Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-11-09
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J. The mongrel Stuart style of archi
Il lecture is frequently called the Queer
J. Anne style.
J, Muscatine, Iowa, has a cornet banC
composed of young ladies of good so
+ cial standing.
Mr.. EmoryA. StOrrs likes the French
+ kind of street fights, in which each man
a pulls his own hair.
Gen. Sherman's salary will be nearly
the same after his retirement as it i
= now about $4,000.
t Ex-senator Paddock, of Nebraska,
g says: "Divest the Mormons of political
. power and down goes polygamy."
Vigilance committees have been or
ganized in Des Moines, Iowa, to rid the
city of the rough native and imported
= element.
NJ. Dopro4, at tho Munich electrical
exhibition, worked plough by means
of electricity, the current being trans
mitted about forty miles.
The bronze statue of the late Senator
Hill, to be erected in Atlanta, Ga, will
cost about $4,000, of which onc-half
has already been subscribed.
The total revenue of Russia during
the first half of the present year
amounted to 3i6, 19S,59i roubles, and
the expenditure to $50, 1854 roubes.
A prominent London paper has dis
covered two American women in that
city who are more beautiful than Mrs
Langtry, in the opinion of connois-
Seurs.
Boston university has found among
its friends one who offers to be one of
ten to add $4,000 TO its endowment,
or to give one-tcnth of the sum, how
ever raised.
The Hon. Hannibal Hamlin and wife
are expected at their old home in Ban
gor, Me, in few DAYS. They will
probably spend the greater part of the
winter there.
The Champs ElyseeS, from the Pal
ace Of Industry to the Place dc Ia Con-
cordc, in Paris, are being repaved with
wood, which willreplace the macadam-
lied pavement.
Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley will enter
the Pcerage of England as Baron
Wolseley, and Admiral Sir Bcauchamp
Seymour rs Baron Alccster, of Alces-
ter, in the county of Warwick
Mr.. George b. Standish, who died.
recently, at his home in Boston, was of
the sixth generation IN direct descent
from Miles StnndiSh, the fiery little
captain Of the Plymouth colony.
Americans leave their goodness be-
hind when they 90 TO Paris. So Mr.
Moody said in his first sermon in that
city. Their desire is to see all the
sights, and these, he thinks, Christians
should avoid.
In the fifty years from 1880 to 1880
| the amount of money invested in cot
ton manufactures in the United States
increased from SiO,0O0,000 to $225,-
/ 0OO 900, and the bales consumed, from
/ l9l 800 to 2,000,00O.
4 student of statistics says: "Evi-
dcntly population is growing more rap
idly in Germany than wealth, in spite
Of the large emigration that is going
on. Evidently, also, the military bur-
dcns are too great for the people to
bear
The enormous glacier, Fanor Svari-
sen, on the Scngen Island in Norway
(Of about l2O square miles, and only
two miles from the seal, is to be used
for cutting block ice for the market,
which is the northcrnmOst of its kind
in Europe.
a sad story comes from Melbourne.
a few weeks ago a "supcr" at one of
the theaters there died well nigh friend
less and alone. 1t was only after his
death that they knew at the theaters
that the dead man was Frank Lemon,
son of Mark Lemon, the first editor
of Punch.
Some French chemists have succeed
ed in soldifying petroleum, in which
state it burns like tallow. This soldii-
cation is effected by adding to distilled
petroleum % per cent of the purified
juice of plants belonging to the family
of the EHphorJiaceG, g..
An English brewer, observing one of
his men wearing the total abstinence
blue ribbon, suggested that it seemed
somewhat inconsistent with his line of
business. "Wcll, sir" he said, "you
sec it makes folks like TO tempt me, and
then | succumbs.h
Admiral Porter's office in his hand
some house at Washington is n nauti-
cal curiosity shop. In one corner are
half a hundred models of torpedoes, on
stand in one cerner of the room is
working modelof the steamer Alarm,
and bits of ships and various naval
relies are scattered around.
The grave of Emerson is kept con-
stantly covered with flowers by the
young girls of Concord. Hawthorne's,
with n stone at the head and foot bear
ing simply his name, is thickly over
grown with glossy myrtle. Thoreau's
is unadorned, save with a thick sod of
green grass, ..t r.... .t,.
The death is announced of the chief
wife of Sidi Muley Hassan, Sultan of
Morocco. She was the daughter of an
Italian blacksmith, and firmly clung TO
the Christian faith all her life, notwith-
standing which she was honored by the
Mahometan prince with the rank of le-
gitimate sultana. .,. .r
The Rev. Charles Spurgeon, son of
the famous pastor of the London Tab
ernacle, has been preaching to crowded
congregations in St. Louis and other
western cities. He breaches short,
plainly worded sermons, with touches
of pathos and quaint humor inter-
mingled, and with dramatic style of
delivery. 80
DR.. L. L. Lapham, a former resident
of Newton, but postmaster at Socorro,
N. NJ, was arrested some time ago
charged with robbing the mails Of over
two thousand dollars in money. He
was recently tried at Albuquerque,
found guilty and sentenced to two
years in the penitentiary at Chester 4,
ILL.,, and to pay a fine Of $4,000.
"There would appear in TRUTH" says
an Englis journal, ''to be'some founda-
ton for the assertion Of French ocono-
mists that, while France Is limiting its
population to increase itswealth. Ger
many is expending its wealth in in
creasmg its population. 1t is obvious
that, where so large proportion OF
the population is living upon such
scanty'means, a catastrophe isnot i'm
possible.i ,iilia, ~. Il ~ ,.-5>