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The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12
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DE OF GOOD CHEER. Let not the
ID low prices of your products dis
courage you, but rather limit your eN-
pcnses TO your resources. You can do
so by stopping at the new home Of your
fellow farmer, where you can find good
accommodations cheap. For hay for
team for one night and day, - cts. \
hunks. in connection with the stable
free. Those wishing can be accommo-
dated ut the house of the undersigned
at the following rates: Meals - cents:
beds 10 cents. J. y. SENEGAL.
4 mile east of Gerrard'S Corral.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12

y young lady's hat blew Off Sat
urday morning and was run over by
broad heeled cart. The ribbons
were somewhat sOiled, but the hat
is now the very latest fall shape.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12

The best cure for low spirits is
business. One-half of the melan-
choly you run against is caused by
indolence and feather. beds. The
best fun in the world is activity.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12

He who puts bad construction
upon good act reveals his own
wickedness at heart.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12

An English boy was beating dom
key numerically, WHEN the minister
of the parish coming up, censurcd
him for cruelty. The boy resent
fully retOrted: "I'm sure ye medina
care it's name of our congregation"
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12

Nature knows no pause in prog
rcss and development. and attaches
her cure to all inaction.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12

y young lady ate half a wedding
cake, and then tried to dream Of her
future husband. Now she says she
would rather die than marry the
man she saw in that dream.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12

We see what a man has, and envy
hin. /; but if we saw how liitle he en-
jOyed we would pity him.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12

Some hearts, like evening prim-
roses open most beautifully in the
shadow oflife.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12

The world owes us n living. but
the only way we can collect the
debt is 10 take off our coats and
take it out Of the worlds hide. -
UhitehaU Times.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12
The Living Room.

No matter how plainly furnished
il may be, lift has sunny expos
ure and is made beautiful with
plants, the living room becomes a
place of rest for mind and body.
Ii il has bSy:window, il is rich
in beauty. We can hangnO pictures
on our walls which can compare
with The pictures lying outside our
ample window. Rosy dawns, gold
ea-hearted sunsets, the tender green
aud changing tints of Spring. the
glow of Summer. tho pomp of Au-
Ium1 The white OF Winter,
storm and shine. gli:nmcr ana
yloom-all these we can have aud
enjoy while We sit in our sheltered
room as the changing year rolls on.
No one cln be really happy in dark
rooms they bring depression of
spirits, imparting a sense Of con-
finement, chilling 10 energy and
vigor. But in the light is good
cheer. Even in a gloomy house,
where walls and furniture are iingy
and brown, you have but TO take
down the heavy curtains. open wide
the window, hang brackets on either
side, set flower-pOts on The brackets
and ivies in the pots, let the warm
sun stream freely in to bring health
to our bodies and joy TO our souls.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12

"How much for the broad-faced
chicken on the fence?" inquired an
Irishman of a farmer. That's not
chicken; lis an owl, replied the
farmer. IL don't care how Ould he
ISL want 10 buy him." said the
Ir;shman.
The Columbus journal., 1879-11-12

Couldn't you lend me Sj?"
Yes, could but | won't" "Thcn
do you think wouldn't pay YOU
back :" eyes, You would, but you
cOu dn'l."
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11
A California Sand-stOrm

Day before yesterday afternoon
the outgoing Yuma train left Los
Angeles on time. Every thing went on
as usual until it approached Cucamonga
Station. At this point a sand-storm of
extraordinary violence was encountered.
The train was soon obliged to stop. Su-
perintendent Hewitt was at once COM
municated with by telegraph, and
number of men were dispatched from
all quarters to clear the track, but ut
terly without avail. The train was de-
layed some Is hours. When we state
that the rails for distance of three or
four miles were covered with sand to
depths ranging from one to three feet,
the force of the wind may be conject
ured. The simeon or sirocco, or what
ever it may be called, came whistling
through the Cajon Pass as though it
was discharged from funnel. The in
coming Yuma train was delayed for an
hour and half through the storm.
Some seven years ago whirlwlnd
poured out of the Cajon Pass, which
took substantially the same course as
the wind day before yesterday. The
line of plain traversed by it was about
three miles wide, but it fortunately
stopped right at the edge of the cele-
brated Cucamonga Vineyard. For
much of this width the soil was shaved
off as with knife, being carried resist.
lessly over the Cucamonga Plains. Sand
was piled to a height of several feet over
the roof of the station of the old Stage
| Company, making a total sand-drltt OF
over 20 feet high. The storm of the
other day must have heen a twin brother
to that. Los angeles Herald, Dec. 81.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11
Wonderful Spiders Web.

