Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28

ton on the ground of adultery alone
has passed both houses. 1t has beer
done several time before, but has been
disallowed by the Queen.
AT the Brighton Aquarium, Eng.
land, they have young sea lion named
Prince, which is getting too big to be
agreeable. He enjoyed greatly playing
with crooked stick, which he would
toss and catch dexterously, but when
he began throwing it at the heads Of
visitors the keepers had to interfere.
Then he amused himself by pulling the
plug out of the tank and thus draining
all the water off. If the night-watch.
man does not keep sharp eye on him,
Prince climbs out of his tank every
night.
The Bavarian Government has sent
to the Protestant, Roman Catholic, and
Jewish congregations of the kingdom,
end to the sanitary officers of the chief
cities, to ask their opinions in relation
to cremation. The Roman Catholics
express an unqualified disapproval, the
Jews decline to express any opinion, the
Protestants say it would only necessi-
tate change in their liturgy, and the
sanitary officials recommend it after
battles, during epidemics, when the re-
mains are to be sent to distant places,
and when the ground is not suitable for
the interment of bodies.
Odds and Ends.
-Bluebeard was lock-smith and
belle-hanger.-N. Y. Mail.
When Edison has invented cheap
electricity, the charge of the light brig
do mill h<,r
To keep apples from rotting, put
them in cool place-where there is. a
large family of children.-Lo,ceH Cou-
rier.
There is no mistaking real gen.
tleman. When he approaches free
lunch table he always wants napkin
and chair.
Things are called by their right
names in Georgia. A party of young
men there have formed tobacco
chewing club.--Pic.
-"Dipped into weak solution of ac-
complishments, is the term now ap-
piled to those of our girls protesting to
be highly educated.
The English language is wonderful
for its aptness of expression. When a
number of men and women get together
and look at each other from the sides of
a room-that's called a sociable. When
a hungry crowd call upon poor min
lister and eat him out of house and
home-that's called donation party.
Turner'S Falls Reporter.
Give me a cure for the toothache-
quiek-said a sufferer Place the ach-
ing tooth near the heels of mule, and
then touch off the animal. One touch
of mule sets all nature to achin' and
relieves the patient too Immediately sud-
den to think about. Don't give this
away to every body, now.-Keokuk Con-
Stitution.
THE LovE-LoRN MUSIC TEACHER.
Her eyes are like the DO,
Most beautiful to 81,
And tho roam a Fd,
There's only ne-sweet Sol
(Such souls immortal LaD
Can bring blissful Re
OF heavily hope to Mi! (SingD
st Louis Times Journal.
"A woL.an living on Brush Street
spent an hour on Woodward Avenue
yesterday, gazing at the signs of
+" Christmas toys" "Christmas can
Dies" and Christmas every thing else,
and went home thoroughly convinced
that there ought to be separate brand
of Christmas sawdust. Meeting her boy
at the gate she asked if he had accom-
plished certain errand, and receiving
a negative reply called out: You
haven't ehi Well, now, you travel
along or I'll give you regular Christ
mas cowhiding !n-DetroH Free Press.