Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.
Prof. Agassiz, the younger, is q
short, slender man, looking like a
Frenchman, with fine forehead and
bright eyes.
Mark Twain and his wife will pass
the summer in Paris, and will return to
their home at Hartford in September.
Miss Mary Anderson, the actress,
has rented Miss Maggie Mitchell's old
cottage at Long Branch, and will live
there next summer.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was, in
February last, while. in Athens, pre-
serted with an address from Creton
refugees, in acknowledgment of the
services rendered to their country by
DIR. Howe.
AT the conclusion of a lecture re-
Gently given by Mr.. Bret Harte at
Brighton, England, he was presented
with an Illuminated address from the
principal members of the local press.
Afterward he underwent a luncheon
from the Mayor, at which Aldermen as
sisted.
az am not" wrote Mr.. Ralph
Waldo Emerson the other day, SIN a
condition to make visits or to take any
part in conversation. Old age has
rushed upon me in the last year and
tied my tongue, and hid my memory,
and thus made it duty to stay at
home"
Gen. r. z. Lees portrait was once
painted by the Southern artist Query.
The picture was exhibited at the Cen
tennial, and the State of Texas offered
for it $4,000. 1t was returned to Green
vile, Meriwether County, Ga, however.
A few days ago the painting was de-
stroyed by fire.
AT present the most munifcent pa
iron of science in Europe appears to be
M. Bischoffsheim, an eminent French
banker. This gentleman has lately
placed his winter residence at Mentone
at the command of the National Observ-
atory of France, as branch establish.
ment, and is about expending the sum
of $3.50, 900 for instruments and other
equipments.
-Pen-picture of Robert Browning
" All who have met him will remember
the clear-cut face, surrounded by gray
hair, and lighted by q pair of bright,
alert, blue gray eyes; the mouth, SHARP
at the corners, covered by q closely
trimmed gray mustache, and rather full
short beard, shaved clean from the
fresh-colored cheeks, as well as the
hearty, genial voice that welcomes sc
earnestly all who come"
Science and Industry,
Augusta (Ga.) farmers keep theil
horses fat and sleek on rice -four, at {
cost of cents day.
The manufacture of beet sugar il
to be tried in earnest at Northampton
Mass. Afactory is to be built, and 4O(
acres of beets planted this season.
The Natchez cotton mill has beel
in operation less than a year, and 81
great has been the success that the stock
holders are about to increase its facili
tiea-
The six inspectors of fertilizers il
Georgia have turned over to the Con
troller-General SS3,000 for inspection
fees, and the State nets about 1924 ,00
from the system of inspection.
"A Pittsburg paper reports that tn
steel trade of that city is in more sat
isfactory condition as regards price
than at any time within the past fou
years, and the different works are crowd
ed with orders.
South Carolina can make NOR
money in wheat, hay and oats than il
cotton, and produce as much grain t
the acre as in the West, so the Agricul
tural Society of that State affirm in thei
report.
DIR. Pratt, the gentleman who dis
covered and first developed the immens
phosphate beds of South Carolina, is i
Georgia, and says that Georgia has tn
material and Atlanta can manufactur
fertilizers cheaper than any place in tn
country.
Making waistcoats at IA cents each
cheviot shirts at cents apiece, heav
overalls at so cents per dozen, and WOO
en- trousers at 10 cents pair are som
facts CLEANED by society of ladies VIII
are investigating the condition of th
sewing women of Cleveland, Ohio.
The rice fields on the Cape Fea
River, near Wilmington, which hav
lain idle and grown up with weeds sine
the War, have been reclaimed an
planted this season by several energeti
parties, who expect to raise at lea:
200, 900 bushels Of rice in the next fiv
years.
Professor Riley calculates that dul
ing year when the cotton worm
prevalent in the Southern States it ma
injure the crop to the extent of $50
100000. The average actual annu'
loss during the IA years since the Ws
has been about S15, ,000, 900. Its injuri,
were equally severe before the War.
Mr.. Verderber, the Inspector-il
Chief of the Hungarian State Railwa,
has obtained new construction
locomotive boiler, the peculiar featul
being that the heating surface of Il
fire-box is dispensed with, there beir
employed in place of the ordinary fir
box combustion chamber lined wit
fire-proof material.
For some years past French Go
ernment Board has been in existenc
charged with the duty of designatir
portions of the globe in which speci
geographical search is desirable, and
the exploration of which Governme
funds could be advantageously e
AS the result a large number of valuah
reports have been published, occupyil
very important place in the histo
of geographical discovery. 1t appear
. however, that at pre- snt, in the view
! this board, all the most interestil
, points of research yet remaining are
fully provided for, by either public
: private enterprise, that there is no fl
ther occasion for the Intervention
the French Government.
School and Church.
. The wages of male and fem
teachers come nearer to being equal
!, Colorado than in any other State in
= Union. Men average $40 80 per MOI
pay, women $46 95, less than $3 diff
ence.
The eight Methodist Episco