Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-08-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Connecticut girls smoke their cigar
cites on the street.
The Brooklyn savings banks have
nearly $70,COO,OOO on deposit.
Reno currants sell at 10 cents o
pound in Virginia City, Nevada.
Limc-watcr, with n small quantity of
acetic acid, is said to make good ink
eraser.
A family living in Compton, Cal,
were recently poisoned by eating canned
salmon.
Pittsburgh will have another expo
sition, beginning Sept. 6 and ending
Oct -.
A brotherhood of locomotive engi-
neers is to be organized at Missoula,
Montana.
Three baby African lions that were
born July II, are on exhibition in San
Francisco, Cal
A castor-ol plant placed in room
infested with flies will Immediately ex-
terminate them.
Republics are not always ungrateful.
The United States has paid its soldiers
100000, 900 in pensions.
"Rat poison" is becoming the
favorite beverage for assistance in
shaking off this mortal coil"
Indians are rapidly becoming civil
lied One poor Lo recently bought an
opera-glass in Salt Lake, Utah.
A COW on the ranch of j. II. artin,
of Bishop Creek, Nevada, recently gave
birth to live well-developed calves.
A Benton, Montana, Chinaman, re-
Gently gave two sacks OF musty flour in
exchange for Piegan squaw and her
papoose.
A California lion, measuring some
eight feet from tip to tip, was killed in
the mountains near San Luis Obispo
last week.
Many English pennies, plated with
silver, have lately been passed at night
upon CARELESS Bostonians for American
half-dollars.
The loss by fire on the Pacific coast
for the first six months of 1888 foot up
to the extraordinary sum of 81, 100000
The insurance was 81, $4,000.
From nearly every city in the United
States comes the cheerful report that
the number of new buildings this year
will exceed that of any corresponding
period in its history.
East Calico, Cal, has cave about
100 feet long, in which kind of red
paint used by Indians has been found,
1t has apparently been the home of
wild animals and birds.
There is cat in Tama county, Texas,
with two heads. While it is wauling
with one mouth 1t will be licking itself
with the other. One voice is hollow,
scpulcural bass, and the other pierre
ing tenor.
Welderman's Beilblattcr says that
: shark belonging 10 the genus Symnus
is phOsphorcscent Oh its whole unCer
surface, with small black strip on the
back to be excepted. All of the upper
surface gives nolight.
+ Mrs. Thomas, of Scranton, Pa,
while nursing an infant only few
weeks old was so affected by the news
of one of her children's death that the
! child at her breast was seized with con
yulSonS, and died in Il few hours.
Elwood Norncy, aged II years, liv-
ing near Hcrmonvlle, Montgomery
county, Pa, while flying kite, fell in
to an unused iron.ore hole seventy.tive
feet deep. He was picked up insensi-
bic, with 4 broken thigh and dislo-
Gated hip, but it is thought he will re-
cover.
In Cambria county, Pennsylvania, a
newly-madG mOtherinlaw slapped
her daughters husband in the face
because he would not give SIS to band
of serenaders. The husband took his
wife ont the back door, but the disap-
pointed sercnaders followed, throwing
stones at the newly. welded pair and
covering the brides dress with mud.
In l772 n bright cloud was observed
at midnight to cover mountain in the
island of Java it emitted globes of fire
so luminous that the night became as
clear as day. Its effects were aston
ishing. Everything was destroyed 70.
seven leagues around. Houses were
demolished, plantations were buried
in the earth, and S,040 people lost then
, lives, besides 1900 head of cattle.
Two pairs of rusty shackles and
ball and chain have been found during
the past week in the basement of the
Universalist church in Watertown, N.
, Y.--a singular place, one would say,
for such implements. But the discov
cry is explained by the fact that ir
+ years past the church basement was
, rendezvous for criminals, and it is con
5 iectured that couple of escaped COZ
= victs there removed the impedimen
to further flight.
i A trial of the Sl-ton guns at Dover,
: short time ago, resulted successfully.
= The ground trembled perceptibly from
: the effects of the explosion, windows
d and doors ratified and several thick
S panes of glass in the lighthouse were
Q shattered. Four rounds were fired,
S the projectiles being all of the same
= weight, i, 200 pounds-but the charg-
S es of powder varying from 225 pounds
n to 450 pounds, the latter being a full
S charge. The projectiles struck the
G water at distances varying from 100
g yards to four miles, according to the
y elevation, and the recoii varied from
# four to seven feet, The carriages and
IS aiming aparutus worked admirably.
On Lookout mountain near Fort
Payne, Ala, there is said to be one Of
the most wonderful subterranean
l, caverns ever discovered in that coun
d try, and which bids fair to outrival
n the famous Kentucky Mammoth cave.
" The elevated fountains of crystal wat
81 ers interspersed throughout this cave
. furnish miniature cascades, whose
IS falling spray is wonderfully beautiful,
Is while its lofty domes, studded with
&c stalactites, surpass the ceruean hues
10 of the heavens, dotted with its spark
ID ling gems. The passage ways in the
le cave are so large that person can ex
le plore all its parts without STOPPING.
Is There are also several fine springs in
u the cave.
u ~ A beautifully carved match-safo
u made of fine white sandstone was re
" Gently found in the Nevada state prison
10 quarry. The safe was carved by M.
', N Pritchard, a convict, and is an elabor-