Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-09-26
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A Geneva organ grinder has left
fotune of S54 900 to his heirs.
Pop corn is placarded in the Crys-
tai Palace as ''sold to the nobility"
| Whoever has learned to love, has
learned to be silent.
Wise men care not for what they
can not have.
Willows are weak, yet they bind
ether wood.
Poverty of the soul is worse than
that Of fortune.
Better go to heaven in rags than
to hell in embroidery.
He has but sorry food that feeds
upon the faults Of others.
If you trust before ysu try, you
may repent before you die.
A geod reputation is like an icicls
If it once melts, that's the end Of it.
There is nothing so kindly as
kindness and there is. nothing SO
royal as truth.
There is in hypocrisy as much
folly as vice; it Is as easy to be hon.
est as to appear SO.
You may take the greatest trouble,
and by turning it around find joy on
the other side.
Good taste rejects excessive nice
ty; it treats little things as IittIs
things, and Is not hurt by them.
A Boston girl never speaks of the
"naked truth She refers to it as
truth divested of apparel"
The entire city of Cumberland,
Nd, is soon to be lighted by cleo
tricity.
The five cent piece Is the smallest
coin lin valus) in circulation in New
Orleans.
TIE French originated the indus
trial exhibition; the first was held in
Paris in 1898.
The school teachers of Vermont
are prohibited by law from using to-
bAceo in any form.
Since the war over six hundred
oelored Baptist churches have been
established in Texas alone.
Over fifty thousand postoffices are
required to handle the mail matter of
the United States.
The use of chicken-bone drainage
tubes is among the latest devices for
mercifully healing wounds.
A gun weighing $4,000 pounds
has been successfully cast at South
Boston, Mass, for this government.
In the City of Mexico, says cor
respondent, street cars are used for
conveying the dead to the cemeteries.
Iowa has new law lnder which
the keeper of disreputable house
can be sent to prison for FIVE years.
Seventy-nine fires have been
caused in New York City during
twelve years by rats and mice nib
bling matches.
Three thousand members Of the
Smith family were present at their
annual reunion at Peapack, N. j.,
recently.
Forty years ago there was not
office in existence. To-
day the number is 81 $40. Verify,
the world moves.
The making Of photographs in this
country alone consumes annually
about forty tons Of silver and three
tons of geld.
A Newport belle married the maR
who rescued her from drowning.
This should be = warning for yonng
men to keep away from theseashore.
Thirty-ei0ht million barrels Of Pc
troIeum are stored in tanks in Penn
sylvania-enough to make mile
square and ten feet deep.
Trenton, N. J., is to have Gre
matory. A kiln which has been used
for firing decorated china will be
converted to the purpose.
Pueblo, COL, has an effective way
Of riddlng the city of unlicensed
dogs. The city council pay the po-
licemen one dollar for every one
they kill.
An Atlanta, Ca, paper says that
the most wonderful cures Of dys-
pepsia are being made around. Athens
by taking spoonful Of fine sand
after each meal.
At the Free Methodist meeting
house in Saratoga . small company
of women pray every afternoon for
the reform of the frivolous summer
residents.
During the last fiscal year the
number OF passengers carried on all