Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-12-12
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ness.
ID letting Stanley discover Interior
Africa the sum Of 100000 has been
expended.
President Hayes has given up his
intended visit to New Orleans during
the holidays.
It IL said that Whitelaw Reid's con-
tract 40 editor Of the New York Irib-
wne closes with the current year.
There are six families in West Mid
dleton, Allegheny county, Pa, which
can march out sixty-eight children
ON dress parade.
A tramp who sought to get warm
by sitting on the top of q limekiln,
near Mageetown, Montgomery coun-
ty, Pa, was suffocated and burned to
death.
The Japanese never swear; they
have no word corresponding to our
popular damn; their strongest cpl
thct 10 "bacca," which means fool or
tesst.
A citizen of Newburyport, Mass,
10 fattening 500 frogs, upon which he
expects to feast. He keeps them in q
barrel and feeds them on Indian
meal.
A large shed in Somerville, Mass,
has been stocked with wood. saws
and sawbucks, and tramps are at lib
erty to earn their meals there or to
60 hungry.
A Wisconsin landlord is mourning
over delinquent grest who came to
town to lecture ON show to get rich"
and then hadn't enough chan re to pay
his hotel bill.-Netc York CONNER
cial Anrertiser.
The Ballard (Ky.) News says an as
sassin entered room at Lovelace-
Vile and attempted to cut Captain
Howle's throat, but in the dark he cut
/ ct the wrong end and amputated two
Of the Captains toes.
One of the Eastern war CORES
| pondents states that Osman Pasha
discourages amputation among his
wounded, because II his subjects re-
cover they will be useless for war
and entitled to pensions.
1t may not be generally known that
the Southern Confederacy ever coin.
ed any money, but q man living In
Alabama has silver quarter, bearing
upon II the head of Jefferson Davis,
which was coined in 1862.
An exchange remarks that great
many people find amusementin study
Ing bill boards. And it may be ad-
ded, says the Wooster Press, that
their number is greatly in excess OF
those who find any amusement in
studying board bills.
The British Government has CON.
tracted with the owners Of the Bell
telephone for its use a. q part Of the
British telegraphlc system, and the
German Geographic department is OIL.
gsntzing telephone communication
Tor distances not exceeding fifty
miles.
The German system of having the
lover spend his evenings with his
sweetheart, in the presence of the
whole family, hes much to cammend
1t, though the hearty Germans toler-
rate . degree Of caressing familiarity
between the lovers under such cir
cumstances which would be odioua
to American observers.
The Dallas (Tex.) Herald paints a
gloomy picture of the labor market
In that city. It says: every fresh
arriving train but adds to the miser-
able multitude that suffers. staryes,
and finally fights its way back East
again. Before the door Of nearly ev-
cry house there daily begs q swarm
that would sadden the heart OF sat
yr."
The Louisville Ne,cs has q half col
umn OF precepts on good manners.
Some Of them are pretty vigorous,
for example the following; "If you
play the piano or organ, do not wrig-
gle your body or sway or sprawl
over the keys or get your head down
over your hands. Some men think
they may be broad in their talk be-
fore . lady who is married. Knock
them down."
William Dooley, an amateur detect
I've, In search of two cattle thieves,
found them at church at White Sui
phur, KY, whereupon, pistol in hand,
he informed preacher and congrega-
ton that they were under arrest,
While everybody looked astonished,
he picked out his men, marched them
out Of the building at the muzzle of
his weapons, and turning on the step,
shouted to the minister that he cOnid
60 on.
NEWSPAPER PROPERTY
one started the report that the Bur-
lington Hasckeye was valued at $685.
GOO, and the Cedar Falls Gazette doubts
the story and thinks it ought to be
w, zoo, only. Pshaw, boss, we know
. country Office not very far away
that ould eat q mighty big hole in
your $25, OOO. If it was for sale (Which
It isn't), and we doubt not the Hasck-
eye is worth the first sum mentioned.
The Gazette evidently is not posted
on first-class property, either city or
country.-Oskag0osa Herald.
Valentine Blatz, of Milwaukee, re-
Gently delivered . lecture on "Glu-
cose," before the Wisconsin Natural
History Societp. This article of glu.
cose is OF comparatively recent dis
covery, and 10 manufactured out of
corn, grapes and several other sub
stances. Mr.. Blatz is . confectioner
and uses large quantities of the prod
uct In the makeup of candies, con-
tending that mixed ordinary sugar
candy is far less injuriou than when
made entirely of sugar. 1t 10 much
cheaper, being worth only five cents
per pound, while sugar is worth ten
and eleven cents. Brewers are also
using it, and it 10 said to improve
the beer.