Across the "sunny paths" of Ceylon,
where the forest meets the open country,
and which constitute the bridle-roads of
the island, an enormous spider stretches
his web at the height of from four to
eight feet from the ground. The cord
age of these webs is fastened on either
side to projecting shoots of trees or
shrubs, and is so strong as to hurt the
travellers face, and even lift off his hat,
if he is so unlucky as not to see the line.
The nest in the center is sometimes as
large as a mans head, and is continual
ly growing larger, as it is formed OF
successive layers of old webs rolled over
each other, sheet after sheet, into ball.
These successive envelopes contain the
wings and limbs of insects of all de-
scriptions, which have been the prey OF
the spider and his family who occupy
the den formed in their midst. There
seems to be no doubt that the spider
casts the web loose ana ;olls it round
the nucleus in the center, when 1t be-
comes overcharged with carcasses, and
proceeds to construct fresh one. winch
in its turn is destined to be folded up
with the rest.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11
A Splendid Wife.

We once knew a man who was al
ways praising his wife. On the corner,
down the street, at the Post-office, at the
race-track, in the skating-rink, at the
theater, in the sal-that is, at the choir
meeting, he was always telling what a
happy man he was, just because he had
such splendid wife, and he talked ev-
cry man he met into a perfect frenzy of
envy about her. Well, one winter
morning when it was not yet too light
to make one appear overly ostentatious,
we sneaked into that neighbours yard to
steal fence board for kindling, and had
to wait before we could safely obtain it
until that mans wife came out and saw
ed couple of armfuls of wood, shovel
ed out three snow-paths, fed and groom
ed the horse, and cleaned out the cow
shed, and then when she went into the
house and we heard her call to her hus-
band that the sitting-room was warm
enough for him to dress in if he wanted
to get up now, we were so amazed that
we forgot what we were waiting for
and went back and kindled the fire with
a corn-cob and pint of kerosene. e.-Er
change.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11
A Monster Locomotive.

The largest locomotive ever construct
ed in this country was brought here last
Friday by the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
Chicago Railroad. This monster is on
its way to the West, and will be used on
the New Mexico & Southern Pacific
Branch of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad, and is especially in
tended to work on long, heavy grade
at point on the Rocky Mountains. 1t
is ten-wheel tank engine of consoli-
dated pattern, having eight driving
wheels, and pony (two-wheeD truck.
The cylinders measure 20 by 26 inches,
and the driving wheels are but 40 inches
diameter The boiler is enormous, be-
ing straight, 50 inches diameter. 1t has
213 tubes, each over II feet long. A wa
ter tank, almost the entire length of the
boiler, rests on top of the engine, and
when filled with water will add consid-
erably to the weight. The fire-box is
ten feet long. The truck-wheels are
thirty inches in diameter, and are of pa
per, with steel tires, similar to those
now being used so extensively under the
Pullman sleeping cars and on the Metro
politan Elevated Railroad, New York.
The engine, when in working order,
will weigh 5000 pounds. The great
weight and size of the boiler and the
small driving-wheels combined form a
tremendous power, well suited to the
work the engine has to perform. The
eight driving-wheels are merely to dis
tribute the weight, for if it rested on but
four no track ever laid could stand the
pressure. The weight is so great that
the Western railroads over which it
must pass will not permit it to go over
bridges, so it will have to be taken to
pieces and carried over in sections. 1t
passed over the Pennsylvania Railroad
without being dismantled.-Chicago
Tr,b,ro
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11

