Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-10-03
sUNDRlEs.

The estate ut Peter Brigham In Bos.
ton has been valued At 81 ,2S2, 600. He
made his money chiefly by baking
beans and not eating any himself.
II is charged that Little Mac was 10
the moth-killing business. "This IL
atrocioue,0 says the Jersey City Jour-
nal, "Little Mac never killed any.
thing"
There is a lady at Eureka, Califor-
mia, who, a dozen years ago, was
married in a two thousand dollar
dress. Now she takes in washing to
support drunken husband and three
pairs of twins.
He How serenely beautiful is the
sky to might. Heavens Tampa are all
alight. And the Milky Way" She
"Surc enoughi tho way the milk has
been sour for the last week is too bad"
The subject is Immediately changed
Now como the days when the sturdy
farmer dumps a load of dirt into some
mud hole in the highway, yells "Haw
Bnckw at his of OK, pricks tho nigh
one with e bradawl, and goes
home under tho impression that he
has worked out his road tax in full
The young lovers who last spring
were married. and sworc by ali that
is beautiful that only the great blue
vault of heaven should overspread
them are now quarreling with each
other because no lets mosquitoes In on
his side and she rolls all tho covers
loft.
1t IL the Norristown Herald that 70.
marks with heartless emphasis: emilio
Aimee's dog Didi 10 dead but as the
animals death brought the actress
1000 dollars worth Of advertising sho
feels no moro sorry over its loss than
II il had been her sister or an only
child"
Kennebec Journal: A countryman
recently gazed intently for few mo-
ments on the sign of one cur popular
druggists, which read: "-'s Phar-
macy" and exclaimed, "Well, by gosh,
what does - know about farming
l don't believe he knows as much as
a setting hem"
Baltimore Neacs: "a passionate
and rcvengeful temper renders man
unfit for advice, deprives him OF his
reason, robs him of all that is great
and noble in his nature, and OCCASION
ally sends him home with black cye
when he attemnts TO try II on man
who won't have it,"
| A fOrlOrn creature of the male per.
suasion gets of the folio wing poetical
eGusion: "When Sallie's arms her
dog imprison, always wish my neck
was hisen; how often ! would stop
and turn to get pat from hand like
bern; and when che kissos Towser's
nose, 0, don't l wish that l were
those !"
He waltzed out Of the front door,
followed by wash-board and two
bars of soap, and, as he Strengthened
himself and walked firmly down the
street, he remarked: GA man must
draw the line somewhere or he can't
be boss of the house; and III be
hanged if I pump more than one tub
of water for no washing, and there
amt q woman can make me do it, I'M
less she locks me in"
Portland Argus: A good old lady
in this stale once attended the funeral
OF a man who had made little hsll
Of tho neighborhood forty years In
the very ranks Of tho villagers who
were present moro than twenty had
been cut and hacked and kicked and
bruised by him, and his own skin waa
completely tattoed with scare. Bot
did this good old lady make any un.
pleasant remarks? Not a bit OF it,
She was christian woman, and &C
che said, as she looked down into the
coffin, "Well, any how, he makes real
quiet sort OF corpse"
i A successful swindle was perpetra.
ted on Macomb bank and the u. S
Express Office at Quincy q few days
ago. The telegraph wires were tap.
ped, a message sent to the bank order.
ing $4,000 to be sent by express to a
well known stock man in Quincy
named johnson. The money was
drawn at the express office without
arousing any suspicious, and it was
not until the real johnson drew on
his bankers day or two after and
found nothing to his credit that the
fraud was discovered.