Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-07-31
GLEANINGS.

II Newspapers are tne Hef0u"h0 o'''
statesmen.
Lowell, Mass, has sent colony to
Tennessee.
Cuban ladies still trim their dresses with
living firefies.
A halibut weighing 425 pounds was
, caught the other day at Cape Cod.
The American Bible Society has distrib-
uted &c, ,226 copies Of the scriptures in Tex
as.
J. H. Haverly will take his Chicago
church choir "Pinafore" company to New
York.
There is fancy for wearing plain skirts
of rich material with noticeably short over
skirts.
A shark ten feet long was caught re-
Gently at Greenville, Hudson county, New
Jersey.
, Harry Crisp will be the leading man
Augustin Daly's Broadway theater, next
season.
Miss Emma Howson, the original
Josephine, has arrived in New York from
London.
Laura Alberta will take the road with
good company, appearing in new play,
"Fifne. ,"
Miss Anna L. Dickinson will appear on
the stage again this fall, beginning at San
Francisco.
Kellogg's Aida has made hit in Lon
don. The newspapers speak highly of her
performance,
Dickie Lingard's s husband, Mr.. Dalzell,
has run away from her. He Lingard too
long as it was.
Won Bulows piano recitals are promi
nent feature in the many concerts Of this
London season.
Jean Burnside will start next season in
her own play Sweet Home, beginning
early in August.
Four students have been expelled from
the Normal school in Millersville, Penn,
for playing cards.
The census of 1880 promises to be the
most perfect compendium Of popular sta
tistics ever issued.
A queer old cave has been discovered in
the mountain side near Lewisburg, Oppo-
site Poughkeepsie.
Sashes are revived. They are sewed in
the side body seams in the back, and tied
in large bow-knot.
Rose Lisle has written new play, which
she will produce next season, called 1.-The
Tight-rope Dancer
Basques for the streets and for travelling
are long, and have real vests or false vests
outlined by trimming.
On Miss Nelson's return to the Ameri-
can stage she will act almost exclusively IN
the plays of Shakespeare.
Mrs. Zelda Seguin will not be the prima
donna of Maretzek's opera company. She
goes with Emma Abbott.
Great Britain produces three times as
much iron and nearly three times as much
coal as the United States.
There is a movement to make plain
sewing regular branch of the public
school education in Syracuse.
An entirely new apron overskirt is
sharply pointed in the center, and shirred
at intervals across the breath
The Toronto papers attribute the decline
| in the Canadian revenue largely TO the
smuggling of American goods across the
line.
The overskirt most liked for woolen and
wash dresses has deep apron front,
simply hemmed and long draped
back.
Louis James will be leading man of the
Bankers Daughter" combination. Heis
an excellent actor of the new emotional
school.
Miss Efiie Wilton, leading actress
from San Francisco, will take Linda
Leitzs place as juvenile lady at the Union
Square.
Boucicault swears to a New York
Graphic reporter that he!has thorough
ly original work" for his opening at
Booths.
Black satin jackets without sleeves, and
having scarf of China Grape draped
around the shoulders, are shown for sum-
mer wear.
Sleeves are now made to fit the arm
tightly, the latest styles showing the arm
above the elbow fitted as tightly as the
waist or shoulders.
The Canadian fisheries officers are strict in
enforcing provisions of the fisheries treaty,
which are strained to apply to American
vessels fishing within three miles of shore.
Cream-white muslin scarfs are twisted
around the corners of some round hats, and
allowed to hang at the back. When need
ed, the floating ends are drawn over the
face as walls.
When the fiat basques of last season are
to bo renovated, full effect is sometimes
given them by putting on panier sashes of
wide ribbon, or of satin, or bias silk, or
China Grape.
Prominent business men and tax payers
of Wilmington, Del, have signed paper
denouncing the practice of the city council
of contracting floating debt without au-
thority of law.
A Michigan lady wants to know whether
or not it is honorable for young man to
stand idly by and watch girl pass out Of
her teens into the twenties and so on down
to the shade side Of forty still bearing her
maiden me.
A French woman, who made a fortune
by keeping shop under the Empire, has
had her yacht and her cottage painted
black, has changed all her furniture for
ebony, and proposes to mourn for the prince
imperial the rest of her life.
Rapid progress has been made towards
the completion OF the historic Hotel de
Vile in Paris, and it is believed that early
in 1881 the municipal council and the vari-
ous bureaus will be able again to take pos
session Of their old abiding place.
A man is said to be young, even in this
country, where we live preternaturally fast,
up to IS or 40, to be middle-aged from 40
to 50, and not to be positively old, if he be
of sound health and well preserved, antil
he shall have reached go or thereabout.
In nearly thirty years of experimenting
and careful culture Mr.. Bull, at Concord,
has raised $4,000 seedlings Of grapes, from
which he has saved twenty-five vines worth
keeping, and he has descendent Of the
Concord which ripens as early as the 25th
Of August.
The philanthropists Of Boston will give
eight free excursions this season, for the
benefit of poor children. Eight years ago
the cost for each child was SIPS, but ex-
perience has enabled the managers 10 cut
this amount down to 33 cents, without
abridging the pleasure Of the children.
The strangest feature, observes the Lon
don Telegraph, in the history Of the cat-o'-
nine-tails is that no antiquary has been
able TO tell with precision when the imple-
ment of torment was invented, whence it
came, or, if foreign importation, at what
neriod II was introduced into England