Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-02-12
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be paid $4,000 for new picture by cele-
es brated artist.
hs One Of the comical sights of leap year
is will be a girl whispering her tale OF love
ed into the ear of deaf man.
y,l Yellow fever has appeared in several
" places in Brazil, and fears are entertained
" that it will spread to Rio Janeiro.
III Russia has decided to increase the num-
- Der of her peace and war forces, the latter
T. - by one hundred and fifty thousand men,
~ The empress of Russia ihas arrived at
a. Paris on her journey to st. Petersburg,
,e and will proceed to her destination at
. once.
# Edison is much annoyed by the adverse
Is criticisms of some scientific men. who, he
i. says, have condemned his light without
4 seeing it.
r, The interchangeable family ulster sup
es plies want long felt. In the possession
rs of young married couple 1t can be worn
f. by either party.
N An octopus embraced a diver in an Aus
e tralian river, and it was twenty minutes
D. before the man could release himself. He
is was nearly exhausted.
y The art of talking pays in Turkey; the
: sultan has five agreeable gentlemen about
:: him whose sole business it is to entertain
! him with polite and graceful conversa-
q ton.
The Prince Of Wales is about to give
a ball at which only illegally united" coup.
les will he invited, and at which husbands
. will be permitted to dance only with their
wives.
. Full fraises Of lace are worn high and
close around the throat. The lace is put
in treble box-pleats and there is long
pointed bow OF muslin and lace added to
/ this to fall low on the corsage.
There is cold weather enough on the
, line of the Central Pacific railroad. At
the mouths of the tunnels in the Sierra
Neyadas hang icicles the size of a mans
body and they endanger the lives of the
brakemen.
At noon, on the I'd, the mercury at
Mount Washington stood at 10 degrees
above zero. At9 o'clock IN the evening
| it had dropped to q below. and the wind
was blowing at the rate of ninety.nine
miles an hour.
The young women Of Philadelphia are
to have enlarged facilities for university
instruction. There are now four lecture
rooms land probably fifth will be added
in the University ofPennsylvania to which
girls are admitted.
You are my treasure, after all, " said
an old reprobate striving to placate his
wife after abusing her for an hour or two.
| oh, yes" she sarcastcally answered,
that's the reason you wish me dead so
often; you are seeking to lay up your
treasure in heaven
Speaker Randall lives in an unfashona.
BILE quarter Of Washington, on the hill two
squares from the capital, occupying
house which would not rent for mere than
$50 month. Mr.. Randall is a teetotaler,
and at his receptions and dinner parties
his friends have to put up with cold water
and temperance drinks.
Petitions are in circulation in New
York City calling the attention OF con-
gress to the rapidly growing power Of
railroad corporations and the consolida.
of all the competing roads to the Pacific
seaboard, and asking the passage of the
Reagan bill as a remedy.
Last year was the most prosperous in
the history of California, the exports in
cluding 100000 gallons of wine and
$50 600 worth of wheat, although her
her profit on the latter commodity small.
There were built on her coast l30 vessels,
and the exports Of gold and silver were
$26, 100000.
Infanticide was terribly common in the
northwest provinces of India during the
year 1850. The inspector general of
cent. to the female children born were
EillaI hpnnpf, Tho ,1an,l, 4, II
er value is placed on the boys; and, there.
fore, when food is insufficient for all, the
girls suffer most
A well-husbanded lady is now residing
In the state Of Arkansas. She is IS
years Of age, and is now living with that
courageous man who has assumed the
position OF being her fourteenth husband!
1t is said that in the hall of her house are
thirteen pegs upon each of which hangs
hat duly labeled as the property of each
of the defunct husbands. 1t must take
considerable courage ito hang up your
hat" in that hall.
Two Rhode Island amateur sportsmen
shot at a coyey Of partridges, missed the
birds and fatally wounded their horse
which they had hitched to a barn, A
sportsman" near San Francisco fred at
WndJ hC pCllSNtu W bG WIN Nut,
fatally wounded little girl, and seriously
ly wounded her elder sister, young lady
of eighteen, who were standing behind
clump of bushes. The amateur sports
man is a dangerous man to be near.
London World:-A curious character
istic oi English country life took place on
Friday, the 9th inst. The wedding of
very popular young lady of sporting pro-
clivities was so arranged as not to clash
with the hunt. At II o'clock the hounds
met at the church door, enabling the mas
ter and many others to attend the cere-
considerably. It's unnecessary to add
that the bridesmaids also wore ''pink."
The conductor of certain train en-
the Union Pacific railroad charges that
fly having alighted on one ofthe glasseso Of
the engineers spectacles, the engineer
thoughtitwas buffalo on the track ahead
and turned on the air-brake to avert a dis
aster. The engineer retorts that one
night the conductor saw what he thought
was the headlight OF an approaching loco
motive. He kept his own train waiting
a while, and then, somewhat confusedlY,
started her. 'He Is the safest man ever
ran WITH" says the engineer ''Venus is
millions of miles away, and be waited
twelve minutes on a side-track to allow
her to pass.
The Toxic Times thus describes De-
cember festival on the grounds of the EN-
peror's palace: MANY ladies were pres
ent, Japanese and ioreign-the former, it
was pleasant to note, as completely at
their ease and as keen for enjoyment as il
participating in Thames picnic-as sew
eral Of them had, doubtless, done. Some,
indeed, were actually unattended by their
husbands, aud yet the earth did not heave
with indignation nor Fuziyama roar in
eruptiye protest. The sun shone and the
trees nodded approvingly in the light
breeze, Just as il no social marvel were
manifesting itself in that antique strong
hold Of tradition and immovable
Secretary Of the navy Thompson DIS
likes TO have his authority questioned, as
the following incident proves; A navy
officer Of some prominence who felt him
self aggrieved that he had been passed
over in the selection Of DR.. Wales as sur
geon general Of the navy made person
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