Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-06-10
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Wolcome to the morth Of roses.

. ducts business OF million dollars, UT
/ breaches the gospel, he cannot fail.
!. The ambition of little Toto is to have a
n box OF colors. "Be a good boy, four days
: in succession, his father told him, land
you shall have one." Four days. Toto's
+ face showed despair. Papa" said his
e little sister, cant we divide them be-
n tween us?"
e A Scotch minister, in one of his par
< chial visits, met cowboy, and asked
! him what o'clock it was. "About twelve,
t sir" was the reply. "Wcll," remarked
$ the minister a thought it was more"
cts never any more here, said the boy;
''it just begins at one again.
"The sentence of the court is, said
Judge Porter, a popular Irish magistrate,
to notorious drunkard, that you be con-
fined in Jail for the longest period the law
. will allow; and hope you will spend the
time in cursing whisky" "Be jabbers,
will, and Porter too" was the answer.
= A fellow at cattle show, where he
A made himself conspicuous by his buster,
: cried out, "Call these prize cattle! Why,
} they amt nothin' to what our folks rear
ed. Ny father raised the biggist calf of
any man round our parts" "No doubt
of it" sad a bystander, land the
T noisiest."
DR.. Peck, Of the Surgical Institute, of
Indianapolis, pronounces jumping to be
one Of the prime causes OF cripples among
girls. 1t is apt to cause necrosis or death
Of the bones of the legs, and may also
cause necrosis Of the spine. Probably IN
this as in other amusements the danger is
in overexercise.
In cases of difficult breathing, friends
generally at once raise the sufferer to
sitting posture, allowing the head perhaps
to fall backward. Dr. Howard suggests
that in all such cases the chest should be
raised, allowing the head to fall back.
The completest extension backward Of the
head and neck will - -. . y "
We have passed
from the butter IT ua
garine regime wltht .. alag .E-
of the immeasurabl d0.ion. At tae
very moment we ar, .Ia mp our noses
at the counterfeit %. 'CNWg VIC VIII
never come to it, are Spreading the
abhorred compound D cur bread without
knowing it.
Little Louis Vic the victim Of Rev.
Mr.. Cowley's cruel 10 tew loTk,
been transferred .hr hospital
stored to health, an Is nov to lt or
inmate Of the Hon pr .h7 ..'
When he went to IhlI' .th
was expected with ," hours,
and now he is said - - ,----ttly heal
thy child.
The Yonkers Gazette tells of very good
| bit which was made yesterday morning
by one of the defeated candidates. A gen.
teman approached him with, well,
| Mr.. -, how do you ieel1" "Well,"
said he, 81 feel, suppose, pretty much as
Lazarus did" GAS Lazarus didP"
"Why. yes" said he; Lazarus was
licked by dogs, and so was |! !"
Hon. Rufus P. Spalding expresses his
Indignation at the 'spelling reorm pira..
cy" which stole an "a' from the name of
Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the founder OF
| the city now known as Cleveland, with a
single "a" The Plain Dealer Joins Mr..
lSpalding in his protest, saying that "the
name is prettier IN the original form"
and that at is too late for a restoration"
New York city is again talking about
seeding from New York state and po-
litica reform society has been hrganized
| to bring the matter before the people in
public address. The proposed new state
would be composed Of the counties Of New
| York, Westchester and Richmond, togeth-
er with Long Island, which have more
than half the population OF the state.
A young married lady Of Rome, N. Y,
put on her kid gloves, the other evening,
and proceeded to clean them in basin OF
"non-explosive" fluid. The fluid suddenlG
burst INTO flame, iguiting from lamp
supposed to be at a safe distance, and the
lady's hands and arms were severely
burned, So intense was her suffering
that her physician remained all night,
constantly administering chlorotorm.
A class of primary children were busily
engaged in their reading lessons; they
read in order something like the follow
ing: "The hat is in the box. The man
is in the box" "The rat is In the box"
"The cat is in the box" When suddenly
up came chubby little hand, the sign OF
permission to speak. "Well, what is It,
MattieP" said the teacher. 81 should
fink the box 'ood be full after WHILE"
A telegraph operator, Thomas Holster,
has been arrested in San Francisco on an
extraordinary charge. Holster is said to
have planned tremendous raid on Pacific
Mail stock and Comstock securities. His
ideas was to cut the wires that connected
San Francisco with the East, and to send
from some little station in the Sierras
dispatch announcing that San Francisco
had been destroyed by tidal wave, while
A simultaneous earthquake shock had
ruined the mines on the Comstock.
A fishing party from Waynesburg, Pa,
consisting of James 4. Staggers, Otto
Rour, Alex. Phillips. Hiram Rour, John
Burroughs, James Mcdonald and oohn
Thompson, went on Sunday night In
wagon to Wheeling creek to fish. Reach
ing their destination, they went into camp
and built fire. Staggers fired his re.
yolver into the woods for run, and killed
William Ashbrook, aged 48, who leaves
wife and SIX children. The party was
speedily transported from camp to Jail.
Some people of Wrightstown, IN Penn
sylyania, whose buildings and fields took
fire from bridge burned by Gen, Couch,
during Lees invasion OF 1868. have asked
congress this year for about S45, ,00O com
pensaton. The committee having charge
Of the matter, in reporting the rellef rel bill
negatively. remind the people of Wrights-
IOWn tluU tut Citg Vi nioosN" W." -
to stay the invader, but history fails to
show that any amends OF, compensation
was ever sought or received by private indl-
yiduals." All of which is prime historical
consolation for Wrightstown.
The Bodie, Free Press states that a
school boy at that place recently caught
several snowbirds In trap, and among
them was one that was peculiarly marked.
Its right wing was perfectly white and
the feathers were considerably longer than
those on the left, which were OF the usual
color. The tail was a bright red and con-
tanned only four feathers. He has it now
in cage, and it is quite curiosity. Its
"chirp" is somewhat different from the
ordinary snowbird, but with the above ex-
ceptions il retains the same characteristics
as those of the ordinary run. Birds Of
feather do not always flock together.
The washerwomen Of Holland and Bel.
gium, SO pioverbially clean. and who get
up their linen so beautifully white, use re.
fined borax as washing powder, instead OF
soda, in the proportion Of one large hand
full Of borax powder to about ten gallons
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