Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-12-04
NEWS AND NOTES,

time.
! A finished rogue-one at the end oi
. rope.
| Chattanooga is the only republican
town in Tennessee.
The London Underground Rail-
way is favorite place for suicides.
In California they make alcohol
ont Of beets. Here we make beats out
Of alcohol.
| II medical faculties would not buy
dead bodies grave-robbers would not
steal them.
The period spent by the chicken in
the shell might be designated 40 the
inter-eggum.
The electric light is already used In
several factories in this country, and
its use seems to be extending.
More than one-half Of the total
population of France depends ON ag.
riculture as q means of living.
Benjamin Swing of Fairton, N. j.,
has just died of an excess Of fat about
the heart. He weighed 525 pounds.
The expenses Of the recent Green
back campaign in Connecticut were
$72, and there lisa deficit Of $27 at
that.
David Davis is the only politician
In this country who can shut up doors
and hold good-sized mass meeting
all by himself.
About the only thing to do when
one of fthese over.familiar tornado does
comes along is to keep perfectly quiz
ct and trust to luck.
Over 1000 farmers in Maine have
taken hold of the beet-sugar enter
prise, and are raising this root for the
factory in that State.
The German colonies near Maren-
60, Iowa, were established twenty
years ago: they now own 10000 acres
Of land, valued at $50 per acre.
When Judas Iscariot sold out he
wouldn't even take small change In
fiat money, and Judas was about 40
mean as they made 'em in those days.
Boston Globe.
The Nashville (Tenn.) publishing
house Of the Methodist Church South
is In financial straights, the struggle
being to pay o debt of 100000 or
give up the house.
In France the Judges often speak
this way to a murderer: "Added to
the fact that you killed the man was
the other damaging circumstance
that you were drunk" etc.
The Chaplain of the Auburn state
prison denies the paragraph that
there are thirty-seven lawyers among
the convicts. He says that only sew
en- have thus far been caught.
Before this years political tests
are fairly over those of 1879 have been
begun. The Kentucky Democratic
state convention has been called to
meet at Louisville, May l, 1879.
1t is computed that Minnesota is
capable of producing 7OO,O0O,O 600
bushels of wheat annually, and that
the water power of Minneapol alone
can manufa cture half of it into flour.
The new Separation act in Eng
land allows . magistrate to grant .
wife . separation from her husband,
but does not allow him to grant o
husband a separation from his wife.
a Kalamazoo paper announces the
death of Mr.. VIM. Green under the
heading, "rhe Pale Horse With its
Rider, Visits Kalamazoo! And Lays
its Icy Hand on One of Her Best
Men TIP
A timid Bostonian has married q
young lady whose weight verges
closely upon 200 pounds. "My dear"
says he to her, t'shall help you over
the fence?" "No," says she to him,
"help the fence"
A peddler, overtaking another Of
the fraternity on the road, exclaimed
"Halloo! What do you carry 2"
Patent medicines" was the reply.
Good You 60 ahead. carry grave
stones, was the rejoinder.
The Turner's Falls Reporter has
discovered another enemy of the
workingman il observes that Miss
Hosmer, the sculptures, has more or
ders than she can fill, and yet persis-
tently refuses to hire any more hands.
When we were a boy, children
were drought up;" now they are
"raised." Here an old maid observes
that some of them ought to be raised
by the hair. But, then, what do old
maids know about "bringing up"
children.
The LIE Mare Liberal tells how a
dry goods man in that city uninten-
ti0nally or otherwise took liberties
with lady customer while fitting on
shawl. Her bro,her-in- law was in
formed of the "outrage," and the dry
goods man healed the lady's feelings
by paying her $25.
The superstition which is religious
iy observed in Bohemia, is that it is
unlucky for lover to visit his sweet
heart except on Thursdays and Sum
days. The saving in lights and fuel
is simply incslculable, and the young
women of the country being thus en-,
sbled to get five nights sleep every
week, preserve their singular beauty
TOT many years.
This item is going the rounds: at
may not be generally known that
common cooking soda is Q sure RENE.
dy for the bite of q rattlesnake, If ap-
Piled soon enough. An incision may
be made to the depth of the wound
made by the fangs of the snake, and
Into this cut the soda should be
sprinkled. 1t will Immediately bub-
Bile up and turn green, caused by the
action ofthe soda in ncutralizing the
acid Ofthe poison
The Graphic says that new kind
Of murder has been invented, be-
cause Frank l.. Bassett Of Bird geport.
Conn, killed one "Stuttering Jack" in
order to sell his body to Yale Medical
school. There is nothing new about
this sort OF crime. BurE and Hare,
in Scotland, towards the beginning Of
the present century, made regular
business Of killing people for dissect-
ing purposes. The name of Burk for
years afterwards was terror in Scot
land.
The last survivor Of Napoleon's
expedition to Egypt died q fortnight
ago at the Invalides. Veteran Oar.
rey, who was nearly 100 years old,
was fond Of relating how he was ON
duty In Egypt on the day tho mur-
derer Of Kleber was executed. Kle-
Der was aseassinated at Cairo in June,
1890, by fanatic named Soleman,
who, after having been condemned
to death, had his right hand burned
of, and was then impsled. Tortured
by thirst, he called for something to
drink, and Darcy, touched with COM
passion, gave him . glass Of water.
Darcy had been for more than half Z
century at the Invalides, which now
contains very few old settlers.
Remember About Churches.
That they never forget to take up
collections.
That abort sermons are always most
off. .Ctivo