Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


g rested for roasting bodies and selling
u their fat.
- A man in North Leavenworth has
II twelve milk white turkeys, which he says
G is something unusual.
0he of Keokuk's business men has
. adopted the new and novel plan of send
u ing his wife out to collect bad book-ac-
counts.
Seven hundred and ten bodies were
taken to the Paris morgue IN 1873, as
' compared with seven hundred and eight
!. cen in 1878.
e An Italian convicted at New York un.
= der the padrone act, for inveigling small
4 boys to America, has been sentenced, to
l. five years Imprisonment.
The latest thing in India shawls is an
e embroidered spine up the middle OF the
e shawl, so that it looks as though the
S wearer's backbone was showing clear
= through.
: Mr.. S. G. Gregory, of Albany, N. Y,
announces that he will have ready in six
ty days a hying-machine, with which he
g e will make trial-trip to London, Eng,
going at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
A Sun Prairie, Wis, farmer, of math-
q ematlcal turn of mind, has proved to the
! satisfaction Of the Sun Prairie Country
man, that he has walked 25,000 miles
during the last thirty years, behind the
plow on his own farm,
| Within the last thirteen months one
hundred and seventy-two bears have been
killed on a single sheep rancho in Hum
boldt county, California, and between
two hundred and fifty and three hundred
wildcats.
An intelligent Italian, familiar with
olive culture, says, that eventually the
California olive will surpass the best pro-
duced in France or Spain. 1t is now
larger and of better flavor, and yields an
oil equal to the imported article.
Yankee Fork idaho Herald: Parties
lust in off the mountains say the cold
snap split some of the largest frs wide
open, and that in many places the earth
cracked crosswise of the mineral belt,
leaving exposed numerous rich lodges OF
quartz ghttering with gold and silver.
At the Iowa Agricultural college, every
girl IN the junior class has learned how to
make good bread, weighing and measer-
ing her ingredients, mixing, kneading,
and baking, and regulating her fire. Each
has also been taught to make yeast and
biscuit, pudding, pies, and cakes OF vari-
GUS kinds.
Old iron is even coming from Russia to
the United States. A vessel left 0dess.
for New York an the Sd ult. with large
cargo of old railroad iron and rope, and it
is stated that some seventy-fve thousand
tons more of old iron were waiting TO be
shipped to this country. 1t would appear
that American dealers are ransacking the
whole world for old iron.
| Will L. Maprle, st. Louis artist, has
applied for divorce from his wife. One
of his grievances is that she sent broken
frying pan to an art show, where some Of
his pictures were on exhibition, with re-
quest that the hanging committee would
give it position as ian example of the
way in which the talented Mr.. MARBLE
provided for his family necessities"
Oregon papers say the most destructive
| forest fires in the memory of the oldest
white settler, did not cause the tenth part
of the destruction created by the late
storm. If the prostrate timber could be
utilized in any manner, either by saw
mills, or for cord-wood, there would be
less reason for sorrow, but under the cir
cumstances threefourths of it will be
total loss.
One of the most dignifed of the Mormon
bishops was lately seen running in Salt
Lake street closely pursued by woman,
who whacked HIM with Il broomstick
whenever she got within reaching dis.
tance. She was the first and only wife OF
brother Jones, and she had heard the
bishop advising her husband to practice
the precepts Of the church by taking an
additional spouse or two. Ia
Theodore Titon was 10 lecture IN 7.
sons, Kansas, and the committee was :,
the station to receive him. They stepped
up to a long.haired gentleman, and well
coined him with enthusiasm and much
ceremony. The long-haired gentleman
appeared surprised, and said: 81 don't
know what you mean by this, but | can
remove any wart or bunion in thirty
minutes, without pain, or forfeit my repu'
tation." The committee had taken a
"corn doctor" for I. 7.
The mayor of Madison, Ga, caused the
arrest, the other day, Of two emigrant
agents, who had been encouraging emf
grafton from Georgia to Mississippi. The
state law defines that emigrant agents
shall pay tax of $500 for carrying on
such business. These agents were sub
ected to trial and fined in the aggregate
$l83. Evidence showed that they had
made quite an inroad into the working
class OF the community, causing scores OF
violations of contracts between farmers
and their laborers,
A strange murder and suicide occur red
short time ago at Rossan, in Zurich. A
man whose wife had lett him owing to his
violent conduct, followed her to her
fathers house, fired right and left at the
inmates, killing the father, discharged
the remaining barrels Of his revolver at
the people who tried to arrest him, then
defending himself with pitch fork, and,
at the moment the police had succeeded
IN depriving him OF this weapon, which
was not done before he had severely
wounded several of his assailants, he
drew knife, cut his throat from ear to
ear, and fell dead on the spot.
A patent lawyer residing in Pittsburgh,
Pa, has invented and patented amachine
called the "Automatic Telephone Ex-
change" and, if it does as its owner
claims, the utility and Importance of the
telephone to the public and private SER
vice will be enhanced to the last degree.
The telephone as it now exists comprises
main or central Office which radiate
wires to all the subscribers offices. When
subscriber wants to talk to another he
must connect through the central office.
The Automatic Telephone Exchange"
remedies the delays caused thereby by
giving the subscribers themselves direct
control of the central Office switchboard
in such manner that each can from his
Office cause the other end of his line at the
central office to be placed in contact with
any other line of the exchange. This is
done at once without any delay Or the as
sistance Of an operator at the central Of.
fee. Besides, all communications are
strictly private and audible only to the
person for whom it is intended, and while
two or three are talking it will be impos-
sible for another to interrupt them in any
shape.
An Eagle In Distress.
From the X. O. Jonrnal Jan Goth.
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