reporters. At 10 p. m. the thermometer
registered 16 degrees below zero at Chicago,
Cincinnati, and Davenport, Iowa. Private
reports give the following additional figures:
at Quincy, ILL.,, 81 deg. below; at Leaven-
worth, Kas., 16 below; at Springfield, ILL.,,
20 below; at Bloomington, ILL.,, % below; at
Davenport. Iowa, &c below; at Des Moines,
Iowa, % below; at Kansas City, Mo-, Is be-
low; at Bismarck, Dakota, 30 below; at
Memphis, Tenn, 10 below.
Thenumber Of miles of railroad construct
ed in the United States last year was 2,6SS-
exceeding any previous year since 1873.
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado and
Kansas made the greatest progress in rail-
road building.
An extensive excursion party, composed
of business men from New York, Chicago,
st. Louis and other cities, on the 9th started
for Mexico, for the purpose Of working up
a larger American trade with our sister Re-
public. Arrangements have been made by
the Mexican officials to give the party hos
pitable reception.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11
Some Funny Newspaper Blunders.

A great many columns have been
written concerning topographic errors,
and many of the instances sound so wit
ty or SO stupid that it seems as if they
must be rather inventions than actual
happenings. But we never saw one
cited so unlikely that we couldn't re-
member its match. Once we wrote that
it was &" like evoking the shadow of
shade to quote forgotten writers. The
phrase appeared in print thus: &c Like
cooking the shadow of shad." The
printer had, in burlesqu1ng the senti-
ment, actually preserved and intensi-
fled il in a most striking image of unsub-
stantiality. At Another time we had the
proverbial opinion of Rosalind, "Men
have died and worms have eaten them
but not for love-" The printer may
have been misogynist; at all events
he substituted {" "women "for 'worms."
There are Shakespeare emendations not
much better than that, perhaps. In one
of the country weeklies there was re-
Gently an account of the presentation
to some one of Bible "bound in
guilt" In discussion one spoke of
Z" the divine totality of being;'" it was
reported as stthe sublime brutality
of feeling.' This may have
been the reporters error; but not
so when Methodist College President
spoke of sin as ga dark, guilty, damn
ing fact" and found it published as ga
dark, quietly dawning fact" and de-
scribiHg the death of Jesus as ''vicari-
ous," saw it in print ''vivacious. This
was in very religious paper, and an
other into an eloquent hymn admitted
this questionable temperance sentiment:
sI praise The STILL" Sometimes these
things are so funny that the writer can't
be as angry as he would like, but still
that Virginian editor must have been
"hopping mad'' when his powerful
leader wound up with "Courage, tillers
of the land! and forget, in the excite
ment of politics, your pantry and your
nursery!" He had written "poverty''
and "misery." And how must Astron-
omer Proctor have felt when, having
written of s'lines, bands and stri9 near
the violet end of the spectral" he was
represented as seeing sslinks, bonds and
stripes for the violent kind of specters?'
Perhaps, as if he had had peep into
spiritual lunatic asylum-which must
be necessary enough, if the mediums
have got the rights of it, to store Diak-
kas in.-Springfeld (Nnss.) } Republican.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11
Humming of Telegraph Wires.

As to the cause of the sounds fire.
auently heard to proceed from telegraph
wires in the open air, it has been Gus
tomary to accept the wind-it producing
the sound by direct vibration, similar to
those of the Eolian harp. A writer in
an Australian journal, however, calls
attention to the fact that one who gives
close observation to both the wire and
sounds will find that the latter make
themselves obvious likewise when there
is a total absence of wind; and in a
quiet morning in winter, when the wires
appear covered with frost to the thick
ness of a finger, they nevertheless carry
on lively vibrations and swinging, while
the air is totally quiet. According to
this writer, therefore, the vibrations are
due, not to the wind, but to the changes
of atmospheric temperature, and espe-
cially through the action of cold, as a
lowering of the temperature induces a
shortening of the wires, extending over
the whole length of the conductor. A
considerable amount of friction is pro-
duced on the supporting bells, thus in
ducing sound both in the wires and the
poleS
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11
School and Church.


