Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-02-13
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glut Of GOLD 10 The Trsasney.
There are over 800 women clerks employ
ed 10 the National Treasury.
--TAe wsslefn Greenbaeksf. Is ths name
Of new paper started ia Ss. Louis.
ITO txternmsts lice from iowls, dasI The
iowls thoroughly NTH sulphef. Apply with
pepper boz.
---Tf our wheIs debt should b. refunded as
four per cent. ths anruA saving In interest
would be $4,000 900.
1T has been decided BY the Russian Gov
srnmept shat the bodies Of thUso dying Of the
plague shall ba burned.
-YoaSz housewife; .Whsa aIsofsble litt.e
aees Agaiil You really must tsn snsld 1ane
10 let ihe hens sIt on them AlIitis lcDgbrI"
The girls sre rapidly coming to ,he..f,ont
In Msine. There are nov 6.0O0 OF them
teaching in the public schools Of that sAte!
Toe Immigration question IL being right
fully agitated all over the State; the LegisIs-
lure Is being asked and should take steps 10
promote this oau,e.
The T'nes-Journal Gays the present Leg
isiature is a more digniHsd, better looking
nrd sooeror body than any Missouri LegisiA-
ture Of eight years past
Tho snnusl ya'us ofsilk ribbons export
si by Sutherland 70 the United States has
talleD in the last Ave- years from over 81, 000,-
700 to about 81, 900 coo.
"A bankrupt wps condcled with the other
day for bis embarrassment. "0h, I'm not
embarrassed st ALL" said be, "i,'s my credi
,ors hat sre embarrassed"
A bill WAS introduced In thu Pensy lvanIs
Legislature, last W. elk, appropris.iDg "a 900, :
900 ,or the payment Of Losses Of property oc-
ca.Ioped by the riots in July 1877.
Il n ID that OK bushels of peas are equsl
to ten bushels OF cor for fattsning my hogs.
end that peas yield larger numb r uf ou.h-
els 10 the acre than coru.-Toronto Globe.
Recent dispatches state the situation In
Russia terrible. and ublOss some sery extra
Ordinary precautions are taken Ia the rest 81
Europe the whole continent viii be invaded
by tbe plague.
--Colmsn's Rural World says the State
Horticultural Society thst met In jefferson
CITY on the 70 ut continued three days,
Although nOi lsTge In numbers, 1t wGs
good meeting. t
We are crediblv informed that in The viein.
ity OF Providence, there sre millions Of grass
hoppers, ranging In siEs from the dimensions
Of flea up % half the normal size OF the iull
grown hopper. The woods are full OF them.
--ColumblA Seminal.
The Rho % ysisnd Legislature has been
sdyised by q Witty nsmoer to advertise ior
methib g 10 DO. TBe House has spent Ons
day IN euiogisjf < member detained At home
by accident, yet Il refuses u consider apiop
oeition for IN early adjournment.
The occupation Of the Missouri Stale
Senators are as follows: lawyers. 10; farmers,
3; merchant, 2. and oDe builder, hotel keep
sr, publisher aud phyf'cisp. The House con-
stats offo farmers, 80 lawyer, merchants,
4 editors. 8 physicians, 4 bankers preachers
and IL ~ miscellaneous ayocations,
There is always something new. Boon.
vile young ladies bAvs got what Is called The
"BoonviIls wriggle." II 10 something after
the fashion OF "GreciAn bend" and 'B ,'slon
Dip" TIE style IL TO place the right fore
aGRer to the chin, turn half way round and
kick desperately backward about syard with
the left foot. The operation is performed
twice 10 every elk steps. Il is said TO be
very entraneinS, but must ba rather bard on
a fellows Shins in . crowd.-SedsllA Demo-
crEt.
A widower in Lawrence, KansAs, Was en-
gagged 70 widow, but bis love wssso lsDguid
that he was In no hurry 10 be married. A
friend from OtowA visited hIm, iancied The
widow, and said that be would like her for
wife. The widower offered to sail his right
to her for $3.50, and the money wac paid. 'he
widow marrying the Ottawa msn and going
home with him. Bdlihs wIdover's love WA
warmed by absence. BE wAut to Ottawa.
coarted the woman knew, and eloped With
her. The Ottawa man has lost his money
and hIa wife, but says thAt. having had more
than enough OF She latter, be is willing to
call the account sansre.