Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-05-29
NEWS SUMMARY

was IN session last week at Columbia, No.
TO disguise. the bitterness of qulnine,
II is recommended 10 take Il dissolved In milk.
ALI the tramps OF this country are NOV.
ing westward 30 sSso give Grant a waEpa re-
ceptio5.
r--tN. B." 81 the close Of letter rom
wlfo or daughter 10 her huabsnd or latheF
now means nevlbonnet
Payments pnder the pension arrears bill
have been shade Ia sboni !, SO cages, but
none west ofths Mississippi.
--Jadge Ass Packer, one OF Che wealthies,
men ia PensylvRnia, died q iew days since.
He commenced lite es . day laborer,
-Nsv 1ersey stAtk ptasqo conviess sre
now honored With the ooEnpary Of an az.
Stale Senator and an ex.chlei A.pollee.
,..u,ee 8 s1ngnn 4, sbefots D6nssFess To- iuaks
6hfdgc ID the constitutIon, making The
presidenrs term six instead OF four years.
1T iS q wise man that is paid salary for
attending TO other peoples business; but
fool ATTENDS to eYesybodys business for
nothing.
"A Vermont man under arrest has pleaded
guilty TO twenty.sigRt charges, on each one
Of which he can be seat 70 prison tor st least
five years.
The srst barrel of new whest -four
received in New York this season was pre-.
sented on exchange May lCth. Il came from
Amsricus, 9a.
christopher Mann, Of Independence,
NO., has just celebrated his L05th birtb-dsy.
He has u son only eight years OLD, and is the
iather OF twenty.eight children.
The government placed salmon spawn Ia
and this year salmon 8 lnehesilong sre being
caught 10 that river, near Austin.
The area planted 10 tobacco Is annually
increasing " LllnoX. Wisconsin aud Mich
igsn. During the last few wears increased
attention has been given to raising tobacco
from seed brought from Cuba.
"A woman eghty-four years old, living
ia Washington county, Kentucky, who has
descendants unto the third genetstion, sur
prised the community In which she llYes BY
giving birth TO twins few days ago.
Miss VIRGINIA Hicks, q young lsdy OF
Wyandotte, Kansas, wAa thrown whiis riding
q Spiritea horse on the 10Th inst. and was
killed instantly, tortoise she'll comb which
she wore being driven into her brain.
"A dispatch TO the Commissioner Of Tndi.
an Atfsirs from the tao and Fox Agency
gives information that the settlers who had
squatted on the Western Agency are leaving
with great rapidly In font OF three squad
rons OF cavalry.
EVERY day new uses are found for the
wondrous telephone. A popular preacher at
Halifax, England, recently delivered SER
mon, prGyer, lessons, singing and all, TO q
delighted audiance at Manchester, thlrty-six
miles away.
Potatoes, both new and old, are scarce
and high--the latter 90c to 81 per bushel and
the former about Sc per bushel. Chicago,
ST. Louis Cincinnati and other leading points
absorb all the new potatoes from the south
ct the figures Given.--Rarsl World.
---SAH FRANcIsco Courts succeed ia turn
ing out about three hundred and thirteen
divorces every year, or one in every week
day. NOtwithstspding this commen5ahle dis
patch domestic lntalioIties are 30 common
that ak persona per week, being unable 10
await the SLOW action Of the Courts, are
obliged TO commit suicide TO be happy
Cincinnati Star.
--WAsHTNa TON, D. O., May sl.-The Sec
retsry Of the Treasury to day accepted bids
for $4,000 ounces of silver for the New Or
leans mint and $4,000 ounces for the mint OF
San Francisco. Owing TO an advance on
the London market, due probably 10 the
reported action of the German government
In relation 10 the sale of silver bullion,
hiRhsr. price was paid By the Treasury for
to-day's purchases.
"A special from Vinita. Indian Territory,
TO the fflobe-DdmocrAt Of O recent date says
that two companies OF United States troops,
under Major j. A, Wilcox, OF the Fourth
Cavalry, are quartered there to prevent SQUAT
ters frog entering the Territory. The sol.
diers are constantly at the railroad depot. and
all persons arriving with the intention of go-
ing on Government land are escorted out OF
the Territory.
~-The lady who tapped her husband gent
ly with fan at aytJ the other night and
said "Love, its gr'lv ng late, think We bad
better 20 home." is the same one who after
getting home shook the fire shovel under his
nose and said. ''you Internal old scoundrel
you, II you ever look al that mean, nasty,
calico faced, maekerel-eyed thing you look
cd a. tonight, I'll bust your head wide
open. ."--Rolla Herald.
The result OF four years' abolition OF the
death penalty In, Switzerland has not been
satisfactory 70 the people OF that country.
Grimes have increased st a fearful rate and
especially that Of murder. 30 fearful has II
been tho IncreAse Oi the latter orima that over
thirty thousand people have signed Apetition
10 the Federal Council begging that body 10
re-enAct the death penalty. The Anti-cspitai
punlahment people claim that this increase Of
onenseS Is not trsceable to the aboli tion OF
the death penalty. but 70 the large increase
OF poverty and wretchedness OF the past few
years.
--Rvsry adult man has l, 400 square feet Of
lunRa; or rather, the mucous membrane
hning the air cells at his lungs, II spread
upon 3 smooth surface, would cover an ex-
tent OF J. 400 square feet.
About two thirds of \ pint Of cir Is inhaled
at each breath in ordinary respiration.
A man bresthes eighteen tunes minute,
and uses 5000 cubic feet, or about 376 hogs.