Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-25
NEWS ITEMS.

A mans first difficulties begin when
he is able to do as he likes.
Texas laws no longer prohibit the
intermarriage of whites and blacks.
Deer are so numerous al the head
of Alligator river, in North Carolina.
that they destroy the crops.
Mapping in church is complained
Of Aiming the choristcr boys with
shooters might cure the evil.
Sweden has no beggars, for beg
CARS are arrested and set to work,
and we want a little Sweden in
America.
am persuaded that every time a
man smiles-but moro so when he
laughs-it adds something to this
fragment of life.-iSteync.
The Danbury Ne,cs man says
'"There is nothing that will change a
man so much as great grief, unless it
is shaving off his mustache."
After boy is tired out hoeing po-
tatoes nothing seems to rest him
more than to dig over few square
rods of green sward in search of bait.
There is no use in trying to crawl
away from lightning. A New Zeal
and man went down a mining shaft
500 feet. and the lightning found him
there and killed him.
"Just my luck" ssaid a waiting
maid, sadly "Here I am in a family
where every one has love affair on
hand and leaves letters lying around
opened, and l can't read"
According TO estimates of the bcs!
informed New York dealers, The
peach crop of the present season will
be very much smaller than that oil
1875, but far in excess of that of last
year.
1 The best scholar in the class which
was recently graduated at the Uni.
versity of Vermont was a colored
student, who was slave twelve
years ago, and the place of honor on
the Commencement programme was
given to a young lady.
| A circus arrived in Pennington
Me-, on Sunday, and church-goers
were much disturbed in consequence
One clergyman requested any Of tht
members of his church who intended
to go to the show the next day to cal
on him and get a dismissal first.
"My dear said Jealous partisan
Of nominee TO the nominees littlt
daughter, who was playing in thu
yard-"my dear ! run in and tell you
mamma that your papa has got the
nomination." 90! or sobbcd tn,
child; "has he got it bad? He won
die of it, will he: Z"
A miner among the Black Hill
writes: "Can you send me a recip,
for removing dandruf' fro NJ th,
head."- About the surest thing Of thu
sort obtainablc out there, we should
think, would be to slip up on stout
; healthy, hostile Sioux warrior ant
attempt to tickle his nose with stun
ed club.
An Iowa farmer and q lawyer o
the same State entered into fight tn
other day over the money question
: one being greenbacker and tn
other hard money man, and though
, they pounded each other almost int,
pulp, neither succeeded in convertin,
the other to his views.
lie had been telling her about hi
troubles and how everything SCENE,
against him-rheumatism, the wick
ed world, etc.,--when she like tn
> Chicago girl she was, broke out
"You must be very fond of dieting
upon frogs, Mr.. Paine" "Frogs !?
, inquired he, "why frogs?" "Oh, be
cause" replied the heartlcss Miss
lyon are such croaker."
Weak side-whiskers, which lool
!, like cats cheek-brushes, and fame,
eyeglasses which make their wearer
look like young owls freshly Matched
are the chief features which give at
Effectiveness to the average fashiona
BILE young chaps now making them
selves conspicuous ut the Summe
:. resorts. Nearly all of these nice littl
"fellahs" part their hair in the mid
die, and in their talk affect the styl
:. of a freshly-importcd Johnny Bull
y calf.
Mrs. Gaines is believed to be abso
lutte victor after her forty years o
f litigation. After the decision O
Judge Billings in her favor the de
. PENDANTS had time given them to fill
their bonds of appeal. The time ex
PRED June 80, and no bonds wer
filed. The decision of Judge Billing
| is therefore final. The New Orlean
PicayUne explains that the defend
ants abandoned the appeal from con
viction that the decision was SCUM,
and could not be reversed.
Mr.. Robert Burdettc, to Toled
Blade reporters inquiry, as TO no,
he first came to write his .humorou
paragraphs, answered: "Well,
guess my humor was born of tribula
ton. My wife was an invalid, and
felt it my duty to be as lively as pos
sible about the house and was Away
making fun for her benefit. Sh
asked me why did not write for tn
paper some of the speeches that go
Off at home, and at length followe,
her suggestion. owe what / am 1
the promptings of a patient, suflerin!
wife,"
i Kingston, N. Y, has just lost, i
Uriah Saunders, a man who was tn
hero Of 500 lawsuits. So thoroughly
was he fascinated with the intricacie
of legal practice, that he wrecked hi
fortune and found pastime only II
suing his neighbors. One of hi
suits against fellow townsman nam
ed Bob Harper lasted twenty years
and was brought up standing by tn
latter's death. Then Uriah took t.
his bed, said he was "going to NEE
Bob" and died in the blessed hop
that the suit would be taken up il
eternity where it left of on earth.
A curious result of Arctic expos
ure was observed in the case of those
who were absent from the Alert OF
their long slcdge journey. The hail
on their faces bleached nearly white
The loss of color was gradual, and
though noticed, was never alluded to
each one imagining that his compan
ions hair was turning gray from thu
effects of hardships and anxiety. i
was only after their return to tn,
ship that those possessing boards anC
mustaches discovered the change o.
hue in their own hair. The color
gradually returned in about three OIL
four weeks.
Jennie Shondalc. teacher, writer
and lecturer, recently met with al
unhappy experience at Dayton O.
whittier she had fastened from Har
risburg, Pa, TO visit her intended
who was detained there dangerously
sick. She was sick herself, and, or
arriving at Dayton, lost all ability Il
speak and then became deaf, and, Il
cap the climax of her woes, in wan
dering about the town in search OIL
her lover she sank insensible by tht
wayside in paraIytic stroke. After
coming near being locked up as Q
common drunk the unfortunate
woman was taken 10 the inlirmary
and it was several days before she
was able to make known her story.
Elijah killam, farmer of Wayne
county, Pa, near Cochetum, N. y.
on Thursday kissed his family, saying
IL yas for the last time ITp callad