Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-10-23
No person is either SO happy or I'm
happy as he imagincs.

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happy as he imagincs.
Russia is now trying 10 borrow
hard money with which to redeem
some of her soft currency.
Ellsworth Hauck, boy Of II
years was smothered in an elevator
bin at Anita, few days since.
American wheat is already begin
ming to keep an eye on the growing
prospects of a general European war.
The Hartford Post calls the Butler
offshoot the bumble-bee movement,
because it was biggest when Matched.
"In choosing a wife be governed by
her chin,' says the Psychological
journal. That is just what most hus-
bands object to.
Annie Doolittle, one Of the three
men who founded the city Of Bur-
lington, died at his home near
Fort Madison, last Wednesday, aged
Art is not going to ianguish in this
country just yet. The OLeary-
Hughes walking contest in New
York last week was patronized $780,
600 worth.
John Terrell, the victim Of aathe
stabbing ARRAY at Atlantic couple OF
days ago, died Wednesday. Herefus-
ed to divulge the name of the party
/ who killed him.
Mr.. Smalls, of Atlanta, who has
ljust returned to this country after an
extensive residence abroad, says that
Writ Sykes's female husband il
known in Europe as Oliver Logan.
| When a Hartford woman patted
her friends seven-ye ear old youngstel
on the head and said: 81 should like
to have such little boy as you are
che looked up into her face and re-
piled swell, / guess you can ]; j dom
believe Gods lost the pattern of me-
i Prof. Edison is wonderful genius
but he cannot explain why mans
gas bill is as big when he resolves 4
economic and employs only half tn,
usual number of burners, as it il
!, when he has the entire fourteen il
full blazo every night. There arr
some mysteries too deep for scienc,
to reach.
i The Ithaca Journal relates that ut 1
! Greenback caucus in that town tn,
! Chairman made the remark tina
, "some black sheep were to be fount
i in every flock" The words were M
sooner uttered than up jumped col
; ored man, the only one present. ant
| demanded to know whom the Chat
, was 'iuding at.
A woman appeared before an Itha
ca police justice, the other day, ant
wanted her husband punished 70
some slight alleged unkindness show
; her. The justice inquired into tn
. matter, found that the man was owe
ninety years of age, and that he ha,
, been married four times. go home
. young woman, GO bome," he said
"the old man has already been pun
ished enough"
! A Dutchman, the other day, read
ing an account OF meeting came Il
r the words ,"the meeting then dissolv
t ed He could not define the mean
Q ing OF the latter, 90 he referred to tn
s dictionary, and felt satisfied. Ia
r few minutes friend came in, whel
J, Honty said" Dey must have WEIR
8 hot weeder dere in New York Ire
n an ACCOUNT of a meeting we're all d
: peoples had melted away"
Helen Tracy, playing the heroine i
: the "Gilded Age in Cincinnati, trie
J. to shoot the villain, but the pisto
wouldn't shoot. The Breakfast ia
Die thus sums up results: "The pre-
J. dicament was awkward. She club
bed the pistol, and walked up to til
: rascal and banged him on the hea
x with the handle. He dropped deaG
But when she stepped back in atfecte
a horror and cast the pistol upon tn
: floor, the thing went off close to he
9 feet, making her yell with fright
A funny case is before the low
i Supreme Court. A man in Pag
9 county was tried on an indictmeI
9 accusing him of rape, convicted an
sentenced to the penitentiary. Whe
q he went his wife obtained diyorc,
Z as the law permits, on the ground q
his sentence. Subsequently the ST
preme Court reversed the sentenc
. and the man was discharged. Blu
: meantime the woman had Marie
8 again. Now the question is whic
shall take the back track, the couI
that granted the divorce or the secon