Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-09-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

1t is estimated that there are 7,0O0,-
900 of Jews in the world
Iowa has 400 creameries, whose ma.
chnery is valued at 100000.
Omaha spends about 100000 year
in instructing her 5000 children.
Louisiana has a school population of
290,036. OF this number 1S9657 are
cOlored
A butterfly fish, weighing 200
pounds, jumped into a sail-boat near
Pascagoula, and created quite CON-
motion Aoundering about. 1t was
finally dubbed to death.
over 700 wild turkeys are on Santa
Cruz island, just across the channel
from Santa Barbara, Cal The first Of
these birds was placed there by Judge
Cation, of Ottawa Ill, about five years
ago.
The grave of General Braddock, de-
feated near Pittsburg, in 1855, is few
miles east of UniOntown, Fayette
county, Pa, on the old national pike.
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mark it.
4 great cavern has been found in
lava beds, near FL Rita, Arizona. II
abounds in picturesque passages and
springs of ie,cold water, has many
chambers an halls, and is likely to at
tract crowds uf visitors.
The hot cagth in the vicinity
Linkville Oregon, is IA great curiosity.
Through this earth is constantly as.
ccnding hot yapor and both earth
and vapOr are strongly impregnated
with remarkable curative properties.
Cologne cathedral having been fin
ished, the estOration of that Of AK la
Chapele is proposed in preference TO
Strasburg Minister. That at AK,
beautiful basilica, dates back to Charlie
magne, and is far richer than Cologne
in its archaeology and associations.
Prof. George II. Cook, state geOlOgist
Of New Jersey has come to the cOnclu-
sion that Cape May and Cumberland
counties are slowly, but surely. set
Ting into the sea. From facts in his
possession, he estimates that the sur
ace haS sunk about eight feet during
he last one hundred years.
Young ladies at West Point who
have cadet fever supply their military
idols with cigarettes on the sly, which
no doubt the cadets, by reason of cir
cumstanccS, consume on the sly. A
friend in need is Il friend indeed, es-
pecially about tie time smoking is in
order.
Togumd against another capture,
Paris has, during the last few years,
been greatly fortified. Saint Denis,
Versailles. Sevres, and st. Cloud are
also now fully projected. An invest
ing army, to succeed, would now have
to he three times greater than the
Prussim army IN 1870.
\ child, or monster, was born lately
in town Of south Italy, 1t Tor he)
was Of the masculine SEX, and had two
heads, two arms in the usual place,
with one hand each, il third arm rising
out Of the back, and furnished with
two hands, one body and two feet.
The creature did not live.
President Garlields children are
five in number Henry a. and James,
the elder two, are well along in their
"tcpns;' Molie, who is next, is about
II, and after her comes Irwin Mellow
ell, with Abram following, the young
est Of the five Two other children
have been born to him, but both are
dead.
An unusually large number of peO-
pie well known in New York have
died this season at the summer resort
and watering.place hotels, and the fire.
Quency of these deaths has created
considerable comment. Some of the
prOprietors of the hotels in which the
deaths occurred feel very melancholy
about it, and have endeavored to sup
press the facts.
The sale of 100000 acres of land in
the Santa Rosa district of Caohulla,
Mexico, has been made TO David Mack
eller, of Australia, who few months
ago, with party Of friends, went and
personally inspected the ground. He
intends making Il sheep ranch of it.
We will stock it with 100000 of sheep.
This is one of the largest enterprises
of the kind that has ever been inaug-
urated.
Stanley Rigsby killed Il bird on the
Humboldt, Nevada, the classification
of which puzzles the heads of Elko's
wsest naturalists. The biped resem-
bles "hy-up the-creek, but is much
larger, measuring from tip to tip five
and a half feet The most remarkable
feature, however, is the BILL which is
nearly foot long, perfectly round, and
when closed is so true that it is difficult
to find the line Of division.
At dance the other evening, lie
was introduced to II very becoming
miss, and 50, of course, was doing his
best to merit his good luck. Feeling
sudden indisposition, he excused him
self for moment, and on returning
was in the act of removing few ker-
nels of coffee from his vest pocket,
when the damsel astonished him by
saying: Don't chew that, had rather
smell the new rum" He didn't apol-
ogize.
Galveston News: Southern women
are working personally to improve the
condition of colored females by in
structing, advising and encouraging
them. and in circulating reading
matter among them. While out
siders are discussing the Incidence Of
southern women, they are moving OH
in the even tenor of their way, quietly
doing the duty nearest them, and pre-
serving the most admirable Character
istics of the race.
At recent examination at girls
school the question was put to class
of little ones: "Who makes The laws Of
our governmentp" Congress" WAS
the reply. "IIow is congress divided"
was the next question. A little girl
in the class raised her hand. "Well,"
said the examiner. "Miss Sallie, what
do you say the answer isp' Instantly, /,
with an air of confidence as well as
triumph, the answer came: "Clvilized,
half civilized, and savage"