Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-03-11
HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THE Boston ulster has a pocket deep
enough for an umbrella.
AND now Boston physician SAYS that
long walks before breakfast bring on
dyspepsia.
SEVERAL young lawyers of Boston,
who live in suburban towns, ride to bus
inoss In fair weather on bicycles.
Mr.. ALLEN, the American accredited
rs Hawaiian Minister 20 the United
States, appeared at the recent dip
lomatic reception decorated like his
peers. lie wore across his chest the
Hawaiian grand order of knighthood
and It's broad blue ribbon.
MRs. URSULA HuMPHREYILLE, of
Northiield, n. H., is eenienariau who
reads without spectaclcs, and last au-
tumn, TO show her energy, drove n now
ing machine round meadow at coun-
ty fair. Her descendants of three gen
crations number forty.six, and twenty
nine of them are living.
BEN HALLIDAY Is for the twelfth win
ter before the United States Senate with
his claim for 100000 for losses sus-
tanned by Indian deprcdations while
carrying the overland mail. His route
was ! POO miles in length through the
Indian Territory, and he used 10 employ
$50 men and LOO horses.
BALD MOUNTAIN, North Carolina,
has again become an object of dread 10
the residents in its vicinity. Seven
shocks and rumblings were felt and
heard on the 2Sth and 29th ult., aud on
the l0th inst. the noises were heard at
distance of seven miles. The people
are expecting the mountain TO fall to
pieces very soon.
y LITIGAST at Owen, o., said to his
counsel, "Abuse the defendant, and IN
take all the consequences So the
lawyer spoke Of the enemy as perjured,
thicving, murderous villain, and got
soundly whipped for it rs soon as Court
adjourned. He has now sued his client
for damages, on the ground that the
promised protection was not afforded.
THE new census viii show that, while
there has been an increase Of population
in Lewiston, Biddeford, Portland, Bath,
Auburn, Saco, and one or two other
large towns aud cities in Maine, there
has been a decrease during the last ten
years in every county in the State
except Aroostook The county towns
have almost all lost, some very heavily.
MIR. DUDLEY a. SARGENT, Director
of the Harvard gymnasium, says that
Of the large number of students he has
already examined at least one-hall
suffer 10 considerable and in many
cases an alarming extent from palpita-
ton and other affections of the heart,
caused by excessive cigarette smoking
and drinking strong coffee.
The daughter of Spotted Tail, tall,
ungainly young woman Of Is, is study
ing in the Government school for
Indians at Carlisle barracks. Pennsyl-
vania. She has lately married the half
breed interpreter employed at the
barracks, and when sent to do some
scrubbing, the other day, her lordly
husband interfered. His wife was of
royal blood, he remarked, the daughter
of n chief, and he wanted her TO learn
only what the white ladies do.
SOME people have queer ideas of what
constitutes holiday recreation. A Ilar-
ward student from Yucatan went to
spend his vacation in his native equa-
torial latitudes, and passed the entire
time in fighting in one of the periodical
revolutions INDUCED in by his country
men. Refreshed and invigorated by
this delightful sport, he returned in due
course to pursue his peaceful studies at
Cambridge.
A NEW method of reward for those
who are diligent in the business of the
Government has been established i'm
Japan. 1t consists of no decoration or
gift Of money, but takes the form of a
great national portrait gallery, in which
those who sufficiently distinguish them
selves in the opinion of their superiOrs
will. henceforth, have the privilege of
seeing their likenesses placed. The per-
functOry and lazy viii have no habita-
ton there, but only those who are noted
for zeal and energy. Already vast
number of applications for a place have
been made with the result, in the opin-
ion of the Hochi Shinbun,n that the
gallery will have "more of quantity than
quality in it,"
SAMUEL, one of the New Lebanon
IN " Shakers, was killed by light
ming Mary, Shaker spirit medium,
says that she met him few days after
ward, and that the following convcrsa-
ton was held; Samuel! What in
The world does this meanP" 81 do not
know. 90 to the shop and the board
ing house, and no one notices me.
What is the meaning Of all this, MaryP"
"Why, Samuel, don't you know that
you are deadP" "Dead why, no,
am not dead" "Surely you are. You
were struck by lightning week ago
last Thursday and killed, and we buried
you in the yard yonder." "Mary, is
that really soPn " Certainly it is"