Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-02-15
GENERAL NOTES.

Iactured last year.
1t costs 5000. 900 a year to sup-
port the churches in New York City.
Only seven members were taken
into Beecher's church last year.
Counterfeit standard dollars are
increasing rapidly in the South.
AChicago physician asserts that
there are 45 200 habitual drnnkards
in that city.
| Canada mas the largest national
debt of any country, in proportion to
her population.
| Hamilton Disston, the saw manu-
facturer of Philadelphia. has $780,
| 600 insurance on his life.
Insurance publications state that
the losses by fire in the United
States aggregate over s1O3, 900, 900.
! The Illinois supreme court has de-
cided that contracts made on Sunday
are valid and binding.
| Guiteau's skeleton, which is in the
army medical museum, is polished
and bleeched like ivory. $50.
1t you want to be in the height of
fashion get pet owl. Mliye owl is
even more stylish than dead one.
There are 5000 locomotive en-
gines in the world, and 120, 900 pas
senger and 500, 900 freight cars.
Senator Salisbury, of Delaware, is
the only member of the United States
senate who has never been married.
Many men have many minds, but
one woman frequently has more
than all of them.
Does bonnet sing because it is
covered over with birds? No; but
the husband that pays forit whistles.
Deer IN Florida are being slaugh-
tered so rapidly that it is believed
they will become extinct in a few
years.
1t costs SIS, 900 a year to main
tain staff Of scrub-women, seventy
five strong, in the United States
treasury building.
Fifteen million of horses are own
ed in America, and more than a mil
lion must be bred annually to keep
up the supply.
In England the average Of life ex-
ceeds that of France by eleven
years, though the French climate is
considered superior.
At Pittsfield, Mass, recently, a
man with child under one arm and
a pig under the other Joined in a
funeral procession.
| The discovery has been made in
San Francisco that some of the
Cinnamon there are owned and have
been bought and sold as slaves.
A New York plumber has married
q milliner. Everything tends to
consolidation and monopoly these
days.
A bottle of patent medicine, cured
the infatuation Of youth for Cam
den girl. She hit him over the head
with it.
Ten hours is considered full
days work, and yet some young men
act as if a girl could be courted 16
hours without being tired.
A woman always carries her purse
in her hand so that other women will
see it; a men carries his in his in
side vest pocket, so that his wife
won't see it.
The Empress of Austria writes
poetry and prints it herself, thus
making a short cut to fame and Civ
ing the newspaper waste-basket a
wide berth.
Somebody says there are only 32
days of the year on which it is un-
lucky to marry, but various married
men say there are veIy near that
many every month.
If the truth were known, the fire.
quent runaways which occur when
poung couples are out riding are
brought about by attempting to
| drive with one hand.
A scientific writer says that kiss
ing is delightful because the jaws are
so full of nerves. After man gets
married he sort o. wishes nature
handn't put so many nerves into the
| jaw.
Gilbert Long. who was prevented
from jumping from the Brooklyn
bridge into East river. on Decora-
ton day. will try it again the 22d OF
February.
In Montreal, bill-posters and man
ayers are obliged to submit all bills,
posters and placards for the chief of
policies approval before they are
posted or circulated.
1t is estimated that there are now
| in the United States 10, GOO, ,000milch
COWS, and that there are made an
nually /, 800, 900, 900 pounds of but
ter and 45O 600 pound of cheese.
i Quite number of toothless indi-
) viduals in Iowa are out cunning for
a travelling dentist who pulled on,
their teeth free, and collecting half
the price of new sets, which he has
forgotten to bring around.
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