Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-08-24
Science and Industry.


Good bones, when dried, yield about
44 per cent. of ammonia.
"A COW giving 1000 pounds of milk
in year exhausts the soil of % to 80
pounds of mineral matter.
There is no egg of a bird known
which is not good food, or which could
not be eaten by hungry man.
-Signor Cozzi, of Verona, claims to
have discovered a powder removing all
explosive power from petroleum.
An egg weighing II ounces consists
of 120 grains of carbon, and ia grains
of nitrogen, or 1926 per cent. of car
bon and two per cent. of nitrogen.
Nearly one-half of the industrial
class of the United States is engaged in
agricultural pursuits; hence any move
ment tending TO benefit farmers must of
necessity be national blessing.
According to a Paris journal, the
locks displayed in the American De-
partment at the Exhibition are incom-
parably finer and more perfect in every
way than any thing of the kind ever be-
fore seen in Europe, at any rate in
Franse.
The carbonate territory in the re-
gion south of Pixies Peak, over the Ar
kansas River, is lengthening out. Some
of the thoroughly worked mines are
turning out rich beyond calculation, the
ore proving thick chloride. Excellent
hard corbonates and high-grade chloride
ores are brought to light every day.
There are crowds of people in the re-
gion, yet it is hard to get the right kind
of men to work for good wages.
The town of Tula, or Niello, in
Russia, has for centuries been the seat
of the manufacture of articles of great
beauty in what was known as Tula sill
ver-an alloy the composition of which
has until lately not been well under
stood. 1t is now stated that this con-
sists of nine parts of silver, one of cop
per, and one of bismuth. Saturated with
sulphur, this produces that beautiful
blue shade enormously considered to be
steel blue.
School and Church.
The foundation for S5O0,0OC
Jesuit College in San Francisco has
been begun. 1t will be, in every re-
spect, an institution with all the re.
quirements for modern education.
Brother Kimball worked from 101
in the morning until midnight in Prov.
idence Or. I.) Congregational church,
and secured pledges of $4,000 toward
the payment of the debt.
-Four lady students, having passed
a very satisfactory examination in med
icine and surgery at Madras, India
have been granted certificates to prac.
tice.
For several months the Louisville
(Ky.) School trustees have been fight
ing over the adoption of some geog-
raphy as the standard for the city
schools. At recent meeting of the
Board it was publicly stated that differ
ent members had been approached will
bribes of S75 and 5000 TO vote for thi!
or that book.
Rev. Mr.. Mackonochie, incumben
of St. Adams, Holbron, London, having
been suspended from his clerical func
tions for three years by sentence o
Lord Penzance, Dean of Arches, for con
tempt of Court in refusing TO obey de
cree prohibiting his ritualistic practices
has appealed his case from the Court O.
Arches TO the High Court of Justice.
Mr.. Sankey has accepted an invita-
ton to go to England, and will sail il
the latter part of September. 1t is ex
pected that he will remain there fo
some months, holding services of song
On his return he will join Moody, VIII
will meanwhile spend the time as quiet
ly as he can in Baltimore, giving him
self principally to study, but occasion
ally holding services in the churches c
that city.
The actual gain in church member
ship in Illinois for the past year ha
been $50 among the 22,714 members {
240 churches. The average member