Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-08-29
THE SCISSORS.
Plevna is Russian for tears.

was too much not moist.
Six hundred missionaries, it is said
have died in India, and the presen,
number there is exactly 500.
The foreman Of q Jury in Texas
which lately granted divorce to 6
woman, married her the same day.
The Philadelphia Press says it's all
up. No newspaper man can evel
achieve glory by being cremated. L
costs $4,000.
There has been exhumed, nine
miles from Canon City, Col, q fossil
Iighanodon sixty feet long and eight.
cen feet high. ~
A Kansas editor heads his war
news "Czarsparilla." He does this
because he wants the Russians to pu-
rify the Turks.
A colored minister in Kingston told
his sable hearers that they "must
knuckle down to the Lord on their
knuckle-bones.' s y
| A fast walk IL one of the most desir-
able qualities in horse. Agricultnr-
al societies should remember this in
making mp their lists of prizes.
| It will give every true temperance
heart unalloyed pleasure to learn that
the Berlin gorilla, lately SO given
| over to strong drink, has sworn of.
Every Chinaman in the United
States is laying by money, and it
makes them grin to notice "Melican
man. sitting on fences and talking
about "hard tines"
BY ice cream you may know them.
They can only eat hall saucer when
they first fall in love, but find no diff
ficulty in slowing away three or four
at time after they have been en-
gagged two or three times-OM Phi
i0sopher. re a
Hereafter keokuk will enforce the
law that hucksters bringing vegeta-
bles into the city must take them to
the market house. No sales are al
lowed to be made to groceries or at
private houses before 10 O'Clock in
the morning.
"What's the use of all this sacrifice
of human life, this bloody butchcry
of Turks and Russians p said Phil
adelphia Quaker to a Cincinnati hog
merchant. "I don't know replied
the latter mournfully, ''pork isn't riz
any that | can sec. c."-1adfew's Bd-
gar. IN t''
The police made a descent upon
the butchers at Olfenbach, Germany,
last mouth, and of all their number,
1twenty-thrce, found only four who
sold genuine, unadultcred sausages.
Let the epicure who despises the
American article, but loves this i'm
ported sausage, think of this.
Thomas Gibbons, a railroad en-
ploye in Baltimore, carried home q
torpedo and carelessly threw it down
in the yard. Then his wife went out
to split some wood, struck the torpe-
do with the ak, exploded it, and was
fatally injured. There are several
obvious morals to this little story.
While well-known author in the
east has married his stcpdaughter,
and an unknown farmer in Nelson
county, Kentucky, his stepmother, it
has been reserved for a Clergyman s
son in Walton's Lick, Kentucky, to
outstrip them both by the remarkable
matrimonial feat of carrying oil his
stepmother.
"A good man leaveth an inheri-
tance to his children's children, and
the wealth of the sinner is laid up for
the just" The first part of this Scrip
ture verse was printed on the hacks
of all policies in the Universal Life
Insurance Company, and now policy
holders are waiting for the applica-
tion of the last clause.
Samuel Moody, York, Maine,
preacher. conducted revivals in New
England one hundred and thirty
years ago, and wrote book with the
cheerful title of "Thc doleful state Of
the damned, especially such as 60 to
hell from under the gospel, aagravat-
ed by their, apprehension of the
saints happiness in heaven"
The Pottstown (Pa.) Ledger re-
marks that it has heard of an East
Coventry township damscl who was
aroused from her slumbcrs earlier
than usual to milk the cows on the
place, and when becoming thorough
ly awakened found she had stripped
one COW but had no milk. The buck
ct she supposed she was using proved
to be basket. tHs
Selden Connor, who has just been
renominated for governor Of Maine,
is but 80 years old, and Vermont peo-
pie are boasting that he went to the
war from that State in the Woodstock
company of the lst regiment as pri-
yate, and was promoted corporal in
July, 1861. He is the second member
of that regiment who has been the
governor of q State.
Gen. n. p. Banks has made aiiidav-
it denying the charges of John q.
Thompson of adultery with his wife.
Privately he says, in relation to the
charges: "There is not a word of
truth so far as l am concerned" The
many friends Of the general have ex-
pressed confidence in him since the
publication of the scandal, especially
his most intimate associates at Wall
than. 37..t .ta = .< fa ge..
The experiment of slaughtering
stock by means of dynamite was re-
Gently tried at Dudley, Eng, with
marked success. Small charges OF
dynamite were fastened on the FORE
heads of the animals, and exploded by
an electric shock. The animals. two
disabled horses and donkey, were
Instantly killed by the explosion, suf-
fcring q comparatively painless
death.
| Miss Melissa Sheridan, of Sheri.
dan, Yamhill county, Ore, got on the
trail of a apanther that had dragged
off one Of her fathers sheep. Instead
of deciding, alter mature reflection
that she hadn't lost any panther, she
followed and treed him with hel
dogs, and put bullet between his
eyes. 1t wasn't her first, either, and
who would like to be that girls lov
er?
Some time ago, says Mr.. Labou-
cher, q gentleman applied to Baron
Rothschild in Paris in order to OBJ.
tain the loan of f40O. "I am sorry
! lend money to kings only" said Crn'
sus, "but as l am anxious to show you
my good win l will do something
Take my arm and come with me te
the bourse. ! shall be much surpris
ed, If, when we have completed ir
that friendly guise the tour of the
colonnadc, you have not ten times thu
amount offered to you." OF course
the plan proved successful.
John w. S. Robinson, the Calamus
forger, whose arrest in Tennessee, {
week ago, by his principal victim
Il. ii. Wood, caused so much reioic
ing in Clinton county, is free man
again, having escaped from his cap
tor by jumping the train on his wa,
north. Three days and nights Mr.
Wood guarded his prisoner withou
sleep, but on the fourth night, despit,
all his exertions, the drowsy goo
overcame him, and on awakening, a
! he says in not more than fifteen min
, utes, tho captive was gone. Bein;
almost out of money, MIR. Wood mad,
mo effort to follow the rascal, but cam
home to DE Witt, thoroughly dis
gusted man. And well he might b
disgusted, for all in all, he is out 0
pocket by tObinsDn's swindling jus