Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-08-17
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/ Personal and Literary.
| Mr.. Tennyson, it is rumored, is busy
upon new volume of poems, which
will soon make its appearance.
Mr.. Writ Skies, us. Consul at Car
diff, is preparing book on the legends,
myths, fairy tales, and folklore of
| Wales.
| -Longfellow's poem, "The Masgue
of Pandora" has been set to music by
Mrs. Meadows White, and the overture
was recently played at the new Philhar-
monic Society concert in London.
The late Mr. MacGahan, it is said in
| the London Athen9unt, left behind him,
corrected for publication, as much of his
experience in Bulgaria and the Russo
Turkish war as will form memorial
volume.
Mr.. Kaneko, the author of the clev-
er Japanese story in the last atlantic, is
a young Japanese of great intelligence,
a graduate this year of the Harvard
Law School. He returns to Japan the
present month.
-Sojourner Truth, the old colored
woman who is somewhere about 100
years old-old enough to have been long
a slave in York State two or three gen
erations ago-is still vigorous enough
to travel and give an occasional lecture.
Bob Ingersoll has sailed for Europe
with his family to collect material in
Scotland for a lecture on Robert Burns,
and has contracted with Redpath for
100 nights, at S25,000 and expenses, af-
ter his return about the 1st of October.
Charles Reade is Ga years old; Ja-
cob Abbott, IS; Edmond About, so;
William T. Adams (Oliver Optic), 56;
I. B. Aldrich, Az; Berthold Auerbach,
&c; George Bancroft, 7S; Robert Brown
ing, &c; Carlyle, 50; S. L Clemens
X. II Dana, 81; Darwin, 50; Disraeli,
49, Hepworth Dixon, 81; Emerson, IS;
j. A Froude, 60; w. Z. Gladstone, SO;
Bret Harte, SO; j. G. Holland, SO; DIR.
Holmes, 60; Julia Ward Howe, SO;
Thomas Hughes, So; T. H. Huxley, 50;
George Eliot, 5S; Longfellow, Il !; Ben
son J. LOSING, 65; Donald G. Mitchell,
56; Max Muller, 55; James Parton, 56;
Mayne Reid, 60; John G. SAKE, 62; Mrs.
Stowe, Sc; Tennyson, co. Whittier, Il;
Wilkie Collins, So; Swinburne, Al;
Wm Black, 81; M. F. Tupper, 6S; c.
ID. Warner, 40; w. d. Howells, Al.
Science and Industry.
Oil made from peanuts closely re-
sembles olive oil.
In Germany the finest flour is being
made with mill-stones of glass.
"A society has been formed in Paris
to organize a series of visits to all the
chief museums, exhibitions, and public
monuments, under the guidance of well
instructed lecturers.
In France architects and carpenters
are legally held responsible for period
of ten years after the completion of
structure for total or partial loss occa-
stoned by defective plans or work.
France, so fortunate in its wine
yield since the war, is now heavy suf-
ferer. The phYlloxera has already ap-
peared in "a departments and done DAM
age computed at S200,000,000. Bur-
gundy has escaped as yet.
Ice machines are now made by
which ice can be manufactured at 81
per ton. A cake weighing 140 pounds
was exposed to q hot sun five hours on
street in Cincinnati, recently, when
the thermometer was at 92, and lost on
ly about half an inch on each side.
To restore the softness and pliancy
of leather which has become hard By
having been wet, apply neatsfoot oil
and rub it in. Castor oil is a good SUBJ
stitute for neatsfoot oil for softening
leather belts, boots and harness. The
best oil for harnt IS is one quart of meats
foot oil, four ounces beef tallow and
three tablespoonfuls lampblack; adding
four ounces of beeswax for use in sum-
mer weather.
Wayne County, New York, pro-
duces about two-thirds of the pepper
mint crop of the country. 1t is grown
on black ash swamps, which have been
thoroughly underdrained, from roots
which are planted as hops are. When
cut, it is partially dried and taken to
still where the oil is extracted. The oil
sells from $3.50 to S5 per pound, and
when it brings 50 the crop is paying
one. About 10000 pounds are used an
nually in producing medicines, manu-
featuring candies and making cordials.
School and Church.
In New York the Irish language is
now taught at an expense of only 20
cents month to the student.
Two Chinese young men are pre-
pairing for the Protestant Episcopal
ministry at San Francisco, Cal.
The three chief Presbyterian de-
nominations of Scotland raised, last
year, sc, $4,000 by voluntary subscrip-
! ton.
The New Testament Revision Com
pauy recently met at New Haven and
completed the first eleven chapters OF
Revelation.
The Baptist have ordained Chi
naman at San Francisco, another Celes-
tial now located at Portland, Oregon,
assisting in the ceremony; these con-
yerts are not asked to abandon Confu-
cius.
The Catholic papers report 67 con-
versions to the faith in England within
a fortnight, among whom are IL cler-
gymen of the Establishment; Earl Per-
cy, heir to the Dukedom of Northum-
berland, and Lord st. Asaph, son of the
late Earl of Ashburnham.
The Rev. DIR. j. A. o. Clark, COM
missioned by the Bishops of the South
ern Methodist Church to collect funds
for Wesley memorial church at Sa'
vannah, Ga, the scene of John Wesley
first labors on this continent, has sailed
to England on q collecting tour.
"A Gospel Garden is the latest re-
ligious novelty. 1t has been started by
the Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Jr., at Sew.
enth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street
New York, and consists of an apart
ment fitted up with n fountain, flora
baskets, urns of plants and whatever
will give it.an inviting appearance. Tc
the ceiling are attached long linen fans,
which are kept all the time in motion
and supply a cool and refreshing at
mosphere. Services will be held every
night and on Sunday.
The fifth Episcopal Church Con
gress will be held this year at Cincin
natl, Ohio, Oct. Is to Is. The subject:
for discussion are: "The lnterpreta
ton of the Rihle in Relation to the Pres