Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-09-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

| Personal and Literary.
--Nobling, who shot the German
Emperor, was regular contributor to
several agricultural journals.
-Twenty-one American publishers
are represented at the Paris Exhibition
by their printed books.
Thomas Hardy, the novelist, is 38.
He was educated as an architect, but
concluded to become an architect of
fiction.
Rosa Bonheur begins to show signs
of ageing. Her hair is becoming quite
gray, though still plentiful; but her
frank and charming manner remains.
"A bust of the late Michael Reese,
the California millionaire, is to be made
and presented to the State University,
which he remembered so literally in his
will.
Lieut.. Gov. Underwood, of Ken
tucky, places high estimate upon the
power of the press, being the patron of
no less than so different papers.
The Marquis of Lorne, Canada's
new Governor General, is a writer un-
der the nom de plume of Gross Neil"
and is reported author of the fairy play
= I'll rlHutlld, nOW Ou tut EuluDuIS
stage at the Princess Theater.
The centenary of the death of the
Rev. Augustus Montague Toplady, the
author of the "Rock of Ages" and
other we'll known hymns, occurred re-
Gently. Commemorative services were
held in a number of the English
churches.
AT least one graduate is getting in
his work. An editorial in the Boston
Post contains 25 French names and ex-
pressions, to say nothing of references
to Dumas, Chesterfield, Lucullus, Talley-
rand, Cambacers, Polyphemus, Aris-
totle, Xenophon and James I. Field.
Christina Rossetti, the poet, a wom-
an now in middle age, is an invalid and
a recluse. Her sweet nature has not,
however, been soured by illness; she is
one of the most amiable and charming
of women. She has a pleasant face,
with prominent eyes and a fine head;
and she is extremely industrious, writ
ing constantly.
"A series of woman's rights meet
ings in Paris terminated on the 18th ult.
with banquet, at which 200 persons
ate. Nine. Ventura presided and was
fianked by Messrs. Antide, Martin, City
Counselor, and Laisant, member of the
Chamber of Deputies. The main point
of the ten brief speeches was that the
admittance of woman to suffrage was
the grand panacea for all the evils of
society. Mime. Ventura, a delegate from
England, was the most successful speak
er, and Mile. Mozzoni, whose expenses
to the Congress were paid by the italian
Government, also distinguished herself.
| Science and Industry.
Petroleum has been discovered on
the Nueces River, on the border of Uval-
de County, Texas.
"A silk manufacturing firm in Lyons,
France, presents on its silks variety of
photographed impressions, comprising
pictures by the old masters.
The salmon catch in British Colum-
bia this season exceeds that of any other
They are sold along the banks of Fra
ser River at one cent each. Indians
catch them and Cinnamon clean and
can them.
MIR. John Hunter, the English spir-
itualist, has invented hive in which he
furnishes the bees with cells in which
only working bees can be bred. By this
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number of useless drones.
DIR. J. S. Myer, of Virginia City, New,
has rediscovered lost Egyptian art.
He tempers copper tools TO a more last
ing cutting edge than steel tools will
hold, similar to that of the copper i'm
plements with which the stone by the
Pyramids was cut.
Professor Edison's latest invention
is a new ink, which leaves raised work
on paper, with which the blind can easily
communicate with each other. 1t is in
the form of n powder, which becomes
fit for use on dissolution in water.
"A cheap sort of illuminated clock
has been adopted in Stutgardt. A magic
lantern is arranged so as to throw the
face of watch marking the time on an
elevated white surface. The movements
of the hands are seen as distinct as on
| the large clock and the expense is but a
| minute fraction of the cost of keeping q
large Illuminated clock tower.
The Buena Vista Vinicultural So
ciety, after losing about 100000 in
the manufacture of California wine, has
given up the business. The president
says that Californians have not yet
learned how to make good wine, that
the climate and other conditions are not
understood with sufficient exactness, and
that even fairly good native wine will
not sell as well as a much poorer inn
ported article. Often the society's pro-
ductions could not be sold at any price.
Its. champagne venture added $65, 200
to its losses, although the wine had a
considerable sale in New York, under
fictitious foreign brands.