Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1884-08-22
CHARLTON COURIER.
Job Printing,
of all kinds executed with
NEATNR% And DISPAFCH.
A large stock Of
Legal Blanks
For Justices of the Peace, Township and
Road Officers, also all kinds of
ID n IL ID -,
At st. Louis Prices.
We Solicit Your Patronage.
NOTES.

A crematory will be built in New
York next fall,
New York's various prisons now
have 10000 convIcts.
Fargo, Dakota, has % hotels and
only 100000 inhabitants.
California produces 100000 boxes
OF raisins every year.
Brooklyn has this year issuced Ii
censes for nearly 5000 dogs.
The school teachers of Vermont
are prohibited by law from using
tobacco in any form.
An S6-year-old resident of Green
wood, Maine, is reported to be cut
ting her fourth set of teeth.
In both Germany and Austria pa
per is now being extensively used
for the manufacture of bottles.
The converts to Christianity in
Japan the past year equal In num-
Der the converts of the previous 20
years.
Fifty thousand dollars a year is
expended by the Bank of England in
feeding its clerks during business
hours.
In New York City recently, 1900
pounds of meat was seized and con-
denlned as being unfit for the use Of
human beings.
Pueblo, Colorado, has an effective
way of Kidding the city of unlicensed
dogs. The city council pay the po-
licemen 81 each for every one they
kill.
BY the use of the telephone con-
versation was carried on recently
over twelve hundred miles of wire
looped between Cincinnati and Bal
timore.
Mrs. ProWers, II beautiful widow
of West Las Animas. is said To he
the wealthiest cattle-raiser in the
West. She is worth in the neighbor-
hood of s15. 600, 900.
A substitute for genuine human
hair is now made out of the inner
lining of the bud of the palmetto
tree. 1t can be made of any length,
and dyed any color.
There is a fortune in so small
thing as device for fastening
q necktic. One of the patents in
that line has just been sold to
company for one million dollars.
A bullet was fired at the head of
colored mau named Cummings, dur
ing melee st Red Bank, y. j., the
other night, and fiattened against his
forehead without doing him serious
harm.
A young man in HiIlsdale, n. Y.
has contracted to work seven years
for farmer of that place in con-
sideration of obtaining the latter's
daughter for wife at the end of
that period.
The marriage of 12-year old girl
to a gentleman of 80 years is report
ed from Boykin, S. c., the two hav-
ing known each other but two weeks,
and marrying with the consent of
the girls mother.
Toronto is the best Sabbath keep
ing city in the world. The only
stores open there on Sunday are
those for selling milk and medicine,
and those for only an hour or two
in the morning and evening.
Fort Worth, Texas, is a rustling
town. 1t has white elephant,
cattle exchange, variety show of
beautiful blondes, gambling saloon
and 500 gin mills. There is some
talk of building church.
The selling, or exposing for sale,
of Intoxicating liquors has been pro-
hibited in Vermont for the last 80
years, aud yet there are 426 places
in the state where intoxicating Ii
quors are more or less openly sold.
In Paris no newsboy can be en-
pIoyed to sell papers except by spec
ial official permission of the Perfect
ure of Police, whose consent is not
given until after several weeks have
been spent in an investigation of the
boys character.
A veteran of the Army of the Po-
tomac recently visited the Alsop
farm, near fredericksburg and hand
ed little son of Mrs. Alsop S.
note, saying: .'Just twenty years
ago to-day I stole side of bacon
from your mother, and now want
to pay for it.
While saving log recently in
Mississippi mill the workmen were
astonished to see the log suddenly
take fire and the machinery stop.
Examining the saw, they found that
every tooth was gone, and on split
ting the log, cannon ball vas found
buried in the heart.
John Thomas, colored boy of
II r., r,o< nv, N ,rso..ao frar.