Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-09-12
NOTES

10 rlde the bicycle.
A snow bank still fingers on farm
near Clockville, N. Y.
A fashionable woman is alwsys in
love with herself.
The future destiny of the child 10
always the work of the mother.
No man can either live piously or
die righteously without wife.
1t takes two women (his mother
and his wife) to make good man.
There is Sis, 900, 900 of gold coin
in the treasury vaults at Washington
The comb of the bee is hung verti-
cally, that Of the wasp is horizontal
A man may be a bachelor and be
good, but the chances are against
him.
! Chicago now eompels shopkeepers
to maintain seats for their feminine
clerks and attendants.
A man says his wife. is only half
like telescope. He can draw her
out, but he can't shut her up.
| Senator Sherman Is said to be one
of the best whist players in the Sem
ate.
The skeleton of the carrion crow
weighs. when dry, only twentY-three
grains.
The crocodile is said to swallow
stones, sometimes, like birds, to aid
the gastric mill.
The human skull contains fewer
bones than the sknll Of most animals, {
excepting birds
A colored girl at Saratoga wears
$40. 900 worth of diamonds when she
is dressed up.
A Brockton, Mass, farmer has
eaten but one meal each day, dining
at noon, for thirty-two years.
A scientist states that bees do not
begin to gather honey until they are
seventeen days old.
A stroke of lightning has cured
Mr.. Abraham Cuddleback, of Da-
mascus, Pa, of stroke of paralysis.
A little tobacco-chewing gAzelle is
to be added to the attractions of the
Central Park Geological Gardens.
A Montana girl has been kidnap-
ped by q bear. She probably got
one hug from the animal and fol-
lowed it off.
The large, prominent eyes of the
brilliant dragon flies or devils darn
ing needles are each furnished with
2s, 900 polished lenses.
The fashionable baby-carriage at
the seaside Is canoe-shaped, and
sometimes has a miniature sail for a
sunshade.
The annual report Of the Commits
sioner of Patents shows that Mr..
Edison took out sixty-five patents
during the year 1888. .a
The boarding house for cats at
Battersea, London, receives boarders
at the uniform rate Of about thirty
eight cents a week.
Chicago does not intend to be left.
She has q school where the usages
and etiquette of English society are
taught.
The Yuma Indians, on the Color
ado river, bury watermalons in the
dry sand, and thus preserve them all
winter.
DR.. johnson said his tea kettle had
no time to cool. With tea he solaced
the midnight hour and welcomed the
morning.
During the twelve years occupied
in the translation of the new version
of the Old Testament twelve Of the
twenty-sevent translators died.
Many Hindoo husbands in Bombay
cut off their wives noses by way OF
punishment. Five such cases occur
red in one week.
Oysters two feet in diameter, and
weighing sixty pounds, including the
shells, are said TO be found occa-
sionally in Puget Sound.
An ordinary SPIDERS thread, just
visible to the naked eye, is the union
of thousand or more fine and deli
cate threads of silk These primary
threads are drawn out and uni.ed by
the hind legs of the spider.
Plates of cast glass have been sub
stituted for copper in the sheathIng
of an italian vessel, the joints being
made tight with silicate mastic.
The advantages claimed are exemp-
tion from oxidation and incrustation.
The horse steps on what c0rre-
spends to the nail of the middle nn-
ger, and its swiftness is conditional
on the selidity of the cxtEemities of
the limbs. Horses of the greatest :