Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-02-22

A Baltimore swell went tc fancy
dress ball as donkey.
Innocence is like polished armor;
il adOrns and it defends.
Barnum has decided to name his
white elephant Tom Thumb.
All women wish to be esteemed.
They care less to be respected.
Nothing is ever done beautifully
which is done in rivalship.
A woman seldom writes her will.
There is so much of it she can't.
A white rainbow is one of the rare
phenomena lately observed East.
A women's college is to be estab-
lished at Baltimore by Methodists.
The progress of rivers to the ocean
is not so rapid as that of man to err
ror.
Photographing on silk and linen is
now successfully practiced in Lon
don.
But for women our entire world
were but frost-bitten potato, worth
less to the core.
Nothing is credulous as vsnity. or
so ignorant as of what becomes it
self.
That action is best that procures
the greatest happiness for the great
est numbers.
Not one of the six congressman
from California was born in that
state.
Never attempt to convince wo-
man of anything by argument. You
must resort to emotion.
The supreme court of Michigan
has decided that pool-sellIng is
gambling.
Where cause is good an appeal
should be directed to the heart
rather than the head.
1t Is said that for every novel
published IN England, ten are writ
ten and rejected.
The whole duty of man is en-
braced in the two principles of alb
stinence and patience.
A certain amount of distrust is
wholesome, but not so much of 9th
ers as of ourselves.
False fears bring on true vexations.
The imaginary grievances of our
lives are more than the real.
Our grand business IS, not to see
what lies dimly at distance. but to
do what lies clearly at hand.
A man in South Boston, it is re-
ported, takes plunge in the salt
water every morning in the year.
1t is said that there are more peo-
pie out of work in New York now
than at any time for years past.
New York City has 2,O00rag-pick-
ers and their gatherings of rags are
valued at $3.50, 900 year.
The art of living easily as to mon
ey is to pitch your scale of living one
degrees below your means.
Happiness consists not in having
such and such possessions, but in be-
ing fitted to enjoy what we have.
The Second Adventists definitely
announce that the world will come to
an end on the 4th of next November.
Large license is granted to beauty.
Every woman can afford to be saucy
if she pleases, but not if she DIS
pleases.
Bills amounting to 81, ,250,000 for
damages done by the Union army
during the civil war have been intro
duced into the present congress-
Statistics show that there are at
present almost a million people IN
Great Britain who receive charita
BILE relief.
The splnsters of Atlanta, Ca,
have requested the Legislature to
make it a special offense for any
widow TO marry again.
Female suffrage is a failure in
Vermont. OF 314 women who had a
right to vote at recent election in
Burlington, only eight exercised the
privilege.
In Salt Lake City the sidewalks
are twenty feet wide. This is to
permit mans widows to walk
abreast, instead of in couples. when
going to his funeral.
While an American girl looks with
favor on a duke or a count, the Eng
lish girl snatches up an American
plumber and has the best of the
swap every time.
Feminine news-gatherers are not
success. One tried it in a country
town and the people all stopped TAX
ing the paper because she told them
all the news before the paper came
out.
A beardless youth of 10 years is
under arrest at Catletsburg, KY. on
the charge of bigamy, and no less
than four alleged wives have risen
up to testify against him.