The public school at Deadwood
opened on Dec. 16 with 142 pupils.
Rev. Leonard Woods, at one time
President of Bowdoin College, and
author of many volumes, is dead.
The school authorities of Muncie,
Ind, have made arrangements for hav-
ing photography taught in the public
schools.
Monterey, Mass, has model cler-
gyman. He and his wife taught class
of botany free last summer, and now
they propose to teach German to all
who will provide themselves with text
books.
The Methodist population of the
world is estimated at 0,O00, 900, and the
number of communicates at 4, ,4S9, ,S77.
In the United States the membership is
about S,396,99 with 26,642 local and
%, 1874 itinerant preachers.
The Rev. DIR. Burlington, for near.
ly quarter of century pastor of the
Clinton Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Brooklyn, has resigned. He has beer
suffering from an operation for the re-
moval of a cancer from his lip, and i:
compelled to cease from work.
The growing sentiment in favor o.
recognizing woman's ability to practict
medicine successfully is attested in tn,
action of the Cincinnati Academy o
Medicine, which has just admitted Mrs
DR.. Julia Carpenter tn full membership
She is the first of her sex to receive thi.
mark of appreciation.
"A Boston journalist, having moved
from the neighborhood of the church u
which he belonged, took letter to an
other church of the same denomination
and asked to be admitted. The Exam
ining Committee of the latter churcl
refused his application, on the grount
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11
CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

The Treasury RESUMED specie payments
on january with a coin balance of $685.
OOO,OO0-S2Oo, 900, 900 in gold and S26, ,OOO. 600
in silver.
The public debt statement published Jan.
Asnsws an Increase in the debt during the
preceding month of 81 ,233, ,7S5. Total coin
-~nds outstanding, 81 sos, ,s12, $50; total debt,
S2,26I, ,iO2,S45 total interest, S34, 4,s41, 1913;
cash IN Treasury, coin, $224 ,S65 Az; total,
including currency and special deposits,
S2iS,S96,O2I; debt, less cash in Treasury,
$2,02S, ,64S, I'LL. !
Gen. Sheridan has published another let
ter TO Secretary Schurz on the Indian ques-
uon, and Mr. Schurz is announced as hav-
ing his reloinder in course of preparation.
A package Containing $4,000 in currency
was stolen from the safe Of the Government
Printing Office in Washington on the I'd.
Inc money was intended for the payment
OF employees. The thief made good his es-
cape.
The Government Directors of the Union
racine railroad have submitted their annu-
al report TO the Secretary of the Interior.
Ihey peneVe tnat, in view of its success as a
commercial enterprise, it should be submit
TED TO as severe tests as any railway in the
country. It's road-bed is not what it should
pe, Tor the reason that the stockholders and
managers have absorbed as dividends the
moneys which ought 10 have been expended
IN substituting steel rails for the rn-out
iron ones that now disfgure its track. An
amalgamation of the road with its connect
ing branch lines is not deemed desirable,
and the pub1ic interest would be better Sc
cured We're The companies compelled to ar
bitrate the existing differences relative TO
pro-rating.
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., has resigned
his POSITION as Government Director of the
Union Pacific: Railroad, for the reason as ex-
pressed in his sletter of resignation that an
omcer VINO represents the Government in a
quasi judicial position should not be de-
pendent upon the railroad company for his
compensatory as is provided by the law
creating the Office
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11

London exults over rGra arts in
the shape of a polyglot elocutionist. A
young Portuguese lady, by name Mile.
Antonini, of a good family in her ma
tive land, has been giving lately several
recitations in private drawing-rooms.
She has wonderful memory, and de-
claims in the purest accent in French,
Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and En-
glish The latter language she has
made her special study. Her Lady
Macbeth is said to be admirable in tone
fire and passion. She has fine voice
and great facial expression.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11
When Miss Mary A. Phillips m,

