Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-03-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
Mr.. Croffut, late of the Graphic, has
joined the editorial staff of the Chicago
Tribune.
Senator CASTELAR,, the great states
man of Spain, is going to lecture at Ok
ford, Eng, on the Spanish literature of
the nineteenth century.
-Elihu Burritt, the " Learned Black
smith," was 68 years old when he died.
He was thoroughly acquainted with the
Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, Spanish, Bohe-
mian, Polish, Danish and other Ian
guages, numbering 80 in all.
The British Museum is said to pos
sess finer American library than any
taking full advantage of it, reading up
Lincoln. Writ Skies, whose work on
the Folk Lore of Wales is already at
tracing the attention of scholars, reads
constantly at the Museum when his leave
of absence from his post permits.
The Leipzig correspondent of a
Philadelphia paper mentions rumor
that Richard Wagner, the composer, has
become hopelessly insane, and adds:
Heretofore he has been considered
very eccentric, but eccentricity like his
is often incipient madness, and morbid
brain is apt to fail entirely when en-
ployed upon such prodigious work as
has occupied him for so many years"
Mr.. J. Payne Collier writes to the
AthenGunl that he belives-indeed, he is
confident-he has found another TRACE
dy by Shakespeare. The title of it is
ga Warning for Fair Women," and it
was printed in 1899 anonymously. The
story is domestic, and relates to the
murder of husband by his wife nearly
twenty years before Shakespeare was
popular writer for the stage. Till now
the name of Shakespeare has never been
connected with it, but the strongest in
ternal evidence, in The opinion of Mr..
Collier, shows it to be his.
Professor II. w. Longfellow was 72
children of Cambridge celebrated the
occasion very prStily by a gift of an
deliberately carved armchair, made
from the ancient horse-chestnut tree,
whose perfections are chanted in the
"Village Blacksmith" The carving
represents horse-chestnut leaves, bios
SONS and burrs. On small brass
plate is this inscription: "To the
author of the Village Blacksmith this
chair, made from the wood of the spread
ing chestnut tree, is presented as an ex-
preston of grateful regard and venera-
ton by the children of Cambridge; who
with their friends join in best wishes and
congratulations on this anniversary.
February 81, 1879"
Science and Industry.
The new ice-works in Columbus,
Ga, will furnish ice at one cent. pound
cheaper than nature can manufac-
ture 1t.
North Carolina will employ 80 con-
victs in draining and reclaiming Angola
Bay-an immense body of swamp land.
American anthracite coal, conveyed
by sailing vessels to Marseilles and by
rail to Geneva, is sold in the latter
place for about $40 ton. tits cheaper
than German or French coal and better.
The principal centers for the manu-
facture of coral ornaments are Naples,
Leghorn, and Marseilles. In the former
more than 1000 women are employed
in making coral beads for necklaces,
etc.
Twenty per cent. of the total exports
of the United States during the fiscal
year, were manufactures. They exceed
ed the total wheat export AMI nearly
eaualed the value of raw cotton sent to
England.
Not many years ago the value of the
silk manufacture of France was far in
excess of that of worsted, but the latter
| is now of more value than the former
The total value of the worstsd industry
in France is S120, 0,000,0 900, nearly half Of
which is exported.
Engineers of steamships have found
that the best lubricants are glycerins
for the cylinders and castor oil for the
bearings. When castor oil is used the
main bearings seldom become heated
Only the best glycerine can be employ
ed with advantage, but when it is OF
high grade the results leave but little tt
be desired.
-Pittsburg, Pa, produces more thai
half the glass made in the United States
Its factories number 73, with 600 pots
and give employment to 5,248 hands
whose wages approach S3,000,0O0 {
year. The materials employed in th'
manufacture were, the past year, II, III
tons soda-ash, 4S,340 tons of sand, 152,
600 bushels of lime, 1928 tons nitrat
soda, 793, 800 bushels of coke, 1925, 16
bushels of coal, 4,025 cords wood, 6,O5
tons of straw, 2,760 barrels of salt, 25
tons pearl-ash, $50 tons of lead, 15O, 90
friedrich, 1856 tons of German clay
The packing-boxes cost S4S4, ,250, an
required 2,109 kegs of nails. sc wag
ons and 13O horses were employed il
hauling. The space occupied by tn
buildings is equal to 20S acres, and tn
capital in buildings, machinery, an
grounds is, in round numbers, $500
600. The business produces about 81,
OOO,O 900 year.
| School and Church.