Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-11-29
FACT AND FANCY.
Hard TO beat-A china egg.

| A COOIlng emDeT ulucl'
At a standstill-Th meat market.
An ex-spurt-The frozen fountain.
Asound argument-Beating drum.
Always turn a cold shoulder to the
fire.
A Fourteenth street store advertises
''real imitation lace"
Uncle Sam TO the MormOns: Don't
point your old Cannon at me-"
There is Mormon settlement of fifty
members near San Antonio, Tex.
Ashcake and Burdock are the euphon-
ious names of two stations on rail-
way in Virginia.
The Goldfish catch on the Pacific
coast this year was l,7l3,O0O, against
1,2l1 Gov last year.
Southern California expects TO receive
an addition TO its population in large
colony from England.
A little of coior-Tno paint on the
back of a man who leaned against q
newly decorated wall.
They have built a temple AT Benares,
in India, to lot Of sacred monkeys.
Darwinism is growing.
An automatic dust and cinder de-
fector,' to be adjusted to the windows
of railway cars, has just been patented.
A letter mailed in san Francisco on
the afternoon OF Oct. 10 reached Lon
don Oct. 20, just fifteen days aiterward.
Ex-Gov. Coburn is the wealthest
man in Maine. He is over four score
years Of age. He was never married.
Oyster dredgers in Chesapeake bay
report that the bivalyes are scarce and
inferior in quality. Over l,jOO vessels
are now dredging.
A 80 year-old clock at San Marcos,
Tex, that has been silent eight years,
walked up the other day and struck $50
without stopping.
-Four years ego Texas stood third IN
wealth among the southern states. To-
day she stands first, having property
valued at $j20,OO0,00O.
An orange that had completely
healed over after splitting was lately
exhibited in Lake City, Fla. 1t was
taken from grated tree.
"Who is there?" demanded Peter.
Zone sent for tribute" said the tax
collector Take two," said Peter, as
he gave him sniff OF pennyroyal.
A missionary tells story OF Zulu
chief who embraced Christianity at
once when told it meant only one wife.
The tawny gentleman was in search of
peace.
Judge A. b. Norton, of Dallas, Tex,
has Il cane given him by Henry Clay in
1874. 1t was made from an ash tree
that was felled in that year on Clay's
grounds.
Salt Lake is used only as bathing
resort, but u dozen people die Of stran-
guatiOn there each year when they get
good dose of the salt water down
: their throats.
A young lady student Of the West
Los Angeles (CaL) university, who
! riIos to and from school hos irainnd
: her horses TO kneel when she vaults in
to the saddle.
A vessel which arrived at New Bed
ford, Mass, day or two ago brought
an eagle which alighted on the mast
head when the vessel was 1900 miles
from any land.
A Casteton, VT, man has lived with
in four miles of Lake BOmoseen twenty
five Years and never set eyes upon it.
His brother has crossed the ocean tive
times since 1860.
"My son." said old Precepts, don't
take to writing poetry. When was
Young like yuu | was Smitten with Il
beautiful creature, and wrote hor a
poem. never saw her again"
Mrs. Fred Fisk, of Canestota, n. Y,
has set of lace embroidered curtains,
the work of her own hands, and which
have occupied her four years, She has
refused an offer of 81, 900 for them.
There is peddler who frequents the
up-rorth portions of New York who
brcathes through tube, his windpipe
hay ing been severed by ruflians at
train robbery some years ago in tho
west.
A petition will be presented to con-
gresS Immediately upon its assembling
urging that national gallery for the
annual exhibitions of art productions
of the country be established at Wash
ington.
Next in cheek to the stealing of
red-hot stove was the recent theft OF
large steam boiler in Denver. 1t was
conveyed away in n transfer wagon
and was found doing duty for velOci-
pede factory.
Along the sides of the Sierra valley,
at an altitude of fifty to one hundred
feet, there is q warm belt, free from
frost and climate changes, and which
can produce all the hardy fruits to
great perfection. ...-.
A Philadelphia tailor says the
Knickerbuckers will first be used ex-
clusiyely for full dress, with tho regula-
ton swalOw-tail coat. The material
will be the finest broadcloth and the
stockings black silk.
1t is not generally known that the
cotton exhibition to be held in New
Orleans in December, 1884, is TO cele-
brate the expectation OF tho first bale
of cotton from this country. 1t was
sent to England in 1884,
County Clerk Sesnon, of San Fran
, cisco, CAL, last week issued n marriage
license to q BOY and girl, the former
being 16 years of age and tho latter
/ 10. The parents of each were present,
r and consented to the issuance of the
! license.
Mississippi has s7,ooo,OOo invested
in manufactures, and Alabama has S5,-
r 900, 900 in iron. The last South Caro-
lima legislature chartered nine new cot
l ton factories, with an aggregate capital
r of about 81, 900, 600, and in three years
, $50, 900 spndles have been added to the
manufacturing capacities Of the Caro-
: linas, Alabama and Georgia,
The daughter says: "Mamma is all
y wrong. would not marry aman who
went around in that cold-blooded man
ner. do not want anybody to exam
; inc my bank account before they make
: up their minds to marry me, and, as TO
pedigree, our common grandfather, l
: am told was a monkey. / am tired OF
! this sort OF business, and If he does not
" a.. - Lnoa,,aa ba 10 afraid Qf