Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-10-05
and female students on apeIfectly equal
footing as to studies.
Science and Industry,

and female students on perfectly equal
footing as to studies.
Science and Industry.
The Atlanta cotton merchants pre-
dict a receipt in that city this season of
125, 900 bales of cotton.
-Atagreatsho manufactory in Lynn,
Mass, recently, pair of kid side-laced
woman's boots was made from the
stock in just eleven minutes, in sight of
visitors.
The soil of the United States is the
best in the world, yet in many European
countries the annual yield per acre on
all land under cultivation is greatly on
the increase from year to year.
AS soon as tree is cut down, if in
tended for mechanical purposes, it
should be stripped of its bark, raised
from the ground, the sap wood taken
off, and the timber reduced to its re-
quired dimensions.
Ostrich farming in South Africa is
lucrative. The feathers are sometimes
clipped and sometimes plucked. A
strong bird can be relieved OF feathers
three times in fourteen months. The
feathers from the male bird are the
handsomest. The bird is easily tanned.
Mr.. w. f. Prentice, a bee man in
Erie County, Ohio, has $50 hives of bees
and has already taken 1000 pounds of
white clover honey from them, and the
buckwheat honey is yet to be taken.
The season has been favorable for the
bees, as well as for the farmers who de-
pend upon grain crops.
The English propose to have a
great agriculture fair in 1879, at an ex-
pense of S250,000. 1t is said that ag-
riculture is declining in Great Britain.
The number of cattle, the wheat acre.
age, and other crops are decreasing,
and very nearly one-half of the popula-
ton of the United Kingdom is now de-
pendent for sustenance on imported
food. The people hope that an exhibit
ton as proposed will help to revive q
dropping business.
The Chamber of Commerce OF
Foochow, having called the attention OF
the foreign Consuls to the contemplated
mixture of dried and prepared willow
leaves with tea leaves, the Governor OF
Foochow has issued a proclamation
threatening delinquents with severe
punishment. Those at the head of the
scheme, he says, are numerous, and any
person who proves the guilt of one Of
them will receive 100 piastres. "Let
ALL" he adds, "tremble and obey"
Several months ago, the discovery
of Prof. Barff, of England, that iron
could be protected from rust by being
covered with an oxide formed by means
of superheated steam, excited great at
tentiOn. A simpler process has been in
vented by Mr.. G.. Bower. He places the
articles to be coated in chamber O.
fire-clay provided with two pipes, ont
for the admission and the other for thu
escape of air. Both pipes having beer
closed, the heat is raised to a temper
ature of about LOO degrees Fahren
heit. At the end of each hour the pipe
are opened, so that atmospheric al
may be forced into the chamber by tn
one, and the deoxidized air driven ou
through the other. This is continued
until sufficient film of magnetic oxid
. is formed on the articles. The coatin:
is beautiful light gray or neutral tint
very delicate in appearance, and it per
fectly protects iron from rust. Unde
all circumstances, the invention is de
cided to be invaluable.
: | haps and mfshaps.
"A druggists clerk at Jackson
Mich, filed a prescription calling fo
paregoric with laudanum, causing tn
death of the patient, little girl.
Mrs. Samuel Salmore, wife of
prosperous farmer near Clinton, KY
died from an overdose of chloroforn
administered by dentist.
) Joseph Neely, of Patoka, Ind, a
+ employee of the Evansville and Teri
Haute Railroad, was killed by the rop
of pile driver breaking, letting th
q block fall on him and crushing his heaC
} AT Ripley, Tenn, few days ago,
r 6-year old colored child swallowed
r piece of glass, which lodged in hi
&. throat or windpipe and killed him bt
e fore medical aid could be procured.
a Robert Clarke, a brickmaker a.,
g Portsmouth, Va, got on a tear in cell
: bration or the completion of summt
job. He went into a barn, lit ciga
and went to sleep. The barn caugl
: fire, and he was burned to death.
: Aaron Converse was accidental
: shot and killed by Newell Delphll
: while hunting raccoons near Statfor'
9 Conn. He had climbed tree to driN
J coon out of its hiding-place, and W;
instantly killed by a charge from b
companion, who supposed he was tirir
d at the game.
1 jerome Blazer, living six miles fro
n Gallipolis, o., being Respondent
mind on account of hrs crops turnir
n out badly, and the loss of aunt and cou
u in by yellow fever, arose from his b,
e the other morning before his wife al
!. three children, and taking a rope han
e ed himself to an apple-tree.
1t AT Altamont, West Va, Warn
Geldenbach, fireman, and A. Kidwe
engineer of freight train, were und
!, the engine fixing some part of the m
chinery, when the brakemen let up t
> brakes, not knowing they were unde
meath, and the train, being on a hea
y down grade, pushed the engine oy
Z Geldenbach, mangling him fearful
one arm badly mashed.
ID Foreign Notes.
y The Duchess of Edinburg's baby
o Queen Victoria's twenty-sixth gran
D, child.
I'd Madame Adelina Patti has pl
~ chased Graig-y-nos Castle at Ystrady
al glais, in the southern part of Wales.
-" Lord Brag" is the expressive
al tie by which Gambetta and his folio
lr ers in France distinguish Lord Beacon
$, field.
s. -Clotilde Kleeberg, the 12-year {
a. pianiste, though the youngest of 81 co
W petitors, carried off the 5000 frs
u prize at the Paris Conservatory recent