Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Rather set than follow examples.

Teams loaded with wheat hill the streets
OF Walla, W. T. daily.
The Montana Territorial Fair has
capital stock Of $25, 900.
A railroad tunnel through Ration Noun
tain, Arizona, is finished.
Of late wild beasts have appeared IN
unusual numbers in Russia.
Eight million dollars is the amount Of
North Cardinals State debt.
The New Haven manufacturers cannot
get hands enongh to do their work.
The Harvard College woman's tanner"
starts off with very favorable prospects.
Cigar manufacturing is becoming one
of the leading industries of Springfield.
The expenditure of the London School
: Board this year Is estimated at $3,00O,-
l000.
A man on Upper Lynx creek Arizona,
one day last week picked up $50 mug
get.
Eight thousand FIVE hundred railroad
ties are being brought into Arizona
daily.
A New Jersey veteran committed sui
eide with $500 arrears of pension IN his
pocket.
A valuable discovery of gypsum has
been found in Squak valley, Washington
Territory.
Two thousand and twenty-four persons
patronized the public baths of Brooklyn
last week.
A London hansome cab made its ap-
pearance in Victoria, British Columbia
last week.
The town of Prescott, A. T., has adopt
ed the Holly system of water works with
notifications.
The rinderpest is rayaging Russian
Poland, and Germany is taking precau-
tiOns against it.
Nero. Pompey and Cesar are common
names for dogs, but wouldn't Agrippa be
more Appropriated
A national conference of men interested
in the negro exodus has been called to
meet in Philadelphia
1t is estimat ed that American travellers
have expended in foreign travel the past
Summer $l7,O00,00O.
Good miners experience no trouble in
procuring work in Utah. Wages are
$3.50 per day, and board 81 per day.
In the cotton States negroes are paid
| from $40 to $l2 month, with rations of
four pounds of bacon and peck Of meal
per week.
A firm of linen manufacturers from
Guiliord, Ireland has purchased the linen
mills at Greenwich, Washington county,
New York.
In the opinion of the alta California
the general expenses of bushes are nearly
as high now in San Francisco us they
were in 1864.
Shippers of goods to Canada complain
that the customs authorities there are in
terpreting the new tariff with unneces-
sary harshness.
At Cincinnati the manufacturers say
| that they are employing extra hands and
running their machinery to its full capac-
| ty, and are still unable to meet all their
orders.
1t is announced that capitalists in ST.
Louis are preparing to build railroad
| from San Antonio, Tex, to Lerado, on
the border of Mexico, thence to the City
of Mexico.
The worse case of selfshness on record
is that of a youth who complained be-
cause his mother put a larger mustard
plaster on his younger brother than she
did on him.
A precocious youth, prompted by an
unpleasant recollection of the last term,
says that school-teachers are like dogs,
because they lick your hand" This car
ries off the palm.
Visitors to the woods will find very soon
the glories of the white birch, theItrembling
aspen the dogwood and the witch hazel,
which blossoms in the fall and makes its
presence known IN the thickest woods by
its perfume.
Down on the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore road, Just below Ridley
Park, and standing isolated in field, is
dark green, shapely cedar. 0ne-half of
the tree is green but the other half, by al
most exact division, glows with Virginia
creeper-like red sunset. 1t is curiosity.
On Wednesday last a man employed by
Mr.. John Peterson, of Junction township,
in digging a well, died from the effects Of
what is commonly known as damp" 1t
seems that he had set some hay on FIRE
and thrown it in the well, for the pur-
pese of testing the matter, and that he
then went down, thinking all was
right.
Little Billy has been taken to see his
old uncle, who is so deaf that he cannot
hear a single word without recourse to
his ear-trumpet. Billy watched the move
ment of this instrument for some time
with great interest," and then exclaims:
Mamma, what does uncle try all the
time to play the horn with his ear for,
when he can't make it go?"
Ethel a very little girl, is sent to one of
the schools where words and their mean
ings are taught by descriptions of common
objects and by the application of terms to
things which the pupils may see. W hen
she came home the first day she examined
her baby brother critically as he lay in his
cradle, and said, "Mother, Fred's oblong
and horizontal, amt he?"
Here is recipe said to be good'for pre-
serving tinted leaves: Spread the fresh
leaves and piess them into suitable dish
with alternate layers of fine sand, which
is thoroughly dry and as hot as the hand
can bear. When the sand has cooled they
may be removed, smoothed under hot
iron, dipped for moment into French
spirit varnish, and allowed to dry in the
air.
Virginia creeper is now in its glory.
Within the last two weeks it has been
transferred into pillar of Extraordinarily
burning, unconsumed. When seen at
morning through the mist, it is suggest
i've of fire altar in the woods. It burns
along the hillsides in clear sight, mile
or more away. As one nears it the bril-
liancy departs somewhat, and if one
should search for a perfect leaf there
would be trouble in finding it. Little
blotches are not seen from distance.
Official reports TO the State superintend-
ent Of public schools from thirty counties
in Kansas show an increase Of 15,492 in
our school population over the number re.
ported from the same counties last year.
The State now has over 100000 school
children between the ages Of and 81
years. On the basis of three persons to
one child Of school age, the State has
population of over 5000, an increase Of
10000 during the year. Shawnee is the
second county and Topeka the second city
in population. Leavenworth still main
tains the lead, with Atchison and Douglas
following close TO Shawnee for the third
and fourth places Shawnee efood fnurfh