Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-20
ITEMS or INTEREST.


100000 females in the United King.
dom.
Thirty years ago it cost Massachu.
sets $4.Sl to educate each child; now
its costs 1885.
Many farmers about Sand mountain,
Alabama, say their crops are far above
their GR,icipatiOns.
The mountains of eastern Kentucky
are full of spectators in search of coal
mines and fine timber.
The pearl excitement has died out
at Murfreesboro, Tenn, but dealers are
yet buying all that are being offered.
Los Angeles farmers are making
more money this season, at present
prices, than at any time for years past.
The heroes of Homer's time used
after meal to wipe their hands on q
piece Of bread and throw it to the dogs
There is being erected in New York
a home for the aged and inilrm
Hebrews. The cost is to be $780,.
, 600.
The autograph Of Martin Luther was
recently sold for $3.50; that of Malanc-
thon for S56, and that of Voltaire for
s2,250.
Some of the timber fires in the Sier-
ras are said to be five or six miles in
length A large amount Of good mber
is being destroyed in some places.
Capt. Paul Boyton has started for
the head waters on the Yellowstone
with the purpose of padding himself
10 s.. Louis, a distance of $500
miles.
Pennsylvania has advanced from be-
ing the twelfth in rank, Of the tobac-
co raising states in 1870, to the third
in 1880, Kentucky and Virginia alone
surprising her.
Mrs. Mackay, wife Of the 0cnanza
millionaire, now in Paris, has a travel
ing carriage that cost $4,000, and re.
quires an annual outlay of $1,000 to
keep it in order.
The Durango Record says that there
is Il squash on exhibition in that town
which is six feet and seven inches in
circumference, and which has material
enough TO make ten acres of pumpkin
pies.
All the boats ON Canandaigua lake
are now loaded with grapes and peach
es, which are not wholly exhausted in
tkat region. One day last week boat
landed 1000 pounds If grapes AZ
Cananddigua.
Captain jim and lis braves lave
been putting their talents to good use
in Lane county, Oregon, recently, by
picking hops. About thirty-dye Indi-
ans were thus engaged. and they picked
$4,000 pounds on one farm.
Some of the Leechburg, Pa, people
have calves bred from Alderney COWS
and the sacred bull bought from Boyd "
Peters circus, which went to pieces at
that place some months ago. The semi
sacred semi-Alderney calves attract
much attention.
The annual product of gold is now
less than S1O0,OO0,O00, and its foreign
coinage is practically suspended. In
the United States the production has
gradually diminished. In 1878 it was
S47 1866, l07; in 1879 it was $4,000.
600; in 1880, $36,0O0,OOO.
In order to have u perfectly clear
title recorded for the West Shore road
to a piece of land at New Windsor, on
the Hudson, it was necessary that
Robert Ellison should procure the let
ters patent in which George IL Of
England granted the land to his grand
father, Robert Ellison, Dec. l, l755.
The New York fire department has
discovered that more alarms occur on
Thursday than any other day in the
week; that July is the unluckiest
month, and the fourth days of the
months average the hottest for under
writers. These phenomena are based
on the record of sixteen years expert
ence.
Seyenty.Gye thousand acres of land
in Aroosiook county. Me-, whose state
valuation has been SIS $40 cents, sold
at auction in Bangor a few days ago
for an average price of 73 4-10 cents
npr acre, a lot of 5000 acres in
Somerset count,. sold at 81 cents per
acre, the state valuation being 36 cents
per acre.
podie Free Press: In one of the
mons leading nm to the extinct volca.
oas south Of Mono lake, there is
smrinC of lemonade water-at least the
And that oozes from the rocks has a
A vor that strongly resembles lemon
ado II is clear and has such strong
add taste that with the aid of a little
NEAR II could be sold for the genuine
or'icle
Tho Now York Trust Compony of
Naw Vorls has registered at tbet1e,sury
danartment 1" s275 600 in four per cent
bonds in the name of the company, as
,,t ,".,r tnnaions m fnr % Mrs Tncretia r Garfield
,rd the snrviving children Of lame,
SND G GartieId deceased" :" beino the
m an,ount nmrcbased with the proceeds
"G "H smh0crintions IN the Garfield fund.
Those bonds will Weld an annual in
oonoo ooU os J ali Ooo and cannot he maid off
Iv % the % government until the wear