Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-07-29
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He who would be teacher for others
must first be learner.
A ruler wields the strength OF the peo'
pie, but the schoolmaster wields the ruler.
Garfield is naturally left-handed, but he
has trained himself in the use Of his right
hand in writing.
He said her hair was dyed, and when
she Indignantly exclaimed, "Tis false!"
he said he presumed so.
When boy has gold watch presented
to him he will cheerfully travel two miles
to regulate it In the presence OF his
enemies.
A person inquiring at one Of the north
railway stations what time The 7:45 train
would start, was sharply answered, "At
quarter to eight" "Bless mel" exclaim-
ed the inquirer, "you are always changing
the time on this liue."
A Bostonan, who was nominated for
political office went to his wife and said
that before he accepted he wanted to
know whether any member of her family
had ever been engaged in any disreputa-
BILE transactions. She said, Better de-
cline"
The oil mill at Little Rock, Ark, is the
largest institution Of the kind in the world.
1t turns out daily one hundred and fifty
barrels of oil, fifty barrels Of soap stock,
and four hundred and fifty oil cakes, re-
quiring one hundred and fifty tons of cot
ton seed.
A boisterous, ill-bred fellow, in dis
pute, called his adversary mo gentle
man." 81 suppose you think yourself
oneP" was the reply. Certainly do"
answered the bully. "Then," said the
other, 81 am not offended that you don't
ink me one"
Johnny kissed me when we met
Jumping from the car he sat in;
Mrs. Grundy-you who get
Gossip in your list-put that in.
Say I'm Tomboy-say I'm mad
Say that moiesty has left me;
Ssy-but don't forget to add
Johnny kissed me!
Anatomlcally and physiologically it is
complete mistake to have the heel of the
foot raised from the ground beyond the
level of the palm of the foot. The mo-
ment the heel is raised, the plan Of the
arch is deranged and the elastic, wave
like motion of the foot impeded. The
arch always ought to have full play.
The process by which a church fair pays
church debts is thus described by Pres
byterian elder: Now, brethren, let us
get up supper and eat ourselves rich.
Buy your food. Then give it to the church.
Then go and buy it back again. Then eat
| it up, and then-your church debt is paid"
Said the mistress of Marseilles cigar
shop to a young Bohemian journalist:
"This is the sixth time you have been
here without saying a word about the
money you owe me, Monsieur What am
| to understand by it?' "Ah, madame
said the clever journalist, "when one sees
you, one forgetS everything!"
The chimney is on fire at Nine. C's-
Don't be afraid, madame; don't be
afraid" says the footman calmly to his
alarmed mistress; "there's no real dan
GER" "But yon don't know anything
about it, John, and so why do you tell
me there is no danger2" 81 know |
don't madame, but that Is to reassure
you"
An excellent instance Of the way in
which the children of the average public
school learn without learning is related
| by Barnes Educational Monthly. A
teacher in one of our public schools has
been accustomed to require her pupils to
say: "The equator is an imaginary line
passing around the earth," etc. 1t never
occurred to her that the boys and girls of
her school had no idea what an imaginary
| line meant, until one day a visitor asked
them how wide they thought the equator
was. Some thought it was 5000
miles wide, others 1000, and others said
they could jump over it. The visitor
then asked how they thought ships
got over it. One pupil said he thought
they got out and drew them over
and another said that he had read
that canal had been dug through 1t!
"What is the name of this canalP" was
asked 1.-THE Suez canal" was the an
swer.
The Medical Times and Gazette men
tions the case of young man who, while
travelling from Paris to Lyons, lit a match
by scratching it with his thumb nail, and
a piece of the incandescent phosphorus
penetrated under the nail and made a
slight burn, to which he paid no attention.
But after an hour the pain became intense,
the thumb swelled, then the hand, andnext
the forearm. He was obliged to alight at
q station on the journey and send for
mediacal man, who declared that immedi-
ate umputation Of the arm was necessary.
The patient insisted on postponing the
loperation for few hours until the arrival
of his father, for whom he had telegraph.
ed. Before the latter, however, could
reach his son it was too late; the poison
ous matter had gained the arm, then the
shoulder, and any operation became i'm
possible. He died in great agony in only
twenty-seven hours after the burn. The
case shows the danger Of handling pbos-
phorus in the manner described.
Showers of fish, such as have been re-
ported from Kokomo, Ind, and Napa,
Cal, are not unknown in history, and
there has even been showers Of rats, to say
nothing of times when it has rained cats
and dogs. In 1923, Major Forbes Mac
kenzie, of Fodderty, in Rosshirc, Scot
land, walking in his fields one day found
the ground covered with lively herring
fry, and two years afterwards similar
occurrence was noticed in the island Of
Islay, where fresh herrings in great num-
bers came down apparently from the