Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1881-06-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

: An Ayrshire heifer at Chester, 5. c.,
has never had calf, but gives a gallon
of milk day.
A petriied forest has been found in
the hills near Calaveras valley, Alameda
county, California. One siliciiied trunk
which lies exposed is about 20 feet
long, and feet in circumference at
the base. Much interest is shown in
the discovery.
The officers of the American Asso-
citation for the Advancement of Science
expect that their thirtieth annual
meeting to be held at Cincinnati, com
mencing Aug. II, will be the largest
and most important scientific meeting
ever held in the west
While several children were playing
around some sewer-pipes lying upon
the ground in street in Toronto, the
other day, II little girl crawled into one
of them and couldn't get out. Her
companions ran away and left her, but
her frantic cries brought men to the
spot, who succeeded in extricatlng
her.
Tom Green; Crockett, Preside, Pecos,
and FL Paso counties, Texas, will soon
be open to immigrants. The Texas
Trunk railroad has just completed the
location of 366 sections, or 234,26O
acres under its subsidy privileges, and
the steam.lorse will plow through
them before the end of the present
year.
The menhaden have made their ap-
pearance in the st. Lawrence river.
Different ideas are expressed as to the
result. Some claim that the fishing
will be injured, while others hold that
it will result in filling the river with
pickcrel, bass, and muscalonget because
they will have the best of food, all
subsisting on mcnhadcn.
The Dallas Herald estimates that
there are in Texas 6,00O,OOO head of
cattle, 100000 head of horses, and
100000 head of sheep. This estimate,
says the Galveston News, is little, if
any, short of the mark, and yet for
taxation, only 3,709,j0 head Of cattle,
$50, ,i3l head of horses and mules, and
2,Sll,2j3 head of sheep were assessed
last year.
The celebrated Sunderland library of
thirty thousand volumes, collected du-
ring the reigns of Queen Anne and
George l., is to he sold in London next
December 1t includes early editions
of the Greek and Latin classics, rare
editions of great Italian authors and
superb collection of early printed bibles
in various languages, with Il copy on
vcllum Of the first Latin bible with Il
date.
The Eric railroad has recently intro
duccd an ingenious machine for regis
tering the speed of trains, when and
where they stop and how long. 1t is
used especially for freight trains, which
frequently exceed the proper speed,
running very fast fora while and then
taking things comfortable. 1t is II
small affair." and is fastened at either
end of small cabOOseS, or at the side of
large cabooses, about four feet and
half from the door
Alfred Short of Erie. Pa. found Two
masked and armed men concealed in
his doorway when he returned home,
nj n late Iour fine other night. Re-
solved to sell his life dearly, he pulled
on the supposed assasSins, knocking
thn hnt from one with a bullet They
fled and now if tronspires that Mr..
Short came near killing Two OF his
best friends, who thought TO get OIL Il
joke by playing cut-throats.
Tbirtv.Gye wears ago the land upon
which tLo citv Of ronton Ol stands
sold for S17 ncr acre. To-day there is
n citv If fen thousand inhabitants,
Joing a business on 4 scale of s3,OOO,-
00O nor onnum. II is in the midst
of the rich IIaneing-Rock iron dis
trict which nt The present rate of con-
sumption of iron ore, in the United
Statas wonld feed ali the blast-fur-
naces in the Union for 224 years.
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A cOnsumptive-looking man, lame
and feeble, and carrying pint bottle
full of something, halted n pedestrian
in the street the other day and sald:I
found this bottle in the corner there,
and wish you would tell me what's
in it," The other took it, removed the
cork, and snuffed ina full breath. The
next instant he staggered against the
wall, clawing the air, and choking, and
gaspng, and it was full a minute be-
fore he blurted out: "Why, you idiot,
thaIs hartshoin. we'll III peiie'; ~
~ Wiling 10 Jake you, woiu ioi ~
without extra insults, opserreu 'ie
lnvalld, IN an injured VOICE; ,:,. he On .oon
MS Dotlle ana walked vi lihc ,ut il,ait
| who had been abused WltnOuU llle ledSl