Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-10-16
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| All EUpluDu Is III DchCOHSuclus
An oyster on the half-shell is an open
friend.
But for Col. Ingersoll, who would spur
the preachers on to duty?
Nine. Modjeska will not return to this
country until the season of lSSOSl.
An old dealer says business is just now
moving little in the furniture line.
A man out West killed his physician the
other day. 1t is generally the other way.
No one has yet seen fit to remark that
the lamp-lighter has a political position.
An Indiana Presbyterian minister has
gone on Il strike. His motto is no pay no
preach.
The man who "sat alone with his con-
science" found himself in disagreeable
company.
Because dead man is found with his
head broken, that is no sign he died Of
heart disease.
Horseshoos of silver, studded with dia-
mond nails, are among the shoe-buckles
of the season.
False hair is coming into use as an or
nament for the heads Of children at French
watering places.
The Massachusetts Medical Society has
voted to admit women to all the privileges
Of membership.
Miss Jane Stuart, daughter of Gilbert
Stuart, is living at Newport. She IS very
genial and intelligent.
Standing Bear stands on his native
American dignity, and will not come into
| the Indian reservation.
There is no use of talking, fire will
sometimes get the Deadwood on people.
This is no eternity joke.
The future Queen of Spain is waiting
for two trosseaus which are getting ready
for her at Madrid and Paris.
1t has been thought necessary to organ
ize an International Association for the
protection Of Niagara Falls.
Bismarck says that if he had not drift
ed into craftsmanship he would have
chosen to be a backwOodsman.
Mark Twain is recuperating at Quarry
Farm, the summer residence OF Theodore
w. Crane, near Elmira, N. Y.
The solid men of Boston are anxiously
inquiring how to beat Ben Butler Have
the Boston policemen no clubsr
There is n great waste Of material in
the present fashion Of ladies belts, but
they hide good deal Of the waist.
You are not the man who volunteered
to make an aerial voyage with Prof. Wise,
and you are glad of it-are you not?
An exchange speaks of science being
utilized as a detective. Why not also
use psychology as chimney sweepP
1t is said that there is a place for every
man in this world. The places, however,
have all been promised by politicians.
1t saddens the Boston Transcript man of
"Facts and Fancies" to see the dissipated
mosquitoes hanging around the bars.
James B. Taylor died in New York in
1870, worth $3,0O0,0O0. The whole
amount has been eaten up by letigation.
One of Gen. Jackson's men has just died
at the age of 106 years. He leaves an In
dian wife. That is the kind OF wife to
leaYe.
We are all made of dust, it is true, but
that does not quite justify police officer
in laying the dust by knocking man
down.
A well.known Southern poet has been
doing yellow fever in verse, and perhaps
some eminent composer will set mumps to
music.
One of the anomalies which puzzle the
most philosophic mind is, that when a
man invests in a S. silk umbrella it won't
rain for month.
Albini sang for the first time IN pub
lie since the birth Of her baby at the Here
ford festival, musical occasion of lmpor-
tanCe in England.
The Westminster Hotel in New York,
is the temporary home of Mrs Kate Clax-
ton Stevenson and her tiny, pink-haired
treasure of a baby.
He was n wise man who wrote about a
furniture store being chair-i-table insti-
tuition. because he didn't commit the deed
over his signature.
A man down South tried to kill his wife,
and an exchange speaks Of it as tutile-as
though that part Of it was utortunate;
which perhaps it was.
Gen. Sherman's third daughter, Miss
Ellie, is engaged to be married to naval
ofiicer.named Thackeray, who is a rela-
tive Of the great novelist.
Mdlle. Clotllde Loisset, circus rider,
has thrown herself away by marrying
Prince Henry Xxx, of Ruess, whom she
will be obliged to support.
The widow of Alexander Campbell, the
founder of the Campbellites of Christian
Church, is living with her son.in-law, Col.
Barcley, near Hillsboro, Ala.
Who the fair intruder is who stepped IN
and supplanted Marie Gordon's place in
the affections of her husband, Col Mulber-
ry Raymond, still remains secret.
Two living alligators about ten inches
in length were among the arrivals at the
dead letter department OF the New York
Post Office last Monday from Florida.
A paper out West gives recipe for
making tough steak tender. This is
one of those simple, unostentatious things
that puts the telephones in the shade.
The Buffalo Express insinuatingly
shrieks that the "sun never sets on Dayy
DAVIS" and it is lucky for the sun that
David Davis never gets chance to SIT on
it.
The Mammoth Cave wouldn Z make u
bad place for pedestrian contest. The
way TO do would be to get the pedestrians
inside, and then let howitzer loose on
them.
1t is not necessary for a juryman to pay
any attention to the evidence in a case.
He can make up his mind both ways when
he hears the lawyers weave a web to warp
justice.
The average rural maiden sighs as the
leaves turn red and fall from around the
front gate and leave it as exposed as q
white bear on the apex Of Greenland
pinnacle.
A Wise man may take trip in bal
loon, but wiser man will remain on terra
firma.
Moral: "Stick close to your desk and
never go up in balloon.
An exchange, in an article on astronomy,
among other things speaks Of the great
square of Pegasus. This goes to show
that Pegasus must have been politician
or he wouldnever have had great square.
In st. Paul's Church, Sheffield, three
weeks ago, a voice cried out, Il forbid the
bans Of Herbert Millinder." II was Her
bert's father, who objected because Her
bert was but seventeen and his bride fif-
teen.
Justice Miller, of the United States
Supreme Court, has rented his house in