Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1885-01-16
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There is not = single lawyer anon,
the 1.e00 conyicts in the Virginia Peni
tentiary. Virginia lawyers seldom ge
found out.
The highest priced clock in Americ.
is owned by Wall street broker Il
New York. 1t cost S34, 600, and wa
made in that city.
Pneumatic tubes, through which ar
transmitted letters, papers and teie
grams, have just been introduced be
tween all the sub-postofiices and tn,
main Office in Paris.
Brunettes are said to be preferred q
blondes as Treasury clerks at Washing.
ton. They are steadier at their desks.
and less liable to Mysteries when the
Chief Clerk speaks sharply.
Mrs. Langtry is said to have the mos,
beautiful shoulders and back Of any
woman on the stage. The Jersey Lily
has photographs taken of her shapely
back as it is seen upon the stage, and
its beauty is marvellous.
London, with its 1900. 600 inhabit-
ants, does twice as much telegraphing
as Paris and three times as much as
New York. 1t has 10. 600 miles Of un-
derground conductors and not . tele-
graph pole in the street.
A close observer says that nothing
exasperates 3 woman who has been
shading her eyes from the gaslight with
hor hand all the evening so much as to
find that after all she had left her best
diamond ring on the washstand.
There is on exhibition in window
on School street, Boston, a squash
which girts 7x6l feet and weighs I66
pounds. 1t was grown in Nova Scotia,
and the owner of it last year raised
one that turned the scales ct 299
pounds.
Writing from Lynn, Mass, corre-
spondent reminds the Scientifc Anlcri-
can that, as an instance of . remarka-
bic fight of an exploded boiler, about
two years ago boiler exploded in that
city. and the flying portion. describing
a circle high in the air, landed 900 feet
from where it started.
.sAre you consnmptivep Stay at
home, make your viii. be happy and
comfortable and try and live as long As
you can. Study up the climate of Flor
ida and keep away if you have been
blood This is the ad-
vice given by DR.. Bushrod w. Jones,
in Sanitary Gleaisitgs.
A few days since, as workmcn wer0
old ice from Ober & Co. s ice
house, in Dresden. Me-, says q CORE
spondent of tho Boston Journal, thoy
found large frog between two blocks
of ice that were frozen together solid
and had been in the house two years.
A number of heavy blows wero reQuir-
ed to separate the blocks, when, on be-
ing released, his frogship stretched
himself few times TO get limbered up
and then hopped away as lively as ov-
er apparently none the worse for his
frigid imprisonment.
A prominent lawyer Of this city was
during the Presidential election q pro-
nounced independent at the Repub-
lican caucus in his ward few even-
ings since objections were made to his
taking part in the proceedings on ac-
count of his departure from the regular
ticket. Upon returning homo he re-
marked to his family that he was dis
carded because he was ..mugwump."
His attentive little daughter heard the
and the next day said TO
several callers assembled in the parlor,
Papa was turned out of a meeting
ast night because he was ehipmunkin
Budget.
An old broken-down gambler of Paris
nay be seen daily promenading In the
shabbiest attire, with a magnificent
white camellia in his buttoa hole.
Some years ago he won q great deal
If money, and determined to make
Jure that he should always be supplied
With his favorite flower. He therefore
1aid a large sum in cash to his florist.
Who agreed TO supply him with white
.amellia every day for the rest Of his
ife. And now the decayed old sport
Itruts up and down the boulevard with
! camellia worth more than tho coat
which it adorns.
Rev. DIR. Paxton observes that Scotch
ARE the only people who ever success
ully solved the problem on this little
planet of how to combine punch and
,iety." That is pretty well put. Their
,unch, like their piety, is strong and
genuine. This remark recalls the re-
commentary of the Canadian
Episcopal Bishop of Scotch birth upon
lis treatment of the table of q certain
ector in Buffalo. They were all good
,eople and most kind, am sure; but
10 you know, my dear, said the old
Gentleman, ..they gave mo water to
rink at table and upon going to bed,
s if had been horse
A Scotchman, who at an early period
# his career came to London, and, as
) proverbiaIly the case with folk Of
lis nationality, had remained In the
was at the bedside Of his
lying wife, who had originally como
rom the Highlands, and had always
etained strong affection for the land
/ her birth. .sPror1ise me, Angus"
aid she, ..that you'1l bury mo in the
Iielands; could meier rest quiet down
ere. . sfWeel, replied the prudent
knrus, who did not relish the expense
{ moving the body to Scotland; .'weeL
IL Just see. If ] find that ye Gamma
est quiet here I'll hae ye removed to
be Hollands. - London Truth.
The South AnericGB Journal says:
Let us hope that the country about
andy Point. in the Straits Of Magellan,
nay tuFn out to be second California.
hat the alluviaI deposits there are az-
ferrous is well known, and there Is
very reason to believe that the prec-
nus metal is TO be found distributed AL
yer that part of the Chilian territory.
Washing IS carried on By the country
eople in the most primitfvo fashion.
nd without the use Of quicksilver. and
nth the toughest appliances they sue
eeded last year in Extracting Is, coo
rammes Of gold. which has bean sold
n the spot for 81 cents per griImme.
eprescnting 800 hard earned dssliar1;
he yield for the current year - ok
ected to be mich InorS impErtapt.
he gold IS principally found h the
Ivers as dust and IA nuggets mug
ct of So gramnles was lately exttacted
nd undoubtedly the future Of this re-