Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-11-07

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General Butler smokes fifteen ci-
gars day.
The King of siam has 2es chill
dren. He is under so.
IAN open winter is predicted by
the Digger Indians.
The manufacture Of pins Is said TO
now reach the number Of 5000, 900
daily.
There are marketed in New York
City during the season $50, GOO, 900
clans.
Portions Of the petriied forests of
Arizona are now being worked up
into jewslry. o.s-..
The manufacture Of matohes re-
quires annually ever three million
dollars worth of wood.
The apple crop In many counties
of Maine is so large that the wind
falls are left to ret upen the ground.
OF the IS, ,Doo, 900 in taxes re-
ceived in one day by the tax coilec-
tor of New York City, the Astor
family pain $425, 600. ~
George w. Stillwsll, aged 72 years,
was among, those Who successfully
passed CIVIL service examination In
Brooklyn lately. ,e
Aparish without voter IL that Of
East Essex, England, fron which
the solitary voter that heretofore ex-
ercised the franchise has removed.
The use Of bitter vfllew In fa-
voring and ooloring tobacco il vehe-
mently denounced by Parisian ply
sicians as causing softening Of the
brain.
Smuggling At the port Of New
York during the year ended Jane 30
has increased eS per cent. over any
Of the three previous years.
In q single gnme Of lacrosse, at
Toronto, one maa was knocked sense
less, second had thumb broker, q
third injured his collar bene, and q
fourth his arm.
The Mexican government, which
pays bounty for grasshsppers, re-
Gently gave number Of hunters
$175 for tve hundred thousand
pounds Of the dead insects.
+ There was almost q riet In 1856
when Castle Garden Was first pro-
posed as the landing place fer innl-
grants, and since then 8, ,8SS, i80 Inn
migrants have landed there.
A swarm of bees has celoAibed In
the mummy Of an OK that has lain on
an alkali field near Dayton, Navada,
for two years or so, and the interior
Of the carcass is full Of honey.
The sparrow has become enc of
the greatest enemies Of EAglish
farmers. and it is stated that one
.bushel of grain per acre has been
destroyed by them and other small
birds in that country.
A number Of camels have been Inn
ported into Australia, and have
turned out so satisfactory that en-
siasts are predicting the usc OF the
same animal in Southern Europe and
England y
A Mormon elder has returned to
Utah with the complaint that his mis-
sionary efforts in Indiana not oAly
yielded no converts, bat that he was
rotten-egged, stoned and otherwise
greatly abused.
The London Times says that there
are in England over 800, 900 cyclists,
and that the capital invested in the
manufacture of bicycles aad trlcycles
is about $15, 900, 600, employing from
6 900 to 10, 200 meA.
The manufacture Of buffalo horn
furniture is now . thriving industry
in New York. Fhe buffalo horns
are the horns OF cattle killed In the
slaughter houses, cleaned, dried,
scraped and polished.
The youngest immigrant Who has
ever landed In Castle Garden after
making the voyage across the ocean
alone, is Margaret Hall, two years
Of age, who arrived the other day on
steamer from Bremen.
The French method Of administer
ing castor oil 10 children is to pour
the oil into pan over q moderate
fire, break an egg into It and STR it
up. When it is done favor with a
little salt, or sugar or currant jelly.
There was good reason vhY the
editor should hesitate about his an
swer when he received the follow
ing: ssDear Sir-Please inform me
II man is an animal, or composed of
human being subject to the. ant
mal?''
The largest photographs in the
world will be on exhibition At the
New Orleans Exposition, TheY are
views of the public buildings in
Washington, taken by order Of the
government. They are FIVE feet