Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-09-27
FAt T AND FANCY.

Most of the fall street dresses par
take of the coat form.
Quail are becoming numerous in the
vicinity of Gulf Coast, Fla.
The crown prince Of Servia has en-
tered the army rs a private.
A Kentucky hog lived forty-three
days without food or water.
New York city has French popula-
ton of seyenty-iivc thousand.
Red Cloud has had his hair cut, as a
last concession to civilization.
An eight-legged calf is the product
of Bourbon county, Kentucky.
John Bright recently had his pho
tograph taken by electric light.
Sitting Bull has lung disease and
fears that he may not live long.
Forest fires are prevalent at several
points in the Catskill mountains.
The couture of Boston "put away"
twelve hundred frogs every day.
A night-blooming cereus has BIOS
somcd by daylight in Derby, Conn.
Maine farmers have been raising
bears for the bounty on their scalpS.
The first medical school for women
in Canada will be opened at Toronto,
Oct. /.
A l6.ycar.od boy at Ennis, Tex,
picked Cos pounds of cotton in one day
recently.
II is said that the two unfinished tun-
nels on the Northern Pacific road will
cost Sl0,Q00,0OO.
A southern CXpressman wears No
~ shoe, it being l3i inches in length
and 4! inches in width,
Rhea, the actress, says she believes
drinking ice water is what makes in
vaids OF so many American ladies.
a man npmcd Dubois. of Portland,
Me-, is responsible for the first English
sparrow brought to this country, in
1858
The Philadelphia Ledger says that
5000 per anuum would be maximum
salary for singer in Il church choir in
that city.
The bright little nine-ycar old son of
eX-Speaker Randall fell from wagon
in Berwyn, Penn, day or two ago,
and broke his leg.
Lord Ronald Cover in his "Reminis-
cences' says that Disraei had an i'm
passive face and Mr.. R)den Noel says
that it was like mask.
A New York pawnbroker says that
in year he received 90, 900 coats, vests
and pantaloons, of which number he
sold $4,000, and $1,000 were redeemed.
The recent cold spell waited into
heavy air before it reached the gulf.
The New Orleans Pcayune remarks
that the wave stopped to play with tho
sun.
According to recent computation,
their are l2,l7g newspapers and maya
zines published in this country. OF
these 1,227 are daily newspapers and
1886 weeklies.
Pruning the top of the orange tree so
rs to leavei it open to the air and rains
is considered by many growers in the
interior of Florida as the best preventive
~F r"olo iro"o'
An advertisement in q West Vir-
ginia paper calls for "a No. l male
teacher, strict, stern, severe, and OF
good morals, to teach the St. George
school this winter.
A large cat sprang from the roof of
n three-story building in Cohoes, N. T.
and caught sparrow, but fell to the
pavement and broke her neck, and the
sparrow flew away. The cat was killed
Since the opening Of the line from
Bako to the Black Sea, petroleum has
become so cheap that it is to be used
as fuel for the British fleet. Its heat
ing power is estimated as thrice that of
the best coal.
A Reading rag-picker, little, lame
and hump backed, died the father of
forty-one children. There is certainly
no reason why any young man in this
country should allow himself TO become
disheartenod.
Peter COoper's advice to the young:
knowledge, economy and labor are
tho shining virtues of civilized man.
They form the surest and most endur-
ing basis of society and the surest
source of natural and individual well
fare"
Utah does not boast of her pineapple
or banana crop, but when it comes to
'Irish apples and the growth of
polygamy She islands in,' and defies
tho world to produce anything of the
kind more beautiful or with more
delicious flavor.
David Dudley Field, the Oldest of
four distinguished brothers, will soon
celebrate his eightieth birthday. He
is said to be as vigorous as man OF
sixty, and to take great pleasure in
acting rs counsel for young and active
lawyers, thus showing that he has not
lost any of his youthful enthusiasm for>
his profession.
Mr.. Gladstone has a great liking for
his old clothes and wears suit long
after the trousers have become bag
gy" at tho knees. When new suit
has been obtained for him and placed
in his dresslng-room, no eyes IL askanl
and puts on his old friends every
morning as before. Then, after few
days, his servant enters his dressing
room stealthily at night and carries
away his old suit, thus compelling the
premier to appear next morning clad
in his new garments.
The negroes of Florida are prosper
Gus. In Leon county they own some
ten thousand acres OF land, and their
property in Tallahassee, which has
total population of about three thou
sand, must be worth $4,000. They
own in the county 1926 head of horses
and mules, have over 1000 head OF
cattle and sheep, nearly $500 head OF
hogs, and their other personal prop
erty is valued at over $4,000, There
are other counties in which their con-
dition is even better. They show no
disposition to emigrate from the state.
They appear to be anxious TO have
their children educated.
Boston BIoods.