When Miss Mary A. Phillips made
application for admission into the chief
Methodist Episcopal school of theology
in the Northwest, at Evanston, H., the
professors looked with disfavor upon
her, but she has proved herself so much
of a student, and given so much prom
Use that they have decided to allow her
TO graduate, which she is nearly ready
to do. She is said to be the first of her
sex to take degree in Methodist SEM
mary.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Gladstone gets $50 a page for his
contributions to the Nineteenth Century
while smaller fry have to put up with
$40.
Rev. w. w. II. Murray's Golden
Rule has been discontinued as weekly
and will hereafter appear as a monthly
magazine.
The Princess Mary of Lichtenstein,
formerly Miss Fox, an adopted daughter
of Lord Holland and authoress of sew
eral works, died recently in Syria.
ga Jew by birth and Christian
by accident" is Mr.. Henry Dunckley's IS
(editor of the leading Manchester pa
peri description in the Nineteenth Gen.
tury of the British Prime Minister.
-Burns's granddaughter, Mrs. Eliza
Everitt (she was the daughter of the
poets eldest son and namesake), has
just died at Bath. 1t was an uncommon
treat to hear her sing some of Burns's
songs.
The Swedish poetess, Nine. Alien,
died at Stockholm on the 30th of No
vember. She was born in 1899, and
was the author of several dramas that
had some sucUosS q. the BEGINNING of
the century.
Boston is getting up big authors
carnival or fair. There are to be ten
booths, each devoted to the sale of one
authors books by pretty girls dressed to
represent his principal characters.
There will also be readings. The profit
is to go to charity.
DR.. Jobert is about 20 return to
France after having explored the Anna
zon with reference to its natural history,
and more especially its ichthyology. He
claims to have fully cleared up all doubt
respecting the curare with which the In
dians poison their arrows.
Horace Greeley, once being called on
to advise some young men who wanted
to go over to Europe and pay their ex-
penses by writing for the newspapers,
said: ''I never knew but one of your
class, Bayard Taylor, who achieved a
real success in thus travelling, and he
left home good type-setter, with some
knowledge of modern languages, so
that he stopped and worked at his trade
whenever his funds ran short"
"A young French sculptor named
Vidal, who has attained high distinction
in his art, has been totally blind ever
since the age of 81. Before this age
Vidal had been pupil in the atelier of
Barve, and had learned the technicali-
ties of sculpture when, quite suddenly,
he was struck with blindness. He per-
severed in the profession he had adopted,
and after months of patient labor, found
that he could really make his fingers do
the work of eyes.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-01-11
Odds and Ends.

ouus anu
Disappearance of umbrellas is
usually preceded by barometrical de-
preston.
How pleasant it is to see other peo-
pie happy with little when you are COM
paratively miserable with much less.
The Chinese liken drunkard's
nose to lighthouse, warning us of the
little water that passeth underneath.
The way to reach a mans heart is
to cater to his appetite. A girl who can
claw a piano and agitate the atmosphere
is good parlor ornament, but one that
can grease a griddle and turn two pam
cakes at time is the kind of female
to tie to this time of the year.
An old man of S4 and his bride,
aged 80, entered railway car the other
day, and took seat by the stove. A
youth occupying the seat behind says
he overheard the following: Old gen.
tleman to his bride" Who's a little
lambP" Bride" Bofe of u.s.
"A little girl visiting neighbor with
her mother was gazing curiously at the
hosts new bonnet, when the owner
queried: ssDo you like it, Laura?"
The innocent replied; "Why, mother
said it was fright, but it don't scare
me-" Laura's mother didn't stay long
after that.-NorrtstOOn Herald.
These are the days of economy.
Yesterday man was having a silver
door-plate engraved, and he requested
that a blank space be left below the
name, so that his age could be added, in
case it was desirable to use the plate on
his coffin after his death.-Iurner' 8
F61ls Reporter.
"A farmer sold two dozen prairie
chickens at Quincy hotel for 81, and
took a dinner at the same hotel, order
ing pair of " grouse" =" which cost him
81 .25 He remarked afterward: "Well,
now, l thought them things tasted like
prairie chickens, but / didn't like to ask
what sort o. thing grouse was"
WINTER.
The winter is herei ha, hal he, he!
, The white is the tangled heather,
i And soon will the pedagogue snowballed be
Which is no bold assertion either.
: -Yonkers Gazette.
Yes, the winter is herel ha. hal he, he!
And we've laid in a big jar of butter;
And while you slip on the icy walks,
sun -Dstroit Free Press.
{ Yes, the winter is herei ha, ha! he, hel
As snug rs a bug in "A rug,
A pile of hot cakes on our plate shall be
Meath lasses-s-p-pi out of the jug.
FhitshdH Times
Yes, winter is herei ha, hal he, he!
, With apples, and doughnuts, and cider;
1 With parties, and balls, and evening calls,
} And sausage served hot from the spider.
~ Rome Sentinel.
, Yes winter is herei ha, hal he, hel
= And Christmas and New Year so jolly;
Every night Wen dance If we have the chance
1 Then wen 20 home with blue-eyed Mollie
-Meriden Recorder