Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-15

A Norman girls hair, seven feet
long, is valued at $500.
There are l,7O3 convicts at Sing
Sing, N. T., the largest number ever
confined there.
The fruit crop for tho United States
Of 1877 amounted in value to STAG, 600,
600. or about one-halt of the outcome
from cereals.
In Scott County, Ky, the temper
ance wave has risen 30 high that even
the figure of Justice on the top of the
Court house wears Murphy badge.
A Sunday school boy, at Maysvillc,
Kentucky, was asked by the superin :
tendent if his father was christian.
eyes, sir" he replied, "but he is not
working at it much
A gentleman of Atlanta is lecturing
on the much discussed subject of dam
cling. He treats the waltz in hui
morous and witty manner, and un-
der the significant title, "Closer to
my bosom come"
A boy in town tackled his mamma
to let him go to the circus because,
he eaid, he was "perfect" in circus at
tendance, and if he didn't 60 he would
get bad mark for absence. He went.
|-Glasgoac Times.
Suppose person were to be un-
kind to you, or strike you, what
would you do?" A pause ensued,
when one little girl, sharper than the
rest, made the following laconic re-
ply: alt i'm agin."
Several years ago young man in
New Orleans put a sum of money in
a savings bank, and forgot all about
it until recently, when, after reckon.
ing up the interest, it was found
that-the bank had failed.
The Chicago Times appears to think
that the pressing need of the hour is
a society, one that will act promptly
and efficiently, for the relief of regis.
tiers of bankruptcy to be thrown sud.
denly upon the cold charities of the
| world.
II was not aware that you knew
him." said Tom Smith to an Irish
friend, the other day. Know him +
said he in tone which comprehend
ed the knowledge of more than on,
life-"I knew him when his father
was boy"
The Canadian Siamese twins, which
bid fair to rival their namesakes il
notoriety, are now over months old
and thus far in perfect health. They
are OF the fair sex. are united by theil
backs above the hips and have bu
one leg each.
A mild criticism does one good
"What was the sermon about THU
morning." asked a mother of he
child. ''Well,' was the reply, II
was about-let me sect was abou
twenty minutes too long that's all !
remember"
A late lecturer remarked that
would not be very violent stretch O
imagination to belive that a "Massa
chuse,ts baby six month old sits il
his mothers lap cycling his own era
die, to see if he could not invent
better, or, ut least, suggest some i'm
provement.'
Il The milling industry of this coun
try is said to rank next to that o
iron. The number of mills is owe
$4,000. affording employment to owe
$4,000 men, whose annual wages ar
about $20,O00,0OO. and turning on
yearly about 60,000,0O0 barrels &
flour, of which 4,OOO,0O0 are exporte
,, to foreign countries.
A barroom sharp has been discus
, sing the Beecher-Tilton business il
Austin, Nevada, and the RepeiU
says he reached the following conclu
!, sion. eff l were Tilton / woul
not want to live. / would be lik
, Judas Iscariot, and take six-shoo
: er and go of to some secluded spt
and blow off the top of my head"
!, "Can you tell me where Washing
; toms Monument ISL" asked ruri
gentleman in Charles St., Baltimor
) the other day. "Just lift your ey,
> off the ground" said the person az
q dressed, rather tartly, "and you'll 81
. it." "Well / have lifted my eyes
said the rural party, looking his il
a AoIMdHU CditIiy III IIle ldCe, al
n don't see nuthin' but a darned ol
a fool"
In regard to John Chinanan,
g San Francisco correspondent Of II
e New York Times says that che wi
Q be q great improvement ON the ord
e nary politician, inasmuch as he won
make any speeches or lay his hand G
q his heart and tall ahout hie ear m,
9 stituents and fellow-citizens. Il
: won't talk about the dignity of labo
e but will go and vote and scud bat
= to his washtub and wash cheap shir
II and, moreover contrary to the hab
l. of the general politician. will wear
: clean one himself"