Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-05-17
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1t is estimated that over 200 Ameri-
cans are studying art in Paris.
Germany boasts of 956 poetesses and
; authOresses on the roll of fame.
, Princess Louise is a good house,
, keeper, cook, confectioner, laundress,
seamstreSs and dressmaker.
, Reports up to date show $50 persons
to have been killed by tornadoes in
5 this country since January l.
| At London public dinners it has
ceased to be in order to rise to any
toast except that of the queen.
What world of misery men would
avoid if they could only refrain from
watching their wives. Stop it!
Miss Mary Shay. of Geneva county,
Ga, split one day last week 500 rails,
and she is not a-shay-med of it either.
III Pari, the fashion among the young
men is the wearing of four studs on tho
shirt front instead of the former single
stud.
1t is estimated that the pawnbrokers
of New York city collectively have
fully 100000, 600 of pledges in their pos
session.
A teamster in Maine conquers balky
horses by taking them out of the shafts
and making them 60 round and round
III circle.
Colonel Mcdonald, of Coffee county,
Ga, looks as happy as a boy with red
topped boots when he speaks of his
"giIl baby No %"
The greatest femme land owner in
England is Baroness Gn her own righD
WilOugby d d'Evesby, who has an in
come OF S2jO,OO0 from land.
a pack horse loaded with giant pow
der stepped over bluff between Wash
ingtOn and Oregon last week and fell
200 feet. The powder did not explode.
A young fellow in Montreal reversed
the usual proceedings of adventurous
| youth, and ran away from the city to
become farmer without consulting his
parents.
An old Georgia lady, of great ex-
perience, says that children born on
the decrease of the moon are more
/ than apt to be girls and those on the
full moon are boys.
ST. Louis spent Sl,000,000 in the
improvement of her pork packing facil
tiles last year, and is much disappoint-
ed because the business has not cor
respondngly increased.
A Chicago glove dealer makes profit
of the vanity of women by employing
sales-women with the biggest hands
TO be found, so that the hands of his
customers will look small by contrast.
a great trade in dried or ierked beef
is being carried on in South America.
from M1ntevideO, Rosario, and other
parts Of Uruguay and the Argentine
republic.
There are Indian girls in the Indian
Territory University who are studying
German, French, Latin and Greek,
geology, moral philosophy, political
economy and other branches of the
college course.
The French government is building
eight new ironclads, two of which will
carry eiShty-ton guns--heavy enough
10 sink the English navy Jumbo, In
flexible. The cost of these vessels will
be -, 200 900 each.
Prof. Sjrokin, of the St. Petersburg
Mcdico. Surgical academy, says that,
judging by certain signs he had noticed
in several bodies lately examined, there
is a possibility Of cholera appearing in
Russia during the present year.
Robert Miller, of Window, Mimi,
has succeeded in making Il syrup from
the sap of box elders, which is repre-
scnted to be lighter than maple syrup
and of a fine palatable flavor. 1t is
said that it makes n very pure white
sugar.
Mr.. Gould's principal holdings now
are Western Union, S30,000,0O0; Mis-
souri, Pacific. $4,000 900; Wabash Pa
cifc, SlO,0O0,0O0; Denver and Rio
Grande, $40, 100000, the balance of his
SlOO,O0O,O00 being invested in bonds
and real estate.
Ex-senator Tabor's first wife, whom
he discarded as soon as he became
millionaire, is said to remain faithful in
her affection for him, and though she
is now rich, she declares that the hap
picst days of her life were when she
kept his grocery store at California
Gulch.
The Minneapolis Tribune publishes
this under the head of IAN llliterate
Mayors Letter." "Sur: If the Tribune
intends to imply that in my offishal
capacity | am an ass, | wish hereby
over my ofiishal signachure to deny
the staitment in the most sollum man
ner of which am capabal."
A Frenchman has recently gone
deeply down into statistics in regard to
matches. His figures show that an
Englshman burns eight matches day,
a Swede 8, a German II, and French
man 10. The number of matches con-
sumed in Europe every year amounts
to 2,OO0,C0O,000. Nobody is likely to
dispute these figures.
An old maid who recently died in
Norway directed that her estate be
equally distributed among six discarded
lovers, all of whom were poor, explain
ing her bequest as follows: "These
lovers either courted me for my money,
which they may now have, or else they
loved me, and for that reason they
shall have the money, for ] believed
them.h
The fame of an American lady doctor
is declared by Nature to have "spread
far and wide over North China" Her
name is Miss Ho d. Some time ago
she attended th other Of Ii Hung
Chang, the gr Viceroy, and now
she is treating wife. Sheis said to
have a great number Of applications
for assistance and advice from the
women of wealthy families, "who
would die rather than be treated by
foreign male physician"
A story is floating through the
country papers, originating with we
know not whom, that certain Boston
philosopher" in his declining years,
feeling the need OF wife's care, chose
from among his lady acquaintances q
rather bright woman of considerable
property and offered himself to her.
The lady was presumably surprised;
any rate, she refused him decidedly.
He, however, persisted SO vigorously
in his wooing that in desperation she