Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1879-07-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

"A loving heart and pleasant coun.
| teuance are comnoditie which a man should
never TAIL to take hons with him.
Tho crow destro,s more CRASH oppers
than any other bird. Hs must, therefore,
be one OF those blessings In disguise we hear
30 much OF.
On the lat dav Of June, John Sherman
reported S26, lsl.O46 oisilver dollars; on the
lst dsy ~ July thB anount had increased
about 81 Zoo OO0--all bcked up.
"A little dry sandcovered over potatoes
when they arc first pstin the cellar will dc.
stroy any unpleasant odor they may have.
a sprlnkling Of dry, air.slaoked lime
will mitigate tendeng 10 rot
"A Colorado fatper says that planting
one or Two iiax aef'Q zach hill Of potaioos,
viii kesp away the rnurh-dreaded potato
bugs. Hope some OF our farmers will tfy
the experiment and give US the result for
publication.
For warts On cows teatn Common
soda such as they use 10 making bread, dis
solve In water, and used as wash, will
sometimes remove the warts says q farmer.
Another is any srOng wash of alum water
is cure.
The President Is said TO have received
assurances from he Senate judiciary Com
mittee that Secretary McCIary will be con-
hrfned as the successor oi Judge Dillon,
whose resignation tkes effect September Let.
McCrsry's successor in the Cabinet is still
matter Of doubt.
Frank Davidson, convicted of murder,
suffered the extreme penalty at Warrensburg,
No., last Wednesday. His friends have
lsbored hard for Communication of sentence,
and, falling In that, respite for ten or twen-
" days, but without sOccess. Davidson him
self has entertained no hope of clemeDcy.
Il. J - L AZ
wish you would buy me q new bureau"
"Certainly," replied Jones, "what kind
would you likti" 'Well" replied the eco.
nom,cal wife. IL have read great deal
about the American Literary Bureau.
should prefer one Of those II they don't cost
too much. h."-Elmira Gazette.
"A farmer in this State will not elbow
partrdges 10 be killed on his place, He
states that recent investigation made by him
prove concluslvely that they are the best
protection the wheat crop could have. In
the cra~ OF one be found over lO0 bugs OF
the most destructive kind 10 the wheat crop,
HIS crop is excellent, while those OF his
neighbors have been ruined by bugs.
One hundred and fifty editorial and
other miscellaneous Arkansaw Travellers will
descend on Chicago like wolves on the told
some time this week to write up tho one
hundred and fifty thousand odd sea serpents
that they will discover in their boots alter
Psrtek,mng Psrte IA Of NRieago whisky a.
Such OF the Arkansas tourists as succeed in
getting back home are expected TO go loaded
AS heavily as their revolvers with Chicago
lightning and enthusiasm, Gin. Star.
"A farmer says: ''Four years ago my
farm was fasrfully infested by rats. They
we're so numerous that had great fears Of
my whole crop being destroyed by them at
ter it was housed; but having two acres OF
wild pepperment that grew In field OF
wheat, cut and bound with the wheat, droYe
the rats rom my premises. l have not been
| troubled with them since, while my neigh
bora have any quantity OF them. felt con-
vlneed that any person who is troubled with
these pests could easily got rid Of them by
gathering good supply OF mint and placing
It around the walls or bate OF their barns"
When the swallows homeward Ay-that
| Is to say, the young gentlemen who haYe
swallowed the new born dignitsIles OF the
college commencsments and graduated with
| high honors; when, we repeat, these wiser
| than Socrates come home with their stove
| pipe hats and tall shirt collars and button
hole boqutts and college "chlc,
there Is a futterng OF young ladies' furbe-
lows, an srching OF eyebrows and general
rafting OF female artillery al along the line,
but seriously how many of these young
wiseacres are any better fitted TO wrestle with
the problems OF lite than their more Hitter
ate brethren at homeY-Stsr.