Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-12-28
Haps and NIishaps. j..

Warren S. Waite, prominent citi-
zen of Toledo, in a supposed fit of SOM
nambulism left his bed and climbed out
upon the roof of three story building,
from which he fell to the ground, sus-
tanning fatal injuries.
"A 5-year-old daughter of j. M.
Gunkhouser, of East Palestine, O., fell
into an uncovered cistern and was dead
before her fate was discovered.
John Jackson, of Inwood, Ind,
was fatally shot while fooling with re-
volyer. He didn't know it was loaded.
A little child of Green Fryman, a
Nicholas County (Ky.) farmer, was
scalded to death by falling into tub of
boiling water.
"A colored woman named Rena
Cason was burned to death at Robinson
Station, near Cynthiana, Ky. Her cloth
ing caught fire from an open CRATE.
While engaged in coasting on the
Wabash bluffs at Lafayette, Ind, the
other night, Mrs. M. j. Timberlake had
one of her ears nearly severed by fly
ing sled, and her husband was so severe
ly stunned and bruised that he lay un-
conscious for several hours.
Ben Plant, of Warfield, Iowa, under
took to pull his gun into the wagon by
the muzzle. Both of his eyes were shot
out and it was thought he would die.
"A young son of Rev. VIM. Clay
baugh, residing near Urbana, o., was
fatally injured by falling under the
wheel of threshing-machine separa-
tor.
Will Breeding, residing near Tay-
lorville, Bartholomew County, Ind,
fatally shot himself while out cunning.
DIR. l.. X. Brigham, of Aurora, ILL.,,
was seriously, if not fatally burned, by
the explosion of an alcohol stove over
which he was preparing some medicine.
Foreign Notes.
During the academic year of 1878,
there were 5,035 students at the medi-
cal school of Paris.
OF the thousand volunteers who ac-
companied Garibaldi in his capture of
Sicily in 1860, 734 are still living, of
whom 627 are pensioned by the State !;
only 119 were killed in war; the rest
died "natural deaths"
-"More hopelessly corrupt than even
the provincial administrations, the Gov
ernment at Pekin and the household of
the Emperor grow fat on these extor-
tons, and every attempt to place them
under restraint meets with frown. 7"
Such is the North China Herdld'S opin-
ion of its rulers.
The European residents of Hong
Kong have not yet got over their alarm
caused by the attack from band OF
Chinese pirates on the night of Septem-
ber 25. They are urging the Governor
any similar occurrence. The heathen
Chinee claims to be in majority in
those parts.
The English marine magistrate at
the port of Singapore is a judicial per-
son of muscle. He lately sprang from
his bench and soundly thrashed sub
magistrate sitting with him; the next
day he dragged reporter out of Court
by the collar, and his only virtue, ap-
parently, is the impartiality with which
he abuses every shipmaster who comes
before him.
A commission, composed OF ex-
perts, will meet in Berlin during the
Easter holidays to decide on the meas
ures to be taken for the compulsory
teaching of drawing in the higher
schools.
The electric light will make a valu'
able saving of coal in England. Ac
cording to very careful estimate made
a few years ago, the quantity consumed
in gas making was set down at $780,
600 tons, against production of coal Of
ia, 100000 tons.
Missions have done great deal fol
Samoa. Thirty-six years ago, wher
Christianity began to be preached il
that island, the population numbered
about 81 900, and all were idolaters
The population under the sway of Chris
tian institutions, has increased to So,
600, and all are nominal, and the greater
part professed, Christians. A theolog
ical seminary graduates 60 students ;
year, and 20 missionaries have been sen
out to neighboring islands.
In England a woman can obtain {
decree of what is called judicial separa
ton from her husband on the ground O
his adultery, but not decree of divorce
unless desertion or cruelty can be prov
ed as well. In New South Wales an ac
giving her the right to sue for dissolu