Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-07-04
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hicago, ,Ill., has a milkman named

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There are now 80 clrcuses tarvel-
ing in the United States.
Fifty-seyen American women writ
ers were born in Maine.
The Rothschilds have $4OO. .OOO, 900
of United States Bonds.
The United States has one clergy
man to every ESQ inhabitants.
A swarm of bees nine miles long
recently visited Oaxaca, Mexico.
There are about 800 men engaged
in killing alligators in Fla.
Parlor cars with bay windows are
about the latest things on wheels.
Mexican Congressman now wear
full dress suits when in session.
Electric lights are now in use in
most ocean passenger steamships.
Gen. Babcock, who was recently
drowned had $50, 900 insurance on
his life.
New Orleans reports a single stalk
on which there are 20 cabbage-heads.
Forty cords of oak wood will make
about 10 cords of merchantible char
coal.
''AIl the vagabondage in this
world begins in neglected childhood"
says Victor Hugo.
Boxing as part of the drill has
been introduced into the French and
English armies.
The longest express train run is
SAID to be from st. Paul NLinn., to
Helena, Mont, l, ,156 miles.
Six thousand venders of fruit and
and vegetables are lIcesned to walk
the streets of Paris
Forty-three designs have been sub.
mitted for the Garfield monument
by foreign and native artists.
Decatur county, Iowa has girl
who captured and sold fifteen wolves
during the past season.
A crazy colored woman in jackson
Fla, parades the streets with a
sword strapped to her side.
A police justice says that wives
forgive their husbands, but husbands
do not forgive their wivas.
No less than two hundred and
twenty-five thousand persons live in
furnished lodgings in Paris.
The ideal ear of corn is one with
twelve rows, ten or twelve inches
long, uniform in size from tip.
Joquain Miller is one of the sue
ceessful competitors for the $500
poetry prize on the white elephant.
A Boston lady sent crazy quilt
to the Women's Industrial Exchange
and it was refused admission.
Clothspins can be sold at the rate
of cent dozen and still leave
profit of 80 per cent. to the dealer.
The New Hampshire savings banks
have $4,000, 600 more on deposit
now than this last time year.
The Revised version of the Old
Testament will be published early in
autumn. 1t is now nearly complet-
ed.
There are 2O9 varieties of cherries,
60 of apricots, 239 Of peaches, 1913
of pears, and 297 of pIums, pomo-
logical writer says.
A 11-year-old girl of Giradville,
Pa, died there the other day of con-
gestion TO the brain, caused by ex-
cessive rope jumping
Six million dollars worth of dia-
monds are on exhibition at the Pari-
sian Industrial exhibition, which
opened in Paris lately.
There are more coIored people in
Georgia, than there are Indians in
the whole country. Georgia's negro
population is about 725 900.
The streer-car drivers in New
Orleans not only keep their cars
clean but are expected to furnish the
polishing oil for the brasses, etc.
New newspapers made their ap-
pearance in this country last year ut
the rate of one every three days.
The mortality was nearly as great.
Under the laws of Maine, person
who procures divorce cannot marry
for two years. without the permission
of the court granting the decree.
Mary, according to a London au-
thority, is the name borne by the
largest number of vessels, the names,
Elizabeth, Jane, Sarah and William
coming next in order.
Hoe the inventor of the printing
press which bears his name, antici-
pates i'm the near future the inven-
tion of a Photographic press which
will turn OFF 960, 900 papers an hour.