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Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18
Selecting Husbands.

1t has been profoundly remarked, that
the true way to tell toadstool from a
mushroom is to eat it. If you die it was
toadstool, if you live, it was mush-
room. A similar method is employed
in the selection of husbands; marry
him, if he kills you he was a bad hus-
band; if he makes you happy he is a
good one. There is really no other cri-
terion. AS DIR. Samuel johnson re-
marked the proof of the pudding is in
the eating thereof. Some young men
that seem unexceptionable, indeed very
desirable, as long as they ere single, are
perfectly horrid as soon as. they are
married. All the latent brute there is
in the heart comes out as soon as sem
sitive and delicate being seeks her hap
piness in his companionship. The
honeymoon lasts a very short time, the
receptions and the rounds of parties are
soon over, and then the two sit down
and make home happy. If she has
married a society man, he will soon be-
gin to get bored; he will yawn and go
to sleep on the sofa. Then he will take
his hat and go down to the club to see
the boys, and perhaps not come home
till morning. If she has married a man
engrossed in business he will be tagged
out when he comes home. He may be a
sickly man that she must nurse,
and morose man that she must seek to
cheer, a drunken man that she must
sit up for, and violent man that she fears,
a fool who she soon learns to despise, q
vulgar man for whom she must apollo
gize-in short, there are thousands of
ways of being bad husbands, and very
few ways of being good ones. And the
worst of it is, that the poor silly women
are apt to admire in single men the very
traits that make bad husbands, and look
with contempt or ridicule upon those
quiet virtues that make home happy.
Men with very little personal beauty or
style, often make the wife happy-and
sometimes quite the reverse. The num-
ber of ways of being a bad husband is
almost as great as the number of ways
of being ugly. No one can tell from the
demeanor of single man what sort of a
husband he will be. Meanwhile she
must marry somebody. Eat it; if you
die it was toadstool, if you live it was
a mushroom.-Baltimore Every Satur.
ddu.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18
The Nevada SchOOlmaster.


Harry Floty was q university man,
who had been some time IN Nevaaa, ana
having had bad luck, conidnt oo DetteI
tnan 70 leaye dgging ana 'ans ,aeS.s 70 scnUu and
teacnlng. ne was Paie' s1ehueI, anu
scholarly looking, and the Presioent OF
the board OF trustees saio 10 nln' soi-
sowfuily, as ne orushed tear:
Mister, you may oe pook learned, put
1t taxes more than that ior a teacner IN
Gne CramDeIry uulcn scnool, as you WI
ma. Inc last teacneI Sleeps IN yonoel
graveyard; the one pe1ore MN leit an
eye and one arm to show his lncapaclty;
the one before was very mucn eaten py
the ellis when we found his BODY. ana tne
three before him ran away WIN only
apout Iour eyes anu sN ieSs De'meeM W..
them. Our ooys are rough anu uon'
stana no nonsense.
LET me try'r TePheo Harry I'm dniauy
IN weak OUT nave WILL IL oPen
next Monaay at a. ID.
AT elght larry WenG oown 70 tns
school-house. with tne Key In one nano
ana d Valse IN tne oIher.
olxty scnoiars were loanhg arounu ~
good, blg crowd 10 see wnat Woulo
turn up, wnIe the unoer''AAer s'oou ne"i
"ailIng ioI Joo. -,
heaoy 70 slope II ne nnas We are .oo
mucn Ior nlm, WnisPereu tne oig' p9"-
ieggea, cIoss-eyeu puly =! ele sonooi,
oeVensn looking chap' hine'een ye"is
oia;
:, ne new teacner ea1so poneisSy cS
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

