergyman
or editor in one year."
j. B. Ford & Co., New York, pub
fishers, have gone into bankruptcy
for the second time, having failed to
carry out the terms Of their first COM
promise with their creditors. They
now offer thirty cents on the dollar,
payable in sixteen monthly INSTALL
ments.
1t is related of an active democratic
politician that, being on one occasion
in church the clergymen gave out the
hymn began suddenly, "Strike the re-
sounding lyre," and the politician in
voluntarily lodged. Mr.. Fields
cross-examination of witnesses seems
to have set several prominent Demo-
cratic politicians dodging.
A Minnesota Judge, in pronounc-
ing the death sentence, tenderly OBJ
served: "If guilty, you richly deserve
the fate that awaits you, if innocent,
it will be q qualification for you to
feel that you were hanged without
such crime on your conscience in
either case you will be delivered from
a world of care"
Several Molly Maguires in the
Schuylkill Jail have commenced to
write s'poetry," which destroys their
last chance for a new trial-or
should, if it doesn't. When man in
Jail, under sentence of death, takes to
writing mis-spelled and crippled
poetry, even his warmest friends are
forced to admit that he is "the right
man in the right place. Norris-
to,cn (Pa.) Herald.
The girl who generation ago sent
the Baltimore Sun editor box of
shavings with a single layer of raisins
on top,for Christmas present is now
an elderly matron with a large family
but she still writes him genial letters
forgot a joke when it is played on
some other person--or themselves,
either.
If the color line is strictly drawn.
the white population of the world is
in a pitifh minority. Bronze is the
prevailing color, and from that the
shades deepen to the blacklist ebony.
A celebrated traveller in the interior
of Africa, excited the compassion of
the natives because he was white
San Francisco Bulletin.
In his inaugural address, Gov. An
thony, of Kansas, said that last year
that State produced over 10000, 600
bushels of corn, and IL, 100000 BUSH
els of wheat. The State now has g.
800 school houses at cost of 2.5O0,-
coo, and permanent interest bearing
school fund of $23O,OOO.
A gentleman, says the San Francis
co Newsletter, who is stopping at
the Palace Hotel, was the other day
the victim Of fearful outrage. 1t
seems this gentleman, who is tall,
commonly wears the highest collar
ever seen in Frisco. He received q
note from firm of bill-stickers ask
ink if he didn't want to let out the
backs of those articles for advertising.