Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-05-16
GENERAL NOTES.


is shorkp
Forney,. who has been a journal.
list for forty years, asserts that an edi-
itor is never truly competent unless
he can set type.
President Welch, of the State Agri-
cultural College, has geen granted
leave1 of absence for the term, owing
to his i'll health. -....
Butter was in use 1900 years ago,
and many think that some of the no.
tells are still using off the original
stock.
&Mr. and Mrs. Brewer. of Taylor
county, are the parents of twenty
two children. The family has been
brewing for number of years.
The Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the Diocese of
Iowa, meets in the Cathedral at Dav-
export, on the last Tuesday in May,
the 59th.
They are fencing of the Yosemite
Valley, erecting barricades, building
walls, and preparing to make every
patriot pay cash down for all he
sees.
A minister asked a new deacon II
he had family prayers. eyes, sir
night and morning regular, if I have
to knock every one of the young ones
down on their knees"
N. Y. Tribune: "The Republican
party is now dead, SO the democratic
papers announce. 1t will be better
to postpone the funeral till the corpse
gets little quieter, however"
A millionaire in San Francisco ha,
paid $700for kissing the family scam.
stress; yet people will persist in say.
ing that prices are going down.
Rochester Democrat.
A Georgia negro twisted a mule,
tail to urge it over fence. Th,
small attendance at the funeral mex
day showed that the people didn'
care if he did twist the mules tail.
An exploring young man in Car
roll found lot of dry goods hid il
the steeplc of the Congregations
Church, where they had evidently
been hid by some thief.
The Presbyterian Church at Vim
ton has a membership of sos, and be
lieve that this, SO far as numbers ar,
concerned, makes it the leading
Church of that denomination in thu
State.
The editor of the Clearmont paper
has grievance. Hear him: 9Th,
meanest cuss in the world is one tina
will sleep on your lounge, listen t.
your family quarrels, and then e
away and expose YOU"
Copy of an advertisement hung ur
in Cheyenne hotel: "Wantid-Pas
senger on the black hill Dead wod
feare l6 dolers each SO lbs Bagge
start as soon as We hav passengear
anofe."
Come to Detroit if you would be
happy. A man earning sixty dollars
per month pays seventy-twO dollar
per month for board for himself and
wife, and she is allowed ninety dol
lars to get new clothes for Easter
Detroit Free Press.
California newspapers allege that
from unexplained causes, that State
and San Francisco in particular, fur
nishes a greater number of cases o.
paralysis than any other similar re
gion in the country, if not the world
An ice machine in Dallas, Texas
just completed by 7. L. Rankin, pro
duces ice cakes thirty feetlong ant
six feet wide, weighing from 10000 t,
1900 pounds each. They are form
ed by freezing fine rain or spray, af
ter the manner of an icicle.
| The New Haven postmaster recent
ly read with horror and dismay tn,
following advertisement in loca
paper: "Any person having five o.
fifty loads of manure to dispose o
will please send word or drop !
through the post office"
4 In Germany, when woman swear
the breeches," they do not expires
the fact in that coarse way they So!
say she Swings the slipper" Tha
sounds much better, although
amounts. to the same thing in tn
end. X
Insanity, once unknown among tn
negroes, has become great and in
"rAa a;ag "aieAiea. To rnliove it, VII
ginia has established an insane asy
lum for negroes, said to be the oni
one in the world, where more thai
300 of them are cared for.
An Illinois youth invested $3.50 il
a New York firm to discover "Hoy
to appear well in society,", The re
ceipt which he received by retur
mail was short, simple, and easily un
derstood: "Always keep your nos
clean, and don't suck more than on
finger at time"
!: LEAD ORE.-The Knoxville .Jouyna
/ tells about the discovery Of wha
promises to be a valuable deposit o
lead ore on farm four miles soutl
of that place. A couple of miner
; have leased the ground and followe,
. the vein down twelve feet, whel
their work was stopped by water.
"For seven years, now" pathetical
ly remarks the Graphic, "the womel
who admired Wilkes Booth hav
: gone out every month to sequester
ed spot and laid wreaths of flower
on the grave of man who kept
!, peanut stand and was killed by bein
run over by swill cart. 1t is is 8
: easy to make a mistake"
The musk plant man is the latet
!, fraud. He sells at large prices wins
/ he represents to be "a genuine mus
, plant" which is any ordinary green
r house plant saturated thorough
: with musk. The odor usually last
3 for day, when the popularity grad
r ually grows beautifully less. He ha
been doing thriving business Eas
| and the newspapers are after him.
The farmers of Mclean and adjoin
ing counties, in Illinois, are reall
alarmed at the invasion of rats, th
!, like of which has not been know
, since 1858. Hedges, fences and foun
dations Of buildings are full of then
and farmers in blowing unearth thel
: by hundreds from subterranean bul
rows. On one farm near Blooming
ton, 225 were killed in one day.
e The Odd Fellows of Keokuk, VIII
g subscribed and paid their subscriI
8 tons to the Odd Felloacs Bonner, Z
Y Bloomfield, are bracing themselvt
s up in anticipation of hearing that th
f concern has suspended. There hash
e been any copies of the paper receive
Q here for two weeks, and Bloomfiel
J, is mighty ominous sound in til
t ears of people posted in bankruI
cases.-C0nstitutiOn.
MIR. DIOGENEs.
+ This singular man lived in Greec'
!. He was distinguished for his eccel
tricities, bad manners, and bad dispt
sition. 1t was his chief business I
s find fault. For example, he took
: lantern one day when the sun ",
!. shining brightly and went out to scare
!. for an honest man, thereby insinuA