Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-06-19
GENERAL BREVITIrs.


wheat in Wisconsin.
---sedalia ia s.ill battling for d Capitol,
and she may bo successful.
--Sedalia Intends having cna ahc biz
Fourth Of July celebrations.
Numerous osnker worms sosthr tie
orchard tops In New England.
Tho cut-worm Is verv desiruclips8e the
corn crop In all parts Of Virginisa
For Sale--A piano by ai5.t ~ 10.
visit Europe With carved KS ~
JsGssseH DEyis was setenty-one years
old last woek.-N.Y. Evening Post.
Tho negro exodus from the South seems
to have Sholly discontinued OF late.
He who minds not his own business Is
not TO be trusted with other peoples.
Attorneys Botsford s. Williams formerly
Of JEFF. CITY have moved 10 Kansas City.
The first case of sunstroke we have hoard
Of this season occurred In SedalIa Oh the IIth.
The WarFepsburg Savings bank closed
on the l2th INST. Dcpositors will be paid in
fall.
The trial of sopator Kellogg still goes on.
It is the story OF lying, buying and corrup-
tion.
Tho golden wedding of Emperor Will
llsm OF Germany was celebrated on the llth
inst.
Sitting Bull wants to nake peace with
tho u. 5. aai return 10 his O!3 hunting
grounds.
The Senate committee will not recommend
an investigation by the Senate OF Seuator
Ingalls OF klnsss.
There will be an excursion to Sweet
Springs on the 23rd Inst, iroiu Jefferson City
aud other points.
4 81.
The breath Of gcendaI in this case will be too
much for cloves.
Sidney Smith said: "ThIs hot weather
makes me feel as II would like TO take of
my aesh aud sit in my bones"
Sad, sad arc they that know not love,
But, far from PASSIONS tears and smiles,
Drift down a moOnless sea. aud pass
The si!very coasts oi fairy isles.
---Seversl hundred tons OF dressed beef snd
mutton. some four hundred head OF cattle
aud near one thousand sheep wero sent TO
Europe within week.
james Murphy, who betrayed Sam Bass
and hs gang In Texas, died Of poison admin.
istered TO him by soma unknown person, at
Denton, Tex, on the ,0lh inst.
--"John,' asked toe doctor of the apothe-
csry's boy, "did Mrs. Green get the medicine
| ordored" 81 guess So" replied John,
"for SAW Grape on the door knOb this morn
ing"
--"There is bound 10 be trouble in this
country yet. They are Taunton M4ssachu.
setts and Msoon Georgia mad" They are
slso raising Helena place somewhere in Ar
kansas.
"A French widow is bewaiIng the recent
loAs OF her husband. 81 have at least one
consolation" she sobs out, drying her tears.
"At all events, know where he ppends his
nights now"
"A Maine deacon thus addressed lad in
his Sunday-school class boy, can you tell
me where all naughty boys go to who play
ball upon Sundsy?' "QVer back of Johnson's
DAM" the youngster replied.
$50" said lady. recently, TO mer,
chant, "vour pretty daughter has married 0
| rich husbsnd?" "Well." slowly replied the
father, ~ believe she has married a rich man,
but understand he is a very poor husband" /"
Nov the boy climbes up the trees,
And the Verdant fruit doth seize,
And Immediately the poison 10 his stom-
arh camps,
And so do tho fdgets and the colcs and
the cramps.
--Bows and aTrOwt-Archory---as an art
amusement and health giving exercise, n
| rapidly growing in popularity as the new
king OF the lawn; an out door recreation es,
peoiany adapted TO the fair sex, and entirely
doing away with croquet.
Come, wife," said WIN, "I pray you devote
Just half u minute to mend this coat.
Which a nail has CHANGED 70 rehd."
"'ris 10 o'clock" said his drowsy mate,
81 know" SAID win, alt is rather late,
"But it's meyer to late 10 mend"
General Grants two Arabian horsei
were shod In New Haven, and the black.
| smith preserved tho nails from the old shoes.
He sold one nail to a bridgeport man for ST.
snd refused $40 for one OF the cast-otf shoes
IN. \. Evenlng Post,
when you see woman going toward
the river with good-sized pole In her band
and wrinkle across her nose, you needn't
think she's going fishing, Not much; she'l
got u boy down that way who promised her
with tears 10 his oyes, he wouldn't 20 II
swimming. lSIeubenYille Herald.
"A woman committed suicide by hanging
herself TO an apple tree. At the funeral,
neighbor, noticing the sad appearance OF the
husband, consoed him by saying that he haC
met with a terrible loss. Eyes" said thl
husband, heaving n sigh, 'sbe must have
kicke d like thunder, to have shaken off sil
bushels Of green apples, that would hRvi
been worth dollar bushel when ripe"
An sbsent-minded doctor Vaa called to Sc,
a two-year-old child who had had convnl
sons. he sat In a Ieverie for q while, ans
lhen, announcing that the patient sufere'
from nervous prostrRton--the fashionable
disease OF the day-wrote long prescription
with the following directions: "AYoid car
and occupation OF every kind. Leave OF te
and coffee; seek diversion at tho theatre ant
10 travel; smoke moderated" ."--l Frank Les
lies Ladies' journal.
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