Justice Hunt, Of the United States Su
preme Court, has had stroke of paralysi,
from which it is feared he can not recover
1t is understood that Senator Conkling ha.
decided to continue his opposition to the
appointments.
} Judge Blodgett, of Chicago, has addressed
n communication to Speaker Randall, re.
questing an Investigation by the House Of
Representatives into the alleged charges
touching his official conduct as Judge of the
United States District Court.
The President has nominated James r.
Howell, of Iowa, Orange Ferris, of New
York, and A. o. Adds, of Vermont, South
ern Claim Commissioners; Lewis Z. Payne,
of Virginia, United States Attorney for Wy
oming Territory; A. Worth Spates, of Mary
Manter, Register of the Land Office, Bis
marck, Dakota.
Representative Julian Hsrtridge, of the
First Georgia District, died of pneumonia
on the stb. He was member of the House
Judiciary Committee, and was considered
one of the ablest men in the House.
Representative Schleicher, of Texas, who
has long been afflicted with erysipelas, was
sidered hopeless.
BY request of Major Marcus A. Reno, Sew
enth Cavalry, President Hayes has ordered
military Court of Inquiry to assemble at
Chicago on the 18th, to inquire into the
conduct Of Major Reno at the Battle of the
Little Big Horn River, June 25 and 26, 1876.
Whether court-martial proceedings will be
instituted against Major Reno will depend
upon the result Of this inquiry.
Secretary Schurz's letter to the Secretary
of War, in reply to General Sheridan's last,
was published on the 9th. He maintains
that the Indian Service comprises many
men as pure, high-minded and faithful to
duty as any officer of the Army, and pro-
tests against Sheridan's CHASING them all in.
discriminatory with thieves or imbeciles.
A delegation of the principal chiefs and
business men of the Cherokees, Creeks and
Chickasaws, waited upon the President on
the 9th, and entered their protests against
the transfer of the Indians to the War De-
partment-
Hon. Gustave Schleicher, Representative
in Congress from the Sixth Texas District,
died in Washington on the 10th, of erysip-
elias.
The Potter Committee have resolved to
enter into an investigation OF the 'cipher''
kilograms, and have asked the House to
grant an additional appropriation for that
purpose. The Republicans of the Com
mfttee refrained from voting upon the
proposition.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18
ITEMS OF Interest.
Personal and Literary.

-Bayard Taylor left nothing of va
ue in the way of property except an in
surance policy of $4,000.
Matilda Fletcher, the Iowa advocate
of female suffrage, is about to be mar
ried to a Prof. Miller of Keokuk.
Mr.. Forbes's letters from India cost
the London Daily Ne,oS a pretty sum.
They are telegraphed to England at the
rate of SLIP word.
Jefferson Davis's book of memoirs is
to be published next spring simultane-
ously in New York and London, with a
French edition in Paris.
Mrs. Sallie Van Pelt, formerly con-
nected with the Dubuque Herald, has
been engaged to take charge of the city
page of the Dubuque Telegraph.
The late Mr.. g. H. Lewes has left
behind him as much manuscript rs will
add two additional volumes to his last
work, "Problems of Life and Mind"
These volumes will be published in due
course, under the supervision of
"George Eliot"
Emma Abbott, who appeared in
opera at her old home in Peoria, the
other night, wrote to the editor of the
Transcript, extending to all old friends,
especially the girls with whom used
to romp and make mud-pies," to come
and see her in her dressing room at the
close of the performances.
With such unfinished works as
Charles Dickens's edwin brood, ="
Thackeray's "Denis Duval," Macau-
lays "History of England" Motley's
"Life of John of Barneveldt," and Hen
ry Wilson'S " History of the Great Con-
flict," must now be placed Bayard Tay-
lor's "Life of Goethe"
In the poems of New England
places, edited by Mr.. Longfellow, are
some lines by an anonymous author en-
titled Thoreau's Flute" The name
which should be given at the end is
Louisa M. Alcott: One evening, after
Thoreau had been in Mr.. Alcett's par
lor playing his flute, such an effect was
produced upon the mind of Miss Alcott
as led to the immediate composition of
the poem named.
Long ago, when Bayard Taylor was
a young man, he wrote in the album of
a young friend the following lines, which
reveal the character of his aspirations
at that early age:
Upon the worlds great battle field the brave
Struggle and win and fall. They proudly go,
Some to unnoticed graves, and some to stand
With earth's bright catalogue of great and
good.
Who, urged by consciousness of noble aims,
Stands breast to breast with every evil
thought,
Subduing until stricken down, shall pass
In warrior glory to his long reposc,
And his good deeds rest like Il banner pail
Telling the faith he fought for to the world
Upon his memory, for all coming timel
BAYARD TAYLOR.
NEW YORK, October 8, 1913.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18
Foreign Notes.

