Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-02-28
ALL SORTS.

But stay not there forever
Five well-preserved skeletons, pre-
sumably of mound builders, have
lately been unearthed at Lorain, o.
Tilden expected to gain the presi-
dency by game of seven up, but to
him it has turned out game of
| gone-up.
The Vermillion I'd. IT, Standard
says of a newly-marricd couple at
was easy to see how they had just
entered upon the sorghum moon"
A contemporary says of recent
attempt at suicide that a man severed
his "csophejus." He must have had
"a bad SPELL"
The Rhode Island Legislature has
repealed the law of that State which
forbade inter-marriages between
whites and reds and blacks.
The exciting scene in Bowling
Green (Ky.) street, recently, was the
horsewhipping of woman by bur-
ly big fellow, whom nobody killed.
Only one ont of 1900 patents ever
pays the inventor anything. The
chances to get rich in this way are as
wide apart as anything we can mag
inc.
Mr.. Moody argues against ladies
painting. He emphatically said in a
Boston sermon the other day: ave
don't want any more painted Chris
tians.'
The laundry business il being re-
formed in Philadelphia, where they
wash and iron shirt for three cents,
and never send it home with buttons
gone or new rips.
Bob Ingersoll expressed it very
well indeed the other night. Elbow
refreshing, how grand, it is to see
these Supreme Judges rise above
party!'
A surprising amount of variety of
American manufactures, especially of
cotton, are beginning to go to Chill
and other wcst-coast regions by way
of Panama.
Troy rejoiccs in squint-eyed po-
liccman. The boys make fun Of him,
and while he is chasing them in one
direction they quietly slip over the
fence in another.
Connecticut thinks of making it a
| penal otlense for man to take more
than six per cent. interest for money
or more than seventy-tive cents a
bushcl for potatoes.
l
A bill to prohibit banks from pay
ing interest on deposits is on the way
through the Pennsylvania Legisla-
ture, and severely penal usury bills
are also before it.
The Nevada Legislature is about to
| put a check on the 200 or 800 Wild
cat companies, that do q great silver
stock business, with no actual capital,
by taxing their multitudinous shares.
The Mardi Gras festivals cover so
much wickedness that the Memphis
| Women's Christian Association ap.
| pealed to mothers not to let their
children join is these ''sources of sin
and shame
A Louisville Professor started mind
reading thirty-tive years ago, but he
called it "soul measuring" and he
couldn't get enough soul together to
constitute stock in trade.--Ciacia.
matt Com.
A man in Springfield, Mass, sue.
ceeded in borrowing enough lauda-
mum Of a drug clerk to suicide with
which leads the New York Graphic
to infer that he certainly perished by
violent means.
An Irish Major recently declared
in Dublin debating society that "he
was no mere political tyro, but came
to the bar of public opinion armed
with experience acquired in three
hemispheres.'
1t was New Jersey boy who, hav.
ing done some wicked thing and be.
ing asked whether he did not want to
go to heaven, replied: "No; l don,
want to get my fingers sore playing
on an old harp"
| The Rev. DIR. Inglis, a missionary
in Polynesia, says of the natives
at is far easier to get them to pray
4 sing hymns, hear sermons, and read
the Scriptures, than to be truthful
honest, chaste and unsclfish."
~ never can enjoy poetry when Tn
cooking" said an old lady s'but when
l step out to feed the hogs, and hist
myself on the fence and throw my
soul into few lines of 'Cap'n Jinks,
it does seem as If this airth was made
to live on after all.
A young lady of Norfolk was SC
tagitated while dancing with the
Grand Duke, that she tainted in his
arms. The scion Of nobility merely
passed her over to one of the old la.
dies with the remark, sToodamthin.
ovitch," and secured another partner