Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-01-31
ALL SORTS.

A Chinaman never keeps. in debt
long. He prefers to commit suicide.
Rev. Talmage thinks jeremiah was
the Journalist of the Scriptures.
When the Brazilian Minister ap-
pears in society in Washington, he
glitters in green and gold like one of
his native shell-back bugs.
"Dicd Of hard drink" was the YER
dict of an intelligent jury upon the
body of man killed by falling
icicle.-New York Commercial Id
certiser.
Baltimore girls have stopped buy
ing or quoting Whittier's poems, Just
because he has recently CHANGED to
remark that "fifty dollars a year
ought to dress any woman"
Thirty persons in Leeds recently
attended the wake of an Irish girl
who died of Typhus fever. Every
one of them has since been sick with
the fever and nine OF them have
died.
i The paths of stepmothers arc not
always strewn with roses. In Rut-
land, Vermont, the other day, the
husband of one of this class stood by
and applauded while his drunken son
mauled her most outragcously.
Pella puts in the latest claim for
"thc mcanest man in the State" He
has his daughters work out from
home, and goes around and collects
their wages to support his second
wife, who drove them away from
home.
i Commodore Vanderbilt was no
speechmaker. When his health was
proposed at banquet in London, he
said: Gentlemen, have never made
a fool of myself in my life, and am
not going to begin now. Here is a
friend of mine (his lawyer); he can
talk all day"
A lady sent to a Chinese laundry
a washing list, among the items in
which is the following: Il frilled
white petticoat No starch" When
the washing is returned, the bill con-
tains the following item: "a frilletl
white petticoat, 20 cents; no starch,
10 cents"
A Camden IN. J.) man has been
figuring upon the apparent daily in
come of the late Commodore Wander.
bilt. He has reduced it down to an
exceedingly fine point, and concludes
that every time the great railroad
King drew his breath, his stocks and
bonds together realized him the sum
of 55 cents.
In no country in the world arc
,, there SO many land owners as in
France, there being over 100000
, peasant land proprietors. This makes
a spirit of independence and begets
thrift. Everybody pays taxes beng
in some cases as low rs l per cent a
year. 1t is in this way that France
procures its large revenues.
The unfecling Denver Mirror says
| A young chap, whom we shall call
/ S-r Ms, not far from this place,
I went to see his lady love the Other
evening, and desiring to appear con.
versational, remarked that ''thc Their.
! mometon is 20 degrees above Cairo
8 this evening" Eyes" replied Miss
/ l. "such birds do fly high at this
n tlnlc vi Inc year.
1 A writer of observation has this
: hint to farmers living near towns and
stations "To see good farming. large
crops, and the best improvements, ono
J, must get seven or eight miles away
!. from the railroad. or at least rail
: road station. Where there is easy
> opportunity to reach the nearest rail.
= railroad station, the average farmer
! is pretty sure TO visit town daily and
!, spend q large share Of his time there
! in bad weather"
: A little daughter OF Rev. Abraham
: Schenck, living few miles from
n Newton, was washing the dishes on
!, Friday of last week, and in attempt
: ing to step upon chair to reac! the
2 shelf, with her hands full of dishes
: the chair tipped up and she fell back.
a ward on the floor. One of the dish,
y es broke and sharp point penctrat
: ed the jugular vein of the neck. She
: bled to death before any remedy
G could be applied, although her pa.
g rents were but few yards from her
She was some seven or eight year.
old.
5 Statement of a passenger who cs.
9 capped at Ashtabula: "And then 1 felt
e we were going down, down, down
' oh, I'll never forget that sensation OF
/. an eternity of falling! The only dis.
Y tinct recollection have is that | felt
4 a certainty of death before me. did
. not know where we were going, OF
what was happening, but | knew
{ death was ahead, and when l knew
of this my heart seemed to turn into
a piece of cold limestone, and / had
no sympathy left for anybody. After
. that experience am satisfied that no
man when in the presence of death
f feels any fear, 1 had only sensa.
ton of the inevitable, and my heart
: turned to piece Of cold clay.