Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-01-15
BREvITIRs.

era in the middle.
A RAILROAD Of the Righitype is TO car
ry ihetourist up to the "Cdstled Crae
Dachenfelsp
Ir is common TO read Ia the Nevada
newspapers of men falling 1000 feet down
mine shafts.
PRofEssoR Swing refused an increase oi
salary from $1,000 10 $1,000, desiring
that il might be applied to charities.
Is rural Germany very small men are
ia special request as servants, because !
their military service would not be de-
manded in special emergency
LEWIS BLANBsEml, colorcd, and Miss
Hodena smith, white eloped together
nom Madison county, Va, the other day
and were married at Washington. d. G.
Tnr Jefferson ron-works at Steuben-
vile, O., have run fifty-one weeks in the
present year, fact unprecedented, 1t is
said. in the history of the iron industry
in this country,
Tnr twelve wooden nutmegs made
from the wood Of the Charter oak, which
have been presented to cX-Congressman
Iander4 orConncriicut, will be disturbed
by him among his old friends ia Con-
gress.
THE French assembly has voted 3D.
OenOO0 Crancs-2,0O0O more than asked
for education, against 26,0O0,0Oo in 1870
aud 100000 in 1851. The grant in
cludes $4,000 travelling expenses for ex-
plorers.
There are three living descendants of
Christopher Columbus, Don Ferdinand
Ciulomb de Ia Corda the Marquis of
JamMca, and Don Diego Colomb, who is
gentleman Of the bcd-chamber to.King
Alfonso.
Is the Saxon Chamber Deputy has
proposed the restoration OF silver, on
the ground that the gold standard had
worked worked prejudically The
Chamber decided on entertaining the
proposal
Ma. TENNYsoN writes fenced In by
screens, at writing.table facing the win
dow, with numerous clay-pipes cumbcr-
ing his papers His son Hallam copies
his manuscript, writes his letters and
knows all his poems by heart.
TmE Guthard tunnel isnow within less
than fiyc hundred metres of completion;
but the difficulties encountered during
the past few weeks, owing 10 fault in
the strata and an influx of water will
retard by month the junction of the
two galleries
TnE Prince Of Wales income viii prob
ably be diminished some $4,000 ycar
by the hard times, while they make no
difference to his mother, whose 5000 a
day comes in quarterly in hard cash.
This does not include large revenues
from other sources.
AN Erie postal clerk the other day
found letter in his hands addressed to
"West of Mosques, Pa" There is no
postotIice in Pennsylvania of that name
but by reading the direction aloud he
knew instantly that ii was meant for
"West Damascus postollicr opposite
CecheCtOn.
PRoF. NoRDESsKJoID thinks that a yoy.
age along the northern coast Of Siberia
from the Atlantic to the Pacihc, might
often be made by a steamer specially
fitted out, and mnnned by an experienced
crew, and that such voyage would oc'
rupy only few weeks.
Tue Roman Catholics of PUGET
Sound propose building mission church
IA vessel with sacristy, library, refecto
aud dormitory and saloon accom-
modating several hundred worshipers
1t will be nayigated by Indians and
moored along the coast, the services be
ing announced by cannon shot.
Ar the recent meeting of the Anthro
biological Society Of Paris debate tool
place on the origin of the blonde races o
mankind. Some of the speakers consid
cred that the region of Turkestan wa
their original seat while Others, in par
ticular Mime. c. Roger, maintained tha
they had originated in Europe.
liz Bavaria l342 out Of every 100 births
are illegitimHte children in Austria
1903; in Denmark, 1892; in Scotland
ss7; in Germany, $40; in France, 72l
in Italy, 7.s7; in England, OH in Rou
mania, S.4s; in Ireland, 2.30; in Greece
LAS. The excess in Bavaria and Austrii
is due TO laws prohibiting marriages Il
those with a certain income.