The editor of the Republtcano, of
demned by local court to three months
Imprisonment for printing an article
deemed to be derogatory to the dignity
of gendarme.
In accordance with the Berne Con-
vention, the importation of non-Europe-
an vines is to be limited to certain ports,
and the planting of them allowed only
in districts already subject to the phyl-
loxera.
"A lucky family is that of the Barings.
The founder of their families was a
trader in Exeter, England, a hundred
years ago, and now the family holds a
baronetcy, a barony, a bishopric, and an
earldom, possesses immense wealth, and
has sixty livings in its gift.
There is every ground for the state
ment that Queen Victoria's views con-
tinue thoroughly in accordance with
those of her grand vizier, and that Lord
Beaconsfield has not lost one iota of the
confidence she reposes in his political
wisdom. Neither Queen nor Minister
share the uneasiness respecting the fu-
ture by which others are tormented.
There has been he greatest Difficult
ty in inducing the Duchess of Edinburgh
to go over and take up her abode in
England even for few weeks, though
the Queen has intimated the propriety
and reassuring effect of such a measure.
She idolizes her father, and does not
love the English Court. The latter fully
reciprocates this sentiment.
The North German Gazette states
that Germany intends following the ex-
ample set by Sweden, and rendering
compulsory the use of Berlin time
throughout the Empire. All clocks al
Cleves, AK la Chapelle, Metz, Stras-
burg, and Colmar, would, in that case,
have to be put on half an hour, and
those on the Polish frontier TO be put
back 81 minutes.
"A severe shock of earthquake was
felt at Mineo, Sicily, on the Sth of De
cember. AS that day happened to be
the fete of the Immaculate Conception,
the church was full. At the first deer
rumbling sound the congregation, prin
cipally women, became dreadfully
alarmed, and rushed to the doors tC
make their escape. The crush was sc
great that two of them were killed and
a large number of them more or less in
jured.
The Emperor of Austria is tall
spare man of soldierly bearing, who
| does not look much over 40, though h'
is nearer 80, with sandy hair cropped
close to the head, and turning an iron
gray, with regulation military whisker:
and moustache, small, restless gray
eyes, and the blunt features and heavy
| lips which distinguish the Hapsburs
family. He has patience, tact and ;
dogged spirit of hard work. He is mas
ter of six European languages, and win
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18
Science and Industry.

From the debris of their coal mines
France makes annually 700, 900 tons of
excellent fuel, and Belgium 100000
tons.
"A new feature of the export busi-
ness is the consignment of fresh oysters
to Germany. The first shipment was
made in the Inflated Pomerania.
The first shipment of horses from
America for the use of the French army,
which have just arrived at Havre, were
purchased in Wayne County, Indiana.
Beginning with a production of
four pounds of tea in 1910, India now
exports 40,000,000 pounds, and all the
islands of the Indian archipelago are
cultivating the plant.
Very promising nickel mines have
been discovered in New Caledonia, and
an English company has been formed
to work them under encouragement
from the French authorities of the
island.
Stag wool is fiber of silica pro-
duced by blowing steam through the
Stag of iron-furnaces. 1t is woven into
strips and sheets, and promises to be
very useful as a non-conducting wrap
per for boilers and steam-pipes.
"A Liverpool firm is reported to have
purchased a steamer for the purpose of
importing live pigs from America. The
vessel is being fitted up to hold over g.
600 pigs, as well as cattle.
Prof. Cox, of Indiana, who recently
examined the Arizona mining region,
says that the mining property of South
ern Arizona once developed, would sup
ply the world with precious metals.
The Toronto Globe says that the
American paper manufacturers are buy
ing all the poplar wood they can find in
the Canadian Eastern townships. They
pay so cents a cord in the tree, and thus
the farmer reaps return for wood
that is almost valueless for fuel.
Charles j. Moore, of West Virginia,
has invented a machine, which a COM
pany here will manufacture, and which,
it is claimed, will revolutionize the art
of type-setting. A female operator here
can print at the continuous rate of 75
words per minute.
The fibre of the jute plant is capa-
BILE of very minute subdivision, and by
lately improved process by julius
Sachs, German, it is reduced to ex-
ceedingly fine filaments of a silky quail
ty, which take dye in remarkable man.
ner. A firm in Manchester, England, is
availing itself of the process.
The West Point (Nebraska) Butter
and Cheese Association has more than
80 brick and frame structures, and is
still building. When the capabilities OF
the association are fully utilized it will
be able to manufacture about 100, zoo
pounds of cheese and 200 pounds OF
butter annually.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18
A New Railroad Swindle.

Anew swindle called the /" fig racket"
is practiced on some of the railroad
trains. The news-agent marks out
some unsophisticated passenger, and
goes to him with several boxes of figs.
Into one of the boxes he puts a 50 bill,
neatly folded. He then puts the boxes
behind him, changes them about sever
al times, and offers his victim a choice
of boxes for 81. AS the victim exam
ines the boxes he sees the corner of the
bill sticking out from under the cover of
one of them, and he hardly gets his
dollar out quick enough, and when he
buys the box he finds himself with
box of figs worth 10 cents and
the little corner of 10-cent shinplas-
ter. The piece of shinplaster is called
the " "fash," and the trick is worked
with books as we'll as figs.-Bdngor
(Me.) Wing.
Jerusalem is adding 1900 to its
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18

