Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-13
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

An indignant orator at = recent po-
litical meeting, in refuting opponent,
thundcrcd: MIR Chairman, lscorn the
allegation, and defy the alligator.
The forgcrs who got $4,000 from the
Merchants bank at Montreal have
ESCAPED into the United States. They
changed the bills here for American
currency,
Carson. New, has topper who boast
that he has drank fifty drinks OF whisky
every day since 1854. During all this
time he has not gone to bed once in
sober state.
The contract for the erection Of the
new Pittsburgh Homeopathic hospital
has been awarded at SlO6,s3j. 1t is to
be ready for occupancy in one year
from the lSt Of October next.
,Maryland pcach-gowcrs are now
, worried because what is called the
June fall of immature peaches has not
vet occurred. They now appreciate
that the trees will break down with the
weigh, rs the peaches mature.
The cu,tum-housc in Portsmouth is
said 10 be the only buildingeycrerected
by the general government in New
Hampshire. II is of granite, was built
about twenty-five years ago, and cost,
inclusive Of the Site, sl6i.Gl7.
Jane Murray, an aged colorcd woman
Of Ottawa. died last week. She was Il
native Of Africa, and at the age Of
about Ii had been imported as slave,
in lSOS. i'm the last slave ship that
legally discharged lis human cargo IN Il
United States port.
The Massachusetts Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has
printed two thousand copies Of n pla-
card to be pasted on stables, depots,
watering places and elsewhere through
the state. cautionng against oyerdriva
ing horses in hot weather.
Next wear the French Institute will,
for the first time award the prizes
founded by Thirrs and by the widow of
Jules Janin. Each is OF the value of
5000 francs $4,000. andiS to be awarded
tricnnially. the former for an historical
work. the latter for Il translation from
the Latin.
During the first battle Of Bull Run II
Brigadicr-Gcncral discovered Il soldier
concealed in Il hole in the ground, and
ordered him to Join his regiment. The
man. looking him full in the face. placed
/ hi- thumb upon his nose and replied:
80. You don't, old fellow, you want
tl, hole yourself. -
To ascend staircase eighteen feet
high requires thirty-siX times the force
that is required To walk eighteen feet
ON level ground. and would therefore
be equal 10 level walk Of 32i feet
So then person shut up in the house,
and in need of exercise, can walk his
mile by going up these stairs, say sin
teen times.
Newport News, the deep water ter
minus Of the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
way, has only recently been laid oil,
/ bui in less than two years it will be
ilour,hing town, and in ten years Il pa
per predicts for It $1,000 or 10000 pop
ulation. The principal Improvements
/ thu, far have been made by the Chesa-
pcakc and Ohio railway.
In Il Pennsylvania poor-house there
/, m hungarian, Gyumbcr 10y name,
/ the victim OF fatal disease, who, il is
/ said, has taken nap of unprecedented
/ length. if the late Herr Van Winkels
ease bc not considered in comparison.
The rrcprcNSiblc Snowman was after
him with an offer of SO Il week, but he
declined to put himself on exhibition,
even at that stipend
/ While John Petty was engaged in
sweeping down the walls of the dining
room of the Horton house, of san Die
20. Cal recently, Il large spider fell
/ from the ceiling ON his right cheek and
/ hit him viciOuSly. Immediately his face
commenced to swell and became very
painful. the poison extending down his
arm. and he now presents the appear
ancc of having been in railroad acci-
| dent.
There is something almost tragic,
saws the Florida Times, 'in the destruc-
ton by lightning of the beautiful con
fcdcrate monument at Columbia, ). g.,
one of the noblcst pieces of sculpture
in the south. II will he remembered
| that fine dramatic use is made OF such
an incident in the play of 'Brutus,
when. amid BrutuS' fren2ied curses,
| the colossal equestrian staue OF Caesar,
in the forum, is shattered by thunder
| bolt
A rift of $4,000 has been made to
| Hamilton college, New York, the name
of the donor of which is withheld for
the present. The subscription is con-
ditioned on raising the Presbyterian en-
dowment of SjO0,000, but the donor
has announced his purpose TO give the
money at an early day, and probably
within the coming year, He will apply
| his rift to the erection of memorial
scientific hall, to be named after HIM
self.
Dr. Fowler. Of Buffalo, in an inter-
view the other day condemned street
sprinkling He said: 81 know OF
nothing more productive of disease.
Heat and moisture are as a rule essen
tial to the generation of disease germs,
and when hot sun comes upon the
flooded streets we have the two genera
tors at work" He said that if the
streets were properly cleaned the
mortality of that city would be reduced
) per cent.
1t is said that along the Rio Grande
there is large number of men whose
sole business ii is to pass contraband
goods over the line. Brave, reckless
of life, Injured to hardships, excellent
horsemen, unerring marksmen, devoid
of all moral principles, acquainted with
the narrow fords in the river and wind
ing trails through the chapparal, they
are enabled under nearly every circum-
stance to avoid the vigilance of the
United States guards.
One of the most eminent of German
medical men is reported as saying that
there are not less, probably, than TO-
900 persons in Germany who have be-
come slaves to the habit of hypodermic-
ally injecting morphine. There are
many who take as much as eighteen
injections every day. Some have hard
ly square inch of skin on their bodies
which is not marked by scars produced
by this practice. Slaves of this habit
are even more hopelessly enchained
than those who take opium in other
ways, and it is speedier destruction.
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