Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-12-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST,".
Prof. Agassiz is in Florida.
Buffalo Bill is worth S250,000.
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Louise Nj. AlcOtt IS salu 10 DC Ol.
Lime drives away ants and beetles.
The sugar men are having a sweet
time in congress.
The presidents son is in the class Of
'85 at Princeton.
Anthony Trollope was the author Of
thir.y-seven novels.
A Philadclphian has just paid n $40
fine for kicking dog.
John G. Whittier will be seventy-fyo
years old on the 18th inst.
A new bridge has been built at Cork
and named after Parnell.
Senator Barrow, Ben Hills successor,
is a neat and trim little body.
Airguns are used for killing quail and
rabbits in Fairmount park, Philadel-
phia.
Mr.. Edsons patents now number
396; more than were ever before grant
ed to one man.
Vienna completed in October its new
Rathhaus, containing 500 rooms, built
ut n cost of S6,000,000.
Lord John Manners, in the opinion
of London Truth, is the best debater
on the opposition bench.
Congressman Kelley loses $50, 900 by
the collapse of the Philadelphia Coach
company, to which he advanced money.
An electric machine has been invent
ed which will convert motive power in
to electricity or electricity into motive
power
A number of London literary men
could not say who was the author OF
the phrase, Pouring oil on troubled
waters
The Hon. Tom Ochiltrec, who will
visit Washington next week, is called
the warm-haircd Ananias of the howl
ing South.
A grated tree in Holmes county,
Miss, bore peaches last year, and this
year bore plums. The owner dubs IL
the Ben Butler tree.
The Panama Canal company paid
Sj,0j0,OOO Saturday to the Central
Trust company of New York, as the
last installment of the purchase money
for the Panama railroad.
Mana" the war chief of the Apache
Indians, who was supposed to have
been killed last spring, is now reported
to be alive, and to be the leader in the
recent raids in New Mexico.
Colonel Emil Frci, the Swiss minister
at Washington, introduced himself to
General Longstreet the other day rs the
man whom he (the generaD had taken
prisoner at Gettysburg nineteen years
ago.
Last year three Chinese phcasants
were turned loose on Protection island,
in Puget sound The result is that
there are now over hundred of these
gorgeous plumaged birds there. In size
they are rs large as grouse.
Mrs John Smith, u daughter of tho
Morgan alleged to have been killed by
the Masons, recently died ut Portland,
Oregon, without saying anything to
throw light on the mystery of her faith
er's disappearance.
"Neyer would call n boy of mine
Alias said Mrs. Jones, "if / had II
hundred to name. Men by that name
is alluS cuttin' up capers. Here's Alias
Thompson, Alias Williams, Alias the
Night-hawk-all been took up for steal
im'.n
An exchange gives an account OF
respectable young man who was ruined
by the government. He wrote so many
letters to Lis lady-lovc, fifteen per day,
that he was busted wide open on pay
ment for stamps, and resolved on sui
eide.
According TO an Iowa paper, Justice
of the peace in that state always con-
cludes n marriage ceremony as follows:
Them rs this court has joined to-
gothcr let no man put asunder, but let
little children come unto them, so help
me Cod
United States Minister Hannibal Ham
lin was impressed with the informal
politcncss with which he was received
at the court of Madrid. At his first
presentation King Alfonso, who speaks
English, but not so lluently as the
queen, said to him: "Now, Mr.. HAM
lin, come into the next room and let me
you to my wife" not calling
her the queen.
Montreal has suffered an irreparable
loss by the death of Sir Hugh Allen.
He came there from Scotland when IA
years of age, and acquired fortune
estimated at Sl5,0O0,0O0. He war
president of one of the largest Cana
dian banks and of twenty-five othe,
to which he gave his per-
sonal attention. He was engaged 10
be married to lady in Quebec as his
second wife. He leaves eight daughters
and four sons. Sd
President Arthur has keen sense of
appreciation. On being told that an
alleged abstract of bis message had
been sent out of Washington in advance
of the meeting of congress, he asked
newspaper man whether he knew who
had the abstract for sale. "The reason
why asked" said the president, "was
that haven't quite finished my mes
sage yet, and | thought that if could
purchase q complete copy in advance
it might help me out on some points
which / haven't yet settled to my salts
faction"