Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-13
Reform Song Of the Democracy ).
Cleveland Leader.
''Ho, boys, carry me long,
Carry me till die;
Carry me up to the public crib
But don't You carry me by.''
CHIPS.

| CHIPS.
Tho delinquent taxes in Memphi,
amount to $2,O0O,0OO, says the Ap'
peal.
A movement in Davenport proposes
a reduction Of % per cent. on teach.
ers' salaries.
A negro in Newton county, Ca, IL
credited with the possession of foot
90 inches long.
A sale of what was called "good
farming land" was recently made in
Stafford county, Virginia. at less
than 81 per acre.
can sure it's aisy aisy enough to
build chimney" said O'Rourke, eye
how'd one brick up, an just slip an
other one under it,"
One of the pupils at a Lehigh coun-
ty, Pa, public school is 60 years of
age. 1t must be fun to see him play
leap frog with the other boys at noon
time.
The new Pope shows no more
friendliness for the King of Italy
than the old ore. He still processes
to be a prisoner, and addresses Hum
bert as liking of Sardinia"
The Congress of beautiful women
recently held in New York City was
not success. Too many of the fair
ones were not considered beauties,
and the money question was not sat-
isfactorily settled.
AT Eldora, the defeated party in
elections rotten-egg the stores of
their opponents. At least that was
what was done last Monday night to
the places Of business Of j. H. Smith
& Son, J. c. Moorman and P. E. PEN
elrick. .s
In 1916, dressed hogs sold in Iowa
at sl.75 per hundred pounds. At
that low price packers lost heavily,
being unable to dispose of the pro.
duct, which was actually given to
steamboats, to burn for fuel. Moth
ing could be sold except tho hams and
the lard.
A Michigan farmer recently sold q
large walnut tree for which he re-
ceived 1916. This is now the fashion
able wood, though it docs grow in
this country, and all large logs are
cut up into veneers not more than an
eighth of an inch thick.
The Canadian double headed baby
has received a visit from Barnum'a
agent with an offer of $4,000 to &c.
cure it five years for exhibition.
The child lives with it's parents in st.
Scholastique, and has reached the
age Of five months in good health.
There will be an immense area OF
wheat sown this year, in Iowa and
elsewhere, and with good crops the
price is likely to be lower than this
been for years past, unless foreign
war sends 1t up. Farmers had better
not set their eggs all under one goose
Diversity your products more.-Nec
ton Journal.
The man with conscience contin
ues to be heard from occasionally
This time he has been discovered i,
Boston, whence he has sent in q lettel
$500 to the United States Treasur,
Department at Washington, withou
giving his name, but merely stains
that he had defrauded the Govern
ment out Of this amount.
Gen. LIE Due. Commissioner of Ag
riculture, has loft his tea culture fo
. while to engage in the more pleas
ing business of trying to secure til,
| nf Ia n W ~ he TO- f. -
Department who write newspape
letters and have spoken disrespect
fully Of his agricultural capacity.
| Small farms make near neighbors
they make good roads; they max,
plenty OF good schools and churches
there lie more money made in proper
ton to the labor; less labor lie want
ed; everything is kept neat; les
wages have to be paid for help; les
time is wasted moro is raised TO tn,
acre besides, it is titled better Their,
is no watching of hired help; tn
mind is not kept in q worry, stew
and fret all the time.
In ls43, the mercury was below ze
70 in Iowa all through the month o
March. That year the Mississippi
river did not open until April, abov,
the rapids. In 1857, in Muscatine
Iowa, the mercury was Is degree
below zero, April 18. There wa
frost in the ground the middle o
May, and everybody expected Their
would be famine. Yet the crop o
spring wheat that year was the heav
lest ever known, either before o.
since.
A new industry has recently spruns
up in parts of Minnesota, that has al
ready arrived at the dignity of sta
tistics. Frog culture is the new thing
1t is simple matter, consisting chief.
ly in the protection of eggs and tad
fpole from birds and other enemies
by means Of wire screens. The prod.
uct, thus far reported, amounts te
3,OOO dozen of frog legs, of which
about two-thirds have been shipped
to st. Louis. The average quotation
ofprices is 20 cents per dozen.
Cope's Tobacco Plant asserts thai
commercial statisticians estimate the
quantity of tobacco yearly consumed
in the world to be 4,OOO. GOO. OO(
pounds. This, it declares, is clearly
an over estimate; but placing thu
amount at one-hslf, lie two Thousand
millions of pounds. If this quantity
was made into the usual two-inch
rolls that are afterwards cut up and
pressed into plug chewing tobacco, i
would be long enough to go asounG
the world thirty times. Cut into. tn,
tablets usually sold at retail, it would
form pyramid equal in size to those
Of Egypt, or ground into snAff would
cover township six miles square,
equal to an ordinary German princi.
pality, with snuff shower six feet
deem all ovar II