Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-11
CLIPPINGS.
Chicago has 1921 saloons.

i VA1TflNGIo.
Chicago has 1921 saloons.
, BY "mercantilc structure" they
mean in Boston store.
| The Graphic says that Wong Chin
Foo is theology with eyes cut bias.
Front gates are beginning to have
a sagged-down and altogether weary
aspect.
| The new bridge being constructed
between New York and Brooklyn
will cost $l3,OOO,O0O.
4 The big guns in the Brooklyn Ma
Wy Yard have been named "Moloch,"
'Iucifer" aud "Satan."
i Deadwood is not in Dakota Terri
tory, but in Wyoming. The latest
survey has revealed this fact.
This is about the time of the year
the ice men begin'to circulate reports
that their crop of ice was ruined by
the late frosts.
A New York man who stole ice
was acquitted on the ground that ice
is water, and that water is furnished
free by nature.
4 The demand for the trade dollar
and double eagles is so great that the
Philadelphia mint has been ordered
to resume work.
I The Morehouse Ua.) Clarion veri-
fies the account of fall of frost in
that part of the State on June 10,
something unprecedented.
A correspondent says of New
Yorker who failed recently :-"God-
ward he was very strict, but man
ward he vas little twistical so.'
The temperance ladies of Chicago
are now making an attempt to have
the saloons closed on Sunday. A
number of saloon keepers have conf
piled with the request.
A man in Holyoke, Mass, desired
to contribute to a church festival, and
, was discovered gathering his straw
berries from a neighbor's garden.
lie had to pay IS to settle it.
An egg laid upon the deck plating
Of the monitor Monadnock, which is
being built at Vallejo, was cooked
hard without any artificial heat one
day during the recent heated term
San Francisco Bulletin.
A definition of the meaning of the
word suspicion was given the other
!. evening in a Partisan drawing room.
: at is sentiment" said the speaker,
(which incites us to search for some
! Thing which we do not wish to find.
Man claims there are few things he
: cannot do better than a woman, but
! the most experienced baseball play
er can never hope to equal the dex-
terous back handed action with
; which woman picks up" her dress.
: -Phladelphia Bulletin.
n In Vermont the sale of lager beer
+ has been permitted because of the
claim that it is not intoxicating, but
7 three-fourths of the persons arrested
for drunkenness say they have drank
nothing else, and it is apparent there
n is . mistake somewhere.
u A little girl in Clinton was learn
{, ing her little brother the Lord,
q Prayer, the other night, and, wher
she had said, sgive us this day ou'
daily bread" he suddenly called out
e "Pray for syrup, too, sister, pray fol-
y syrup, too. '--Ooden Junction.
"a The Mexican name for kiss is tele
o ndmeqmizel, and when pair of Mex
N lean lovers are caught telenamequiz
l. cling over the front gate at night
Q. they appear not bit more confused
lie than if kiss was spelled with onl!
r one syllable.-Norristomn Herald.
: An intelligent feminine Shaker a
2. South Poland, Me-, when reminded
)! of the fact that if the Shaker princi
pie of celibacy were adopted the hu
e. man race would soon run out, re
marked that there will always b.
enough who will rot believe in TIL
doctrine to keep the world full o
people.
The gossip about a new admins
=. tration organ at Washington ha
y crystalized into the statement that l
:, will appear about the lst of Septem
~ -, Der, with ex-Congressman Lynch, o
=. Maine, at its head, and $350O0O be
-. hind it. The National Republican
h' ex-household organ, is very hard III
and will probably suspend il the ne,
nc organ is really started.
~ "Mamma," asked little Whitehall
~; er, sis our old hen going to be scr
az away for the summer z" 81 guess no
el my son. she replied, "but why d
lu YOU ask such a question:" "Becaus
a' / heard pa tell our new hired girl tbs
they would have such a sweet tim
:, when he sent his old hen away for tn
IN summer" - WhiehaN Times.
on A man arrived in Buffalo recent
" who had come a long distance to plac
his mother in an asylum tor lunatic
Vtf lie went to bed in hotel saying h
had been so nervous about his mothe
=. that he could not sleep for man
.n nights, and in the morning was foun
to have become maniac himself.
Wig II tell you, SIR said Dir. on
:, morning to the village apothecary,
'N' tell you, sir, the roG populI should NJ
"A must not-be disregarded." "Wha
III" Doctor Y exclaimed the apOthecar.
rubbing his hands. "You don't so
- that has broken out in town, too, hi
' it? Lord help us, what nnhealth
times these are"
IAN A sarcastic individual somowhe,
= has lately taken the trouble to wri
b., few lines in his vein, as follows (
eff. "Therc is an editor out west runnin
hos a l0xl2 sheet, in town of about SCI
enty-five inhabitants, who tall
grandly of prospective visit to Il
- Country and his release, for the Sc
nia son, from the busy haunts of me
iss and the hustle and toll of the Grove
mp ed CITY,"
'e'' The Mississippi people insist tn
Mcclellan, the brave Scotchman wi
ran was murdered by them in such co,
ardly manner, at the killing Of JUDI
Chisholm and his family, was not
British subject. This is lucky f
wa them. II he had been, they mig
.,se have been brought to justice. 1t
only American citizens who can
1. murdered with impunity.-N.
IA Graphic.
The fellow who entered q d
sou goods store at Cazenovia, Maids,
I'D county, and, thinking to perpetrate
joke, punched the dummy on viii
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