Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-03-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and LitoI ry.

oboub Ouc-lhlIu VI UHc CuttlO llplai .
to S48, ,S30.75.
John Habberton says that 500,0'
opies of his "Helen's Babies" in
ifferent editions, have been sold abroa
nd yet, owing to want of q just inte
ational copyright law, he has nettt
ut 5000 from the sale. un E..
Mr.. Xenos Clark is engaged in wri
lg a work on the Songs of Birds,
'hich he is investigating the subje
'om new point of view. He will i
uire whether such songs contain tt
intervals of human musi
ctaves, fifths, etc.
Though Sir John Lubbock is still
Dung man, very near the forties, he
Id in the studies to which he has d
oted his leisure hours. He has in pre-
So volumes of lectures and essays-ol
the other political and soci
1 character. 7s Eaa-aa 4r- - .fr
Rev. DR.. j. P. Thompson, in b
ddress at the funeral of Bayard Taylo
poke of his translation of ssFaust"
a marvel of poetic diction and the be
edition of the greatest poe
the greatest poet of Germany" 81
,pg as Goethe shall live, Taylor,
est interpreter, shall live with nim,
Mile. Grevy, the daughter of q
rench President, is a landscape pain
r of rare excellence, and charmir
ilker. When she was in her teens i
sed to accompany her father in b
hooting excursions in the wild parts
,e Jura. She was then as good sh
) he is. E4ss9. ...f ...,is -........,,
The late Elihu Burritt was called c
ome years ago to decipher q blind
Iritten Danish will from the West i
les, after it had been the round of Sc
raj leading colleges. He accomplishe
le task in two weeks, however, ar
harged only what he would have ear
at the same time at his forge.
1t is understood that Richard Hem
'ana's "Lectures on Shakespeare,
lie best work he ever did, the work,
Ict, on which his fame and literal
osition rests quite as much as upon
ublished writings, will be publishe,
ith suitable memoir, at an early da
robably in the coming autumn. B
des these lectures and an occasion
rap of verse, he wrote nothing mo-
ian letters to friends in his later year
Mr.. Ralph Waldo Emerson is Il
wner of very large number of cor
books, big and little. In tt
,rmer are jotted down his literar
while the latter have gor
ith him on all his walks and receive
le suggestions of the outer worl,
ven his lightest reflections and fanci,
re recorded in these books. 1t is
ory often told in Concord that OF
ight Mrs. Emerson awoke suddenl
1d, hearing him cropping about ii
,om, inquired anxiously: "My dea
re you unwelf?'' No, my love, on
n idea" These disconnected though
'rm the basis of his essays.
Science and Industry.
"A valuable bed of kaolin has bee
two miles from Bloomsbur,
!. j. The earth is of the finest qualitl
nd the deposit is large.
An English company is about to |
arted at Flushing, Holland, for IL
nporta:ion of American meat, ali,
nd dead, for the German market.
"A steel-rail rolling-mill is to
-ected this season at Baldwin, ne:
.arrisburg, Pa. 1t will be the large
lil-mill in the United States when con
leted. a. -ar ~ is. sgrt
The coal industry of Pennsylvan
as reached enormous proportions, Il
anual product being valued at fif
lillion dollars. The first coal mine
to few hundred tons, WI
I'D in Philadelphia in 1918 for S21
IN.
The capital invested in all the raj
,ads of the globe exceeds S15, 100000
10. These roads, according to Pre-
eumann-Spallart, require $4,000 loc
lotives, 10000, passenger carriag
nd 1,500, GOO goods trucks. Annual
600, 900, 600 tons of merchandise al
100000, 900 passengers are conveys
= these means of transit.
"A simple and very striking test mi
Q made to discover the admixture
,tton in wooden fabrics, by uuravelir
lie goods and placing a little of Il
Der into a dish and dropping upon
,me strong nitric acid. The cote
i'll be little or not at all affected; Il
ool, on the contrary, will be chang,
, a bright yellow. The color is due,
le latter instance, to the developmel
a nitrate.
"A self-winding clock, recently co
,ructed in Germany, has the windir
operated by the alternate e
ansion and contraction of glycerine
Their suitable liquid. A piston on Il
lrface of the glycerine is so connects
ith ratchet wheels and toothed racl
lat motion in either direction will wiz
p the weight. The contrivance will
{ great utility for self-registeriE g m
geological instruments.
Among the quiet little manufacture
the country is that of chewing CUR
-um from spruce trees was exclusive
sed until recently, when it found
wal in gum mastic, a white and attra
We article made from parafline, whit
sweetened. The consumption of th
hewing gum in the United States
bout so tons yearly; that of spruce gu
less, and that of gum MAJ
, Tennessee from balsam tolu, and so
/ the Southern States, about 20 ton
,ately material has been used styl,
rubber gum" 1t is from the sap
ne sapote tree of South and Centr
.merica.
Attention is called by Mr.. w. Ker
1 an article on the I" Strength of Mat
ial, "in Vdn Nostrdnd's Magast,se, to t
practical fact that the proce
+ COMPRISING metal while in the liqu
ondition has been found to cause
reat increase of strength, and is like
D be extensively adopted in the man
icture of steel. The process of col
olling has been found to increase t
trength of bar iron in some cases
much as 100 per cent.
School and Church.
The senior class at Harvard h
ow 202 members. 1t. has had ali
ether 271 members.
1t is announced that the attempt
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