Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-11-16
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= foot padded of $50. y"
Syracuse has newly-born child
with two full-grown teeth.
There are 1l7,OOO Sunday school
scholars in New York state.
Buffalo hunters are meeting with
success on the Montana ranges.
A Troy miss was so iluttered by a
bcau's visit that she lit the gas with y
s. bill
The dome of the Washington capitol
is being painted and it will take fifteen
tons OF white lead.
A new company has been organized
to carry on machinc-washing for gold
on the Saskatchewan.
There are fears that, on account CT
violation of the fishery laws, the fisher
les OF Canada will be ruined.
A company with large capital has
been formed to develop mica mine
near Greenville, in Mercer county, Pa.
The mace and sword of state used in
South Carolina in Colonial times are
still preserved. They were brought to
this country in 1929.
Upward of 81, 900, coo has lately been
| deposited in the bank at CObleskill,
Schoharie county, n Y, by hop-gro@-
ing farmers.
The old Emmitt distillery south OF
Chillicothe, o., which has stood idle
for over twenty years, is being repaired
and put in order for use.
While New Orleans policeman was
taking qIict nap recently, on somo
salt barrels on his beat, sneak-thicf
relieved him Of his watch and badge.
There is not vessel at Mobile for
cotton and none on the way. 1t is said
tina! the city is losing her cotton trade;
which is grayitating to New Orleans.
The Counselor, British ship which
was blorkudcd in the Suez canal, Aug.
-, by the Egyptian war, is attracting
attention ut the wharyes Of New Or
leans
Two large snow-plows over eighty
feet in length are being built at Sprague,
Washington territory, for use in the
mountain passes ON the Northern Pa
ciiic railroad.
Two Chinese doctors have ''hungout
their shingles in Victoria, British Col.
mbia, and invite men, women and
children Of allraceS to test their skill in
the healing art
A bar Of gold weighing $50 pounds,
and valued at about Sllj,O0O, was
cleaned up in the North Bloomfield
hvdrauic mine, Nevada county, Cali
t9rnia, after Il run Of twenty days. 1t
is the largest bar cast in the United
States
A few weeks ago, during a heavy
storm, the Rio Grandr river suddenly
changed its course by cutting through
II bend near Camargo, and thus placed
several acres OF inhabited territory
within the legal limit of the United
States
The success which has attended the
cultivation Of cinchOna has directed
attention to other medicines which can
he cultivated in INDIA, the most success
ful Of these being, perhaps, jalap. This
plant does well, the climate of Ootaca-
mund Nuiting its habit.
The provision made by S l.. Landes,
of Mt. Carmel, Illinois, for his wife
and children took the form of planting
100000 waluutS. which, with proper
care, should produce trees fifteen inches
in diameter in twenty years and yield
IN Independent fortune.
The Selma (Ala.) Times says; The
sickcst men in these parts are those
who went strongly into marriage insur-
ance companies There is no way of
getting at the exact figures, but it is
estimated that $4,000 has been squan-
dercd in them by Selma people.
One druggist of Kingston, Ontario
last year sold enough opium to regular
opium-caters to Kill 1I,jO0 ordinary
men. The use of the drug is not in
crcasing in that city, ii is said, but its
victims are numerous, are in the upper
classes of society, and in nine cases out
OF ten are ladies.
4 Chinese coin three thousand years
old was found by gold-miners digging
in claim at CaSsiar, Canada. 1t is
to have been left there by
Chinese mariners wrecked on the coast
long before the Christian era. The
question is again asked; Was not Amer
ica first discovered by the Chinese?
The secretary of the new Carolina,
Gap and Chicago Railway
states that work will begin
very soon on the Aiken end, and that
that portion of the road lying between
Aiken and Edgefeld-all but three
miles of which is graded-will be COM
pleted by July /. He will open an of
flee in Aiken in few days.
In Europe many young men and ed
uCated women are studying electrical
or telegraph engineering, which pro-
fesson has not yet become over-crowd-
ed, and great fortunes have been made
in its pursuit The enormous extension
of the telegraph, telephone, electric
light, cables, etc, into all parts of the
world will create great demand for
skilled electrical engineers.
The Smithiield (Va.) News is advised
that beyond all doubt the peanut crop
of the state is short one. 1t has re-
ceved its information from every sec
ton of Isle of Wight, Nansemond, and
Surry, and parts of Sussex and South
ampton counties, and il is all to the eff
feet that the crop is no larger than the
very small one of last year, but the
quality is very good.
The bean-blower with which the mod
orn schoolboy loves to torment the
children round about him and his teach
or on the platform is only feeble imi-
.ation of the "sumpitan' with which
.he aboriginal Dyaks of Borneo go to
war. The sumpitan is blow-pipe
lbout five feet long, and the arrows,
which are made of wood or fish-bones,
ire thin and sharp, and are generally
Tipped in the poison of the supas tree,
which, though virulent, is not always
leadly. This singular weapon is used
With the greatest accuracy at range
II twenty yards, but it will carry a
hundred.
The late H. d. Hirst, of Germantown,
Pa, had such passion for roses that
,e collected them at great expense from
very part of the World in which they
ROW, and with his own hands culti-
'ated them so assiduously that It's be-
.o,.ol .l,o ooro of thon, aatt,allv ,1ndar.