Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-04-25
OUR wHAT-NoT.

An old restaurant keeper says that
the way to get up reputation for
tender beefsteak is to keep sharp
knives for customers use.
Don't 60 to the Black Hills to get
rich. 1t is far easier to organize a
life insurance company and pay
yourselfa salary of $4,000 a year.
Rome Sentinel. Even if o boy is al
ways whistling, 81 want to be an
angel, y it is just as well to keep the
preserved pears on the top shelf OF
the pantry. IN ,.
Salt is great remedy for milk f.
yer in cows. One or two doses OF
half pint, which acts as an aperient
and diuretic, will soon relieve the
most obstinate case.
The st. Augustine Hotel in Florida
is the largest hotel in the world. 1t
must be, for a correspondent says that
among the guests are "the Smiths of
New York. -Cincinnai Enquirer.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says that
hotel-keepers in Wisconsin who fail
to provide fire escapes on the floors
above the second cannot collect board
bills from their guests when the lat
ter demur to paying them.
Norwich Bulletin: Cesar undoubt.
eddy had his faults as a general, but
nothing SO pleases thoughtful man
as to have a Second Lieutenant in the
United States army explain Just ex-
actly how Cesar erred. =
A Woodstock, Ontario, lady re-
commends burying rusty nail in the
earth as protection to plants from
the ravages of worms and insects.
The iron enters their souls, as it
were. iag
AtGlidden, DR.. /. G. Bishop was
handling his revolver carelessly, when
it discharged, and the bullet struck
L. M. Fox, mail driver, in the
breast. 1t penetrated his clothing to
the skin, and-raised blister! Close
cali. AZ
1t sometimes pays to be thick skull
ed. At Mount Pleasant, on Thurs
day, Charles Austin, colored, attempt.
ed suicide by. shooting. He held q
revolver close to his forehead, but the
bullet flattened against his skull.
Sunday School Times: A little boy
of our acquaintance, who has just
learned that John and Jack were
used interchangeable, took occasion
not unnaturally, to call his sisters at
tention to a picture of Jack thu
Baptist" M ss4
The Charlton Patriot. t.Annis
McGrue, of this place, q rather come
ly girl of fourteen years, was enticed
away from home month or two agt
by two strange women and has no
been heard from. Her parents ar.
grieved and alarmed at her absence
A correspondent of the Count,,
Gentleman sows his grain on horse
back, and says that after long expe.
rience he has found that he can dis
tribute seed grain more regularl,
from the saddle than on foot, anG
with far more ease and comfort.
w. Searles, of the firm of johnson
& Searles, Greene, Butler county, has
to use the language of the Press OF
that village, "absconded," with oil tht
firms money that he could get hold
of-iust how much is yet unknown
Exchange: Buckwheat cakes have
been discontinued at Yassar for the
season, and the slim, spirituelle stu
dent already passes through q recita.
ton with less uneasiness and nantes
disposition to have some other cir
scratch her back.
Ross Winans, the famous Baltimore
engineer, inventor and millionaire
died on the 18th, aged 80 years. Hi
was native of New Jersey. His in
ventions have been practical and ben
eficial to railroad companies, his rep
utation is national, and his fortune
large. a 5si