Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-05-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

4. Ihere is nothing so lmprudent as excess
sive prudence.
- There is no insane asylum in Arkansas,
e as the juries In that state either call it
1t murder or justifable homicide.
d During the year 1879 100000 bushels
IT Of corn were converted INTO glucose IN the
h various factories in the United States.
e An experimental shipment of fifty bar
= rels of Spitzenberg and Rhode Island
Greening apples was lately made from San
!. Francisco to China.
i Anna Dickinson says she will never
o marry unless she can bake loaf OF bread,
and that she will never bake bread while
r she has her senses.
The cheapest church in the United States
= was recently built in Kansas, at cost Of
G SO Its walls and roof are Of sod and the
floor of earth. No mortgages.
During the recent foods in Greenvllle,
S. c., large Hocks of wild geese went into
the city, and many persons enjoyed shoot
ing them from their back piazzas.
Mrs. Van Pelt, the local editor of the
Debuqe (owa) Times, is also the baseball
editor Of that journal. Last year she re-
ported more than sixty games. She is
considered the best authority in Dubuque
on the national game.
A compound for the production of first
class farmer: One-third fact or expert
ment, one.third science and ene.third COM
mon sense, thoroughly blended, and when
applied TO be so rubbed in that the COM
pound shall form component part OF the
individual.
Cabbage. containing as it does large
per cent of phosphoric acld. makes one of
the most valuable kinds OF food for young
pigs, calves, chickens, etc. All young
ANIMALS require bOuntiful supply of
phosphate food to make bone and ms
Gle. Young clover is next in value to
cabbage.
There are 50,000000 acres Of land in
California fit for cultivation, but not over
100000 are in actual use for that pur.
pose, and not over 100000 are inclosed.
Over 20000000 acres are held by land
rings or individual monopolsts for spccu-
lative purposes, in tracts of 125. 900 to
100000 acres.
From the climbing roses on walls the
earliest blooms are usually obtained, and
if the plants are properly pruned and
trained they are almost invaluable. Lay
in strong leaders where required, but not
too thickly, and cut back the weak shoots
TO induce stronger growth. All side
shoots should be cut.in to near the main
stems.
An experienced grower writes: 81
would remind those conducting the early
forcing OF roses at the season OF the year
when mildew appears upon the plant,
that there is rothing so good and efiectual
in its destruction as soft soap. 1t should
he used every time when swinging. Boil
two pounds of soap in four gallons Of
water.
The fact that the hair of the vigorous
DeLesseps turned white, while his mus
tache and eyebrows remained black, gave
rise to the rumOr that he Used dye.
When somebody mentioned this to him be
,miled, showed his two.andthirty strong
white teeth, as firm and intact as when
he was boy at school. "Use dye?
Why, even if | wanted to, | haven't
time"
One night at the theatre Of San Carlo,
Naples, Dumas the elder found himself
chatting iamiliarly with stranger vino,
when the play was over, SAID to him pa
tronizlngly: 81 have greatly enjoyed your
conversation, sir, and hone to see more of
you. If ever you vi1it Pari, call on me.
am Alexander Dumas" 1.-THE devil you
are! So am | ~ replied the novelist, with
great laughter.
The Unalilla, NY, herdof Holsteins,
which consists OF eleven head, average
IL. .2S6 pounds of milk year, or 5 2i0
quarts. The highest yield Of any one COW
is Is, 060 pounds, Or 7, ,429 quarts, or twenty
and one third quarts per day for the whole
wear. The poorest yield OF any one COW is
s, ,3l9 pounds. or SIT quarts fer the year,
being daily average OF ten and two-thirds
quarts per day for the year. This yield of
even the poorest is remarkable average
for COW of any breed.
A poultry dealer in Staunton, Va, re-
Gently bought forty ducks from farmer
who lived forty miles from that city, and
when they were delivered he turned them
loose in his yard over night, and the next
every one Of them was gone. He
supposed that they had been stolen, but
A few days afterwards received letter
rom the farmer stating that all the ducks
rad returned to the farm from which they
mad been taken.
A bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
,hurch receives 50 900 year as salary and
$1,000 or $1,000 to pay the rental of
louse, according to whether rents are
moderate or high in the place where he is
ocated. The agents and principal editors
N worldly benefits as the bishops. There
nave been in all thirty.one bishops in the
sixteen Of whom were resi-
lpnts Of the West and South and fifteen
II the East.
When brave vOltigeur of the imperia
guard wrote from the Crimea to his father
IN Alsace, asking him to send him pair
IF strong shoes and a FIVE franc piece, the
father, bethinkipg himself of the tele-
graph speed, put the money into one Of
ihe shoes and hung the shoes upon the
wires. An i'll shod fellow coming along
soon aiterward made an exchange; and
the old man upon discovering the substi-
tuition went home to tell his wife that
their boy had not only received his new
shoes, but had returned the old ones!
A man living at Montreal obtained two
young seals, and after feeding them for
about year, they became very tame, and
would 90 into his house and stay an hour
Or two by the fire, and then go out and
take swim in the st. Lawrence, return
ing again to the house and striking their
1ippers against it to gain entrance. Fl.
nally he decided to send them of, and
gave them to a steamboat pilot to carry
'orty or fifty miles down the river, which
was done. but the next morning the seals
made their appearance again as usual.
James Card, the British agricultural
writer, declares that the English farmer
an not hope for prosperity until the sale
md transfer of land is simpli6ed and
and incumbered and unwieldy
states broken up and subdivided to form
numerous small properties. He also
ecommends the abandonment of the un-
quail competition with America in the
wheat market, and the production Of arti-
lies which will not bear long storage or
arriage, such as milk, fresh butter, early
wheat, vegetables, hay, straw, potatoes,
ugar beets, etc.
Bands Of music are forbidden TO play on
post OF the large bridges Of the world, A
CONSTANT succession Of sound.waves, espe-
tally such as come from the playing OF a
rood band, will excite the wires 10 vibra-
ion. At first the vibrations are very slight,
,ut they will increase as the sound-waves
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