Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-10-12
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

- fhlladclphla manufactured $1,000,
9. 900 worth of umbrellas last year.
II Richard Wagner'S eldest daueh 81
IS married last month Count Gravina
L A young Boston widow this season
t. wore bathing dress Of full mourning
. A Society for the Cultivation o
Church Music has been organized in
y New York.
~ The official returns of the votes east
at one plantation in Maine were signed
!. by all the local officers with an y.
! The city of Baltimore will require
e 5lO ballot boxes ut its municipal cleo
e ton in October-thrco at each poll.
Said u little Brooklyn boy the other
l day, 1--WE don t have many nice things
TO eat at our house, but mothers got
over dozen cook books"
About 100000 young cattle, the hand
ling OF which requires 1000 men, and
the selling value of which is over So
100000 have been driven north from
Texas this year.
COronctS were first granted to mar
quiscs by Richard H., to carls by Henry
H., to yiscounts by James !. Barons
up to Charles II. had only II crimson
cap mounted with fur.
The splcnic fever, or "Tcxas cattle
disease has appeared in Schenectady
county New York. Several have died,
but Gov Cornell has ordered the proper
means to be used for preventing ihc
spread Of the disease.
James Burnside, of Clinton. Henry
county, Mo-, has exhibited at st. Louis
IN apple having circumference of
sixteen inches and weighing thirty
three ounces. 1t is not very good
year for apples, either.
The Texas papers tell Of young man
named Harrison who was attacked by
three cowboys and three Indians in the
nation, and, after bloody battle. won
the field The Indians were killed and
all ofthc cowboys wounded.
The soap-bark tree of Chill is ON trial
in San francisco, and so far promises
well. The imported bark is preferred
to animal soap by the Mexican popula-
tion, and in wooden mills ON account of
its superior cleansing qualities.
There are some 100000 acres of
oyster lands in Connecti-
cut, about two-thirdS Of the whole
and the oyster commission are
at present very busy considering appli-
cations. Engineers are now surveying
The sound at the expense of the COM
and the government,
The first marriage under the new law
'f Canada, permitting marriage with
Hifc's sister, has taken place at Cane
Breton, N. S. The persons married
we're NcwfoundlandcrS and had crossed
o Canada To be united, as their mar
'iagc would be illegal if performed in
he colony in which they live,
A New Orleans man has invented a
.cvice for opening iron shutters from
he outside in case of fire, Briefly, it
5 an iron handle which, being pulled.
NplodcS u cartridc on the inside of the
IlIttcr and ut the same time draws the
olt. The cartridge is designed to
rcvenl its being used by burglars.
Ralph Ryder, aged 50, insisted upon
cling allowed to kill bear, which was
)aming around Springbrook, Wis.
he spectators hid themselves, and the
d hunter, waiting until the bean was
ithin few yards, fired with Il good
m. But the beast lived long enough
hug bite its slayer, breaking both
riSts and barring his skull.
Tho Moyicon Trnpo0nor'i. r,,I 90,
mental Steamship company, with II
pitaI Of Si,UOO,OOO, is building
England several large and clc-
mt steamers, which will commence
ying between European, American,
ID gulf ports early in 1881. Two YES
Is are now on the stocks. This is the
st line of really Mexican steamers cv-
established.
In cave in the mountains of Vir.
MIA resides n hermit of immense size,
til long white hair and beard. He is
or so years of age, and for forty
ars has not spoken. When no wants
ything of civilization he indicates il
signs, but for months at time ht
,retes himself and communicates
tn no one. 1t is said that he has lost
, power of speech by disuse.
A new use has been discovered for
tatoes. They can be converted into
substance resembling celluloid by
cling them, and, after soaking in
tier, impregnated with eight parts OF
Iphuric acid, drying and pressing be
cen sheets of blOtting paper. In
ancc pipes are made of this sub
ncc, scarcely distingushablc from
,erschaum. BY subjccting the mass
great pressure billiard balls can be
lde of it riyalling ivory in hardness
A singular fact has been asccrtaineo
mutual insurance company that in
Iio, which is the largest consumer Of
ycr beer and malt liquors, the deaths
; annually over sixteen to 1000
labitants, while in Ontario, where
isky is almost the sole liquor used,
IRE are six, and in Kentucky, Tennes-
}, Illinois, and Indiana, where moro
isky than beer is used, they are
ven. This does not prove the claim
1t beer is the healthiest beverage,
)f all the humorous sketches written
Frank r. Stockton, the drollest is.
d to be "The Lady, or the TigerP"
the November Century. 1t gives an
count of an ancient king, who had an
ma in which offenders decided their
lit or innocence for themselves by
,ning one of two doors, behind which
re placed, respectively, tiger and
bride. The kings daughter, her
bean lover, and her rival, are the
Iracters and the point of tho story,
, that of all good humor, lies at
end.
The will of Caleb G.. Dickinson, of
tfleld, bequeathing 100000 for the
nding of charity hospital at North
pton, leaves the details of the plan
The trustees, George w. Hubbard,
IN L. Whittlesey of Northampton,
| William II. Dickinson of Hatfield, =.
| they will probably erect buildings
soon as land can be bought Tho
ipital is TO be for the sick poor of the
ms of Hatfield, Whately and North
pton. Patients from tho more
lltby classes will bo received for
atment at a reasonable compensa-
he large marble tablet, representing
signing of the social compact In