Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-04-01
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much used.
The bonnet of the day and hour is the
fiat turban.
Beads of every color appear in bonnet
decorations.
All fashionable coiffures in Europe are
worn low on the neck.
Languedoc lace bids fair to precede Bre-
ton for millinery purposes.
Bridal dresses are made high in the
neck, and with elbow sleeves.
The fashion of wearing powder in the
hair for evening toilets is to be revived.
Miss Fanny Davenport, the actress, has
sent 800 to the New York Herald Irish
relief fund.
"Fifteen-ball pool" is rather fashion
able game, but the Commercial Advertiser
says it is nothing to Fifteen block fool.
The high naring Valois collar, kept IN
place with wire, is found among new
styles of neck garniture on the richest
toilets.
No one familiar with governments and
mules will be surprised to learn that
iackass is often the power behind
thrown.
Every man who has become president Of
the United States has been elected during
leap year. This is something for the
girls to wonder over.
1t is said that the fashionable spring
bonnet will contain hole on the top for
the wearer who has an itching scalp to
stick her finger through and scratch it,
Diana locks are the names Of new bangs
introduced into fashionable circles. They
are called after the arrowy goddess be-
cause they qulver whenever beau comes
round.
"lf we are to live after death, why don't
we have some certain knowledge Of lt?'
said a skeptic 10 a clergyman. why
don't you have some knowledge Of this
world before you come into itP" was the
caustic reply.
A young man in st. Louis winked at a
woman in street car. The girl, worth
half million, to whom he was engaged,
saw the wink and severed the silver cord
right away. Don't wink when there is
anything to lose.
Nebraska has risen from the yield and
area of 100000 bushels OF wheat and
corn and 351 200 acres in ISL, to nearly
50, 100000 bushels and 1861, $3.50 acres in
1879; and still less than one tenth OF the
state is under cultivation.
Children have their reticence, even to-
ward those they love. They are often ST.
lent on what they most feel-perhaps from
confused, thwarted sense that their linn
tied vocabulary cannot tell the emotions
with which their little hearts are bursting.
A Tennessee man accidentally shot
dog, and in trying to explain to the owner
| how it occurred, accidentally shot him. A
coroner thought he ought to explain how
he shot the man, but couldn't get a jury
that was willing to listen to the explana'
tionj they were kind OF shy OF him as 1t
were.
1t is said that there is but one establish
ment in this country for the manufacture
of spectacles ly machinery, and that is
located at Reading, Pa. The glasses are
not only ground by ingenious machinery
run by steam power, but the irGmes and
all the processes needed to complete the
spectaces are wrought by mechanism.
Rochester Express: what is home
without wife?" asks the Yonkers Ga
zette. 1t is the dining room in the parlor,
the coal bin in the kitchen, the clean shirt
in hiding, depot for soiled clothes,
| trysting place for divorced stockings,
smoking furnace, private pandemonium,
cavern of profane rumblings, lunatic
asylum.
Senator Blaine Is said to have been
noted in his college days for his love OF
| American history and his intimate knowl-
edge of its details. He has carried this
taste into middle age, and there is hardly
| to be found in the country another man
who can on the instant, without reference
to book or note, give so many facts and
statistics concerning political, mineral,
financial, and industrial interests Of the
country.
While toboggan party was in progress
at Rideau hall, Ottawa, Ont, recently, the
Princess Louise was standing at the top
of the slide just as young lady was about
TO take q toboggan down. The young lady
turned to the princess and ask pleasantly,
"Will you go down with mep" and was
met with prompt refusal. A few
moments later an attendant informed her
| that the princess was not accustomed to
being addressed so familiarly.
An eminent divine from New England,
travelling in Texas for his health, impair
ed by arduous clerical duties, upon
arriving at one of the towns, went in
search Of the barber's shop for repairs and
improvements. On entering an establish
ment of this kind he observed a big,
double-banelled gun leaning against the
wall. Having constitutional awe OF
fire. e-arms, he hastily asked the barber IT
the gun was loaded. A half'shaved
native, who occupied the chair, turned
round in his lather.beaten face and ex'
claimed: stranger! eff you re in an all
fred hurry, you'll find six-shooter what
is loaded in my coat-tail pocket" "
A Washington correspondent, who has
been investigating some new processes for
the manufacture Of sugar from sorghum
aud Indian corn, says: within the next
ten years, and probably within the next
FIVE years, the production Of sugar within
the limits of the United States will supply
all the demands of our fifty millions of
people, and that in this production not
only will there be gain annually IN the
wealth Of the country equal to $2O0,0OO,-
000 but even our northern border states
will become self-supporting. In other
words, from recent discoveries made and
new processes applied in the production Of
sugar from the raw material, our sugar
producing belt, from the superior profits
of the culture, will within few years en-
brace all our territory in which sorghum
or Indian corn will come to maturity.