To keep in health, we must obey
the law of our own being-not that of
our neighbor-or of an ideally perfect
organization as laid down by so-called
physiological science. All attempts to
make ourselves over into something
that strikes us as more desirable, re-
suits in disease. What we may do
with profit is to actively cooperate
with the law of evolution that has
brought us to be what we are, and is
carrying us toward higher development
on the same line.-MrS. Read, IN DR..
Foote's Health Monthly.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18

Odds and Ends
On the tramp-the flea.-Meride,a
Recorder. On the flee-the tramp-with
the big dog after him.-FishkiU Stand
ard.
"A Whitehall milkman was very
mad because some one bought a quart
of milk and then told him to "chalk it
down. Whitehall Times.
BAD BOYS.
Two bad little boys of Tarentup
First borrowed some pins, and then bent 'em
When their pa took seat,
They both beat a retreat,
As likewise did the fellow who lent 'em.
-Harrard Ldmpoon.
The following unique epistle was
picked up in the street at Schuylerville
+" Dear Bill The reason 1 didn't laff
when yu laft ad me in the post offs
Yesterday was becaws hev bile on my
face, and kant laff. If 1 laff she'll burst.
But luv yu Bill, bile or no bile, laff OF
no laff. Yure luvin Kate, til deth. -
Saratoga Sun.
THE REASON WHY.
What makes the man appear so sad?"
Asked little Jacob Grow;
"What makes him draw that awful sigh
And curse this jolly snow"
"Be still. my boy" his father said.
Z" Be still, and blame him not,
For cruel fate has set him down
Upon a corner lot"
-Fulton Times
"A man of an inquiring, statistical,
and cynical turn of mind cut out and
classified all the accounts of marriages
of Chicago girls that were published in
the Sunday papers last year, and found
that of the 697 brides 416 were GLOVE.
ly," 107 " beautiful" 80 &c beauteous,' -
46 fair" 80 " charming" and the re-
naming 81 handsome" piquante, q
attractive" dashing," and so on.
What" he said to friend, to whom
he had exhibited these figures, "what
becomes of the ugly girls?'' His friend
was struck dumb at this question, and
entirely lacked the presence of mind to
answer that there were no ugly girls in
Chicago. Chicago Tribune.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18

Mrs. JONES, how is your health this morn
ings Thank you, madam, much improved.
bought bottle Of DR.. Bulbs Cough Syrup
last night, and after the first dose my cough
was checked. ] slept well and have not
coughed once this morning.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18

HThe new Governor of Kansas was duly in
augurated on the 18th. The Legislature met
on the 14th.
The Arkansas Legislature met and organ
iZed on the 18th.
The breaking up Of the ice in the river at
Cincinnati, on the 18th, caused considerable
destruction to property, number of steam
ers and other craft being sunk or badly dam
aged.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18

MOTHER Inoticing her sons greedi
ness)-" George, you should always
leave the table feeling that you could
eat little more" George-"I do,
mother. ."-RocheSter EgpreSs.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18

the heart of his subjects by addressing
deputations from Hungary, Bohemia,
Austrian-Poland and Croatia, each in
their mother tongue. He is personally
very popular all over the Empire.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-18

Jerusalem is adding $500 to its
Jewish population every year.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-27
COMMITTED TO LUDLOW.

Before United States Commissioner Deuel.. yester
day morning. James Boyd. Jr.. was arrsigned
charge of offering for sale large quantity of coun-
terfet silver quarters and dimes. Boyd arrested
late on Tuesday night at his residence No. 257 West
Fourth street. and taken to the Post Office building.
When searched there $50s in good money found
in his pockets. The accused was committed to Lud-
low Street Jail, in default Of 5000 bail. "Jim"
Boyd has been SUCCESSFULLY deputy sheriff. deputy
postmaster. detective. informer. merchant. mail
carrier and traveller. He was born in Massachusetts,.
but at an early age went to Frengsburg. Canada.
where he has spent tho greater part his life and
whore he has engaged in the many avocations above
mentioned. He married young. and with his mar
new departure in business proved too slow. aud
few years alleged he adopted the business of
placing the queer and frequently visited New
York to obtain his stock in trade. Colonel Whitley,
of tho Secret Service Office. heard that IT Boyds
rule to stop ut all the principal cities his way
A few years ago the Colonel trapped him to
New York and bought 81 100 in counterfeit money.
The man afterward arrested. but after long
confinement in consequence OF important testimony
which he gave. and of his promise to reform. nollo
prosequi was entered In his case. few months ago
Service officers. The same trap laid for him.
and, as charged. one of the officers bought OF him
large quantity OF counterfeit quarters and
dimes. No arrest was made ut this time
the officers then after better game-persons
since arrested convicted and sentenced to long
VIGILANCE all the time. and. satisfied Of his GRIM
inality, the officers decided upon his arrest Tues
day. For some time past Boyd has been employed
. 'spotter"in the Street Cleaning Department.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-27

