Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-13
FINDINGS.

"Man wants but little here below"
and he generally gets ii, too.
Not q mile of railway was built last
year in Georgia, Mississippi or Ar.
kansas.
Oranges are forty cents hundred
twelve for . nickel-in New Or
leans.
Gentlemen's vests are made this
season with handles ON them-to pull
them down, You know.
Riches will never take wings and
fly away, if you sprinkle . little econ
omy on his TAIL WAitehaU Times.
Itis said that London ladies wear
red silk bandanna handkerchief on
their heads when they visit theatres.
Bishop Coke, Of Western New
York, calls Col. Bob Ingersoll - mo-
torious and foul-mouthed blasphe-
mer."
There is man somewhere whose
memory in so short that it only
reaches to his knees, therefore he
never pays for his boots.
One hundred and forty-five thou
sand dollars have been taken in few
months from White Hall gold mines,
in Spottsylvania county, VI.
"Boiling hair In solution Of tea
will darken it." says An exchange:
but some people don't like to have
their tea darkened in that way.
Nothing like being correct. Chey-
reau, in his history Of the world, says
that it was created ON Friday, Sep
tember 9Th, . little after 4 p. m.
Secretary. Thompson is lscturing.
He might add to to the interest Of
his lectures by taking the navy
around with him and exhibiting 1t.
The price OF dogs in Canada has
come up Of late. One at Toronto NO
larger than . red squirrel u valued
at 5000, and has bitten but five per-
sons.
The will Of Brigham Young il to
be contested, and now the country
will witness the unusual eight or
twenty-five widows fighting over one
dead man.
Says the New Orleans Picayvne
"When it comes to . nomination for
another President, General McCIei-
Ian will find another Richmond in
the field"
"Jane," cried fond mother stick
ling her head out of the bedroom
door, "it is IL o'clock !; tell that young
man to please shut the front door
from the outside"
Mauch Chunk, Pa, now comes
forth and demands the medal. It has
q man who is the father Of thirty
) children. He 10 looking for new
territory to rent.
North Carolina sends peanuts to It.
ally, where they arc fed to young Ia
= dies about to make their debut % op-
era singers. The oil of peanuts
! greases the high notes.
Philosophers say that closing the
eyes makes the sense Of hearing more
acute. A wag suggests that this &C.
counts for the many eyes that close Ia
our churches ON Sunday.
The Cleveland Plaindealsr spoke
of Judge Advocate General Hunt q
the bell-wether Of the inaugural ball
having the grace Of an antelope and
the dignity Of California Hon.
The calculations Of the Omah,
newspapers are enormous. Each O
the three send more papers throusI
the mails every day than the othe
: two combined .-Lincoln (Ncb,l Sfaf
3 Journal.
II A Turkish soldier having ON q ID
cap 10 supposed to be comforabl
!. clad, no matter II he has no coat q
! lvest. "Keep the ears warm and 70
warm the whole body" 10 the Turks
land Milwaukee maxim.
"Hi! whore did you get them tro,
n sers p asked An Irishman ofA ma
II who happened 70 be passing with
!. pair Of remarkably short trousers o,
,t 81 got them whore they grew" vi
Il the Indignant raply, ssThin, be m
ID conscience" said Paddy, "you've pull
led thin year too soon.