Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-07-04

COUNTY. IOWA, JU
CLIPPINGS.
The run of salmon in the Penobscot
this year is the largest II has been for
twelve or fifteen years.
A Philadelphia paper inquiries feel
ingly If the Permanent Exhibition is
to be permanent failure.
The Atlanta COnstitution believes
taat not a colored man has been elect
cd to the Georgia Constitutional Con-
vention.
| 1t is chalking the ends of billiard
cues that is sapping the energies of
the young men of this generation
Ne,oark Gail.
A quart Of peaches for every man,
woman aud child in the land is the
estimated crop from Delaware alone
this season.
The students at Dartmouth College
have invited Theodore Tilton to lee
ture, and the members of the faculty
are incensed.
Every man who does not marry
Oh coming to maturity should be
marked with disgrace" say the sacred
Brahminicsl writings.
Teutonic lady arec empressment to
horse-car puncher: "Mishter Condug-
tor, Coudugdor? Ven wants to get
oud-dots Dover street."
A negro came upon them in flow
cry dell in the outskirts of Cedar
Rapids, and exacted from the fair
lady kiss and from the gentleman
dollar as the price of his silence.
The model town in the State Of
New York is Alfred. II has 1900 in
habitants, has never had a single
glass of liquor sold within its limits,
and never had pauper to support.
Paper trunks are the newest. They
are very strong and have no seams,
and can be pitched any distance by
baggage-smashers and not injured. |
They come in all colors, and are quite
handsome.
The Married Woman's Association
proposes to erect a statute to the hus-
band who empties the water out of
the basin after he has washed his
hands. But the association has not
found him yet.
A Kentucky man is reported 10 be
operating daily steam wagon Of his
own invention, which weighs about
$500 pounds, runs at the rate of fif-
teen to twenty miles an hour, and can
be turned easily.
There is no saloon at Spirit Lake,
but visitors 10 that fish pond will
please take notice that the supervi-
sors of the county have granted to
A. M. johnson, druggist, the right to
deal in the ardent.
A daily paper advertise sfor wo.
man to scrub hotel, and Immediate
ly below adyertises tor two or three
young men to learn to make fringe |
and buttons. Do let us have some
nice light work for the poor men!
A languishing lover says the pull
back on his girl reminds him of the
drawback on sugar. Poor fellow
fancy his condition. But he'll get
over it. In year or two he'll be |
chewing plug tobacco and swearing
away just as NATURALIZATION Trar-
Ter.
The Monticello Eapress mentions
the finding of lead and of an ancient
mr.
soil on the banks of the Maquoketa
near that town, and over which were
growing trees two feet through. The
furnace was crude, and evidently the
work Of barbarous hands.
There is a youth out in Western
Pennsylvania who runs away regular
ly twice year, and as regularly re-
turns to find q fatted calf killed for
him. These freaks have become SO
systematic that his father now speaks
of him as the "Periodigai ."-Nev
York Commercial Adce tiser.
The society editor of the But
Ter Eagle reported toned
wedding, and said the brides trous.
seau was the loveliest he ever saw
The printer set it up "trowsers," and
since that there have been two vacan-
cies on the paper, in consequence of
two admissions to the hospital.
OF the many amusing blunders of
printers and proof-readers. one of the
most striking occurs in volume of
laws of Vermont for 1876. Act No.
25 amends Section 7S, instead of % |
~ hich w O prohohly ;nxorlo1 ,o.L..
hereafter no person is allowed 10 run
locomotive through saw-mill.
If President Grant, now, had only
thought to issue decree, shutting all
office holders out of politics aud re-
moving the troops from the south
some time during his second term.
what tremendous, overwhelming
majority President Hayes would have
received to stay at home.-Harkeye.
An Illinois convict, on his way to
the Penitentiary from the central
part of the State, last Friday, escaped
in romantic way. His sweetheart.
in kissing him an afiectionate good
bye, left small key in his mouth,
with which he unlocked his hand
cuffs and found freedom. This equals
"Arrah ma Pogue."
After the rising generation have
mastered the metric system, it might
be well to introduce into the public
schools short course of instruction
in base ball scoring. The complicat-
ed tables of figures now daily pub
lished are about as perplexing to the |
average reader" as the inscriptions
on tea chest.-BOston Herald.
Max Adler says: ave observe in
the paper an item to the effect that
mother in Maryland bit off her child |
toe in her sleep. We have so often
demonstrated with mothers against
sleeping with their children's toes in
their mouths that we have little SYM
pathy for this woman. Sooner or
later the catastrophe is sure TO come"
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal tells
story of clergyman in that town
who lately engaged in poultry rails
ing. He has one diminutivc hen that
ersily slipped out between the Stats
Of the coop, and the exasperated
preacher, after q world Of trouble,
captured the offending bantam, and
exclaiming: an fix you," clipped
her wings.
The extension of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Northern road
from Traer to Grundy Center, and
from Plymouth to Albert Lea, it is
reported, will be completed before
the first of September. From Albert
Lea to st. Paul over 1000 men are at
work, and it ia expected that that di-
vision will be completed by the fl, st
of October.
The ignorance of some of our most
wealthy citizens is absolutely humili-
ating. A man who pays taxes on any
quantity of real estate stopped us