Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-03-06
CHIPS.

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ance, recently formed, for the en-
forcement of the Sunday laws.
A man was lately sentenced in
Nashville to three years imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary for stealing
three boxes of pepper.
The New York Herald knows a
young man who has offered to bet
that he can walk a million hours
without sleep, if his girl will only
walk with him.
The investigating committee in q
spiritual seance, in Haverhill, Mass,
stationed q man with a revolver to
shoot at the materialized spirits. The
apparitions failed to appear.
In l76O q native African was Gov.
ernor of Virginia. He was Governor
Alexander Spottswood, who was
born in Tangiers while his father, q
British officer, was there on duty.
1t is proposed to lay pipes up and
down the bayou, near Franklin, La,
through which syrup can be pumped
any distance from any sugar house to
the huge factory on the Teche.
Orders have been issued forbidding
the bakers and pastry cooks of Paris
burning in their ovens wood which
has been painted or impregnated
with any mstalic salts, as it is be-
lieved that articles Of food may be
rendered ueleterious through such
latent agency.
1t is said that only colored ,laborers
would have been taken out in the Me-
tropolis had it not been for an old
Brazilian law prohibiting their being
brought into the country. The object
of the law was to prevent the African
slave trade.
The work of compiling the official
records of the civil war has so far ad-
vanced that the history Of the first
year of the struggle, made up Of doc
uments of both sides is about ready
tor press.
During the revival services at Hart
ford, Conn.,, Mr.. Moody spoke of the
life of Peter, and just as he spoke the
sentence, "And then the cock crew.
q big cock in the neighborhood
crowed and filled the whole rink
with the reverberation.
A San Francisco tailor advertised
that he would make dresses for wo-
men, and fashionable dressmaker,
resentful of the rivalry, advertised
that she would make mems clothes
"in the latest styles, at low prices
and warranted to fit"
"Hurrah hurrah !" cried a young
lawyer who succeeded to his father
practice. "I've settled that old law
suit at last" "Settled it ~ exclaimed
the astonished parent; "why, we've
supported the family on that for the
last ten years.'-Boston Adcertiser.
Boston philanthropists meet to con.
slider what measures shall be taken
for the benefit of the unemployed.
They smoke l5-cent cigars, have a
glass of wine, talk over the war news
blast the weather, and 60 home feel
ing that they have done their whole
duty.-DetrOit Free Press
"Do you know" remarked rather
fast youth, the other day, to stutter.
ing friend to whom he was slightly
indebted, vdo you know that intend
to marry and settle down." al do
don't know anything about it," was
the reply, "bu-but / think you had
better stay single and set-set-tle up
The Evangelist quotes the saying o,
an eminent divine, that twice in hi
life he had put himself in positions o.
such danger that he almost felt h
had no right to implOre divine pro
tectiOn-one was when he descended
the crater of Vesuvius, and the othel
when he spent fortnight in Washing
ton.
Horace Greeley wrote to society
at Hartford: ~ prefer not to lecture
in so large place as Hartford, unles
am really wanted there; and tn,
fact that L am asked TO lecture TO
half price convinces me that am no
wanted. So let me wait year o.
two, till l shall be more in demant
than 1 now am"
| A subscription to raise 800 to buil'
. church has been circulated in
Minnesota town, but the local pape
recommends that the sum demanded
be diverted to new cheese factor,
on the ground that no pecuniary ben
efits will accrue from a new churcl
edifice, while cheese factory will
pay dividend.
"From several Cities" says the Boa
ton Pilot, 1--WE learn that the Iris
, societies have determined this year I
, dispense with the St. Patrick's Da
parade. The action Of those of 81
Louis, Mo-, is particularly commend
, able, urging that the money hereto
, fore spent on such parade be divide
. equally between the orphans and tn
Colonization Association" ~