Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-12-25
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ell CLEANING.
81 Happy to meet you," said q polit
! butcher.
{ "Take In your graves over night
says an Eastern paper.
Actors say the hardest tack to lear
Is how to laugh naturally.
A young lady in Albany has beel
hned 70 for eaves-dropping.
. The tramp question-"Say, kin you
give feller su'thin' ter eat"
II Brother Talmsge says; "The who'll
: land is soaked with abominstion."
al. Senator Ben Hill figures in bat
: railroad Transaction down In Geor
> gia.
Il A colored orator has appeared il
Louisville with "Reply to Bob In
: gersoll."
The export ofapples from this coun
try to England this year is the largest
ever recorded.
. PhilAdelphia people wear q blach
ribbon In the bu buttf.n-h0le TO sho y
, that they are in mourning.
The days have come when one
thing harder than getting into bed .,
night is tho gettiug 4 ont in the morn.
; ing.
"1.et girls be girls, SAY an exchange
Yes, that's so. A change couldn't be
for the better and might be for the
worse.
| Rheumatism is frequently the re.
! suit OF an overdose Of moisture; in
other words, to be caught in q
pouring rain Otter insuresa roaring
pain.
Two garments feel better on your
back, now that win ter'a succeeded the
fall ;don't hang y you coat in the hall on
the rack. for thief might be hiring q
haul.
1t takes six weeks Of singing, dane.
ing, lighting, swearing Snd rejoicing
to crown an African king, but
the place is good one aud pays big
wages.
General Grants house in Washing
ton, which cost $25, GOO, has been sold
by his agent for $4,000 to an Ohio
lady. who now occupiesit. The house
has been long vacant.
One of the Representative OF Phil
adelphis in the next Legislature 10
triumphantly sent back to the Legis-
lsture after having been expelled
from that body for bribery.
A Springfel beggar woman, &C.
customed to 60 daily round for bro.
ken meats, etc., turns out to be keep
ing . flourishing boarding house.
The feelings Of the boardcrs are not
given.
They are building q corn crib of
capacity of 1900 bushels at the glu-
cose works in Davenport-hxvinga al
ready room for l5,OW bushels. The
| works consume sn average Of 800
bushels Of corn per day.
The marriage Of a San Francisco
widoyer TO his step aughter 30 dis
pleased his neighbors that they stuck
tar and feathers on his door as q hint
Of what they would do il he did not
move away. He moved.
People who do not pay their gro-
cer's bills in Cincinnati are advertised
in the Sunday Commercial, names,
addresses and amounts being given.
People are 40 Interested in the list
that they often stay at home from
Church to read ii.
NJ. Paul Broca, the anthropoloxist,
is authority for the statement that the
taliest man ever actually measured
was Finlander, nine feet three and
seven-tenths inches high, and that tho
shortest man known reached deci-
NAL under seventeen inches.
Mrs. b. 8. Baker, Of Columbus,
Louisa county, lost her teeth, and sup.
posing, Of course, that two sets of
teeth were all that nature would pro.
vide her with, got false outfit. Now,
to her surprise, her store teeth are
being crowded out by new teeth
She is about so years of age.
A young lady Of Boston recently
told the Rev. Mr.. Pentecost, who OBJ
jects to round dancing, that hngging
WAS to her the best part Of bali. The
frankness and simplicity Of that
young person are worthy OF all
praise yet Mr.. Pentecost 10 trying to
make horrible example Of her.
Should Senator Wade Hampton live
to take his seat. South Carolina will
be represented by two men with
wooden legs. Senator Butler lost
one Of his legs In cavalry charge.
The song Of South Carolina candi-
dates for the position will henceforth
be likely to be that fsvorite one, "Saw
my leg off"
A gentleman was one day relating
to Quaker atAle Of deep distress.
and concluded very psthetically by
saying, ~ could not but feel for him."
"Verily, friend" replied the Quaker,
"hou didst right in that thou didst
feel for thy neighbor; but didst thou
feel in the right plscc-didst thou feel
in thy pocket?"
Daniel wbaugh, of Gu m berland
county, Pa, is the inventor Of . GER
petual clock, which, by utilizing mag
netism % dynamic force. has been
ticking away without winding for
four or five years, and 10 said to show
no disposition to stop before its works
are worn out by friction, and falls lit
tie short Of perpetual motion.
! The Cincinnati Commercial depre-
Gates post mortem praise, aud says -
"All this tawdry sympathy with
| wickedness and shame 10 Of O piece
with the spirit of that juvenile litera-
ture which makes horo Of the boy
who thrashes his teacher or runs
away to be . highway robber. No
gliding Of romsnce can make . gen.
tleman of thief or saint OF fallen
woman"
The soldiers and sailors of the
United States do not make large for
tunes in the service of their country.
The late Admiral Paulding served
for sixty -seven years, fighting gallant
ly In three wars, to say nothing of
the routine duty OF peace. When he
died, he left behind him property
worth little more than eS,OOO-so
that upon an average he was able to
save about $l20 year.
| A whisky seller in the state Of New
York sold liquor to . man until he
was crazy drunk, and while thus
drunk he drove q hired horse to
death. The owner Of the horse sued
the saloon keeper for damages and
recovered a judgment for the value OF
the horse. The case was appealed
and the Court Of Appeals has just sus-
tained the judgment, thus confirming
the doctrine that the man who sells
intoxicating drinks 10 Liable tor ALL
the damages that may be caused by il.
/ The celebrated case OF Chandler
(Zacharia) sgainst Buell., the newspa-
per correspondent, pending since 1875,
has at last reached . conclusion. Bu-
ell telegrsphed to the papers that he
then represented, that the learned
senator from Michigan had sought
imaginary, but, to him, highly useful,
lamp-posts on the senate floor during
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