Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-02-20
FINDINGS.

Short of change-the man with but
one shirt.
A good bony gentleman of ITO
pounds will yield on cremation one
and half pounds of first -ciass ashes.
Druggists in Virginia represent
that the use of opium has greatly in
creased in that State within few
years.
A Nebraska girls observation on
the Pope's death was that her folks
had all his poetical works in their Ii
brary.
The Detroit Free Press says it is
no sign there are not plenty of dema-
gogues because no man ever admits
that he is one.
Speaker Sheppard, of the South
Carolina assembly, wears robe of
black silk, trimmed with purple vel
vet, which cost the State $500.
1t is generally the man who doesn't
subscribe for a paper who sends the
editor communication pitching into
somebody or something, and signs it
"Many Readers"
A grocer of Schenectady used false
weights seventeen years, vet he is 81
years old and healthy. This shows
the necessity of the place which is
now being discussed.
aged is years. ns died isapagys agys since
from the effects of drinking a mix
ture of vinegar and soda. Her
whole system seemed to have been
poisoned.
Hutchins, the colored lawyer, who
obtain admission to the Georgia bar,
has last succeeded in carrying his
point, and is now a full-fedged Geor.
gia barrister.
Osceola township is stirring up the
whole of Franklin county with the
story of a haunted locomotive head
light which goes travelling around
the prair;es without any visible
means of support or the slightest
provocation.
~ can never enjoy poetry when
Pm coOkin',' said an old lady. "But
when step out to feed the hogs, and
hist myself on the fence and throw
my soul into few lines of 'Cap'n
Jinks, it does seem as if this arth was
made to live on, after all"
AS thei dew falls noiselessly upon
the just and the unjust; as the present
passes silently into the past and as
the perfume of kindly act rises
heavenward unseen; so the hired
girl slips out the back way of nights
with little tea and sugar for her
nearest of kin.
A witness in the murder trial OF
Mckay, in Providence, testified that
Mckay went home and found his
wife drunk. "He seemed overwhelm-
ed with grief" witness added, sand
gave her slight kick in the ribs. He
then went to the house Of neighbor
for sympathy, and on returning found
that his wife had died."
In New England q number of re.
| ligious tramps are following up the
Moody meetings, and practising upon
the credulity and generosity of the
Christian public. They can speak in
meeting, tell q remarkable story OF
their conversion, and can take all the
money confiding people will give
them. They are as poor as they are
pious
A letter of which the following ID
the literal text was picked up on the
street: "Dere Gin cum to the houi
too mite the old mans gone to the
lodge and mars Got The roomytisn
So bad she kant heer herslf sneeze bt
Sure An bring Sum Of That handy
with sent ontoo it cause we're going
to hev Fride Injuns fer supper yurt
own JULYANA.'
You doan' nebber hesr of nobody
failin' on me, does your" mot as
remember on" "In course you doan'
Why! Cause / has been right dOwr
fine on business principles ebbel
since the crash Of 81. Now, Mister
White, look me in the eye while I tel
you dat de proper way is to keel
your eyes rollin' around the busines
horison. Eff you owes firm and da
firm is shaky, doan' pay de debt, bu
wait till dey fail. Eff q firm is shak,
and owes you, sit on de doah step til
you get de money. Now 60 'loni
wild Your whitewssh. h."-Atlanta Con
stitutiOn.