Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-07-22
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g has been troubled with a stitch in his side
:, ever since.
u The University of Chicago has recently
: conferred the Degree of Doctor of Music
upon Prof. II. r. Palmer.
A New Jersey baseball player has had
hls nose broken three times in two years
by the balls, but he hangs on.
4 An Illinois railroad conductor says that
= no conductor earning less than $200per
a month can live Christian life.
? Andrew Aimes, the oldest compositor
f in Scotland, and who helped set up the
G "Waverly Novels" lately died in Edin-
burgh.
5 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's house at
Peekskili will be, it is said, when finished,
the finest private country residence in the
s country,
Secretary Sherman 5 handwriting is not
pretty. 1t has signs of nervousness, of
care, and at the same tine Of energy and
uglness.
Garibaldi says that Italy is scourgedby
srobbers, throttled by office holders and
kicked by taxpayers, and he predicts re-
belion within ten years.
Said the little pet of the household, on
her last birthday: "lt'sa lovely doll, dear
grandpa and grandma; but-I've been
hoping it would be twins,
"That old speckled hen, there" said
farmer Jones, "is real stuck up crtter.
She don't mingle In gin'ral soci'ty, but
al'ays has her own private sci"
One Of the census enumerators in Han.
cock county, Georgia, came across fam
lily In which there had been thirteen chill
dren born at six births-twins five times
and triplets once.
1t is the fashion among the New York
women of the best society to take fencing
lessons when the mornings are sufficiently
cool. Ihe object is to acquire quickness
and frmness Of motion.
1t is customary to attribute to women
only the habit of jumping at conclusions,
but it is noticeable that in our theatres it
is uniformly the men who Jump at the
conclusion of every act.
Working men should put good sized
cabbage leaf in the hat and wet it when
convenient to do so. Pedestrians should
carry a sun umbrella. 1t is easier to pre-
vent than to cure sunstroke.
The Boston Post has tried it time and
again, and he says that no young man can
take the least comfort riding out in a car
riage with two girls. They have too great
a chance TO study the back of his neck.
at looks like the scene of a great bat
tle," remarked traveller, viewing the
work of n recent cyclone at the west.
"Yes." said the native, soemnly, and
without removing his pipe, "the place was
TUX by storm"
Propriety-Light minded young thing in
bathing suit "Surc)y, Aunt Morgaret,
you're not going to wear your spectacles
in the water?" Aunt NJ: "Indeed am.
Nothing shall induce me to take off an
other thing
Mr. Gowan, formerly reporter on the
Providence Or. ~ journal, who went to
England in the interest of the telephone,
has invented one which the person using
simply listens to without placing the re-
ceiver to his ear.
Mrs. DeGroOt, who has builta church in
Newark, N. j., at her own expense, has
had a clause put in the deed to the effect
that if fairs, festivals or other entertain
ments are held therein, the property shall
revert to the original owner
The New Orleans Picayune calls atten-
ton TO the fact that the Maud Mullers in
tableaux all want to wear pretty dresses
and fancy stockings and shoes, forgetting
that it was Maud's "feet so bare and her
tatered gown" that attracted the judge.
"Not one American woman in twenty
five can walk five miles" says an Eng
lish physician. See here, Doc, you just
show an American woman street FIVE
miles long, with bonnet stores every ten
rods and see if she can't walk the whole
distance.
The New York Telegram has found out
that insanity is more common among
farmers wives than among any other
class of women, the reason being not so
much the amount of work the farmers
wife has to do as the unvaryiDg monotony
of her existence.
The window in a dentists Office came
down and caught cat by the tail, while
he was out, and fourteen people who
would have waited for his return, on go.
ing up the stairs and hearing the cats
voice, decided to 90 home and stand the
pain of the toothache.
A clergyman recently said that manya
one, while apparently singing with all his
might the lines:
We're the whole realm Of nature mine,
That were q present far too small,
was diligently engaged with one hand on
his pocket in scraping the edge of three
cent piece to make sure that it was not
dime.
Light colored dress is at once the warm
est and he6lthiest. In the arctic regions
white is the prevailing color Of the animal
which most retains its warmth. The same
color is also best adapted for summer wear,
Tor that which is negative to cold does not
absorb heat The best compromise is gray.
Those wise and discerning forefathers of
,urs, who utilized serviceable gray suits
we're best informed, after all, in the mat
er Of color Of dress for health as well as
or service.
woman recently applied to Justice
Blair, of 0swego, for pension, claiming
% be entitled to relief because her brother
was killed in the south during the war,
,ut she could not give the number of the
'egiment nor the company to which he
belonged. She went away to inquire, but