Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-11-30
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mountains.
For the race for the two thousand
guineas of 1884 Mr.. Keene and Mr..
Lorillard have four entries.
The works of the Channel tunnel are
said to have extended on the French
side three and half miles.
In Germany one or two slices of lean
ham are put at the bottom of the stew
pan when tomato sauce is made.
The king of Spain is sreported to have
relieved his mothers embarrassments
only on condition that she will return
TO Paris.
Jay Gould is 46 years old, and there
is some chance that he may become a
rich man if his health remains good
and he is prudent in business.
The venerable mother of John Nor
gan, the confederate raider, still lives
in Lexington, Ky, with her daughter,
the widow of Gen. A. p. Hill.
Lord Houghton's newly purchased
estate in Florida comprises 10000
acres. Lord Houghton is largely inter-
ested in sugar culture in Jamaica.
The total salmon pack from British
Columbia canneries may be estimated
at $1,000 cases, while the canneries
will carry over some 10000 eases.
Atlanta, Ga, claims to have the finest
church in the south, and gentleman
of that city is paying Il salary of $3.50
u month to a good man for religious
work among the young
The emperor of Austria's brother,
Charles Louis, has for the fifth time
been elected burgomastcr of Arstetten.
His forester and the village boot maker
are elected on the council.
1t lately came to light that in the
last ten years the solicitor of the Lon
don school board has received S550,OOO
in salary and commissions on the pur-
chase of sites for schools.
Sullivan, the prize fighter, says that
in training he relies much on the salt
bath He also eats three or four
lunches of celery day for the benefit
of his nerves and respiration.
According to an official return, the
quantity of spirits held in bond in Great
Britain is now i9,0O0.0O0 proof gallons.
The scenery in some parts of England
must greatly resemble Kentucky.
Archbishop Bourget of Montreal has,
within two years, paid off diocesan
debt of million dollars, the rise Of
real estate largely helping him. lie is
now building 100000 cathedral.
ALondon paper says that Queen Vic
toria, during her forty years reign,
has spent less than fortnight in Ire.
land. A woman who brings up large
family successfully is apt to be sensible.
Cremation has established firm foot
hold in Italy. AT n convention just
held in Modcna there were representa-
| tives of twerty-sevcn cremation sOcic-
ties established in different Italian cit
les.
Recent returns give the Italian pop
ulation on January l, 1882, at S2S gjl,-
37i, gain in ten years of nearly
100000, and this Notwithstanding the
enormous emigration. What n con-
trast to cnviOuS France!
A patent has been taken ont in Paris
BY NJ. Petit for substance called dyna.
mOgenc, intended to replace dynamite.
Its manufacture and management are
stated TO involve no danger, and the
cost is 40 per cent less than gunpow-
der.
A bust of Robert Burns, the cost of
which has been betrayed by small sub
scriptions, will shortly be placed in
Poets corner in Westminster Abbey,
near the memorials of his fHllow-poets
and countrymen, Campbell and Thom-
son.
Owing to u strong feeling in Dublin
regarding the action of the corporation
in refusing to conferthe freedom of the
city on Sir Garnet Wolseley, sub
scription has been started TO present
him with q testimonial and entertain
him at banquet.
A large number of farmers in county
Cork have given notice of their inten-
tion to prevent hunting over their lands
this year, while in some districts the
farmers are themselves organizing hunt
ing clubs, to the exclusion of those al
ready in existence under landlord au-
spices.
One of the giant trees of the Gala
vcras grove in California isnamed Otto
von Bismarck. An admirer of the Ger
man Premier, resident in San Francis
co, has Just sent him iive-foot photo
graph of the tree, expressly taken for
this purpose, and enclosed in an elab-
orate frame of native woods.
There was funny scene in Phila
delphia restaurant the other day, when
those who were seated at the tables got
up and began to Jump and writhe as if
they were bewitched. Everybody ran
out as soon as possible, when twas dis
covered that an electric light wire had
come in contact with an iron girder un-
der the floor.
Russia has concluded new loan for
SlO,000,000, which brings up the total
of her outstanding debt to S2,765,C GOO
600. What is most noteworthy in the
fact that her debt has almost doubled
since 1872, the annual deficit in her
finances averaging Sl20,000,0 900 where
as twenty years previous it was only
$50, ,00C, 900.
The Rev. James McEarl, a Presby-
terian pastor in Montreal, tells of an
extraordinary faith cure through
prayer, and declares that there is no
room for doubt about it. Margaret
Scott had long been bedridden by spinal
disease. So sensitive was she that she
had 10 be kept in darkened room, as
very moderate light caused intense
pain in her head. She was extremely
pious, and invited several women to
Join in prayer at her bedside, in The
hope that they might bring about
miracle. They prayed for an hour,
and then Margaret leaped out OF bed.
She has been well ever since.
In farming districts of Denmark,
smoking is almost universal, and pipes
with huge china bowls are as common
as mill-stones are scarce on country
crossroads, distance is more frequently
measured by "pipes" than by miles.
The easy going, set ways of the people
make this expedient practicable. Grest
is the amazement of the traveller, at be-
ing told, in answer to his inquiry about
the distance TO the next town, that it is
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