The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-07-18

the present month there will not be an
unmelted person left on the earth, with
the possible exception of Charles Fran
els Adams and his next door neighbors.
The pig-tailed disciples of Confucius
re not allowed to wallow in American
Jiolitics. John is to be kept pure,
OLD Dizzy knew what he was about,
after all. In the carving of the Tur-
key England gets the biggest slice.
The New York Herald says that
General Butler has formally announced
his allegiance to the national party.
The cornucopia and the Texas steer
are similar-in that one is the horn of
plenty and the other is plenty of horn.
A Boston Greenback Club has nom
mated Hon. Benjam T. Butler as the
Greenback candidate for the Presiden-
cy.
The Cincinnati, Commercial is now
devoting its energies to the work of re-
ducing the price of lager beer to one
cent glass.
+ The New York Herald is now utiliz-
ing its maps of Stanley's discoveries in
africa to illustrate the recent boat races
IN England.
The number of car wheels in use on
Ihe railroads of the United States is g.
100000. The average life of a wheel
) about $4,000 miles.
EXPERIMENTS recently made with an
lectric light in New York showed that
by its aid ordinary print could be read
night, half mile away.
BISMARCK is represented as entertain
ing the opinion that the downfall of
Turkey is unavoidable in con.
Iequence of the influx of Western ideas.
IMMORAL men are not to be permitted
10 practice law in Ohio. Thus do a
half dozen shrewd attorneys seek to
Inonopolize the entire legal business of
Stats.
The captain of the British mail steam
Ethiopia, is charged by the commit
lee of investigation with black perfdy
b abandoning the Inflated ship Azor
n the coast of Africa.
An exchange tells us that asingle firm
b Sheffield, England, has ordered 900,
100 rakes. Haven't they got enough of
heir own in that country, with the
Prince OF Wales at home?
BALD mountain, North Carolina, has
lroken out again, and has got it bad.
sort of metamorphic hernia has man
Tested itself under the left shoulder, and
here is a new cave 400 feet long.
In the consolidation of the business
In the Union Pacific and Kansas Pa
Fife the purchasing agents of both
pads will be Mr.. Clarke of Omaha, now
he purchasing agent of the Northern
tactic.
RATHER rough James McElroy who
licked the pockets of Mrs. Isabel, in
4 {ew York, and only secured five cents
Ps beeh sent to the penitentiary for
20 years. Pickpockets read and be
lmonished.
THE famine in China is calamity
lore terrible in its extent than that
Ihich devastated India q couple OF
ars ago. Vast provinces containing
pt less 100000 square miles are involv.
\ in suffering.
Now comes the report of sign in the
Pavens. At Parkersburg, West Virgin
a few days since, a plowman, who
bs witnesses to confirm his statement
bys he saw a white horse swimming il
be clear blue sky.
KEARNEY hastens East to revolution
be Pennsylvania and New England
tearney should have waited till the Cali
,brnia returns came in. His Pacific
kope contract does not appear to b,
\ sAte complete.
A LA CROSSE Fourth of July orato,
Iok occasion to denounce the selection
the eagle as an emblem of American
dependence, and allthat sort of thing
unmeasured terms. He declared i,
lyor of the mule.
The complacent editor of tho Globe
lemocrat, after wiping the perspiratiol
lom his classic brow and gently lower
lg his thermometer into the water
oler, indites a paragraph upon est
Iouis as q summer resort"
1T has been noticed that in doubl
hgedies, the first person is general,
He'd as dead as q herring, while th
cond only wounds himself desperately
d recovers. 1t might be a good ide
q the principal actor to kill himsel
kst.
The Chicago Times asserted tha
General o. o. Howard was not o saf
brson to entrust with an importan
! bmmand. About the time that pro
I Iund opinion was going through tn
tese Cnneral Howard waa choetiein,