Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-04
scIssoRlNas.
Seventeen woman to ten men writ
for Hdrper's Magazine.


calves of his legs.
Prairie City Ne,cs: eve defy any
man of any party to tell what the
greenbackers want-eXcept Office.
A girl in Trenton, N. j., married a
Hungarian nobleman, and now she
has to take in washing six days a
week.
The grain crop on the Pacific coast
known there, but the potato crop will
be failure.
"How greedy you are said one
little girl to another, who had taken
the best apple in the dish 81 was GO
ing to take that"
The Minneapolis Tribune says:
"Wheat lie turning out much better
than was expected" is the burden of
the testimony from all quarters of tho
State.
The Council Bluffs City Council
has directed the marshal to "mow the |
sunfowers, burdock and jimpson
weed from the principal streets of
the city" .
A West Northfield (Mass.) black
smith has Plymouth Rock rooster,
the position of whose wings is exact
ly the reverse of the natural order, SO
that when he attempts to fly he only
drives himself downward.
Mr.. P sent his two boys to a
friends until the peril of all impend-
ing earthquake should be past. In a
few days he received this letter:
"Please take your boys home aud send
down the earthquake.
A Lond on writer says he is no
prude, but ladies' dresses just now are
surely passing the border line of de-
cency. The park on Sunday is be-
coming hardly anything better than
an exhibition of ladies' limbs.
An old resident of Oil City. Pa,
says: 81 have lived here since oil was
first discovered, and | can confident
ly say that over 10 per cont. of those
who have grown rich in oil produce
ton and oil speculation are now pau
pers.'
Here's the way a New Hampshire
exchange tells it.: "Ex-Governor
Miller, of Minnesota, is delivering
lecture in that state which is entitled,
'Ail men are Liars His tickets read
'All Men are Liars, admit one. ~
N. y. Commercial Advertiser.
There is a loud call on Eli Perkins
to immitate that Illinois lecturer who
blew his brains out rs q part Of his
entertainment. or course Eli can't
contract to blow out any more brains
than he has got, Ii is tire pantomime
the people want to see Washington
Post.
An exchange has this notice to can
didates: candidates will be an
nounced in this paper for the nomi-
nal sum of S. for single announce
ments; $40 to insure election. All
care will be taken ia prevent defeat,
but will not be responsible should any
accidents occur"
A little 5 year old daughter Of one
of our prominent business men, in Of.
fering up her evening prayer, recent.
ly, uttered the following: "God bless
mamma, bless papa, and make him
buy me dog-a great big one thai
can whip the devil out Of all of EN-.
Bradford Breeze.
You may write 100000 words or
: the blank side of postal card, and
Uncle Sans mails will carry it Il
California without extra charge; bu
If you put two words other than tht
address on the other side, and leav.
the blank side clean, the government
won't carry it three miles ter les.
than three cents.
Hon. j. d. Cox describes in tn,
american Naturalist what is said tt
be the smallest insect known 1t is 4
> bymenOpter of remarkable delicacy
and beauty, parasitic on the leaf-cut
ter bee. Its body is twelve thons
andths of an inch in length, and it
ten-jointed antenn9 twenty-thous
andths.
| AT Ackley, one day recently, par
of the contents Of can of condensed
I've in some manner got on the cloth
ing of Mr.. DGpk's infant child, ant
: before it was discovered had eater
into its stomach in a horrible man
ner. A physician was called but il
, spite of all that could be done in
u iinmmation set in, and the child dieC
in q short e.--MdrshaNtoarn Time
Miss Flirtybelle is just as indignan
as she can be at the impairment fire
: insurance man informing heads o
families that parlor matches are dan
h., 80 l., e 1.,l Il
and gentlemen are to do their court
, ing in the kitchen. Beside, she says
! her pa and ma, and ever so many o
: her dear friends, made their matche
: in the parlor.
They have rather got the tramps in
Costa RIGA. Migrants under 0year'
OF age are turned over by the nagis
trates to the commandahts of depart
F: ments, who, in turn, turn them owe
/; to the State Railroad Superintendent
who is employed in the construction
of the central division of the Cost,
: Rica Railroad. What the Railroad
/. Superintendent does with them cal
be easily imagined.
Let us see the way in which a DO,
works plays, studies, and we will tel
:. you just what kind of man he viii
make. The boy that is late at break
fast, and late ut the school, stands ,
poor chance to be prompt man.
The boy who neglects his duties. b,
they ever 50 small, and excuses him
self by saying, 81 forgot? l didnI
/ think" will never be 3 reliable man
A Welsh Clergyman recently ap
piled to his diocesan for living
The Bishop promised him one, but al
he was taking his leave he expressed
hope that his lordship would not
send him into the interior of thu
!, principality, as his wife could not
speak Welsh. "Your wife, sir ~ said
the bishop, "what has your wife to de
with it? She doesn't preach, doe
she?' "No, my lord" said the par
son "but she lectures
Some time since a clever Tuscaro
ran was arrested for cattle stealing
and hauled up before Judge Flsck, a
: Elko, for trial. The jury acquitted
him without leaving the box, and up
} on his return here a friend inquired n
. to the result of his trial "No cause
Of action said the gentleman 81
merely killed the OK in self-defenst
and ate him for spite, and, of course
was acquitted by an intelligent ju
ry."-Elko (Nec.) Times.
Hawksve:: The law of Iowa is very
severe on persons operating thresh.
ing or other machines having tumb
ling rods who leave the rods expos.
ed. We have no desire to curtail the
annual crop of exciting items which
is now beginning to come in, but on
ly mention tho law as matter Of fact
1t may save some man the cost of q
lawsuit. If he knows the law il
against him he can compromise with
the widow and keep out of court.
|, Rev. Charles ii. Sturgeon, in let.
ter to Boston lecture bureau, says
II have never had the slightest ides
of visiting America. Ifever should
, do SO l could not preach or lecture
} for money. Excellent as your ser.
vices doubtless are to those who