Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-07-15
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slope of the Alleghenies.
An effort is being made to domesticate
pheasants in eastern Pennsylvania.
Rumor has it that Gen. Grant is going
to England soon to visit his daughter.
1t takes 100000 pounds Of chewing to-
bacco a year to supply the United States
army.
The population Of Harrisburg, Pa, is
30, ,412, an increase Of thirty-one per cent.
in ten years.
The widow of ex-President Fillmore will
pass the summer at Gettysburg Springs,
in Pennsylvania.
Color blindness will not excuse the
Spaniards for firing into schooner bear
ing the American flag.
John Burnside is the "Sugar King" Of
Louisiana. Last year he produced $685.
900 pounds of sugar and 1890 barrels Of
molasses.
Sara Bernhardt, on one Saturday re-
Gently, played twice and rehearsed once,
during which she changed her toilet nine
teen times.
The United States pension Office has
such an insufficient force of clerks that it
may take years to dispose Of the business
now on hand.
Mrs. Burnett, the novelist, will, during
the summer board at Nook Farm, near
Hartford, with the family of Mrs. Isabella
Beecher Hooker.
Prince Roland Bonaparte, it is an
nounced, is gong to marry the daughter
of the late NJ. Blanc, the famous proprie-
tor of the gaming tables at Monaco.
Two children, aged seven and three
years, were locked in house at Geneva,
N. Y, on Sunday, when they got hold OF
the kerosene can, opened the top of the
stove, and poured the oil on the FIRE. An
explosion followed, the house was set on
fire, and both children were burned so that
they have since died.
A gentleman, recently about to pay his
doctors bill, said: "Well, doctor, as my
little boy gave the measles to all my
neighbors' children, and as they were
attended by you, think you can afford
at the very least to deduct ten per cent
from the amount of my bill for the increase
OF business we gave you"
Canadian law requires the announce
ment in church of every marriage, Or a
license from the county clerk, and the
latter procedure costs about 81. The con-
sequence is that numerous couples cross
into the United States to be united. De-
troit clergymen and justices Of the peace
do great deal of this business.
Young man, don't swear. There is no
necessity for swearing outside of news
paper oflice, where it is useful in proof
reading and ipdispensably necessary in
getting forms to press. 1t has been
known, also, to materially assist the
editor In looking over the paper after it is
printed. But otherwise it is very fool
ish habit.
There was an elephant that had been
trained to play the piano with its trunk
in the show. One day a new piano was
bought for it, but no sooner had the ele-
phant touched the keys, than it burst into
a flood of tears. "What ails you, Kiouni,"
asked its keeper. The poor beast could
only point to the ivory keys. Alas! they
were made of the tusks Of his mother,
A drag, driven by an elegantly attired
lady, with trim and neatly dressed col
ored boy perched on the footman's seat
behind, was passing through the street,
when it was cspied by an old negro woman.
"Bress the Lord!" she exclaimed, raising
her hands as she spoke. "Bress de Lord!
never 'spected to see dat. Wonder what
dat young cullued gemmau pays dat young
white oman for driving dat kerridgeP
know d it come, but never 'spected to lib
to see it. Dis niga's ready to 90 way
now."
"My grandmother's tea" is the London
slang for "kettle-drums" now, the term
growing out Of an incident in the expert
ence of Mrs. Langtry, the Jersey lily"
The Prince of Wales had written that he
would call upon her the next day, but she
begged off with the excuse that her grand
mother would be in town for tea at the
time. The heir apparent did not get the
note in time, and when he called, found
the famous beauty absorbed in young
Lord Shrewsbury. The two men had
quite polite fencing of words, and, after
the Prince of Wales got home again, he
found the excuse, and, with the comment,
$50 Lord Shrewsbury is her grandmother,
ehp" started the story and phrase on their
fashionable rounds.
Animals in menagerie are very dainty
about their food. In the Philadelphia
Zoo the boss elephant eats about 100
pounds of hay in twenty-four hours. II
must be Of the best grade of timothy.
The sea-lions insist upon having twelve
to fifteen fresh mackerel apiece. Next
in point of delicate livers come the polar
bears, whose regular diet is bread soaked
in milk, with fish now and then Tor a
change. The black bears are also given
bread, 100 pounds being used daily.
Vegetables of almost every sort are fed
literally to the different ANIMALS. The
elephants are great cabbage eaters, and
the giraffes are onion eaters. Bran and
oats and corn are also literally distributed
mostly once Or twice week-among the
hay eating animals. The most delicate
and expensive feeder in the place Is the
orang-outang, which gets beef, potatoes,
bread and honey.
A good story is told Of Gen. Grant whsn
taking his early morning walk in Green
Bay, Wis, during his visit there. We
are told when near East river bridge he
met man making an effort 10 walk fast
with shockingly bad-looking home made
wooden leg. The general stopped him
and asked how he lost his leg The man
replied in the army. The general then
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