Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-03-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

al Over two hundred shapes of bonncts and
10 hats are fashionable this spring.
n Snow in Honeycomb Fork, Big Cotton.
u wood, Utah, is reported forty feet deep.
!. The new style silk hat for gentlemen is
VI so narrow. brimmed that it looks as though
8 its ears were clipped.
IS Since 1869 the Pacific railroad has land
n ed 472 81 passengers in San Francisco,
and brought away 2S0,S63.
). Talmage wants the people of the United
States to contribute 81 each 10 lift the
/ mortgage of his tabernacle
/, Six young women, armed with shot
. guns, recently accompanied as many young
| men on a rabbit hunt in Georgia. N one
was hurt.
Richard Grant White is an admirer of
: violin music, and is quite aplayer himself.
He has a large collection ofaged and nota-
, bic violns.
NUMEROUS engagements to lecture
p throughout the northwest are made by the
two Chicago pulpit prinCes-Prof. Swing
and DR.. Thomas.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is on her fare
well lecture tour this season. She leaves
the field to her daughter. The mother has
amassed a competence.
As there Is a prospect that Theodore
Thomas may return to New York, the
papers Of that city tell him complacently
that they can get alongvery well without
him.
Staten Island has rare record in the
| cc D,,,I,.,It ill ln
the first white man hanged there, and the
first man hanged Of either color in nearly
a century.
A genuine fur seal, weighing about
eighty pounds, was caught in York river,
near Gloucester Point, Va, few days
ago. Such capture was never before
known there.
A Boston man claims to have discovered
a method of making paper boxes directly
from the pulp, whereby he can turn out
30 600 day at one-third of the cost of the
usual method.
Few people realize the fact that Amer
lea widens at the north until it reaches
out into the ocean so as to be within
thirty-six miles Of Asia. In severe winters
Behring'S Straits are frozen over, and an
imals frequently pass on the ice from one
country to another.
"Women," says literary journal, "live
on love-" That may all be; but we no.
tice that all that have the pleasure of our
| acquaintance linger around the table three
times day, and get on the outside Of an
awful lot of beetsteak and potatoes, as
well as other substantial articles Of food.
A San Francisco thief did not know
that the woman whose pocket he tried to
pick was the Great American Female
Samson, belonging to a circus then in the
city; but be was sure he had made mis-
take when she struck out from the shoul-
der, knocking him down like ten-pin hit
with the big bail.
Before Gen. Grant sailed for Cuba he
ordered from Tiffany an elaborate silver
pitcher, to be made OF hammered silver. On
the bottom Of the pitcher is engraved the
following: "His excellency, Ii Hung
Chang, Viceroy Of Chill, from L. S. Grant,
$780," Its cost is $780, and it has been
sent to the Chinese embassy at Washing
ton for transmission abroad,
A San Francisco letter to the New York
Tribune contains paragraph aptIy illus
| trating the habits and tastes Of the larger
class of suddenly rich men in the f0rmer
city. II states that in the residence Of the
late William S. O'Biien, one of the orig
lnal bonanza kings, the furniture cost over
100000, while the books in the spacious
library were valued at only $3.50.
The telegraph war has settled down into
long-windod contest in the courts, and
few people know ANYTHING Of the mixed
up affairs OF the various companies, be-
sides those who have telegraphing to do.
The inconvenience to business men re-
suting from the wrangle is more than
sufficient to outbalance all benefits that
will accrue by reason of reduced rates.
Here is man who is to be envied. He
writes us follows: For years my house has
been a curse through the unbridled tongue
of my mother-in.law. But now all is
changed and through the mystic influence
Of fifteen" One evening last week pur-
chased box OF the blocks and took them
home. My mother-in-law grabbed them
up and ever since has not spoken word
to any one, and my home has become
paradise. As write can hear the click
ing of the cubes in the little box under
the manipulation Of my mother.in-law.
God bless the inventor Of Fifteen"
Cape Cod girls when discarded by their
lovers are apt to take summary vengeance.
On Monday last, near WarCham, a young
lady, daughter Of physician, repaired to
the residence Of her recent beau and wait.
ed his arrival. Then she told him she had
good news, asked HIM to bend his head
over, and while she placed her left arm
about his neck as if to whisper in his ear,
she poked a pistol to his head with her
right hand. He was too quick, however,
and the hammer came down between his
thumb and forefnger, thus saving his life.
All the parties move in good society.
In st. Petersburg and Moscow, Of one
hundred pieces Of game sold, only one has
been shot, the ninety. nine others have
beed entrapped. Each peasant has a path
in the woods, which is his exclusive prop
erty. This path is sometimes thirty miles
long. On each side OF this path traps Of
all sorts and sizes are set; wolves, foxes,
martens, sables, badgers, hares, squirrels,
rabbits, partridges, quail, grouse, ETC.,
are caught. As it often happens that the
owner OF the path is weeks without visit
ing it, numbers of these animals perish in
the traps without benefit to anybody. As
these traps are set all the year round the
destruction of animals in breeding season
is fast ridding Russian forests of every sort
OF game.
A paper has lately been discovered in
the state archives Of Saxony which con-
tains some curious particulars concerning
the corps long known to the Prussian SER
vice as the Porcelain Regiment" and
from which the lst dragons, and the 3D.,
4th and 5th regiments of cuirassiers claim
to have sprung. According TO tradition,
the regiment was bought by King Frede-
rick William of Prussia from the king Of
Holland for some costly porcelain vases;
and the documents lately found in the
Saxon archives show that substantially the
tradition is correct. The men were valued
at 20 thalers each, and the whole regi-
ment at 1900 thalers, while the porcelain
given in exchange for them was considered
to be worth considerably more.
There is an old tradition that corsets
were invented by butcher OF the thir-
teenth century, as punishment for his
wife. Finding nothing stopped her 10.
quacity, he put a pair Of stays upon her,
to take away her breath, and so prevent
her from going about and talking. This
effectual punishment was inflicted by
other cruel husbands, till at last there
was scarcely wife in all London who