Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-08-19
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- There are calumnies against which even
A innocence loses courage.
G True merit is like river, the deeper it
e is the less noise it makes,
/, Industry need not wish, and he who
3, lives upon hope will die fasting.
: There are few occasions when ceremony
y may not easily he dispensed with, kind
L ness never.
+ Repentance without amendment is like
u continual pumping in ship without stop
o ping the leaks.
. 1t were better to be eaten to death with
rust than to be secured to nothing with
. perpetual motion.
The Gar shoes his horse with silver,
h and the farmers wife shoes her chickens
T.. with an old apron,
A Michigan minister al" ses the
n Lords prayer and his con, eauon COM
s plains that he has no originality.
a Quictness is often strength, silence wis
uOlu' Lt bWllG ollthul 10 uOG dlMdlh
t powerful, nor the noisy one deepest.
I Libraries are the shrines where all the
| relics of the saints, full of true virtue and
without delusion and lmposture, are pre-
served and reposed.
"a have love.letter," said the servant
girl to her mistress. "Wlll ye rade it to
me! And here is soma cotton to stuff in
yer ears while ye rade tP"
Anger may be foolish and absurd, and
one may be irritated when in the wrong,
but man never feels outraged unless in
some respect he is at the bottom right.
Look not mournfully into the past; it
comes not back again; wisely improve the
present, it is thine; go forth to meet the
shadowy future without fear, and with
manly heart.
/ One reason why LeadyIllc has no schools
is because all the schooma ans who go
there find husbands between the depot
and the hotel, and don't care whether
school keeps or not.
Good intentions are at least the seed
of good actions; and every man ought TO
SOW them, and leave it to the soil and
seasons whether they come up, or whether
he Or any other gathers the fruit.
Lfe's lessons are cut and carved on
things inanimate-seen in the leaf and
flower painted on the landscape, chanted
in the mumuring brook, heard in the
yiewlCs3 wind, revealed in passing cloud
or fitting shadow.
A Rockford girl had her corset torn off
by lightning, and was uninlured, but
young man who had called to borrow
book had his right arm shattered and
piece Of corset steel blown into his liver.
He said he didn't know she was loaded.
The group Of trees near the statue of
Achilles at Hyde Park Corner, London, is
the gathering place Of fashion. Here Mrs.
Langtry, Mrs. CORVALLIS West, and Mrs.
Wheeler, the Ucauties most in vogue, are
wont to repose beneath the shade and as,
semble round them groups Of their male
admirers and female gOssips, until each
little narrow space between the trees be-
comes as gay and animated with the lut-
tering and chattering of visitors as the
most brilliant salon in st. James.
Jim Brown was Texas desperate of
the Currie sort. He rode on horseback in
to a saloon at Cambridge amused himself
briefly by swapping tumblcrs off the bar
with his whip and then invited the COM
pany to drink with him, adding that he
would shoot whoever declined. Mr.. Daw-
son, as it happened, had lately taken
pledge of total abstinence, and positively
refused to break it. Then I've got to
kill you," said Brown, putting his hand
into his pocket; but Mr.. Dawson was quick
est to draw, and the desperado tumbled
lead from his horse, with bullet in his
brain.
In one Of his recent lectures in London,
DR.. Erasmus Wilson exhibited the photo
graph of woman IS years old and FIVE feet
i've inches high, whose tresses, when she
tood erect, enveloped her entire form in
golden veil, and trailed several inches on
he ground. The longest fbers measured
tx feet three and one half inches. Thirty
nches is the mean length for females, and
hree feet is considered very remarkable
ength. This instance is exceeded, how
yer, by two American women-one whose
lair measures seven feet six inches, and
mother, the wife of druggist in Philadel-
'hia, whose luxuriant clevelure is almost
s long, and so thick that when seated up
n a chair she can completely cover herself
With it.
A Sea-captian, who was asked by
is wife to look at some pianos while
lie was in the city with a view of buy
ng her one, wrote home to her: 81 saw
ne that | thought would suit you, black
Walnut hull, strong bulk-heads strength
ned fore and aft with iron frame, sealed
nth white wood and maple. Rigging steel
on the rat lines and whipped
,ire on the lower stays, and heavier cord
ge. Delaying pins Of steel and well driven
ONE. Length oftaffrail, overall, 6 feet
lch, Breadth of beam 3S inches, depth
fhold IA inches. Hatches can be bat
med down proof against l0-year-old boys
nd commercial drummers, Or can be
ewed up, on occasion, and sheeted
,me for a frst-class instrumental cy-
Ione."
A Santa Fe paper says: One of those
,ugh-clad, big-hearted miners, who come
ito Santa Fe occasionally to lay in a sup
Iy of grub, stepped into the postoliice
,sterday afternoon, and seeing in the
indow three letters held for postage,
cked one up, and, looking at the address,
lid in tone of great astonishment:
Why, this letter il for lady in Denver!p
Yes" said the clerk. "And you are
,lding it hereP" in tone OF greater
Itonishment. "Why, of course" answer
| the clerk, "don't you see it hasn't any
,stape paid?" In a tone of utter CON-