Ottumwa weekly courier., 1878-07-31
GLEANINGS.

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The Sandwich Islanders estimate
women by their weight.
The chaplain of the Anamosa (Ia. }
Penitentiary is a woman.
The largest flour mill in the world
is being built at Niagara Falls.
African princes require their brides
to have their teeth filed like those of
a saw.
An intellectual pauper has appear
ed in Boston, who can beg in ten diff
ferent languages.
A negro saloon-keeper il Chicago
has erected a $4,000 monument over
the grave of his wife.
The once famous Mormon temple, at
Nanvoo, ILL.,, has utterly disappeared,
not stone of it remaining on the
site.
The princess of Wales, her brother
the crown prince of Denmark, and
the heir to the throne of Belgium arc
all deaf.
Fon du Lac, Wis, has given a
grand religious "hoss trot" for the
benefit of local church. 1t was very
successful.
The Chinese have lately created
three new gods, namely: God of To-
bacco, God of Soap and God of Amer.
lean Calico.
A sign posted up in a Wisconsin
co
running, no use to touch them to con-
vince yourselves.
The ex-Bishop of Michigan, Nc
Coskry, has sailed for Europe. His
wife goes with him and the time for
his return is not set.
The Fall River defaulter, Chace,
passes his time in Massa chusetts State
prison peeling and quartcring pota-
toes in the scullery.
"Fifty thousand dollars to the law
yer and $500 to the widow" is the
way they divide estates in New York
city, according to the Graphic.
AS Ayers Ayers have 100000 to
divide among themselves they are
likely to form the nucleus of pow
erful and cathartic airstocracy.
"a schooner of beer for five cents"
ss translated by French paper SO as
to read, "In America you can get a
boat full Of beer for five cents"
| What makes man wild these days
is to pay five dollars for a medical
consultation in which he is ordered to
wear an all wool undershirt.-Puck.
In Massachusetts, large numbers
of birds are found dead in potato
fields, killed by Paris green scat
tered for the destruction of potato
bugs.
| The instrument which Mr.. Edison
has invented for measuring noise, is
called the phonantograph. Now ev-
erybody can know who has the nois-
lest children.
Philadelphia Press: The girl who
used arsenic for her complexion lived
in Sacramento, California, a year ago.
Now she is resting in lunatic asy-
lum at Stockton.
| Disinterested description of Carter
Harrison by a Washington CORES
pondent: ellis brain is all detached,
and floats around in his Uranium like
oysters in a SOUP"
"Have you been sunstruck yet !"
asked one gentleman of another on an
Olive street car yesterday. "No,'
replied the other, "Pve quit drink.
i inp,"-St IOHiS .TOn3,n0I
"Beg pardon for stepping on your
train," said fop at ball then ad-
ded, "You ought to- have a cow
catcher on it, "And l would have
caught calf" said the lady.
The first bale of this seasons cotton
arrived at st. Louis Saturday from
Texas. Itgraded strict low middling
and sold at 81 cts. per pound. 1t is to
be forwarded to Liverpool.
The secret of war has been well de.
fined by an unknown Chinese author
"Soldier he come on, he come on, he
come on quite near, we 60 way.
How can two men stand on one spot,
so ?"
John w. Bowker was reared on
Beacon hill, Boston, and his family
were afflicted with what is there call
ed culture, yet he has stolen $20,OlO
from the Eastern Railroad company
and fed.
The grasshoppers have appeared in
Central America. Latest advices
from Honduras state that crops have
entirely disappeared in a day, and
the sparsely populated localities are
entirely at their mercy.
Josh Billings is not classical au.
thor, yet thousands, probably. when
seeking the indulgence of a midsum.
mer siesta, have had occasion to re.
peat, "uttered or unexpressed,' his
immortal apothegm, "Darn fli.'
In overhauling book Of maxime
recently young man was struck
with this one: "Love, if you would
be loved" He tried il on and got
kicked. A headful of discretion is
better than all the maxims ever print
ed.
The late James Fisk's father is still
living at Brattleboro', VT, and in a
Temperance address at Concord re-
Gently, spoke of the murder of his
son by "a drunken assassin who cs-
capped the gallows through drunken
jury"
| A stock exchange bear is described
as q man who sells what he has not
got; a bull as a man who buys what
he cannot pay for; and Enhancing" as
"buying shares by q man who doesn't
want them from one who has none to
SELL"
1t turns cut that the snake as large
as mans leg" killed by fourteen
year-old girl in Sheffield, was only as
large as Hon. Aleck Stephens leg
This makes the story more probable
and greatly reduces the size of the
snake.
A Philadelphia youth at Atlantic
City the other day wanted to show
the spectators on the beach what he
could do, and 80 plunged nobly into
the sea, and hit an old lady square in
the stomach who was riding home on
a big wave.
Kankakce, says the Gazette of that
veteran Illinois town, has a Justice
that beats them all in the way of do
ing up q job Of matrimonial splicing
with neatness and dispatch. This is
about the formula: :"Have 'er ?""Yes."
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