Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-29

A colony, to be entirely composed
of Spiritualists, gathered from
all over the Union, will buy
lands in Lincoln Territory, and
engage in agricultural pursuits.
TheNashville American says that
Tennessee is receiving more new set
tiers than it is losing by immigration,
and that the State is decidedly the
gamer in a pecuniary point Of view.
Two hundred tons of borax per
month are produced in California
and Nevada. 1t is worth 81 cents
per pound in San Francisco, and is
used chiefly in the manufacture of
glass.
Minnesota boasts of three hundred
and ninety-five flour mills, operating
one thousand four hundred and
eighty-six runs of stone. They can
grind out tifty-six million bushels Of
wheat year.
Uncle Daniel Drew isn't dead yet.
He is said to have made $500, 600 late
ly in coal stock, and it is refreshing
to hear him quote scripture and
chuckle at the thought of getting
even with the boys.
A few weeks since q New York
drummer saw young lady blowing
in field in Mscoupin county, Ill.,
He stopped to ask: "When do you
begin cradlingW Not till heads are
better filed than yours was the sem
tentious reply. Theyoung man pass
ed musingly on.
A colored grocer in Charleston,
standing in his shop door, said to q
stranger the other day !: "When this
building was slave market, my
father, mother, brothers and sisters
were sold in it, but / own it now"
How very wrong in him to sllude to
bygones in this way.-LosceK (Mass.)
Courier.
A Rochester man attempted sui
eide by drowning in the canal, a few
days since. He was fished out, and
being asked by the police justice, the
reason for his jumping into the canal,
said: "I hat much droubles; I haf
two womans to live nit; Won hat
vive childers and one haf not any
dey stole my moneys, and / want to
kill mineself."
A physician of Rochester. Ny,
says that the girls Of that town are
very pretty, and grow in grace and
loveliness until they are about lS or
20 when they get pale, sickly-
looking, and faded, going all to pieces
at 26. Among the causes Of their de-
terioration he enumerates the lack of
exercise in the open air, tight lacing,
round dances, and too much study.
Three Irishmen had dug ditch
for four dollars, and were at loss to
know how to divide the pay equally.
But one of the number had been to
school, and reached division in the
arithmetic, so it was left to him. He
did it at once, saying: "It'ss aisy
enough. Sure, there's two for you
two, and two for me, too" The two
received their portion with greatly
increased respect for the advantages
which learning gives to man.
The United States Patent Office at
Washington indicates more prosperi-
ty this yesr that at any other period
In it's history. From January to
May its receipts were $263, 1868.
The expenditures during the same
time, exclusive Of al, GOO paid for re-
pairing models injured by last years
fire, were $lSS, 1877, leaving q surplus
to its credit of $75,5S5. Last year the
surplus for the whole twelve months
was only $l21,000. The Office has
now in the United States Treasury
to its credit funds amounting to ST.
1S9,SO7.
One Of the great curiosities which
Omaha now claims is cane manufac-
tured by Mr.. S. Walker, of Center
vile, Iowa, on which he has been at
work for more than ten years. It'll
covered with innumberable figures of
men and beasts, and presents . relig-
Gus history of the world from Adam
and Eve to the present, together
with the signs and symbols of the an
cient benevolent orders. As an ex-
ample of gr0tesque, curious, patient
workmanship, we doubt If it has many
equals in the world.
Before dinner we are sure that Mr..
Reecher is wrong, and that the re-
gion he ignores has q geographical
existence, but when the inner man 10
well fortified we are apt to feel that
Mr.. Beecher is about right after all.
We imagine that the old darkey hit
the truth in this matter. When he
felt "all gone" he told Marse George
that he had received his "call," and
was bound "fur the odder shoah."-
But after full meal he said "Marse
George, Use got de call sure, and Use
gwine acrost de dark ribber soon !;
but Use braced up little on de inside,
an de 'scursion am postponed-'scur-
sion am postponed, sab p'-New York
Herald.