Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-09-25

harping on the intelligence of bees,
but the drove of mosquitoes which
waits at the key hole until the family
are in bed are passed over as slight
ingly as you please. This is rank ia
voritism.
Governor Gear, Of Iowa, has issued
an appeal to tho citizens of that com
monweath in behalf of the yellow few
or sufferers of the South. 1t will not
be in vain. The people Of Iowa are
thrifty, generous and noble. Isl Joseph
(Mo) Herald.
A man who ran away from San
Francisco because his wife had threat
ened to kill him if he remained there,
has suddenly returned to prove in
court that she is not a widow, and
thus to prevent her getting the insur.
ance on his life.
When man is due at a lady's al 8
p. IN. and he goes to barber shop
ten minutes before that hour to yet
shaved and discovers ahead of him
man with eight children to have their
hair cut, he has not the slightest re-
spect for tho third commandment.
A clergyman writes to the Nam
chester Gudrdidn to say that "Jippo"
is the Basque word for God" and
was imported by profAuc Basque sail
ors in their nautical imprecations.
Ilence, those who say ''by lingo" are
merely swearing under cover Of a
foreign language.
An Iowa Editor addresses cotem.
porary in this fashion: "Pinkey, call
us liar villain" 'perjurer, war.
rant.buyer, toothless old woman
and all the petty epithets you can
think of, make fun OF our big feet
but for Gods sake don, call us broth
or. We can stand an. thing else better
than that"
Mr.. G. ID. Sanders. of Parkersburg,
W. Va, is tall, straight, robust man
between fifty and sixty. lie has not
slept for fifteen years, he feels tired
sometimes, but never sleepy, though
he has tried working continuously
for ten or eleven days and nights.
Heavy opiates have no effect upon
him. AT night he goos to bed $50 as
to be out of the way" and he lies
and thinks, but does not sleep.
The New Orleans Eicauune requests
| politicians to make less noise at their
meetings, as their vociferatiOBs dis
turb the yellow fever patients. Which
state of things reminds the Baltimore
| Gdzette of the persistent card PLAYER
who crawled out from under the
wreck Of a steamship saloon ON the
Pacific and cried out above the shrieks
and prayers ofthe passengers and the
bowling Of the tempest, "Remember,
boys, played the tray for low"
The peach orchard OF l.. w. Glenn
ons in Pleasant Valley, Scott county,
heretofore mentioned, contains 1000
trees of Hale's Early variety, five
years old. They are laden this year
with 500 bushels OF delicious fruit,
which Mr.. Clemens has mostly dis
posed of. The farm is situated about
seven and a half mites northwest OF
Davenport. Mr.. Clemons has 800
more trees which will come into bear
ing in a ear or two. He ia doubles
the most extensive peach raiser in the
State Clinton Heyuld
Farmer Miles bought grand piano
ut auction, cheap, for his daughter
Priscilla. The town, aghast, wonder
ed where they were going to put 80
large an instrument in 80 small q
house. Farmer Miles cut away the
lower part of the partition bet tween
the parlor and the pantry, ran through
the long end OF tho piano into the
pantry, and Priscilla now sits at the
keyboard and plaintively sings,
"WhO will care for mother now"
while the Old woman rolls out doug b
nuts on tho other end in the pantry.
Mrs. Pierce, the woman at ilamil-
ton, Ontario, who tasted TOR forty
days in obedience to a "divine COM
mand," at the conclusion Of the or
deal, ate hearty meal in the pres
ence Of her family aud four physi-
clans without experiencing any in
convenience. The doctors are said to
be puzzled, and to entertain no doubt
that she did fast, as she pretended to,
inasmuch az her bedroom door was
locked at nighta, and during the days
she was always accompanied by some
member of the family.
Mr.. Stratton, q prominent grocery
merchant of Cairo, H., in excellent
health, few days ago left that city
tor Harrisburg, a station on the Cal
no and Nincennes Railroad. He ar
rived there, but the Harrisburg peo-
pie hustled him out of town, when he
left for another station. There he
was met with shotguns. From there
he journeyed to Norris City, on the
same line, but found more shotguns.
Returning to Harrisburg. he was
met by another detachment of emil
fish" and kept travelling. lie had
thousand mile ticket aud proposed To
ride ii out. The Eccning Sun, OF Cal
ro, reports him sup stump" ut Car
mi on Sunday last. ~ tho trains don't
run on that day. He is evidently hav
in good time.
II isquite impossible to keep track
Of all the heroic sacrifices that are
made in the chnrnel houses Of the
plague now devastating the South.
The sad fate Of one little party which
Went from ST. Louis to Memphis
about three weeks ago deser yes, how
ever, more mention than has been
made ia the brief teleg.aphic an
nonncements from that city. Drs.
McKim and Nugent, with five Sisters
Of Charity. left this city in perfect
health to offer their services to the
suffering in Memphis. and within the
briet time named all but two of this
noble little band have been stricken
by the angel Of death. The death Of
DIR. McKim has already been referred
to and that of DIR. Nugcnt was an
bounced in Sundays paper. Three
Of the Sisters have died meanwhile,
so that only two remain Mo. Re
publican.
The telegraph brings the welcome
report that the gold medal for the
best display of cereals at the Paris
Worlds Exposition has been awarded
to tho display sent by the Indianapo-
lis Board of Trade. As this collec-
ton was made up from samples re-
ccived from different sections Of our
State, it was in fact the Indiana dis
play, and the State is entitled to the
credit for the productions, while the
Officers Of the Board Of Trade ia
charge of them are to be credited
with arranging and putting them in
the most attractive form. To all par
ties interested, the State, especially,
it is Justly matter of pride that this
high award has been made in our IA
vor. 1t gives Hoosicr higher res
pect for his State to have it known
that she 10 thought worthy OF the
great gold medal Of the Worlds Fair
for having shown the best samples Of
grains exhibited there Indiana
Farmer.
The Wallets Prescription.