Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-08-29

California Cinnamon are learning
to ride the bicycle.
There are over three thousand
pawnshops in London.
Corns and bunions, says Pitts
burg doctor, are inherited.
About 10000, 900 pennies were
coined in the United States In 1888.
Diarrhea is the invariabls warn
ing and precursor of an attack OF
cholera.
Alex. H. Stephens library, which
cost $50, 900, has been sacrificed for
$500.
The people of this country consume
800, 900, 900 worth of patent medi-
zines every year.
Goats have become nuisance IN
the East Indias. There are ii, ,O00,-
900 of them in the Madras presidency
A farmer named Stinson, at Eaton,
Ca, has calf that manages to get
along comfortably with wooden leg.
If the people die of the cholera it
will not be the fault of the doctors.
They have offered the public 945 So
called cures.
A prisoner in an Indiana jail is
said to have no less than ten wives
living, and he is not professional
Mormon either.
Enough copies of the tariff speeches
delivared in the last congress were
printed to give one to every voterin
the country.
General Wallace says that although
he lived in Turkey three years, he
never spoke TO Turkish woman dur
ng that time.
The female members of the Con-
necticut Salvation Army wear jerseys
upon which is the inscription: 'Dead
to the World"
The present strength, numerically,
of Freemasonry throughout the
world is placed at 138,095 lodges,
with Is, ,OOO, 900 members.
Mud-bath are given at Rich6eld
Springs for rheumatism. The vic
tim is submerged in a clayey SUBJ
stance nearly to his ears.
The Prince of Monaco, who was
recently saved from ais sinking
yacht, is famous Throughout Europe
for his brutality to his wife.
A $4,000 candle-power electric
light will, in a week or two, be plac-
ed in position at Hell Gate, N. Y, to
illuminate that dangerous channel.
In Walla Walla, w. r., model
city of 900 inhabitants, a munich
pal ordinance prohibits any boy or
girl from being out alone after dark.
The surprising fact appears that
Germans make up more than half the
list of 423 suicides in this country
during the months of March, April
and May.
The use of opera chairs instead OF
pews, in churches, is being advocat
ed in New York. One house OF wor-
ship already has them in use in the
gallery.
General Grant has, since misfor-
tune befeIl him, reduced his stable to
| one horse, large bay, behind which
in modest coupe, he takes his daily
airing at Long Branch.
A man who was hanged in Indiana
made no speech from the gallows.
He merely nodded to the clergyman
as the trap WAS sprung and muttered
"See you later"
| A Cincinnatijury that had been
out 22 hours the other day, in hom-
icide case, resorted to prayers for
guidance, and then united in ver-
dict of murder IN the first degree.
| Scuthy records in his Common
place Book" that q physician who
had seen more than 10000 cases OF
smalI-pox, said he had never met
with the disease in a person with red
or light fiaxen hair.
A change of style has been order
ed in prison garments by the Con-
necticut state prison directors fer the
convicts in that state. Hereafter
the prison suit will be all gray, IN
stead of half black as before.
A raiser of geese in the suburbs
of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, finding it
impossible to identify her birds that
so frequently intermingled with the
fiocks of others, has painten their
heads and wings as green as grass
The selectmen of Lisbon, NJ H..
have paid bounties on eight hundred
and fifty woodchucks this season.
It is said that the boys are importing
woodchuck tails from Vermont and
| getting the bounty on them.
Two young girls have gone into