Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-23

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1t is claimed that the russell apples
make the best viaegar+rot stronger.
but better favored.
Man can build a twenty story sky
scraper in year, but he can't make a
spiders web in a night.
One OF the aggravations of age is to
have the rheumatism when the bass
fishing is good in October.
In wet seasons, while a man may
raise bigger crops, he always loses
more Of them. August rains make q
terrible waste.
It is the busiest men who always
have the most work to do. The more
such man does the more he finds
that wants Going.
Considering the titanic power of the
lightning stroke and it's great freguen.
cy during the summer months, the
wonder is that more damage is not
done.
With all the food in sight and all the
pigs and cattle, it must be that before
many months the price of meats will
get down to 4 figure where they will
cease to be luxury.
California is coming to the front
with a new crop of growing impor-
tance-the soft shelled almond.e This
year the crop amounts to 267 carloads,
or 2,G70 tons. worth about - cents per
pound. %l 81
There is one comfort for the poor
man this winter, even if his coal is
likely to be high priced, and that is
that he will be able to get all the good
potatoes he wants at 80 cents bushel
OF less.
The most expert chicken picker in
tho oo,,p1rv iS an,,lovaa II, n ,,o,,ltry
packing house in Chicago. His record
is fifty chickens in SIN. Is. 1t is Ger
tain that the feathers fly when he gets
to work.
We have rid a large lawn of the
pesky squirreltail grass by persistent
moving during its seeding period and
burning up the cuttings. If you KEEP
this pest from going to seed, it will
disappear. So III
Rural mail routes will compel the
making Of better highways. The gov.
ernmelt has not sentimental feelings
on this subject and simply gives THE
alternative Of fixing the roads or losing
the service. $50
A heaping busheN basket of dead
sparrows was gathered UP in one sec
tion Of a small interior western towr
after one Of the heavy storms of Au
gust. Hail plays the mischief will
these birds.
The byproducts of the Chicago pack
ing houses are worth $30,000000 pei
year and are the sources of large prof
its connected with the business. Thir
ty years ago most Of these byproduct:
were wasted.
If in a fit of public spirit you buy {
wide tired wagon, your neighbors vii
quite likely commend YOUR public spirit
and keep right on using their old mar
row tired outfits, letting you smooth
the highways for them
The old poky way Of farming with
oxen and doing most of the farm work
by hand in France is at last giving
way W 1LipioNSo liiClAOuc NueEe Lie
horse supplants the OK and the modern
machine the hand labor.
The freight car with ball bearings
something we have often wondered
did not come to the front, is out at
last and is a pronounced success and
If generally adopted is certain to still
further reduce the cost of freight trans.
portation.
The general government has finally
abandoned further efforts at the i'm.
proyement Of navigation on the Mis-
souri, river. The railways have beaten
the boats and captured nearly all the
freight which was Mt one time carried
on the river.
Central Iowa seems to be the center
of the atmospheric disturbances and
unusual rainfall Of the year 1902, the
rainfall being reported at three feet
and even more in localities, doing i'm,
mense damage to one of the finest
crops ever raised in, the state.