Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1879-11-13
GLEANINGS.

| lllS hGtSOu,
japanese ladies wear their hats only
when 1t rains.
The first New York steam pilot boat is
being fitted out.
Georgias gold mines yield over mil
lion dollars year.
The Crown Prince of Prussia was as
years old October Is.
| Works for smelling copper are being
erected in Butte, NJ. I.
The road agents are busy in the Mussel
Shell country, Montana.
The two Misses Longiellow are among
the lady students at Harvard.
Oranges and lemons from Australia are
novelty in the London Market.
Alfales Young, son of the late Brig
ham Young, is studying law in Paris.
Yale College recently defeated the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania at football.
An election in New Yrok costs $l50,000
in expenses drawn from the county treas
ury.
Petroleum is successfully used as fuel
for locomotives. on the Lake Shore Rail-
road.
The wedding Of King Alfonso has been
postponed from November 2S, to DeCem'
ber |.
The name of the demon of the neither
world, says the New York Hcriad, is Fire
Damp.
The Cincinnati Commercial calls Robert
lngersoll the top drawer of the lecture
bureau.
The Illicit distlIler down South thinks
it is the early revenue officer who catches
the worm.
Baron Haymcrle, the new Austrian Pre-
mier, is n finished scholar in the Turkish
language.
The largest individual tax paid in Port
land, Me-, is $3l ,2G5. Mr.. John B. Brown
is the individual.
The "sweet singer OF Michigan" has so
completely subsided that it is thought she
must be democrat.
San Antonio, Tex, has a ilourishing
woolen mill which turns ont cashmere
cloths at low prices
The American $50 gold piece has sue
ceeded the English sovereign az the gold
standard of the world.
Fine grapes have been grown this
year near Columbia, Klickltat county,
Washington Territory.
Mrs. Thomas Hicks-Lord has returned
from Geneva to London, and is again the
dashing widow-belle as ofold.
Disease is often the cause of longevity.
1t necessitates caution which acts rs a
guard on the life of the invalid.
Senator Morton, has been dead two
| vaoru aud tho Ipltopupnltc Sauy;usI pnllc
on Indiana toput up a monument.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris will sail for
this country to join her father and mother
when they arrive in Washington.
Gold has been found in the mountains
on the Mulan road, about elghty-ive
miles east Of Spokane Falls, w. I.
The Free Press makes the boast THAI
Detroit women can run faster to catch
car than any other women in the land.
The Chinese are invading the Sandwich
Islands. Over 1000 Cinnamon arrived at
Honolulu in the second half of last year.
There are $4,000 deaf nrutes in the
United States and fifty places of worship
where services are conducted in the sign
language.
The Prussian Government has annOunc-
ed its determination to secure legislation
authorizing the purchase Of tie railroads
by the State.
Colonel lngersoll says he receives on an
average of one iIl.written, ungrammati-
cal postal card day, challenging him to
discuss religion.
Prawns, fish of the shrimp species,
resembling the latter in size and taste,
we're caught for the first time in Seattle
Bay, W. l., recently.
While on the Grant excursion to Oregon
Senator Sharon discovered large, fertile,
but neglected farm of his own, the pos
session of which he had entirely forgot
ten.
In recent sermon, Mr.. Moody, the re-
vivalist, praised IN aged colored woman
for jumping at stone wall under the de-
luson that the Lord had commanded her
to jump through it.
1t is becoming fashion in Europe 10
travel in private railroad cars. The
Baroness n de Rothschlld owns one that
cost $4,000, and the Countess Potocka,
has ordered one at $4,000.
The itch is known as common COM
plaint among the royalty. This disease,
which was known in early times as the
Scotus violinscratchus, or Scotch fiddle, is
claimed to be of Celtic origin.
Miss Caledonia Linton, Texas, residing
on Cottonwood creek, while walking in the
woods, met large alligator. Sh' ;ota
rope and tied it around the ..or's
neck, and dragged it two miles ..Jme.
Miss Beatrice Trollope, the neice of Mr..
Anthony Trollope, is engaged to marry
Mr.. Charles Stewart Worthy, younger son
of Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley, for
merly Recorder of London and Solicitor
| General.
, A cheap and simple piece of machinery
has Just been invented, and is IN operation
, at Westchester, S. (which spins seed into
thread. 1t is claimed that this invention
will add 100 per cent ~ the profit OF the
Y planter,
General Sherman will bring his two
, daughters with him when he comes to
. Chicago TO attend to the reunion OF the
/ Army of the Tennessee. Mrs. Sherman
never goes out, but the general is careful
to see that the girls have a good time.
At Pittsburg, Pa, a young man recently
b. arrived at q boarding house and told the
: landady he wanted to be married. She
: sent out and told the girls in the neigh
4 borhood, and they came in to beconsldered.
: He chose the eleventh who presented her
& self-a respectable young. woman-and
r they were married. Two days later she
: learned he had wife already.
: Iceland is progressing famously under
the liberal constitution granted by King
y Christian FIVE years ago, and will elect its
e new parliament, the second, next year.
!, Though taxation is light, there is grow
b ing surplus in the treasury. Compulsory
d education has been introduced and re-
!, ceives popular support, and convenient
roads are building throughout the island.
San Francisco is probably the most cos
mopolitan city in the United States. An
"a English traveller lately visiting there
g writes 81 had my boots blacked by an Afri.
u can, my chin shaved by an European, and
d my bed made an Asiatlc; Frenchman
Vt cooked my dinner, and an Englishman
a showed me my seat, an lrishman changed
y y my plate, Chinaman washed my table
y napkin, and German handed me my