The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1877-12-20

fidelity. People want to know whether
it cured him before they 20 ahead with
the treatment.
Co-education gets set back in the
report OF the Boston school committee
IN favor of separate Latin school for
girls. The female members of the board
voted for co-education.
MIR. Talmage says; "The Goddess of
Fashion has become the rival of the
Lord OF heaven and earth, and it is high
time that we unlimbered our batteries
against this idolatry."
Minister Welsh made sensible reply
to a free trade address at atLiverpool. He
said that England did what it consider
ed beneficial for England, and America
looked to the interest of the American
people.
A directory of the "elite of Brooklyn"
has been published. 1t contains 1900
names, whereas the regular directory
contains $4,000 names. Pretty nearly
one to every seven, therefore is IN
"elite."
Gold tea" ""Roman punch" and zap
pie sauce" which are the Congressional
equivalents for the familiar names of
whisky, rum, and apple-jack, are to be
banished from the restaurants of the
capitol, at Washington.
Mr.. Hamlin is the oldest Senator now
serving-he is sixty-eight. Mr.. Dorsey
is the youngest; he entered the Senate
when only thirty years old, and has
served five years. Mr.. Edmunds who is
forty-nine, is the Senator who looks
oldest.
There is no limit to mans ambition.
A colored baby show is now planned in
New York. What color is not stated.
1t is presumed, however, that all shades,
from that of the bottom of dinner
pot to the most delicate milk-and-mo-
lasses tint, will be admissible.
Mrs. Elizabeth Laurent has begun q
suit for divorce, in New York, against
her husband, Henry Laurent, on the
ground of his too intimate relations
with Mrs. Alice Oates. The Laurents
belong to the Oates comic opera COM
pany. Theatrical circles are shocked
as usual
Joseph Cook IN a lecture in Boston
said that compulsory voting was a good
thing in ancient Athens and it might be
good thing in modern Athens, and
that the secession of the cultivated
classes from politics is scarcely less
dangerous than the secession of the
States from the Union, and might work
as much harm.
Commodore Vanderbilt has been
materialized and gives this advice
through the Gruphic: "Spend your
money as you go along, all of you. Bor-
row as much as you can and spend that.
Don't lay up cent-unless you want
everybody to know all about the inAam-
nation of your speculum and the abnor-
nal contraction of your peritonitis."
The Dutch, desirous of achieving
something like their old renown upon
the high seas, are preparing an Arctic
= H-pedition to sail in May next. The
design is not wild-goose chase for the
north pole, but systematic and intelli-
gent exploration of commercial route
to the Siberian rivers. The expedition
is fitted out by money obtained by pop
ular subscription.
A gray-haired drunkard staggered in.
toatemperance meeting in Philadelphia,
and in maudlin way, tried to make q
speech. The chairman utilized him as
an awful example" " making him stand
up before the people to be prayed for,
and exhorting them to beware of becom,
ing such wreck. Over hundred sig.
natures to the pledge were thus obtain.
ed, including that of the illustrative
drunkard.
The Chicago Times is for annexine
Mexico. "The practical question is @
very simple one; namely, whether il
would be wisest ssand most economical
for America to govern Mexico as a for,
eign country, with a standing army OF
the Rio Grande, or to governit as othel
American territories are governed, by
the expensive mode of peace. In til,
opinion of the Times, the latter wouli
be much the better way"
Louise SEWERS, a handsome young
woman of Poughkeepsie, has Just beer
non-suited in an action against Henr,
NJ. Dickinson, of New York, for breacl
Of promise in marriage and $4,000
The young man admitted the promis,
made and repeated many times during
'he last two years, and quantities o
ffectionate letters between the coupl,
we're produced, but it was shewn tina
! dickinson was an infant that is, he wa
tot twenty-one-when the promises o
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