plainants were also present and on cross-exnminar
ton adhered their previous statements, with the
exception that they had not seen the assault on
John Keller who had left the city.
The officers of the Baltic put in general denia OF
the charges. William Cunningham, the chief stew
ard. said that complaints had been made 10 him
during the voyage. and he claimed that there was
cause for complaint. He asserted that there was
distinction made between the English speaking
and the Swiss passengers and claimed that the steer
age received unlimited supply OF bread OF the
same quality dealt out to the cabin passen-
gers the crew. Witness said he tasted the coffee
every morning and examined the food before II iett
the galley In his opinion it was very good and nj
for any persons 1t was his custom to visit the
steerage during each meal. and no complaints had
been made to him.
William Charlesworth. the second steerage stew
Keller assaulted. and claimed that he
would have known it If such thing had happened;
he denied that sick forced to go
on deck. and corroborated the statements OF the
chief steward as to the good quality OF the food.
Cap tain Parsele testified that he visited the steer
age with the doctor of the ship several times each
day. he said that notice posted in the storage
quarters in all foreign languages asking I'M
migrants to make their complaints, il they
had any, to him; no claimed that parties
board could understand German, and
said that he himself sufficiently
In regard forcing the steerage passengers deck
IN rough weather, the captain denied it. 1t
necessary, he said, to order the immigrants on
deck for inspection and in order that the steerage
quarters might be scrubbed. but in such cases no
distinction made in favor Of the English speak
ing class.
Commissioners Kaufman and Starr, who were
conducting the investigation thought the COM
plants relative to the food and general treatment
were not sustained
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-27
COURT CALENDARs-FRIDAY.

SUPREME CoURr-CHAMDRRs-Held by Judge Law
rence-Court opens at half-past ten A. M.-Calen-
dar called at eleven A. M.-Assessment calendar to
be called before general calendarNos. 1884, 2S4, $40
$780, $685. $685. $685. $50. 36l 1862. $685. 364. $685. 1885, 367
36S. 369 &c. 371 372. 373 374. 1915. General caen-
dar-Nos. IL, 81, IS, "a. IS. SO. ST. III, 145 49,
1874. 1884, 2os 20s 222. 226 227 $780, 23l 2S2 2S3 1884,
235. 1886. 237. 238.
SUPREME CoURT-GENRRAL TERM Adjourned until
December TO-
SUPREME CoUnr-SPkcIAL TERM-Held by Judge
Van Bruni.-Court opens at half-past ten A. NJ. No
day calendar.
SupREME Counr-Cmcurr-Par l.-Adjourned sine
de- Part 2-No day calendar. Part 3-Adtourned
for the term.
SUPERIOR CouRr-GENERAL TEnM.-Adjourned un.
til the first Monday of December for the purpose Of
rendering decisions.
SUPERIOR COMPASSIONATE TERM-Hcld by Judge
Sedgwick.-Court opens ct ten A. NJ. No day calen-
dar
SUPERIOR CouRT-TRrAL TERx-Parts I. 2 and g.
Adjourned for the term.
COMMON PLEAs-GENERAL TERM.-Adjourned until
the first Monday OF December.
COMMON PLEAs-SPRcIAL TERN-Held by Judge
Larremore.--No day calendar.
COMMON PLEAs-Pprts ] aud 2-Adj0urned until
the first Monday Of December
MARINE CoURr-GENRRAL TERM-Hed by Judges
Sheridan. Goepp and Shea-Court opens ut ten
A. M.-Appeals from judgments-Nos. 3. Q. y. u.
IL. 20. Z, ~. II, %. rs.
MARINE CouRT-Parts 1. and s.-Adjournod for
tho term.
Court OF GENERAL SEssIoSs-Parts and AID
journed for the term.
COURT OF OYER AND TEnMINfR-Adjourned for
the term.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT CouRT-In Admiralty
Held by Judge Choate-Court opens ut eleven A.
M.-Burge ct al. vs.. steamship Utopia; Zeismer W..
steamship Utopia; Shea VS.. Atlantic Dredging Com
pany; Brown steamtug william 4. Burden;
KNAPP; Eustace vs.. barge ]. Belknap; Cole W.. barge
j. Bclknap; Sidervacud vs. Mapes