Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-05-01
SPICE BOX.

"Bug Soup Lake" is in Altoona Co
Michigan.
The potato bug is the great Amer.
ican traveller. He has got as far Al
New Zealand. sl
| Some twenty odd thousand Indians
are to be removed from Colorado tC
New Mexico.
A New York shoe dealer advertises
to make pair Of boots, warranted
to fit" in one hour. an t,sst q
Two old women were recently
hogged in the public plaza Of Nuevo
Laredo, Mexico, on charge Of being
| witches.
Miss Sarah q. Wilkinson, of Dav-
enport, Iowa, has been selected as
valedictorisn of the class of rs at Vas
sar College.
The Mexicans do their courting in
public. You see couples walking
about the crowded plaza with their
arms about each others necks.
New Jersey makes three-fourths of
the licorice manufactured in the
United States. The licorice root is
imported from Spain and Asia
Minor.
A sailing car is used for pleasure
on the Kansas Pacific railroad. 1t is
sloop-rigged, has four wheels. and
will run forty miles an hour when
the wind is favorable.
The Gordon Press Works at Rah-
way, N. j., built by the late mil
lionaire inventor, George p. Gordon,
have closed on account of business
depression and difficulty in settling
the estate. ~
Sea-bean jewelry is becoming pop
ular. These beans are found in guam
titles at Key West. They are of beau
tiful cherry-red color, with a deep
black dividing line, and are snscepti-
BILE of very high polish.
A doctor in Cass county, Illinois,
in reporting a birth to the county
clerk for record, where no paternal
ancestor was alleged" filled the
blank intended for the name of the
father with the phrase "woods colt :"
and people pretend they don't know
what it means. -..., .r..
A comparison made between two
Atlantic steamers, one built in lS40
and one of to-day's, shows that the
modern steamship carries fifteen
times as much freight as the old one
did, at nearly twice the speed. The
consumption Of coal per ton of cargo
was, in IS4O, nearly eleven times as
great as at present.
| Miss Sallie Smith, the young lady
| of Creston who lost her position in
the New Orleans schools because she
belonged to the North, writes in a
private letter that in Mississippi and
and New OrleaGs the rebels are drill
ling regularly. They make no bones
in saying that they are preparing for
another conflict.
1t is likely that the old style of ply
Ger mining will be extensively revived
in California this season. There are
10000 idle men in San Francisco
without a prospect of soon getting
employment at living wages. An
immense fall of rain in the mountains
has made it possible to work many
gulches not usually available.
The editor ofthe PANTY Far Lon-
dom speaks for others OF the profess
sion as well as himself, in saying 81
am daily assailed by friends who.
either on their own account or on ac-
count Of somebody else, implore me
in the name Of friendship to keep
such and such thing 'out of the pa
per- Being OF an amiable disposi-.
tion, / am always inclined to indulge
them but it really must have a limit,
for if il goes on, l shall either have to
present my readers with handsome
blank page, or l must take the advice
once given an editor, to have no
friends and live in cellar"
According to the official maps filed
| with the text of the treaty of San
Stefano, the cessions to be made by
Turkey from her European possess
sions are as follows: To Montenegro
| fifty eight square leagues, with pop
ulation of $4,000, including 1900
Mussulmans. To Servia, l64 square
leagues, with 2l6,OOO inhabitants,
$4,000 Mussulmans.) To Bulgaria
1852 square leagues, with 3,S22,O0O
inhabitants, of whom l.430.O00 are
Mohammedans. Including the Do
brudscho, Turkey was thus asked to
give up Territory of 1888 square
leagues, with population of 4, ,457,-
600 souls, leaving her in Europe only
3,S5S,00O subjects. Russia, in fine,
was willing to take the bite and let
| Turkey have the annie.