Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-30
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Down with whisky" is the ralying cry
of the Prohibitonists.
| Norway has become a great resort for
rich English people.
The Emperor of China announces the
discovery Of perpetual motion.
More than one opera singer could i'm
prove his voice by peddling charcoal.
| Ex-EmpresS Carlotta's health is excel.
lent, although her mind Is still dimmed
Poets sigh the sorrows of all seasons,
but mostly the complaints of summer
The leading club in the country is the
one which knocked the chestnuts down.
Mdlle Bernhardt may give performances
at Madrid on the occasion of King Alton
zo's marriage.
The height of fashion and the height of
folly reach to about the same altitude,
says the Philosopher.
Professionally speaking, Courtney is in
a hole, much bigger than that sawed in
the bottom of his boat.
The country boy who wanted to be
druggist determined toshoot the farm and
become pharmashootist
Wendell Philips is getting along in
years. He is now sixty-eight. So the
Bostonians have begun calling him "Un.
cle."
Mr.. Edison, it is reported, is preparing
to light the Cheney silk works and the
village at South Manchester by electric
| ity.
The Rothschilds are going to give
100000 francs to the fund for prosrcut-
ing the experiments for constructing the
Channel Tunnel.
Charles Reade is getting so deaf that it
is almost impossible TO converse with him.
Perhaps that is the reason he is so cross
nowadays.
"a Detroit restaurant keeper hangs out
n sign Of Free Chops and when the
old loaters come around he shows them an
AK and a woodplle.
Conscience impelled somebody to send
81, 500 anonymously ly to Isaac G. Jenkins,
Syracuse merchant, with the words, 81
robbed you of this years ago"
A Paris urchin recently tossed lighted
cigarette into a cask petroleum and then
put his eye to the bung hole to watch the
effect. 1t was his last experiment.
Ben Love- a circus acrobat, stood on his
head for two hours, in a Texas bar-room,
on wager, and the feat brought on brain
fever, from which he died.
The Sultan of Zanzibar is civilized
enough to give dinner parties in Euro
pean fashion, with music from an excellent
band, decorated bills of fare, and all sorts
Of luxuues.
The throngs that flock to the New York
Grand Opera House to witness the person.
alton of Rip Van Winkle by Mr.. jefferson
are among the largest that ever filled that
theater.
Philadelphia calls it cruelty to children
and arrests those who send boys out to
play harps and fddles. Better call it
cruelty to the public, and arrest the boys
themselves.
One OF the greatest orators in China is
now addressing the people and taking up
contributions for supplying America, and
especially California, with Chinese bibles
and the way to salvation.
A colored political preacher once told
his hearer that 'pubicans" were frequent
ly mentioned in the New Testament but
de hull Bible" he added from one lid to.
thother, don't say Dimicrat wunst!'
IN San Antonio, Texas, Cassamims
Jabonowski has taken the preliminary
steps to become citizen. He was for
sixteen years an exile in Siberia where he
contracted the lochjaw by pronouncmg
his own name.
Some one, who has evidently studied his
subject closely says: None but an Ameri-
can yells "Whoop!" when he feels good,
or we might suggest "Hi-hi!" when he
feels better, and "Tigar!" when he feels
bully.
Miss Helen Taylor, the step daughter of
John Stuart MILL has been Il member of
the London School Board for three years,
and the Radicals of the Southwark Divis-
ion propose to re-elect her, and with her
Mrs, Lucas, John Bright's sister.
1t Is related that Mr. Leonard Jerome,
upon the occasion of his first visit to
Rome, was shown the Coliseum, and was
told that it was the most magnificent ruin
in the world. "You should have seen the
Pacific Mail, " he replied, with a groan, TO
his astonished interlocutor.
Instead of bridesmaids fashion pre-.
scribes two tiny pages. who are chosen
from the prettiest OF the boy relatives.
These are dressed in velvet of the brides
favorite color, made in the style of court
dress. They perform the usual role of the
bridesmaid, carry the BRIDES bouquet and
gloves, and in addition meet and assist
her from and to the carriage steps.
Some of the especially fashionable col.
ors are: Niniche, new cherry red
vieux, deep blackish red; canaque, and
very dark blue green; Admiral Blue,
10 cl Ia NJ nf Gtr Ia,
douanier, military or Napoleon blue;
antruche, the natural color Of the ostrich;
pivolne, peony, and feutre, or felt color,
A party of autumn soioumers at Cam
andaigua Lake went boat riding the other
evening, there being among them young
lady who delighted in toying with the
water. Her hand was hanging alonside the
boat, Just under the surface, when she
felt it closed upon by the jaws of fish.
Startled by the pain the hand was ierked
so quickly from the water that the fish
was landed in the boat. The tempting
bait was lacerated badly.
The English Queen, in exhorting Eng
lish ladies to q more thorough knowledge
of housekeeping, says of Americans: "No
one can deny that, as q rule, they are
pleasant to the eye, and certainly do not
usually sin in the way of neglecting their
personal adornment, or in taking their
full share in the pleasures and daintinesses
of their life; yet, when the necessity
arises, we have the warrant of those who
have travelled and lived in America for
believing that they can hold their own as
useful members of the households Of
which they are alse the ornaments"
OF the late William NJ. Hunt, charac-
teristic little story is told by Boston cor
of the Art Amateur. A young
critic one day rashly ventured to suggest
that NJ. Millet, Mr.. Hunts venerated
friend, "missed it" in not choosing now
and then more elevated subjects for his
pictures than the coarse French clodhop-
pers he loved to paint. "My God! man,
what is nobler than man wrestling and
wringing his bread from the stubborn soil
by the sweat of his brow and the break
OF his back for his wife and childrenP"
cried Hunt, with dilated eyes and quiver-
ing fist raised above his head as il to strike