Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-10-11
PASSING EVENTS.


vulgar. "Monopolizing the macaroon"
is what we call ii.
The late New Haven manufacturer
after whom the Yale lock is named
left an estate OF SS,00O,OOO
The Iceland coast cod keep well
this year. They are in ice. The fish
ing vessels can't get at them.
Sixteen hotels in Chicago are assess
cd at 81, 800 900. The theaters OF tho
city are valued at about $780, 900.
One of the naturaists gives the COM
forting assurance, as he calls it, that n
bee can sting only once. Once Is
enough.
Figs grow woll and plentifully in
tho southern states, and their cultiva-
ton costs little. BESIDES they are good
for dyspepsia and biliousuess.
The city fathers Of Ocala, Fla. pass
cd an ordinance forfeiting concealed
weapons, and now they have Il small
armory and don't know what 10 do
with it.
A new history of Mcthodism in
America states that the first Sunday
sunuul ia America was founded in 1856
by Bishop Asbury in hanover. county,
Virginia.
AprOpOs of the announcement thaI
man descended from the bear, . Boston
paper says that if bruin was ut the top
of the hill the man showed 4 hoapof
good sense.
4 man in Georgia has rooster that
"strikcs the hour He crows twelve
times every night at II o'clock, and Is
sure not to vary second from the cor
rect time.
Anew island, covering twenty acres,
has appeared in Lake Winncpiscogec.
it is not an uphcayal of the Garth, but
the drought that has caused it. No ono
ever saw it before.
Three hundred entries havo bcor
mado for the national horse show to DO
held in New York this month. Among
them are two Arabian stations, bred by
the sultan Of Turkey.
Father. addressing his little boy, who
has brought home bad mark from
school-"Now, johnnie, what shall L
do with this stick?' Johnnie-"Why,
20 for walk, papa"
An lrishmau, watching u game of
base bali was sent to the grass by II
foul which struck him under tho fifth
rib "A foul, was il? Och, sure,
thought it was u mnlc!
An cntorprising (D young brute of
Buffalo. named Stephen Porter, went
about tho city the other day trying TO
pawn or snll u set of false teeth which
belonged to his grandmother.
The profile of tho Old Man of the
Mountain is to have Il competitor, for
at Cohassett they have discovered n
rorl, which gives Il very good contour
of the features of Daniel Webster.
0ac Of the most interesting historical
curosi,igS at the fair recently held in
Canton, Conn, was vest made in
l776 from bluo-stripcd bcd-ticking spun
and woven by Miss Rosannah Ferry, OF
Simsbury.
A new chime of bells, which is said
10 be the largest in the country, has
been presented to Holy Trinity church,
Philadelphia, 10y All. Joseph Il. Temple.
r. ,~.r unodo ~ 8elpium. and consists
Ui - bells, the heaviest oil NAAth
Weighs 2,SOO pounds.
A gentleman near Gainesville, Ga,
has Il COW y years old that has not had
. calf in six years. About tho lst OF
December every year she goes dry aud
in the following spring begins to give
milk, Welding over n gallon at every
milking. The habit is kept up with
the oulmost regularity.
Thcro was happy family reunion in
Polk county, Oregon, fortnight ago,
Mrs. Nancy Diggrit, of Missouri, hay
ing gonc 10 meet her three sisters,
whom sho had not seen for forty-livo
years. She is 75 years old, and her
sisters are: Mrs. Kinsey, aged 40; Mrs.
Clark aged 60, and Mrs. Price, aged
81.
It is related that not long ag
John Bright attended IN auction sale
of high-priced shorthOrn cattle in Eng
land, and, in response TO an inquiry,
said: mo, have not come to buy,
but to see iho fool who will pay G2,OOO
for Il bull" There he is, said Lady
Skelmcrsdalo promptly, pointing to her
husband.
A London cab.drivcr was recently
fined Dos. for careless driving, whereas
he really should have been given a me-
dal for clever steering. He ran down
n poor cripple hobbling along with two
canes, but instead OF hurting him, the
two shafts fitted under the cripplc's
bent arms, and ho was borne gracefully
down the street until the cab was
stopped.
Rebecca Scott's body les in vault
in Philadelphia under an order of Judge
Finlettcr, pending decision as to who
shall have custody Of it. After Re-
becca's death her father claimed the
remains, but Mrs. Mary Reilly de-
manded Sl5O for unpaid board, and re.
fused 10 give up the body until her bill
was paid. Hence tho proceedings at
law.
Adele is a splendid cook, but it is
evident that she cannot content every
body and his father. The other even
ing madame went into the kitchen and
found the gas stove lighted. "Why,
Adele, do you light your stove at this
hourP" "But | have not put it out
since morning" "Why, girl, arc you
crazyP" mo, but madame is always
complaining that l use too many
matches"
An anecdote is related of an Irish
professor, whose pupils making too
much noise, felt called upon to remin'
them of the fact, and said; "Gentle
men, if every one of you will do me
the favor of remaining perfectly silent
for few minutes, We shall be better
able to distinguish who the individual
is that is making the row." which is
quite equal to medical report which
began thus: "There exists at the pres
ent time great number of influential
families in Dublin who have all died OF
the cholera"
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