Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1880-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Dennis Kearney is lost somewhere down
East.
Nine. Gerster values her little new baby
at over 100000.
Nebraska has an area of 1896 miles,
or As, 1886, 800 acres.
The success of all writings is measured
by smiles and tears.
The hottest place on earth is Bahrin.
on the Persian Gulf.
Virginia has SIS colored schools, taught
| by 4lj colored teachers.
A bust of Tom Moore is to be put up in
Central park, New York city,
The daughter of Col. Fomey is to mar
ry a Rhode Island millionaire.
The colored Senator Bruce is the young
est member of the United States Senate
Miss Mary Anderson, says Henry Wat
terson "has the graceful step of a wild
cat"
In Pittsburg and immediate vicinity
there are seventy-iive glass making estab-
lishments.
Fashionable puppies in New York city
wear blue Chrckered ulsters trimmed with
red braid.
Sojourner Truth is still in Kansas,
where she had done much to assist the ne.
gro immigrants.
The Tay bridge was regarded as the
greatest engineering feat ever attempted
in Great Britain.
As it is leap year, perhaps it would be
well to have Susan b. Anthony bound over
to keep the peace.
Adelaide Nelson has said "tra la Lee"
to her recent husband, and is going to
marry noblcman.
Princess Louise will leave England Jam
uary %, and is expected'to arrive in OF
tawa February A or B.
Five and half millions of dollars are
spent every year by the Russian govern
ment on military schools.
Mr.. Seymourwouldn't like to epresldent
any mere than mouse would like to nib
BILE one Of his incest cheeses.
All the gold in the world would make n
pile only twenty-five feet wide, forty-ive
feet long, and twenty-five feet high.
Peter Goelet, the millionaire bachelor,
always gave as reason for not marrying
that he was too poor. He left S2j, 100000.
Brother Moody is not succeeding very
well in his fight with the devil in st. Louis.
He will tackle man OF his size next
time.
1t is leap year, and Sammy Tilden
doesn't venture out of his house, unless
armed to the teeth and accompanied by a
guard.
Feeling the loss of her useless husband,
Mrs. Scott-Siddons has taken to carrying
around with her little dog that looks
like Il mop.
An Albanian who lost hat on James
BuchGnan's election, paid the wager last
week. The returns come in very slowly
in Alabama.
No conversions are genuine without
MOodys signature, and, We Judge from re-
marks of the latter, that Dan Rice is n
spurious case.
One.third OF the gold mined goes to
wear and tear, onc-thlrd goes into circu-
latiOn, and one third into the arts and
manufactures.
The earth is 50O,OO0,000 years old, and,
as Clara Louise Kellogg was born on it,
the question Of her age is considerably
narrowed down.
The census supervisors are allotted only
$500 each, for nine months full service.
The enumerators will serve twenty-iour
days, at $4 per day.
King Humbert has been able to take n
Sleigh-ride ut home for the first time in
nne years, there having been no snow in
Italy before since ISL,
DR.. Tanner, of Minneapolis, declares
that he can live thirty days without food,
and offers to submit to test. He should
make the time 100 and go ahead.
Brigadier General Sir EVELYN Wood,
one of the commanders in the Zulu war,
by the queens desire, will accompany ex-
Empress Eugene to Zululand next month.
If fEdison's light will bum as well under
water as any where else, the Detroit Free
Press hopes there will be no longer any
necessity to feel around in the dark for
fish.
Conductor w. J. Jenney, Of the A., 7.
&, S. +. road has resigned his position
after eleven years service, to accept the
passenger agency of that road at Cincin-
natl.
A writer on fruit, in the Detroit Free
Press, says: 81 will recommend the
Duchess of Oldenberg, but when was
YOUNG planter, was partial to the Maid
ems blush.
The large iron buildingat Philadelphia,
known as the Coliseum, and brought to
there from New York during the Cen
tennial, has been sold to Boston parties,
aud will be removed to that city.
In the list of Georgia lawyers who have
received big fees, the Atlanta GA Com
stitution puts Senator Ben Hill first. He
received in one case the sum Of $l4O,OOO,
Of which 500, 900 was paid in cash.
There are large numbers of miners and
ranchmen who are preparing to enter the
northern part tthe Ute reservation in
Colorado next ring, under the belief
that it will be ined for settlement by
congress.
Kansas City Journal The ice crop has
been unusually large considering, the brief
time allotted to secure it, and the quality
is also better than we are accustomed to
in this mild climate. Patti can return
Wllll every VI uH tpuhNttehSS VI
the fancy drinks next summer.
Mr.. Robert Browning takes special
pleasure in founding his poems on facts.
The story of brave Herve Riel is a true
one; and laid carefully away in the poets
library is q little old book which he pick
ed up on Florentine stall, and which, in
It's account of an old trial, gave him the
plot of "The Ring and the Book.
Mr.. 7. Adolphus Trallope, like his BROTH
er Anthony, goes to his writing regular
y every morning and accompllshes a stat
ed task. Mr.. Willke Collins does the
same; so did Bulwer and Dickens. Mr..
Trollope laments that Thackeray didn't
and wouldn't do it; but would the great
modern master of ictien have written any
better, if he had taught himself to disre-
gard his moods and impulsesp
The entry from mans diary may show
girls of how much use it is to dress for a
man, and it may show them few other
things. Jan. Midnight. Made calls
until Z. Corrinna was magnificent in
black and yellow-something like uphol-
stery stuff Invited me to join the Om-
niverous Club. is it geological p asked.
'Artistically omniverous' she explained.
I'VE consume everything, intellectually;
physically, only cold bouillion. Ire
mendous girl is Corrina, Played afugue.
(Mem.-Find ont what a fuRue is, J"