Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-03-08
structed his clergy to remove all

structed his clergy to remove all
decorations on festival occasions, and
dispense with altar garments, and to
otherwise tone down the services of the
Episcopal Church to something like
primitive simplicity.
Among the novelties shown at the
International Exhibition at Berlin were
samples of white paper made by sub
hitting common paper stock to the ac-
ton of a mixture of sodium sulphate
and water-glass. White rags first steep
ed in the water-glass and then boiled in
the sulphate of sodium and water-glass
become brilliantly white, and paper
made from jute refuse and straw by the
sumo treatment gives q white paper of
fair quality.
"A bill for making primary education
compulsory has been brought into the
Assembly by the French Minister of
Public Instruction. With characters
tic French thoroughness, the penalties
of neglect to obey the provisions are
such as must be instantly felt. The
punishment for the careless father is
suspension of political rights for peri
cd varying from one to five years; con-
scripts VINO are unable to read and
write will be the first summoned to
military duty.
Haps and Mishaps.
John Bolen, while cutting a tree
near Cicero, Ind, was struck on the
head by falling limb, crushing his
skull and killing him almost instantly.
An old lady named Mary Demp-
stead, of Racine, Wis, was severely
burned by the explosion of a kerosene
can, which she had left on the stove.
Her injuries were supposed to be fatal.
"A young man about 20 years old,
named Frank Albert, of Wichita, Kas.,
was accidentally shot by friend, and
only lived a few hours. They were
shooting at q mark at the time the ac-
cident occurred.
"A little daughter of Albert Thomp-
son, named Gertie, aged about 5 years,
of Hudson, o., fell in CRATE fire and
was burned to death. The child was in
the care of its grandmother at the time
of the accident.
AT Salem, Ind, a boy named Lin
sey was hit on his wrist with rnler
while playing with another boy. Some
finally modification set in and the boy
died.
Near Richfield, O., Joe Churchill,
lad aged II years, while playing with
toy pistol, on his way home from
school shot mself through the heart,
killing himself instantly. His dead body
was found by party passing by.
AT Waynesville, ILL.,, as DR.. Hitch
cock, young physician, was going
down a back fight of stairs, having in
his hand a coal-bucket, hen his feet
slipped upon the icy steps, throwing
him down and breaking his skull, from
the effects of which he died in short
time.
-Justus Gonther, of Fort Dodge,
Iowa, recently went in the woods to
chop. In telling tree it in some way
caught his foot and actually wrenched
that member off just above the ankle.
The leg was amputated close to the
knee, but the unfortunate man died the
following morning.
AT Amboy, Lee County, H., during
the celebration of Washington's birth
day, a young man aged 1S years, SON OF
Nathaniel Woodland, prominent law
yer, was instantly killed by the acci-
dental discharge of a shotgun, which
went off in the hands of young man
named Charles Waters.
Mrs. Colson, wife of NJ. D. F.
Colson, of Dresden, Texas, to amuse
her little sick daughter Annie, gave her
an old rusty pistol to play with. Annie
tried in vain to snap it. Her mother
then, thinking it unloaded, seized the
weapon, and laughingly saying: 81
will shoot Annie," she placed the muz-
zle to her daughters head, and pulling
the trigger, fired. The ball entered
Annie's forehead, instantly killing her.
Foreign Notes.
A Berlin baker was lately impris-
oned for making gingerbread carica-
ture of Bismarck.
At last accounts Adelina Patti was
in Rome in a precarious state of health,
and able to walk only with difficulty
"A national bank is to be started in
Egypt, of which the Right Hon. Robert
Lowe, formerly in Mr.. Gladstone's Cab
met, is to be Chairman.
The Glasgow Bank relief fund has
reached 81, 750, 900, a sum unprecedent-
ed in charitable annals. Lady Burdett
Coutts gave $4,000.
"A Tirnova correspondent OF the
London Times says that the name OF Mr..
| Gladstone is heard frequently there as
one of the probable candidates for the
throne of Bulgaria.
-Frankfort-on-the- Main has popu-
lation of about 100, 900, and out OF that
number 100 citizens are worth from
100000 to $1,000, 900, and at least
$50 are worth at least 81 ,00O, 900.
-Thirty-five hundred dollars is the
amount of the bill sent in by Lord Bea-
consfield to England for medical at
tendance at Berlin, whittier his London
doctor went to attend him.
London Truth, speaking of Lord
Beaconsfield, says that old men are, as
rule, thoroughly selfish, and that the
aspiration of the most aged statesmen Is
"After me the deluge."
The Countess de Trobriand, who is
an American, is also very patriotic. At
her recent reception in Paris she fur
nished her refreshment table exclusively
with American viands.
"A lady in Hungary has the distaff
used by Marie Antoinette in spinning
during her imprisonment. 1t is of wood
and ivory inlaid with silver, and still
bears the hemp left upon it by the ILL
fated Queen on the eve of her execution.
The fund raised in Germany as q
!. memorial of the Emperor's escape
amounts to over S4OO, 900. 1t is to form
the basis of a national insurance insti-
tuition for the laboring classes and poor,
| of which the Prince Imperial is named
"High Protector"
.. The Municipal Council of Paris,
which is radical in its republicarism, is
gradually changing the names of streets
which have been called after prominent
4 Bonaparists. The Rue de Morny il
Q henceforth to be the Rue Pierre Char
s ron. The Place du Chateau d'Eau i: