Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-10-25
FACT AND FANCY.

Ihc /unl Indians were Ine lpNehUotS
Of the cigarette.
The world consumes 2,0C0,OO tons
Of tobacco year.
Fortune telling is prohibited in
Nashville by city ordinance.
A Pit,sburg man suicided because he
bet ON the wrong horse in race.
Kate Field has been camping out in
the San Juan silver mining district.
A paper has just been started in India
to boom" the MOhamctan religion.
Ivan Turgucnotr, the Russian novel
ist, left an unpublished autobiography
There is to be another driving Of tho
last spike next June on the Mexican
Central
Amanin n Savannah, Ga, churchput
n handful Of peaches in tho conLribu-
lUn box.
Somo men are so lacking in hos-
pitaIity that they will not even enter
tain an idea.
Can n lawyers son with propiety
speak Of his paternal parent as his
father in law?
The young husband of tho ancient
Baroness Burdett-COutts owns seventy
fishing smacks.
SaIyini, who is about to retire from
the stage, will bcgin on November II
farewell tour through Italy.
A candidate for 4 judicial position in
Nebraska is familiarly known to the
people as the Texas Steer
Twenty Indians of the Omaha tribe
arc in Europe giving exhibitions at
salary OF $50 per month each.
Queen Victoria has medallion of
John Brown as big rs n soup plate,
which she wears as breast-pin.
A year ago 93,OO0,OOO was invested
II oil works in Garfield, Pa. Now the
town has only few empty houses.
Fasting from four to eight days, with
water and lemonade at intervals, is the
latest "surc" cure for rheumatism.
Samuel Wilson, of Washington coun-
ty, Pa, has just picked the second crop
Of pears this season from single tree.
There are now only $500 100000 Of
bonds, exclusive Of the present call,
that can be redeemed prior TO Sept. l,
1891.
Nine million postal cards, which will
weigh about thirty tons, have just been
ordered from the factory in Castleton,
N. Y.
Julian Hawthornc's daughter, eleven
Years of arc, runs u mile in seven
minutes three times q week for cNcr-
else.
"Young women often keep their
lovers by tears" "YUs,n says Crum-
wig, glove, like beef, is preserved by
BRINE"
-Four years ago m indianapolis man
los. u dog, and he is still running y
thrcc-linc advertisement offering -
reward.
Trout striped with gold, the Virginia
City Enterprise says, are found in
some lakes near the summit Of Mount
Whitney.
"Plcasc give me somcthin' to phices
baby too WcaEs OId, is the way an
ithaca, y. y. mother writes to
druggis'.
Il is estimated that the Mississippi
flood of lSS2 caused $50 OOO,O0O dama-
ges in twenty-oight parishes OF
Louisiana.
Within ten years, writes western
man, thirty California milliOnaires
have died and not one of them was
distinguished in life for anything but
hi, money.
A clogc-listcd ScOtchman recently
insisted upon being admitted to u
panorama at half price because he had
but one eye.
An eastern editor, speaking of n
brother contemporary, says that he
must be II believer in hydropathy, for
he lies in wet sheets.
According to the Gaulois, a marriage
has been arranged between one of the
royal princes of Portugal, and dangh-
ter of Prince Napoleon,
"Woll, my young gentleman, and
how would you like your hair cut -
"Oh, like papa's, please with u little
round hole at the top.
Mackoy, the bonanza king, is enjoy
ing himself among the Rockies and says
that tho wild life OF q mining camp has
more charms for him than tame city
life.
Arkansas has paid the United States
government an aggregate OF nearly
5000, 600 in tho shape of Internal
revenue tax during period OF twenty
one years.
Niagara is to have rival in the
croat ShoshOno Waterfall of Idaho as
soon as n syndicate now forming can
get the required money to make I'M
provements.
At the north says the Atlanta Con-
stitution, they allow pug dogs in the
palace cars. This is done in order to
prevent many estimable ladies from
sleeping in the baggage cars.
There is ono thing at least about
our Mary of which tho whole country
feels proud" remarks q Kentucky
editor, land that is that she has no
Freddie a-tugging after her."
at is to be hoped" remarks the
Atlanta Constitution, "that il Tabor is
elected governor of Colorado he will
not be permitted TO respond to
serenade attired in that two-fiity night
shirt"
The kola nut, a product of tropica'
Africa; where it is largely used for
making an invigorating beverage, is
becoming an important article OF com
merce in London as a substitute for
coffee.
Some mean fellow says that the
giving of the ballot to women would
not amount to much, for none of them
would admit that they were old enough
to vote until they were too old TO take
any interest in politics.
An eastern editor, noticing the pres
ent of cup TO contemporary, says;
"He needs no cup. He can drink
from any vessel that contains liquor,
whether tho neck of n bottle, the
mouth of a picklo-jar, tho spike OF
keg, or the bung Of 10 barrel"
Clara Louise Kellogg, says the
Chicago News, is now said to be en-.
gagged to Mr.. Royal M. Basseti, OF
Birmingham, Conn. This leaves Bar
tholdi's Statue Of Liberty as the only