Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

fersOnaI ana Literary.
joaquin Miller is again in England
and a few hours after his reappearahc,
in London received a cordial letter o
welcome from Mr.. Gladstone.
-Poe's sweetheart, the late Saral
Helen Whitman, leaves volume o
poems that will shortly be published
along with revision of her essay, "Pot
and His Critics"
Mrs. Francis Hodgson Burnett ha:
written q Lancashire story called Ha
worth's, which Is said by those who
have seen the r1anuseript to be as good
as That Lass o. Lowrie's.
The Cassells, the English publish.
ers, have set apart for the year 1875
$4,000 out of their profits, and propose
to do the same every year, for fund foI
workmen who remain long in their
service.
They say Bob fDgersoli made more
money by lecturing last season than any
other lecturer, beating Beecher and Joe
Cook both. His fees as a lawyer are
also said to be enormous. In the goods
of this world Bob is getting rich.
-Bryant remarked to q. young man
some years since: Zone of the first OBJ
jects of a literary man should be to ac-
quire an independence; his genius never
does its best so long as it is mere
drudge of his necessities"
-" Mark Twain" has sent for his pas
tor, the Rev. Jos. II. Twichell, of Hart
ford, Conn, to 90 over to Europe and
spend some weeks with him in pc
destrian tour through Germany and
Switzerland. 1t is not to cost Mr..
Twichell cent.
1t is striking proof of the world
wide interest felt in Mr.. Stanley's dis
coveries that the English edition of his
"Through the Dark Continent ap-
pears simultaneously in the United
States, Canada, France, Germany, Nor.
way, Italy, Denmark, and other coun-
tries.
Mr.. Forbes, the war correspondent
of the Daily Nesos, is in fair way OF
making fortune. He is clearing $500
a week by his lectures. and all the while
is in receipt of handsome salary as a
kind of half-pay from the Daily Nevs-
no small one it may be imagined, when
his present on returning from success.
full campaign is $500.
Eight years ago there worked as
".devil" in the Office of the Wytheville
(Va.) Dispatch a boy apparently IL
years of age. He was shoeless, penni
less and trouserless when he entered
Now he is Commissioner to the Paris
Exposition, chief editor of the Atlanta
ionstitution, and one of the best known
humorists in the country. His name is
S. W-Small, or "Old ST."
BY way of monument to Thack.
cray, London is to get out a superb
edition of his works. 1t will be limited
to 1000 copies. The undertaking at
tracts much attention in English literary
circles, as nothing like it in cost or ex.
cellence of workmanship has ever beer
attempted. The paper used will bt
made expressly for this edition, Teal
China paper will be used for the stee
and copper plates, and the very bes,
artists, engravers and printers will LEND
their aid in producing the finest set o.
books ever published in any country.
Science and Industry.
The New Orleans mint will be used
to coin money for South American
countries.
/ Farmers in South Georgia think
they have discovered bonanza in the
cultivation of the Chinese sand-pear.
Ice is regarded as prime necessi
ty at Bombay, land the supply is received
from this country, being shipped chief
ly from Boston.
"A big deposit of ice has been found
in the Olympic Mountains, in Washing
ton Territory, and it can be brought tc
Seattle at cost of S5 ton. Ice nov
costs $50 a ton there.
"A new enemy to the potato hal
appeared in West Virginia. 1t resem
bles small grasshopper, and destroys
whole patches in single night by sting
ing the plant near the ground.
Three of the largest tobacco facto
ries in Key West have closed, and the
Cubans employed in them are goins
back to Havana Cause, a strike and in
reference of United States revenue Off
GERS.
-Parsnips contain almost twice a
much dry matter or real food as tur
nips, and this of a superior quality
Carrots, again, contain about as mucl
dry substance as mangolds, but ar
richer in sugar and of better feeding
quality.
| -SdlJ Is very iiipoltuit lol dutuihiS
Large pieces of rock salt put into tn,
managers and feeding -troughs are rec
commended. One-half the ash of ami
NAL blood consists of salt; without th
latter the blood can not be in natura
or healthy state.
The railroads of the United State
have in use 3,5O0,000 car-wheels. Thos
on fast passenger trains are renewet
every 10 months; but freight cars us
the same wheels sometimes 10 years
The average life of wheel is 5000
miles ,and at that rate it takes 1000
year at cost, less the old wheels, o
Sc, 10000
Strawberries contain $50 per cent
of their weight of glucose, or Crap
sugar, cherries 10, white currants $40
and hot-house grape 1887; pineapples
on the other hand, contain 11.33 pc
cent. of cane sugar, apricots, 6, AM
oranges 4. The sugar cane, when per
fectly ripe, contains 1S per cent. O
sugar; beet contains about IA per cent
of sugar.
School and Church.
Cornell graduates a class of 20 thi
year, of whom seven are women.
The Disciples" generally calle
Campbellites, have just opened thei