Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-10-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

crease IN LOndOn.
The present population of MOntans
is estimated at $4,000
A Boston culprit told the Judge he
would prove an Arab.
Men born blind can't be carpenters,
because they never saw.
In the year 1887, a mans daily wages
in Ireland was seven cents.
If seven days make one week. how
many will make one strong?
If forty perches make one rood,
how many will make one polite?
Without liberal use of the rod it is
impossible TO make boys smart.
There's Il forty-pound mud turtle in
captivity at Americus, Georgia.
The season for frogs is nearly ended,
but croakers are always in season.
Hog cholera is raging to an alarming
extent in Coke county, Tennessee.
1t costs the United States about
sl2j, 900, 600 year to go to Europe.
Yazoo county, Mississippi, will pick
the largcrt cotton crop since the war.
If five and half yards make one
Pole, how many will make Russian?
Texas has over $500 miles of rail-
way.
Judge Heres, of Nevada, sends his
jurics into Il cold cellar for consulta-
ton.
The Chicago postollicc handled
100000 more letters in 1881 than in
1880.
Some of the bags of dates which
come to this country contain cannon
balls
Wanted salvc for lips that will 81
dcadcn the sound of kiss that the oil
folks can hear it in the next room.
II has been proved by experiments
in France, that the mole, when alarm
ed, can travel along its burrOw nearly
us fast rs Il horse at full trot.
Columbus, Ga, has ten cotton and
woOlcn mills. Sixteen thousand nine
hundred and forty-eight bales of
cotton We're used in manufacturing,
last year
The longest span of wire in the world
is used for telegraph in India, over
the kistnah. 1t is more than 5000 feet
long, and is stretched between two
hills, each Of which is $4,000 feet high.
Venice has $50 bridges, Amsterdam
has 300 London has 10, Vienna 20,
and Berlin 30. The bridge over the
Moldau at Prague is pronounced the
most beautiful and striking bridge in
Europe.
A Pitkin paper, in winding up an ac-
count oi Il little boys recovery from
being poisoned, closes saying: "The
father and mother were deeply grieved
at the escape from death of their only
little boy
The Massachusetts Prohibition So
cicty says the United States has spent
Sl5, OOO, 100000 for liquors during he
last % years, or $4,000, 100000 more
thaqngl aI"pcYiRBFcff. of the world cost
Rev. Thomas Bridges, missionary to
the Islands of Terra del Fuego, now
lives in an iron house, sent him by
friends in England, so violent are tie
tempcSts in that far-off land. The only
on the islands is the dog,
Ninety years ago the first Eng lish
offered himself, and now
the whole number of evangelical for.
cign missionaries is five thousand, and
they are leaders of a native host of
thirty thousand helpers of oil kinds.
a clergyman down east was oflicia.
ting at Il funeral, and in the course of his
spoke Of his own grief, as he
was near relative of the deceased.
In describing this relationship further,
he said; "The corpse's brothers wife
was my wife's own sister"
A machine has been put in operation
in Pittsburg, Pa, which cuts nails from
steel wire. 1t is claimed for the new
that it can cut steel nails at
the rate of 1j,00C to 10000 per hour,
and the nails produced are much SUI
rior in strength TO the ordinary kind.
Congress has appropriated $4,000
to erect electric lights at He'll Gate.
There will be two skeleton iron towers
200 feet high, and each tower will have
a light of 10000 candlc-power, the full
force of which can be concentrated up.
on the most dangerous part of the pas
sage.
A London paper says: ''ln the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland there are about 10000 places OF
worship, while it appears to be
n well ascertained fact that for every
/ 900 persons attending the house Of
God, above 1000 are to be found on
Sunday in the public houses"
Glass-spinning and glass-ilower man
ufacture are very extensive branch OF
the Austrian glass industry. 1t is now
so developed that petroleum flame
gives some one thousand five hundred
and fifty yards of glass thread every
minute; that are woven not only fol
glass cloths, etc, but also for watch
chains, brushes, etc.
Nine massive Norman collins have
been discovered under the floor of the
of Bristol Cathedral.
The sculpture upon the covers of some
of them, although very old and some.
what rude, is exceedingly interesting.
One of these covers, the most interest
ing of the number, has been carefully
and now stands in the ves-
try. The lid is at least 700 years old.
In Russia they have thirty-three rail
road schools for employees, who there
by gain sufficient education to be in
trusted with the higher places. Three
years is the course required, and in
some cases ''practice course Of two
years. The oldest was founded in 1874
and has twenty-five graduates in rail-
road service. The idea should recon-
mend itself to American railroad COM
panies.
The khedive's wife, the vice-queen
as she is called in Egypt, is the daugh-
ter of FL Hamid Pasha and grand
daughter of the famous Abbas Pasha.
She is beautiful and cultivated wo-
man, who tenderly loves her husband
and her four children, and takes an
active part in the education of the lat
ter. The eldest boy, Abbas, and his
brother, are taught by a Swiss tutor,
and the little girls are under the care
of an English nurse.
silk culture has become an establish
ed industry In North Carolina. From