The crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1877-1878, 1878-05-30
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lavender kid gloves.
Personally the Duke of Connaught is one
of the incest of the Royal Princes. lie Is
unaffected and unspoiled.
Charles Francis Adams sympathizes
with Russia, and the Massachusetts Fenl-
ans feel more kindly toward him.
Gov. Nichols, of Louisiana, has only one
arm and one leg; he is slightly built and
wiry, and has dark wavy hair
Garlbaldi has addressed circular, from
his home on the Island of Caprera, beg
ging visitors not to come to see him.
One of Bangor's Aldermen moved TO
dignity the Aldermanic chamber with
carpet" but the proposition was voted
down.
The lectures which Prof Max Muller is
delivering, under the auspices of the Hib-
bert Trustees, are to be collected and pub
lished in volume.
Gold mining is being practically devel-
oped in Georgia. The State has twenty-six
mines, operating 2G0 stamps, which aver
age 500 per stamp.
The Chinese are at length going TO mine
for coal themselves. A mandarin has
permission to use all modern appliances
for it and lay line of rail to the sea.
Col. Bob Ingersoll denies that he is a
Communist. The Colonel is just beginning
to distinguish himself as one of the grand
army of public bores.-l New York Com
merClal.
Miss Anna Boyle, the fiteen.yearold
amateur, who attracted much attention in
Washington, not long ago, by her perior-
nance of Juliet, has recently adopted the
stage as profession.
Congressman Horace Davis, of San
Francisco, has announced in the papers OF
that city that he will choose candidate
for appointment to the West Point Acade-
my by a competitive examination.
A young lady of Fairbault, Mimi, was a
saleswoman in a store, and she determined
to be independent. She was breaking
down in health and so she under the law,
took public land and started farm.
Out in Nevada young wife in Eureka
asked her husband TO take her TO the cir
Gus, but he refused and said, "I've lost four
wives already and you're the fifth, and
afore them circus fellows get here I'm
gOin' TO chain you up"
There are now comparatively few high
caste men in the native regiments OF the
British army in India, and this accounts
in some degree for their willingness to
cross the seas. Beaconsfield's experiment
would scarcely have been successful ten
vars ago.
The Russian painter Vercstchaguinc,
who.accompanied Gen. Skobeleir during
the late war, is now in Paris, occupied in
painting some of the most terrible Incl
dents of the campaign in which he took
part
The manager of circus Is turning TO
account the interest in coaching cXerted
by newspaper accounts of that diversion in
this city. He heads the procession in ev-
cry town visited with coach of the En-
glish pattern, drawn by six handsome
horses, conveying the principal perform.
ers.
The Dean of Windsor, the Hon. and
Very Rev. Gerald Wellesley, was neph-
ew of the Duke of Wellington, consequent.
ly would not be likely TO starve for lack
of preierment in the church. He is sixty
nine, and, beyond being a martyr to his
liver, has not suffered for the faith.
Mr. IIilgider went home the other night
considerably intoxicated and afflicted with
double vision. lie sat for some time with
his sleepy gaze riveted on Mrs. Hilgilder,
and then quietly remarked: "Well (hic),
| hope tholler if you two gals don't look
enuif alike to be hic) twins"
The London Lancet advises its readers
to abandon the practice of using face pow
ders, paints and washes Of every desCrip-
tion, as all applications of this class, down
to "violetpowders," may contain poison
ous materials. Some specimens yielded
on analysis 20 per cent of arsenic.
Frank N. Woolever and Mrs. Margaret
Sites were recently arrested in Grand Rap
ids, Mich, charged with adultery. Wool
ever pleaded guilty, and paid 5000 fine and
costs. Mrs. Sites stood trial, and Woolever
appeared as her witness, and swore thatshe
was innocent and the jury acquitted her,
Last week Messrs. Allen and John Camp.
bell, of Union county, Miss, poisoned
themselves fatally by eating the tubers of
mdculdtd, under the impression that it was
ginseng. They died in violent Convulsions
three hours after eating the roots.
Jonn Brown, the much.abused, though
harmless gillie of Queen Victoria, is tall,
thick.set, raw-boned Scotchman. Brown
is always armed with a card bearing the
signature, Victoria Regina, which acts as
an open sesame on all occasions, much to
the annoyance of various parties.
The Iowa trotting circuit, consisting of
Dubuque, Davenport and Cedar Rapids,
promises to be a success, $4,000 in pre-
miums being offered by the three associa-
tions. The Dubuque meeting takes place
June 4, 5 and 4 Cedar Rapids, June II, II,
13 and IA, and Davenport, Is, 10 and 90
The Point Keyes estate in California is
credited as being the largest dairy farm in
the country. 1t keeps an aggregate of
$500 COWS, whose milk is worked up by
the thirty dairies Among the items
credited to the "ranch" is $4,000 pounds of
butter, valued at $175I0O0, 1t is quite a
"cow pasture
The Governor of Connecticut is willing
to go to circus on a deadhead ticket.
Barnum gave him and members OF the
Legislature passes to "the only great show
on earth" and the Governor presented his
in person. There had been change in the
management, however, and the chief ex,
ecutive officer of State was refused free
admission.
An old woman named Keneo.na-qua
died recently on thereservation at Wyland,
Mich. The Rev. d. K Foster, an intelli.
gent Indian and one Of the head men of
the tribe, says Ke.neo.na-qua was about 100
years of age. She belonged to the last
remnant of the 0ttawas in Michigan, and
was probably at her death the Oldest In
dian in America.
Mr.. F. Wirth, of Omaha, has cane
manufactured by Mr.. S. Walker of Gen.
treville, Iowa, on which he has been at
work more than ten years. 1t is covered
with lnnumerable figures of both men and
beasts, and presents religious history of
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