Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-10-06
ITEMS or INTEREST.


the other day that measured two feet
in length.
Over forty persons have patronized
the public baths at New Haven during
the season.
The last company Of emigrants from
Liverpool for Utah, this year, will
leave Oct. 90.
A careful estimate of the loss by the
two last bad harvests in England is
$S00,0O0,000.
New Zealand has a $50 poll tax on
Chinese, and New South Wales is going
to initiate her.
Four barrels of water of the Great
Salt lake will leave, after evaporation,
nearly barrel Of salt.
The enrolment of voters in Boston,
Mass, is this year 1920, an increase
of 7,408 over last year.
Eleven persons have been killed by
railroad accidents during the week in
ard about Elmira, N. y.
The annual production of the United
States for several years past has been
about 7,000,0OO,0OO pins.
Ortolans are cheap in Virginia. At
Petersburg the other day country
man sold 100 at % cents per dozen.
The dried-fruit crop of east Tennes-
see is simply enormous, and will moie
than make up the deficiency in other
crops.
The end of the track Of the Interna-
tional and Great Northern railway is
now 1O6 miles beyond the city of San
AntOnia.
A bill now before the Georgia legis.
lature will impose a tax Of 81 on every
pistol, dirk, bowie-knifc or sword'cane
sold in the state.
A San Antonia dealer has manufact-
ured 1000 gallons of wine made from
the mustang grape that is pronounced
equal to the best clarct made,
Two mills are being erected in Mont
gomery county, Pennsylvania, for the
purpose of pulyerizing limestone for
fertilizing uses, instead of burnt lime.
The proposed revision of the educa-
ton code in England provides that
sewing shall he compulsory for all
girls, and for boys under seven years of
age.
A revision Of the Irish version of
the New Testament is going on. Ar
rangements have also been made TO
prepare Il revision Of the Welsh YER
sion.
Ordinarily we know from what cOun-
try people come, from the language
they use; but in the case of the swear
er it is different. He uses the language
of the country TO which he is going.
Tombstone, Arizona, is to have Il
supply of water from the Huachuca
mountains, Il distance of twenty-five
miles. to be carried there through u
seven-inch main, and expects to have
it completed by JANUARY, 1882.
1t is estimated that up TO the present
time losses by forest fires 10 wood
lands alone, in jefferson and Lewis
counties, New York, will amount to
between $20O,OO0 and $3OO,OOO, on
which the insurance is trilling,
The Duke of Sutherland is at the
head Of company of Englishmen with
e2,5O00O0, who have bought sixty
square miles on the st. Paul and 0ma-
ha railroad, sixty miles east Of Sioux
City, for Il colony; price SlG3,OOO.
1t is said that Jay Gould controls
5000 miles of railroads, two papers
tboth daily) and one supreme judge,
and is in fair way of owning several
legislatures. He is a self-made man,
having begun life with patent mouse
trap.
A young man of Cleveland who had
an ulcer form on his eye, year ago,
and submitted to an operation which
left Il scar and Obscured the sight,
had the use of the organ restored, un-
expectedly, by locomotive.cinder,
the rough edges of which removed the
scar.
A white girl was once captured by
the Indians, and she became the squaw
of brave. Afterward she refused to
leave them, although by so doing she
might have become rich. She said:
"White people may become Indians,
but Indians can never become white
people"
An insect is destroying spruce trees
in northern Maine and the provinces.
The female lays an egg in the bark and
the grub which matches bores into the
tree. The female is deep bluC-5lack,
has white spot behind each ear and
long horn with Il lance-shaped head on
her tail.
Sparrows have become such intoler-
able nuisances in Australia that the
government has been requested to au.
thorize the destruction of the birds by
law, and pending the passage of an act
TO appoint an honorary sparrow board,
to prepare and distribute poisoned
wheat, and give advice.
A snow-capped mountain little
northwest of Strawberry valley, Cali
fornia, is the fountain head of four
streams originating in Siskiyou county,
known as the Sacramento, Shasta,
Trinity and Scott rivers, the three lat
ter emptying into the Klamath, and
the former the main fork of the upper
Sacramento river.
A most remarkable discovery has
Just been made in the Sweetwater
country in Wyoming territory. 1t is u
deposit of sulphuric acid in natural
state. The odor, chemical action, and
general appearance of the stuff demon
strates it to be pure quality of sui
phuric acid. The ground is impreg-
mated over large area-one hundred
acres or morc-and parties have filed
claims upon it.
A rather unusual case of nicotine
poisoning occurred recently in the town
of Rochester, Mass. The victim, a
man in the prime of life, had been
cleaning his pipe with clasp-knife;
with this he accidentally cut one Of his
fingers subsequently, but, as the wound
was trivial one, he paid noheed to 1t.
In few hours the hand began to
swell, and soon the entire arm was so
linaamed that it had to be amputated.