Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-03-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Ten. GranI HIS lIdnSltIItu hlS i4OHb
Branch property, worth $4,000 to his
wife.
At one masked ball in Sandusky, o.
recently sixteen persons appeared as
Oscar Wilde.
The wife of United States senator
SAYS that her bill for flo Eers during
the season is 5000.
Ninety-six thousand pieces of mail
were sent out from the New York city
postonice in January.
Prince Victor Napoleon, the pretend
er 10 the French throne, is about to
begin his studies at IIeidelburg
1t cost Boston s38,O00 TO pay for
wine, suppers, cigars, and carriage rides
of the common council last year.
The grain.binders manufactured in
England are preferred in Australia to
those made in the United States.
Ex-Gov. DOwney, of California, has
disposed of his fourth of the Cuca-
mongo vintige of this year for $4,000.
The pay roll of New York shows
that the city pays salaries to 9,7O3 per
Sons, and divides among them $40, ,45O,-
S4l.
The Detroit work-house last year
paid the city $4,000 profit after all
the expenses of its maintenance were
paid,
The German association of spelling
reformers has published the first of Il
series of classical authors in the new
photography.
OF Daniel Webster's family, only two
are now liying-children of his daugh'
ter Julia-SAmuel Appleton and Mrs.
Jerome Bonaparte.
An Indian battle-ground has been
found on a side-hill, overgrown with
yine.maplc, at Eddy point, half mile
below Knappa, Oregon.
Frost on the Comstock has pene.
trated mining shafts seven hundred
feet, freezing dripping water at that
depth from the aurface.
Under Mr.. Blair's bill for distribut-
ing 50 for the education of each Hitter
ate Virginias share would be 81 ,lOO,-
900 and Georgia's S2,4OO,OOO.
Gen. Ben Butler, with Mr.. Robert
Strong, of Washington, as partner, has
bought 10000 acres of land in Bath
county, Va, ana Pocahontas, W. Va.
Senator Pendleton and L. B. Wash.
burne have been selected as the orators
at the La Sdle bicentenial celebration,
which will be held in New Orleans, OH
April 9.
as he good German scholGr?" they
asked of the Washington belle con-
cerning her lover. splendid she
replied. "IIe holds lady beautifully,
and knows all the figures"
The thermometer marked 80 degrees
below zero in Elko New, a week ago
Sunday night. The cOldest weather
ever known in eastern Nevada has
prevailed there this season.
A sofa which once belonged to Wash
ington, and which for many years has
been the property of the Union league
Of Philadelphia, has been presented to
the city, and will be placed in Independ-
ence hall.
A horse which was being shipped
from Boston to Chicopee, Mass. slipped
its halter, managed to open the car
door, and jumped off the train. The
buyer has learned that the animal re-
turned to Boston.
Up to the DIST of February not a
single seal had been taken by the fleet
of Indians of Cape Flattery, Washing
ton territory, though six schooners and
two hundred Indians had been anxious
ly looking for them.
A rattlesnake confined in IA cage for
eleven months shed its skin four times,
ate sixty rats, and, although it had ac-
cess to tank of water, an apparatus
prepared for the purpose proved it had
never drank drop.
The city of Utica, N. Y, was fifty
= years old on March l, and of the H.
900 inhabitants who SOW the village
! step out of its swaddling'clothes and
don city charter l75 are found in TO-
days population of $4,000.
/ A play.bill dropped from the gallery
4; of the Volks theater, Copenhagen, took
/ tire from a gas.jet in its fall, and,
aighting on lady's head, burned off
t her bonnet and nearly all her hair be-
=. fore the flames could be extingutshed.
When the Prince of Wales was en-
/ tertained recently by the Marquis of
Bath at Longbeat, his country resi-
! dence, that already magnificent es'
d tablishment had b en- put in fresh
: shape for his excellency's visit at flOO,-
II 600.
The trade in sheep pelts in Los An
e celes county, California, is very lively
of late, the prices varying all the way
from 10 cents to $125, according to
the amount of the wool and the grade
of the defunct sheep, 60 cents being
II fair average.
'e The Woman's Medical college of
e Baltimore has just been Incorporated
d 1t is to be devoted exclusively to the
" medical education of women, and is
'r the only institution for that purpose in
a. Maryland. Its faculty consists of sew
T. en- gentlemen.
=, Some of the newspapers are continu-
81 ing their fun about Oscar Wilde, and
y some of the wits of society are critics.
a a ing him to his face; but if he should,
" " on his return to England, write his i'm
Z Z pressions of America as he has been
"a a compelled to see it, what howl there
~ ~ will be.
h Nineteen out of eightyave candi.
r dates for clerkships, fifty-fve out OF
to one hundred and eighteen for inspect
,p orships, and forty-nine out of eighty.
le seven for night inspectorships, passed
a. the recent examination at the New
& York custom house. The only appoint
4 ment made was that of clerk of tn
a, naval office for probationary period
n. of six months, and there ara no vacan'
- cies for the other 122 successful can
r didates.
/. When Lord Beacons6eld returned to
0; office after his first retirement ques-
.s ton arose as to making Lord Rosslyn
0; master of the buck hounds. His lore
1t. ship had, 1t was urged. every qualitica-
n t;on for the most. He was good