The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-07-11
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division.
The exact cost of the construction of the
Paris exhibition buildings and grounds is
now estimated at 45,3OO0OO francs, or $0,-
100000.
Parties in Carroll county, Iowa, have
spent $4,000 over dispute as to the bound
ary line af some land worth about $40, and
the end is not yet
A German physician hes discovered that
if one-ffth part of oil of turpentine be add
ed to chloroform, the latter can be admins
tered without danger of asphyxia.
| A Charlton, Iowa, Newfoundland dog,
whose master cut his rich coat of hair off,
the other day, is so ashamed of himself
that he went into cellar and will not
come out.
A vagrant has been imposing upon the
good people of Ackley, Iowa, by pretend
ing that he had but one arm. When al
rested and brought into court he was
found to have two.
The curious fact that the number of
peers sons who enter the university has of
late years perceptibly decreased is begin
ming to attract attention in England. The
explanation of it is not easy.
A skeleton which crumbled at thetouch,
two hundred flint arrow heads, toma-
hawk and about four pounds of brass
beads were found under large pine stump
in Alpena county, Michigan, recently.
Gen. Todleben has issued an order com.
pelling Jewish traders to quit the Russian
lines, and the Russian generals have al.
ready begun giving effect to this measure
by expelling the Jews, cattle dealers and
others.
Black Hills camps and settlements have
grown from the little Gordon stockade on
French creek, in 1874, to fifty lively min.
ing camps and agricultural communities,
scattered over a region of four thousand
square miles.
The veterans Of the late war residing in
Dubuque, Iowa, have perfected perman-
ent organization. They will erect SOL
dlers' monument, and will make arrange.
ments TO take charge of Decoration day
services hereafter.
AS a railroad train neared Elmira, lov-
ing couple told the conductor of their de-
sire TO be Immediately married. A clergy
man was found on the train, and at the
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locomotive noisily hOnored the event.
While boring well at Callahan, Hamil-
ton county, Iowa, after a depth of seven
feet had been reached the bottom suddenly
dropped out and the well filled TO within a
few feet of the top it is supposed that an
underground lake had been reached.
Mr.. r. G. Raymond, one of the most eX.
tensive and successful fruit growers in
Western Iowa. has at the present time
twelve hundred cherry trees bearing fruit.
He gives employment to about sixty per-
sons, who are busy picking the ripe fruit.
Somebody will find red hair woven into
piece of ingram carpet some of these
days. Libby Barlley, while working at a
loom in Thompsonville, Conn. let the ma
chine get hold of her long curls, and in a
twinkling they were absorbed in the car
pet.
A statement of the tax rate of the twen-
ty.eight leading cities of the United States
shows that the highest rate is that of Troy
N. Y, and the lowest that of Detroit,
Mich, the rate in Troy being 5.14 per
centum, and that of Detroit 1.24G03 per
Celtum,
Cherry rum refuse thrown into the yard
by Bangor woman, was eaten by turkeys
that apparently died from the effects. After
being plucked they were thrown into
heap on the grass. On the next morning
they were found walking around the yard
in undress.
A Boston bankruptcy case, in which the
petition was filed in 1912, and which has
Outlived the bankrupt, the assignee and
large proportion of the creditors, has been
revh ed by the coming in of a reversionary
interest, and has occupied the attention Of
the bankruptcy courts recently.
After the due course of dime novel in.
structon, Spence Webb and Buck Giraffe,
two Madison, Ind, boys started West to
hunt buffalo and scalp Indians. The pa.
ternal ancestors propose having little eX-
ercise themselves when the runaways are
Overtaken.
Brakeman c. w. Stewart, of the Chicago
and Lake Huron railroad, saw child on
the track near Flint, and leaning off from
the pilot Of the engine, lifted the little one
from the track and with il in his arms rolled
off the engine down the bank. Both were
hurt, but the heroic fellow saved the child's
life.
The compensation of postmasters of the
fourth class was fixed by the Forty.fifth
Congress at 60 per cent of the first hun
dred dollars worth of stamps cancelled at
their offices in each quarter, so per cent on
the next $500, and 40 per cent on all in ex-
cess of $400.
M. De Paula Marquee, of Marseilles,
France, has discovered a remarkable pro-
cess for preserving meat. 1t is dipped for
a few seconds in solution, and will then
keep for years. all its flavor and freshness
being restored by plunge into cold water.
The nature of the solution is not revealed,
The boys of Columbus, Ga, petitioned
the mayor of the city to allow them to go
swimming in the river. The petition was
backed by the prayer Of their mothers and
sisters. The mayor appointed three days
in the week when the privilege would be
granted, and now the boys want to support
him for reelection.
There was great joy in Bombay on the
22d ult., when the American ship Valley
Forge arrived in Bombay harbor with
1 ,573 tons of ice. She had been detained in
the Pacific byhead winds and calms, and
for several days in the hottest part of the
year no ice could be procured in the broil-
getty.
Cleveland LEADER The roll of Vassar
graduates this year sparkles with the names
Of Ohio girls. Ohio boys have taken three
out of the six principal honors at Yale. So
it goes. There is widespread and rapidly
growing demand for Ohio 10 let up for a
while, and give the rest of the country a
chance.
When the phonograph was taken before
the wise men Of the French academy they
refused to believe it other than Yankee
trick until they had sent the operator out
of the room, and set the machine parley-
voOing. When they discovered that it Yves
no Yankee trick, the grave old buffers went
wild over it.
The funeral of Gen. Anacleto R, Falcon,