Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-07-24
GLEANINGS.

VAEAN1NVDs
Mr.. Alexander II. Stevens lie true
Southerner. Baked coon is his favor
ite dish.
beautiful women are too much in
clined to touzle their hair" observes
London Truth.
An original young miss Of Frank
fort, KY, prOmenades in paper dress
and hat Of her own construction.
A Baltimore woman attacked a sis
ter of evil tendencies, and gave her
l25 wounds with pair of scissors.
The latest medical discovery is that
Q blow on the nose will cure ca
tarrh. Step right up and insult some
editor.
A Connecticut clergym man in
speaking of dancing, says people
usually do more harm with their
tongues than with their toes.
Beware of the demon-drink. A
little boy of Steubenville, o.. leaned
against barrel of whisky, and was
instantly killed-by it's explosion.
The Baltimore american thinks
'that JEFF Davis, in view of the fact
that he is not q citizen Of the United
States, takes entirely too much inter-
est in our political affairs"
The st. Louis Republican is not far
from right when it remarks that ''the
district which is constantly changing
it's congressman ia rarely more than
voting cipher in legislation"
A little Irish boy fell down and bit
his tongue. He arose from the
ground crying and sobbiDg, and
said to his brother: "Oh, Staphen
think will ever spake again?
"What did you do at the committee
room to-day, Mrs. Jenks?" was the
polite inquiry of lady friend.
aust played Beauty and the Beast
with Butler" was the quick rejoinder.
There are 1886 words in the Eng
lish language, and one Of Mollie Nc
Carthy's hackers used 'em all in if
teen minutes, in Louisville, including
several repetitions of word that
rhymes with ham.
A political speaker accused a rival
OF "unfathomable meanness," and
then, rising to the occasion, said: 81
warn him not to persist in his die
graceful course, or he will find that
two of us can play at the same game
The longest daily mail and stage
line in the United States, 1900 miles
from Fort Worth in Texas to Fit. Yu.
ma on the Colorado river, was form.
ally inaugurated last month with .
procession of Concord stages drawn
by 200 horses.
A young Sacramento lady q veal
ago commenced using arsenic for hei
con, plexion and bleached her hair
After q few months she began t.
complain of terrible headaches, ant
has finally been sent to Stockton ,
hopeless lunatic.
A steam saw and grist mill y
Worthington, Mimi, is run will
twisted hay for fuel, instead of Goa
or wood, this device of the Mennon
ties being found to answer perfectly
being much cheaper than any othe
fuel and quite as good for heating
purposes.
| One of the London boulevard
weeklies gives this as an opinion
passed upon Mrs. Langtry: "She il
very handsome; but she always re
minds me of Jersey cow, with he
creamy face and great black eyes. /
she only had . black nose the resem
blsnce would be complete"
I A young man at Newburg, VIII,
was out driving with his girl, bough
} . newspaper along the road and pait
| ten dollar bill for it. The next da,
the young lady's father called on bin
and explained that man with 81
much money and 80 little capita
could not keep company with hi
daughter.
i A little Russian boy of 8, who ha,
vainly endeavored to induce hi
widowed mother to break off he
shameless liason with her lover, a
last killed her with an AK as she la,
asleep, and buried her body in
grave that he had already dug 70
the purpose. He has been sentenced
to Siberia fer life, with loss of civi
: rights.
There is one impertinence whicl
s. Washington society will no longe
tolerate. We do not refer to the un
seemly habit Of asking a mature sin
gle lady her age. That is insolent
but may be forgiven. But to ask
society "colonel" the number of hi
regiment or the date Of his service
that sort of scene has gone about ia
, enough Washington Post.
To BE PASTED IN GREENBAcKEl
HATs.-They had plenty of pape
, money at Tallahassee at the close Q
i 1863. Mrs. X. owned small mul
and cart, worth $1,000. She was &c
ing to run the blockade and return I
, England, and she wanted to get al
the gold she could. DIR. II. bnugh
, the mule and cart, and gave her 81
. piece, and got back $500 in change
Neao YOrk World,
The toast drank at Orangemen din
ners, July II, runs as follows: "Iier
. is to the great, good, pious and I'm
mortal memory OF William, Prince G
Orange. who delivered us from Pop,
POpery, wooden shoes, brass none
and slavery May be who will nc
drink this toast be rammed, jamme
and crammed into the great gun O
Athlone and fired over the hills o
Tyrone, and made sparables of 70
Protestant's shoes."
The corruption in the Russian al
my reveals itself daily in more start
ling forms as the examination q
Odessa progresses. One colonel re
ceived $4,000 roubles for flour falsel
said to have been blown away by
} sudden storm. A general gave re
celpts for3O, 900 imaginary tons of ha.
, and shared in the money paid for il
Five thousand tons of biscuits wer
found to have been made simply O
, plaster and sand. Receipts given b
officers for sums varying from 5000
$1,000 roubles on account of mythica
forage or provisions were exceeding
} ly numerous.
E.F. kunkelo Bitter Wine Of Iron
This truly valuable tonic has been scarborough
tested by all classes of the community that it
now deemed indispensable as Tonic medicin
1t costs but little, purifies the blood and giv'
tone to the stomach, renovatss the system an
prolongs life. Everybody should have it,
For the cure Of Weak etomachs, General Debil
ty, Indigestion, diseases Of the Stomach and #
. all cases requiring tonic,
This wine includes the most agreeable and Ell
/ Client Salt Of Iron we.possess Citrate OF Magnet
Oxide combined with the most energetic Of veg
etable tonics-Yellow Peruvian Bark.
Do you want something to strengthen youps
. DO you want good appetite?
Do you want to get rid of Nervousness?
Do you want energy?
| IN Won want In elpan wA1lo