Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1878-06-12
THIS. THAT AND TOTHER.

Seven out of eight glrafies import
ed last year for menageries in the
United States have died.
One Chicago murderer has just got
seventeen years in the Penitentiary,
and two others are to be hanged this
month.
The cashiered General, Fitz John
Porter, is to have a new trial before
Generals Shields, Terry and Getty in
Washington, next month.
A man reading that the Paris Ex-
position requires an area Of 642, 600
meters, exclaimed, "What a gas bill
they must have to pay !"-Satmrday
Night.
The Wisconsin Legislature refuses
to make insanity a cause for divorce,
casually remarking that elf man
ever wants wife it is when he .is
crazy"
A West Virginia law atfixes a pen
atty of one years Imprisonment and
$500 fine for being concerned in raf-
file or gift enterprise at church fair
or festival.
1t was the fault of the compositor.
An editor headed a report of q wed.
ding "Another Happy Pair" and the
printer made it read "Another Sappy
Pair" and the bridegroom was mad
about it.-Cheyenne Leader.
aid stay an old maid till 1 90,
black in the face, before I'd marry 9
man who chews tobacco And she
took wad of gum out of her mouth
and stuck it on the under side of tn,
seat of her chair, for safe keeping
while she was eating her dinner
dustin ReueiNe.
A Chicago man recently wrote t,
one of the Astors, "Send me one mil
lion dollars or prepare to die" Vi
to the hour of going to press the Chi
cago man had not received the on
million dollars. The Astor person
therefore, must be preparing to de-
Inter- Ocean.
The innocent and bucolic pastim
of sheep-shearing has its drawback
in Texas. While clipping Ion.
wooded sheep the other day farme
encountered two small moccasil
snakes, which had ensconced them
selves in the fleece close to the skin
and he narrowly escaped bite.
There are consumed in Mississippi
: every year 100000 gallons of wine
T 100000 of beer, and 8, 4OO,OO gallon
of other liquors-principally whisky
] Mississippi has a population of abou
100000, which would give to ever
:, man, woman and child in the Stat
81 gallons of whisky, or to every VIC
ter thirty EIGHT gallons.
e Bicycle races are all the rage j
!, some parts of England. At one {
: these races which recently took plac
t ct Hampton Court, there were 2,Ol
: bicycle riders in the procession, rel
9 resenting sixty-two metropolitan an
9 twenty provincial clubs. The thron
9 of spectators was estimated at 80
y 600.
l. James Gordon Bennett, Jr., is I'll
7, new Prodigal. He desires to retur
: home, he writes, and will submit
> any punishment which may be mete
n out to him. He wants to be here
l. time for the Fourth of July at ia
Is thest. And shall we not all sa
, "Bring on the Prodigal; let the fatte
4. calf return ?"-Chicago Journal.
d Buchu Hembold's wife lives
A. Philadelphia, and leads an easy ar
ia comfortable life on the income
% 100000, which Hcmbold settled {
70 her before their troubles. Hembo
Is himself receives fair income from
Il drug house in New York, who ha'
90 the control Of his nostrums, but h
40 funds are wasted in dissipation al
r. he is always hard up.
IL An observer of the ways Of |
e. sorts of idiots has noticed that if
~ polite young man is invited to join
r. crowd before bar, and replies, IN
ce 1 thank you," or uses similar wor
is of declination, he is looked upon
I'd decidedly ''tresh," But let him Sit
is ply say, 81 amt drinking to-day, al
to if further pressed, repeat the wor
in an impatient, almost angry tor
e. and the "code" is satisfied, and
'st passes for q good fellow all the san