Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-12-13
FACT AND FANCY.

pasas, Tex.
The clocks of the white house have
been set to correspond with the new
standard time.
An insane person named John
Rojches, at Stockton, Cal, imcGiaeS
he has the sheep scab.
A fattened steer was one of the curl
ous prizes put up for rattle at Seneca
Castle, N. Y, recently.
A big whale got away with the
Monterey, Cal. whalers this week. 1t
upset enc Of their boats,
The Whitehall Times says that a man
who is always complaining OF himself
is a double. barreled fool.
Who says it's unhealthy to sleep in
feathers? Look at the spring chicken
and see how tough he is.
At Cooke City, Montana, Julia Fos-
ter, aged II years and 8 months,
has given birth 10 a child.
Seventy-seyen per cent Of our exports
during 1888 have been of agricultural
products and mineral oil.
A couple of puppies, with but two
legs each, are among the healthy
singularties of Pennington, Tex.
Panthers at Coos bay, Oregon, when
they become hungry do not hesitate to
attack the people who come in their
way.
Insanity is becoming prevalent
among the older families of Boston.
Too much oyerculture and intermar
riage.
Three hundred citizens of New York
have signed petition to the mayor to
allow the construction of cable street
railways.
''Actors are made, not born, now
adays,' says an old New York man
ager. "Onotenth genius, nine-tcnths
mechanism" D."
A joint stock crematory company is
being formed in Pennsylvania. 1t has
nothing to do with dairy products, only
with die-ary.
Small boy-Pa, did you know ma
long before you married her? Pal
didn't. | didn't know her until long
after had married her.
Snakes from the water-pipes frequent
ly find their way onto the tables of
Syracuse boarding-houses. Tbe usual
size is from three to six inches.
There are 1,Sl7 theaters and halls,
equipped with scenery and furnished
for theatrical performances and used
for that purpose in the United States
A little boy at San Antonio, who had
been to the circus, attempted to imi-
tate the jugglers with knives and ran
the blade OF pocket knife in his eye.
An effort will be made this winter to
induce congress to appropriate suili-
cient money to erect monument on
the grounds of the encgmpment at
Valley Forge.
The continued stream of immigration
at the far west may be judged by the
that iifty-threo cmigrant
wagons passed through one Oregon
town last week.
MADAME, you said your son was
awyer, | think? Has he much prac-
ice?' "Yes, sir; he has great prac-
ice--of smoking tobacco the fond
mother replied.
During quarrel between two negro
employees in Virginia furnace recent
y, one of the combatans was hurled
nto n mass of molten iron, whero he
vas burned to death.
A woman who occupies high posi-
ion in Washington society has two
one being blonde and the
thera brunette, whom she dubs re-
pectlvely her black and tam
There is man living in Elmira who
as been married thirty.two times, nc.
ording to Thc Gazette and Free Press.
lie peculiar feature of this case is that
yenty-eight of his wives are living.
The retail tobacco-dealcrs of Louis
ille, it is stated, propose to appeal to
ongress for an appropriation of 3d.
10000, in order that n rebate may be-
aid to them for stamped tobacco in
leir hands when the revenue act was
asscd.
Gambling in Washington. while it
as been restricted, has by no means
zen suppressed. lnnumerable poker
ubsn exist, and MIN disposed to
SIX few or even more dollars will
ave no difficulty in finding congenial
There are believed to be over two
undIed ladies in New York who pos
,Ss each more than $4,000 worth Of
iamonds. Mrs. Vanderbilt's $ and Mrs.
ould's individual property in dia-
Ionds, rubies and emeralds is estimat-
to- exceed the value of S2OO,OOO.
lore than forty ladies can lay ella m to
80, 900 worth, and plenty have $4,000
} invested.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says
nat southern girls are teaching now
Il over tho land, and that is good
gn. Before the war we used to get
il our teachers from New England.
ut they didn't teach very long. for
ur Young men and widowers married
ZEN, and they. made good wives and
ood mothers, and they raised up good
9bels.
William and Mary college, Of Vir-
inia, has closed its doors, having but
ne student at the beginning of this
,hool year. Next to Harvard, this
as the oldest college in America, hay
10 been founded in 1893, and was the
My one that received royal charter.
.mong the most eminent men educated
its halls were Washington, Marshall.
Tyler, Breckenridge, and
en. Scott.
The yield of common potatoes in this
oun'ry is enormous. The ordinary
reduction is sometimes largely in ex-
ess of 150, 900, 900 bushels. There are
3, 900 bushels OF sweet potatoes raised.
bread there is no other
rticle of food of such universal use
S the potato. 1t make its regular ap-
earauce upon the tables OF rich and
oor. The habit of eating potatoes is
lmost as general as the habit OF taxi
lg daily meals.
A reverend brother is responsible for
le following from Alabama: A field
l Tallapoosa county, which had pro-
ably been in cultivation seventy-fve
r eighty years ago, passed latterly in
D possession of man who, in prepar- .
10 it for planting, had ditch gut
hrouoh H. Four feet balow the slfr-