Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-11-25
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{ 100000 tons
5 The man who digs hundred feet
b. into the ground for water gets a long
4 well.
l Connecticut Yankees are making oil
l barrels out of paper, and the same
material will be used for tobacco and
sugar barrels.
A definition: "Bob, what's steam?"
Boiling water That's right-com-
= = pare it, positive boil, comparative.
boiler, superlatiye burst"
Sara Bernhardt intends to reappear
, in Paris directly after her return from
r America. She has signed a three-years
, engagement with the Vaudeville.
If thecOllar or cuff be too stiff to but
/ ton easily press the finger Il little damp
ened with water to the button-hole, and
{ you will have no further trouble.
l The greatest lover of the human race
, is Il Toledo man. When he Slips down
| he prefers to have a crowd see him, So
. they can have the fun of laughing.
e The average age of hog is only fif-
teen years. This always consoles us
| when we see man spreading himself
out over four seats in railway car.
The car has become so nervous
that the sound of Il wash boiler falling
down stairs at midnight will raise him
ont of bed before it strikes the third
stair.
The largest and most elegant resi-
dence in the Connecticut valley has
Just been completed ri Leeds. Mass,
for Lucius Dimock, Of the COrticelli
silk mills,
Don't speak all at once girls. His
Serene IIighneSs Prince Herman Eu-
gene Adolph Bernhard Granz Ferdin-
and August Won Sayneyittcnstein
IIohcnsten is looking for a wife.
Miss Longrellow has been placed in
charge of the library at Mount Vernon
by the association of ladies who control
the home of Washington. The library
is called the Massachusetts room.
In arranging flowers do not put too
many in one vase nor too many cOlOrs
in one bouquet Follow the natural
arrangement. Decided colors need to
he seen in an abundance of foliage.
The new incumbent of the chair of
Latin at Yale college, Prof. Tracy Peck.
wants the Roman system Of pronounce
ing Latin adopted there. and it will
probably be done, beginning with the
next class.
\ Washington paper says that "tea
parties will he in vogue this winter,
after the style of the Martha Washing
ton tea parties" Of an earlier day, the
formcri INVOLVING entertainments suchas
Mrs. Hayes example is rendering fash.
ionabe
ado YOU want to kill the child" eN-
claimed gentleman as he saw a boy
tip the baby out of its carriage ON the
walk. NO, not quite" replied the
boy: "but if | can get him to bawl
loud enough, mother will take care of
him while 90 and wade in the ditch
with Johnny Bracer'
"Mabrls waiting in the g,oaming
For her lover Young and fair,
Gently to herself ntoning
Words Of love, and hope and prayer.
| He is sitting by table.
| On his face sits grim despair
| Mabel's lover has been going
'Gainst three queens with two small pair"
4 doctor in Scotland made Il nerve
and bone all-healng salve, and thought
he would experiment Il little with it.
He at first cut off his dogs tail, and ap-
piled some of the Salve TO the stump. \
new tail grew out Immediately. He
then applied some to the tail which he
cut off, and new dog grew out. He
did not know which dog was which.
A Berlin manufacturer is making a
horse shoe of iron and hemp that is re-
ceiving considerable favor among the
Germans. The shoe is of malleable
iron carrying a deep, wide groove, into
which tarred hemp rope is firmly
wedged. The rope is so thick that it
protrudes beyond the rim of the iron.
The shoe is very light, and is said to he
servceable.
An old California prospector is of
the opinion that the North pole is Il
solid mass of gold. He says it cannot
he otherwise, for the reason that all
gold-bearing true iissure veins, in all
parts of the world, run in the direction
of the North pole, Just like the paral-
lels of longitude, and that, like these,
all the gold veins must come together
at the pole and end in golden knob.
1t is not so very long since a lady
living on Galveston avenue rushed into
the house of one of the most fashion
able families, and said to the lady of
the house: 81 have just heard that
your son has been doing something
dreadful" "Mercifu heavens! what is
it?' "IIe is accused of forging check
"Oh, is that all? How you scared me-
was afraid that he had been eating
peas with his knife"
Mrs. Howe the head of the Boston
bank fraud, is short, fat, ugly-looking
woman, coarse in speech and cloud in
the matter of dress and jewelry. Her
cashier" Susan Crandall, is described
as being about thirty years of age, thin,
spare, and exceedingly homely, but
SHARP" as steel. She was formerly
employed by Mrs. Howe as a servant in
the household. Mrs. Gould, the assist
ant cashier, appears to have been a
mere employe
The daughter of an official in high life
in Vienna recently wore several times
superb dress of dark-green material,
with wreaths of leaves in an
other and lighter shade of green. Dur
ing the season the beautiful complexion
of the young lady underwent sudden
change, and was ruined by painful
and offensive eruption. After time
her physician, baflled by the symptoms,
thought of the dress, had it subjectedto to
a chemical examination, and found
enough arsenic in the coloring to pro-
duce all the mischief and a great deal
more.
1t is announced that the ex-Empress
Eugenia has just bought the Farnbor-
ough Hill estate, in Hampshire, close
to the borders of the county of Surrey,
for phO 000 The estate was the nron-