Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1885-01-30
GLEANINGs.

ASPb ptHttctll sweet 1cr Twelve moutti3-
The number of living specimens
known in tho animal kingdom IS at least
0,O00. of which nine-tenths are inyer-
tebrates.
In 1884 there were seYenty-eight miles
OF railway on which the mails were car
ried. In june, 1884. the number had
increased to III, 100.
Ella Maude Moore, winner of $500
prize offered by the Youths Conipanion
for the best short girls story, is the
author of the poem ssRock of Ages
The French military cstablishment
now has regular system of carrier
pigeons, covering the whole country.
The longest fight viii be about fifty.
four miles.
The Great Eastern steamship Is lars
ger In tonnage thar Noah's ark was,
according TO the general accepted by
measurements of that famous but myth
ical vessel
Dakota has eighty-four organized
counties already. A common school
system has been organized in sixty-five
of them, and two-thirds Of the children
of the territory are enrolled.
A New York doctor, who has Just
died very wealthy, came near starving
to death until he devised q cough can.
dy, which became SO popular he soon
had to build factory for making it.
Some of the wealthy Romans had nS
many as 10000 slaves The minimum
price fixed by law was $50. but after
great victories they could sometimes ~
bought for few shillings apiece on tho
field of battle.
The popularity of Dickens in Eng.
land is demonstrated by the fact that
seven or eight barrows loaded with cop.
les of q penny edition Of sSketches by
Boz were disposed Of in one street
alone in London in few hours.
Professor Law, of Cornell University,
recommends that in large cities thero
be only one slaughter house, Sc that al
meat can be properly examined. Ha
also fayors the frequent inspection oG
dairies supplying milk to large cities.
There are now seven mills in Pittsya.
vania County, Virginia; engaged in the
manufacture of sassafras oil. It takes
seventy-five pounds of roots 70 make
gallon of oil. which sells for e405 per
gallon. 1t is used for havoring soaps.
A Providence man was killed By his
children s playthings. Returning home
at night he stumbled over soma blocks
left on the floor. struck his head upon
the marble top of bureau and died II
twenty minutes with fractured skull.
An English physician warns mothers
against allowing babies to suck their
thumbs, because it results in peculiar
deformity of the chest, a depression Of
the thorax by pressure from the arm
of the infant as it lies with its thumb in
its mouth.
A Texas editor ran for county Office
at the last election. He got only 286
votes. Referring to this he says; 1--WE
have 75S subscribers In the county, and
the only way we can explain Is that tho
523 who didn't vote for us were afraid
we would leave the newspaper Il NO
were elected. y There's conceit for you
Recent researches show that election
eering was carried on in ancient Pom
pei very much as at the present day.
Inscriptions have been found informing
the public that "a vote for Lentulus e
a vote for honest government, and
asking all patriotic citizens to vote for
"Balbus, the true friend of the peo-
pie"
At the Antwerp Universal Exhibi.
ton. Van Rysselbcrghe gave 3 practi-
cal solution of the possibility of sending
q. .teiegraphic and telephonic message
over the same wire at the same time
The transmission and receipt Of the
messages were effected by the usual
instruments over ordinary telegraph
wire.
An exhibition of woman's Industries
is to be held at Bristol. England, early
next year, to which the United States
arc invited to contribute. It's promoters
are desirous that its principal feature
should be specimens of such works as
illustrate the progress made by women
in industries demanding special techni
cal and artistic training.
We send a good deal of beef from
this country to England, but the quail
ity folks viii not buy it knowingly. be-
cause they get the impression it isn't as
good as theirs. An EngIishman who
was here few weeks since said he con.
sidered it the best beef In the world,
but if he should order it for his own t.
bic his servants would not touch il
Lord Derby, father of the present
Earl when young man, was one Of
the best speakers in Parliament. he
was known as the Prince Rupert Of
debate, and seemed so self-possessed
as to be incapable of embarrassment.
But he said: ssWhen / am going 70
speak my throat and lips ara. as dry as
those of a man who Is going to be
hanged. y
Ben: Perley Poore, who always writes
q colon(:) after the Ben in his name.
defends its use on the ground that
Washington and Jefferson invariably
used the colon after an abbreviaticn Of
a Christian name, thus: Geo: Washing.
ton, Thos: Jefferson. In fact use of
the colon is one Of the good old customs
which MIR. Poore. himself rare old
timer, religiously clings to.
German technical papers recommend
the following mixture for the staining
of wood in imitation of cedar: Two
hundred parts of catechu, 1O0 parts oe
caustic potash, and 10, 900 0parts Of water
all by weight. The longer the wood
remains in this solution the better the
stain pepetrates its fbres. and thick
veneers can In this way be stained right
through the whole thickness, which
permits refinishing without injury 70
the color.
Among the most recent uses diseov-
cred for luminous paint is for tapes for
field use at night BY the Royal Engl-
neers Department. Starting from
given point toward the front. the men
leave q trail on their track, and on
reaching given point they mark the
contour of the earthworks to bo execu-
ted by fhe same means, paying ont the
tape as they return toward the camp.
Tie working party then follow the out
ward trail, execute the work, and re-
turn to camp without having discovered
q single say Of light to the enemy