Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-02-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, when but II
years old, made an excellent transla-
ton of the fifth eclogue of Virgil. The
verse is remarkably smooth.
-Senor Zamacona, the Mexican
has piano and an organ in his house
at Washington, and plays remarkably
well upon both.
The most gifted of the younger au-
thors in Holland is a young lady who
writes under the pen name of A. S. c.
Wallis. She has just published his
torical novel of the days of the eighty
years. war.
R. W. Criswell, who by his clever
Shakesperean travesties made national
reputation for himself and the Oil City
Derrick, has left that paper to accept an
editorial position on the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Lady Anna Blunt, who has just pub
lished an account of a winter residence
among the Bedouin Arabs, is a grand
daughter of the poet Byron, being a
daughter of the Earl of Lovelace, by
"Ada, sole daughter of my house and
heartn
Mr.. Platt, the Connecticut Senator
elect, had no other education than that
he gained by home study and at boys
academy at such times as he could be
spared from his fathers farm. He has
at present very large and valuable law
practice.
Caleb Gushing, it is said, could read
16 hours day for a month and never
forget an important fact obtained in that
time. While Attorney General he would
have his meals brought to him and laid
on his writing-desk. His custom often
was to eat the entire meal without look
ing at it or resting from his work.
-Bayard Taylor's will has been ad-
mitted to probate. The sword of Schil-
Ter, presented by William Makepeace
Thackeray to Taylor, is ordered depos-
tied in Schiller's house in Germany
among the other relics of the poet.
Taylor's unpublished writings are left
to his wife and Geo. H. Boxer, Presi-
dent of the Union League of Philadel-
phia.
Winnie Ream, although she has q
husband, is seldom called by his name,
that of Hoxie. 1t was under her maid
en- name that she won the brightest
laurels in her chaplet, and it is there
fore reasonable that she should be more
frequeatly known as Winnie Ream than
as Winnie Hoxie. She makes an affec-
tionate wife, and there was no recep-
ton in Washington on New Years Day
where genuine hospitality shone more
conspicuously than at her residence on
Pennsylvania Avenue.
School and Church.
The schools of Muncie, Ind, have
added photography to their course Of
study.
The newly created Humboldt Acad-
emy at Berlin was opened on Jan. ID.
Its purpose is to give a sort of Univer-
sity education to persons who have not
qualified themselves for entering a reg
uiar University.
The Japanese Government never
until now has authorized any portion of
the scriptures to be published in that
country. Recently it gave authority to
Japanese publisher to print an edi-
ton of the Book of Genesis in the Chi
nese language.
A distinguished teacher in Ger
many writes to Professor Adrian Scott
that spelling all over Germany has been
crowded out by the sound-method,
"which teaches the sounds represented
by the different letters and pays no at
tention whatever to their names" Only
few quite aged teachers still admit
spelling.
-Universalism during the past year
made an increase of So parishes, 500
families, 46 churches, 1870 church
members and 20 church edifices in the
United States and Canada. The value
of its church property increased &c.,
600, and there was gain OF 40 in the
number of Sunday-schools.
The Protestant Episcopal Commits
sion in charge of mission work in Mexi-
co is much encouraged by recent reports
of work accomplished, especially in the
City of Mexico. The cathedral in that
city is nearly ready for the renewal OF
services. A council has been charged
with the duty of preparing liturgy
suitable for the Mexicans.
The starvation wages at which
teachers in the Irish National school:
are kept is beginning to attract the at
tention of members of Parliament. All
Irish National or public school teacher
now only receives $210 year The En-
glish teacher of the same rank average.
a salary of $5l5, and the Scotch teacher
$3.50.
At the University of Cambridge
England, mechanical workshops hav,
been fitted up with machinery for tn
construction of instruments and appa
ratus to be employed in philosophica
research. Good workmen have beel
employed as teachers. Several Uni
versity men, who intend becoming en-
gineers, have become members of tn
classes now formed for regular instruc
ton in the use of tools and machin
construction.
The Episcopal Church has taken it
work of civilizing and Christianizln
the Indians out of the hands of its Fol
eign Missionary Committee, and place
it in charge of the Committee on Dc
mestic Work. This recognizes the In
} dams as citizens and brethren, rathe
} than regarding them in the old way, q
foreigners and heather. BY this chang
] the machinery of collection and distr
/. button is simplified, and the expense
reduced several thousand dollars.
Science and Industry.
Sugar of tin is the latest chemic'
discovery.
Establishments for refining petrol
um are springing up throughout japan
"A Jacksonville, Florida, dealer sci
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down.
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