Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-09-11
GLEANINGS.

c I'd of October.
t The question in Rhode Island is: Where
i is Mrs. Sprague?
y Mr.. G. P. A. Healy, the veteran Ameri-
i can artist in Paris, is on his way to this
n country
n 1t is reported that Louis j. Jennings will
= superscde Whitelaw Reid on the New York
' Tribune.
S Lorne and Louise were received at Que
e bee on their return with every demonstra-
ton of JOY.
, NJ. Gambetta is suffering from severe in
, hammation Of the eye, and his friends are
! very anxious about him.
g Rev. George Macdonald talks of visiting
this country again next winter. If he
4 comes he will bring his family with him.
, superintendent Frederick Ward, of To-
kio, Japan, manager of the imperial gov
emment telegraph, is in Portsmouth, N. II.
Mary, youngest daughter of Judge Levi
t ITubbell, of Milwaukee, died the other
day while on hor way to Colorado for her
health.
William II. Vanderbilt controls $500
: miles of railway. and employs q, 7,7O6 men,
who receive some $l,l7S,00O salary each
month.
Colonel Bob Ingersoll, who has been
credited with an intention of leaving the
Republican party, says he is as good a stall
wart as ever.
David Fitzgerald, clerk in the war de-
partment, has been appointed Librarian OF
that department, in place OF Il. ID. lnger-
soil, deceased.
Hon. Frederick Douglass is to deliver an
address at Cumberland, Md, on Septem-
Der %, when the colored citizens will cele-
brate Emancipation Day.
Herr Krupp, the gunmaker, has white
hair and beard, high forehead, bright
eyes, striklngly intellectual expression,
and a commanding presence.
Lieutenant General Valentine Baker
Pasha is likely to be nominated by the Ut.
toman government to an important civil
and military position in kurdistan.
Dr. Schhemann thinks that he may
come to America to reside permanently
after he shall have finished his excavations.
His property is almost all in Indiana.
Professor Edison is at the United States
hotel, Saratoga. He ptonounces the cleo
tric lights at the Grand Union the most
perfect and the most effective he has yet
seen.
The New Orleans Picayune is authority
for the statement that David Davis is very
fond of resting in hammock, which, for
safety, must always be placed on the
ground.
Texas. under the new census, will-ex-
Governor Hubbard, of that State, thinks
run up to 100000 in population. 1t
should, he believes, have twenty-five mem
bers of Congress.
OfMr. ]. C. Flood, brother fnancier
says that he sis an originator, u thinker,
man of ideas and suggestions; brainy,
alert, cool, but decisive, and sometimes al
most audacious.
Mr.. Beecher thinks the southern people
are behaving better now than at any time
since the war. When the present genera
ton, he says, has passed away there will
be no further trouble.
JAY Gould says that he has not the
slightest interest, present or prospective,
in the Erie railroad As to the Panama
canal he thinks there is not sufficient COM
merce to support such scheme.
Professor Parker, of the Massachusetts
Agricultural college, has been nominated
to the newly.endowed chair of natural his
tory in Grnnel college, Iowa, and will
enter upon his duties in October.
Wilhelmi and his party have had great
success in their series Of concerts at Sara
toga. The company embraces Mrs. Julia
Rive-King, Miss Gertrude Franklin, Mr.
Ch. Fritsch, Mr.. Stoddard and Mr. Vog-
rich.
One William Ulmer has fallen heir to
an estate in France worth 100000 by the
death of his father in Paris. Ulmer at one
time was barkeeper at the Lookout house,
in Cincinnati, but his whereabouts are now
unknown.
The Hon. Edwards Penepont, late
United States minister to the court Of st.
James, who has been spending some time
abroad, was to sail for New York on the
2Sth ultimo, on the Germanic, accompa-
MED by Mrs. Pierrepont.
The Earl of Beaconsfeld is reported to
have said, in recent talk about Glad
stone, that he liked to listen to his
speeches-he is naturally much more of an
orator than an author-but the same thing
is true of Beaconsiield in far greater de-
gree.
Miss Emma Thursby is in England, and,
according to all accounts, is running down
her own country and extolhng the native
beef.eater. As Miss Thursby made all
her money in the United States, it seems
that she is "biting the hand that fed
her."
Mr.. Henry L. Pierce is developing great
strength in the discussion now proceeding
in Massachusetts as to the successor Of
Governor Talbot. The independent voters
are well disposed toward him, and it is
known that he would receive large sec
ton of the respectable Democratic vote.
One of the largest machinists in Eng
land recently purchased valuable lnven-
ton for making railway, carriage and other
springs by machinery, but his workmen
positively refused to avail themselves Of it.
IL ended in his sending the contrivance to
Belgium, together with suitable MATERIAL
and the springs are actually made there
and returned to England.
NJ. Delboeuf has found that if person
afflicted with Daltonism (color blindnessI
looks through layer Of fuchsine in solu.
ton his infrmity disappears. A practical
application of this discovery has been
luduc ny Ms ihbSiPVoihb pSt"eNh
two glasses q thin layer Of gelatine, pre-
viously tinted with fuchsine. All difficult
ties Of color blindness are said thus to be
corrected.
The discovery of archaologic remains on
the banks of the Trubesh river in P6lta-
via, Russia, is Of great scientific interest.
A large number Of stone arrows and
knives, besides pieces of coal, bones, frag-
ments of earthenware and bronze impls-
ments, haye been dug up from beneath
the recent deposit of sand. This is the
first instance of the finding Of any remains
Of the stone and bronze periods in south
EN- Russia.
Wheat sown side by side will not mix to
form new varieties. The flowers of the
wheat are closely surrounded by the pallets
or chaff, and it is claimed that the ovarai
fertillzed by the pollen of its own flower,
before the chaff opens and liberates the
stamens. Those who originate new yari-
cites" by crossing are obliged to carefully
open the chaff before natural fertilization