Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-10-31

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tacle of colored man presiding over
q democratic convention. And still
more remarkable the colored man
tives.
Schofield, Mass, is blessed with a
school district containing one pupil,
which the teacher generally marries
from sheer lonesomeness before the
term is over.
Rev. Adirondack Murray says
that q policemen is the best Judge of
the genuineness Of q charity claim,
and that most other people are fools
in the business.
A blind negro woman in Texas re-
fuses to be adjudged q pauper, and
supports herself and an adopted child
by doing washing. The child tells
her when the clothes are clean.
The cigar-makers' strike in New
York is making a good many men,
women and children go hungry. But
this is not where it is felt the worst
1t il raising the price of cigars!
About every country Congressman
in the House had his own particular
plan for extinguishing the national
debt and bringing greenbacls to par
in ninety days.-Nev York CONNER
cidl Advertiser.
| An Englishman wants his game TO
lie until it smells before it is fit for
his palate. In other words, when il
gets into just that condition where an
American housewife would have IL
taken away and buried, it is ready to
be eaten.
The losses by fire in the United
States for the first nine months of
this year amounted to q $5l, Goo 600.
The losses for the corresponding Pc
Rod last year aggregated 81, 200, 600.
CAnada's fire losses are usually about
one-half those Of the United States.
Mr.. w. Gale, of Cardiff, has per-
formed in London the uneyampled
feat of walking 1900 miles in LOCO
consecutive hours, walking one and a
half miles at the beginning of each.
This kept him going over six weeks,
with never more than 81 minutes for
rest at time.
When a Northern Congressman
name is read Off at roll-call, his clear
response is "Here !" But when a
Southerner's name is reached, listen
and You will hear something drawl-
ed out like this: "Yu-u-r." And this
Ia the way for a stranger to tell the
two men apart.
| A Rochester milkman has lost two
lady customers because q newspaper
charged him with putting aqua pura
In his milk. They said they had all
they could do to stand the water he
put in, but now that he was caught
adding that nasty drug they wanted
no more of his milk in theirs.
The blacksmith-shop has been i'm.
mortalized by the famous anvil cho-
rus of Verdi, which found birth in
his brain while seeking shelter from
the storm but the diligent buzz-saw
is suffered to whiz along in obscurity,
scattering its melody broadcast, flee
as coal dust, and never getting q line
in print, except in the most scurrilous
prose.
| Defective seed-corn is a great ag-
gravation to farmer in the spring
1t causes delay in replanting, or &C.
casions serious loss in the crop if re.
planting is omitted. This is the time to
avoid the difficulty, by storing up q
full supply of sound seed. Select
perfect, well-formed ears, and store
them carefully in dry place, and the
trouble alluded to will be obviated.
"There is not" wrote the editor OF
the Deadwood Daily Champion, "a
quieter, more peaceful, we'll regulat.
ed and orderly community in the
whole Western country" And theI
as the Office boy entered to say that
somebody wanted to see him, he tool
his bowie between his teeth, put a
Colts new pattern six-shooter on the
desk in front of him, and told the boy
to let the stranger in.-ESchdnge.
An Oregon newspaper contains
this paragraph: GA great lot Of young
ladies welcomed Gen. Sherman al
Albany The old warrior went right
; in and kissed the whole of them
/. while his son, a cowardly young fell
; low who had never been through tht
wars, stood back and looked sheep
. ishly on" But then, twas ever thus
until one has ever acquired taste
for the business.
One of our young men says: at il
romantic to be on your knees before
granger's lovely daughter-heayine
up torrent OF sweet words between
her glowing parted lips, raising rose'
on her cheeks by the acre, bringing
FEARS OF pleasure to her eyes ct the
identical moment when she is Il
moon away IN AIS aFlns, " ncaI nc.
a s.a. . Inotner cIy, you oa., naV'
YOU sioPPeu theIh er hogs yet!
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ing the story OF q young lady who
commltted SUICIDE Dy ieaplng into I'M
river from Goat Island, says nalvely
. one had been mere number oftlmel
before, was well acquainted with tn
iocailty and chose the most favorable
point from which TO enact the closini
scenes OF her me-. FMS statement
ulscloses pardonaDle local prlde II
tne superior iacllities OF niagara ram
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