Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-09-05
HeTES.
Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt wears $50

sand Cinnamon.
Tradition makes the game of chess
5000 years old.
Linen shirts were first worn In
England about 1928.
Germany has 454 theaters and
nearly 10, 900 actors.
New York has an italian popula-
ton of nearly fifty thousand.
The full strength of England's
armed fore in Ireland is 45, 100 men.
Little things console us because
little things afiiet us.
Learning is pleasursble, but doing
Is the height Of enjoyment.
All life aims are vain that aim at
anything less than heaven.
Malice sucks the greatest part Of
her own venom, and poisons herself.
II is human nature to love to make
experiments at the expense Of others.
A conscience voidof offense before
God and man is an inheritance for
eternity.
He who can not command his
thoughts must not hope to command
his actions.
1t IS easy to love our fellow men.
Do good to them and you will besure
to love them.
Let no man complain Of the short
ness Of life until he has measured
the full capacity Of day.
He that wrestles with US strength
ems our nerves and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Silence is generally safe and gen.
orally prudent, but there are times
when it is disgraceful to be silent.
Wear cheerful countenance. II
your mirror won't smile on you,
how can you expect anybody will?
Tea, say the Chinese, is a drink
which relieves thirst and disslpates
sorrow.
They are beginning to call the
wealthy cattle men out West "bul-
lionaires."
In shubuta, Miss, the boys take
the girls out driving in nbuggies drawn
by oxen.
One pound of rice gives SS per
cent. nutrlment, and one pound OF
meat 25 per cent.
Snapping-turtle fights are becom-
ing favorite diversion Of the people
on Staten Island.
A pineapple of papier mache, for
use at desserts, is among the latest
English inventions.
Thirty-two thousand photographs
brought up in the Dead Letter Office
at Washington last year.
The French Senate has voted 10
abolish the offering of prayer ct the
beginning Of its sessions.
Apiece Of news from Boston: "A
great many New Yorkers are said to
be pawning their diamonds"
A large gray squirrel was chased
through the streets Of Norwich.
Conn, the other day by a flock Of
sparrows.
In changing the style Of clothing
for convicts in the Ohio penitentiary,
striped goods have been abandoned.
Much mutilated and spurious coin
is worked off in the Slawson boxes on
the bob-tail cars in the cities.
1t is a sign of wisdom to be willing
to receive instructions the most in
telligent sometimes stand in need
Of it.
In the blackest soil grows The
richest flowers, and the loftest and
strongest trees spring heavenward
among the rocks.
Think before thou speakest-hrst,
what thou shalt speak; second, why.
thou shouldst speak third. to whom
thou mayest have to speak.
In an old tenament house that was
recently pulled down in London
thirteen carloads Of cockroaches
were carried away.
Cyrus w. Fields recently gave q
banquet to two hundred persons on
the roof of his immense new building
in New York City.
The bricks used in the construc-
ton of his church, in Tennessee, are
said to have been all made by Rev.
w. H. Key, colored, the pastor.
There are only two places IN Paris
where real Havana cigar can be
bought. One firm has a monopoly
of selling them in the French capital.
The highest salary now paid any
base Lall player in this country is
sain to be So, POO year, and he has