Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-04-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

OF sl5i per acre.
IN digging n well in Glencoe, Mimi,
wild buCkwhrat seed was found forty
feet below the surface.
A manufacturer Of potted meats has
been arrested in London for using
donkey's flesh in his business.
The garien-truck raised about Nor
folk, Va. this season will require l.
100000 barrels in which to market it.
fight Squeeze" Ga, is to wiggle
from und,r that sobriquct and hatch
into fulLlledged Incorporated town
named North Atlanta.
a wise man OF Athens says friendship
is like good cCllee, when once il has
become cold, it cannot be warmed
again without losing its first SAVIOR.
Miss Nellie Coon, of Charles City,
| la., has pieced two quilts, one contain
ing Is, gSs and the other $3.50 blocks,
both Of which were completed before
her sixteenth year
/ II is srmi-oilicially announced that
/ President Arthur will not hold himself
responsible tor single alligator or fish
story that may he published in connec-
ton with the Florida trip.
Some reckless and cvil-minded per-
son throws out the suggestion that if
! the 100 wives of Solomon attended the
same church the minister thereof must
have had u grand old time.
A Philadelphia paper has evidently
Qcen mcditating this for some days,
Gut it is ont at last: IF over-productiun
makes Il dull hop market, under-pro-
duction should make dull market
hop
The Oil City Derrick dislikes the new
word dude" and thinks the older
form, squirt more appropriate.
Another paper thinks "fool' about
covers the ease, while a third thinks
the good old biblical term, lass, ;" is
better.
The Philadelphia Press announces a
singular discovery. 1t is that the use
of garlic conduccs TO an hallucinatiOn
of the brain on the part of the ndulger
that he is possessed of valuable secrets
which it is his conscientious duty 10 i'm
part to others, by putting his mouth
close to the ears OF his victims.
A boy of eight years, IN one of the
Massachusetts schools, was asked by
his teacher where the zenith was. He
replied: "Thc spot in the heavens di-
rrctly above ones head" TO test his
knowledge further the teacher asked:
Can two persons have the same zenith
at the same time?' They can"
"How?' IF one should stand on the
Others head
Charles Dickens is reported to have
"asslStcd' ut n seaucc once, and re-
Questcd the attendance of the spirit of
Lindlcy Murray. He was soon Informed
that tie spirit awaited his questioning.
"Are You the spirit of Lindlel Murray
asked the great author of the great
grammarian. II are replied the in
corporcal visitor. Mr.. Dickens was I'M
mediate}y convinced.
"IIow many races are there?" was
asked by Il Kentucky school ma'am.
Up sprang Il shOck-hcadcd yOuugster
with u yard-wide smile on his face and
exclaimed; Three, the spring meeting,
midsummer speeding and fail iairs"
The teacher promptly called the plin-
cipal of the school to the stand, and
after short but earnest cUnfe ence,
the embryonic Ten Brock was ruled
OIL. -
The editor of the Augusta (Ga.)
Tbr,p;.ln ,,-ag Inpltl.sa L,tl,rip,,
sharp dyspcptic pangs when he wrote:
I'VE state positively that most Of the
cooks in the south to-day are ignorant
of the elementary principles of the cul-
mary art and that they are either too
stubborn or too stupid to be instructed.
A practical branch of cookery taught
by an expert would be Il valuable addi-
ton to our public school system. What
is the use of cook who reads novels
and does not know how TO brOil steak
or make soup palalableg"
In the Catholic cities of France, says
Texas Siftngs, the devout worshipperS,
on some particular saints day, kiss the
sacred picture of saint. A man who
did not believe much in the saints any
how asked young girl who had just
come from church if she, too, had kiss
ed the picture of the sacred saint. She
replied that she had whereupon he re-
SpOnded: II would rather kiss your
beautiful lips than the picture of a
saint. How do you know who has
lust kissed that picture before you
dld?n And if you were to kiss my
lips how would you know who had
kissed them just before you didP" was
the sharpreply.
General Sherman recently had some
shirts made at furnishing store in
Washington, and the cutter few
weeks later met the general with
friend walking down the avenue. The
general remembered the face, but
could not locate him, and the cutter
greeted him with; Good morning,
General How are you to-dayP" The
general stopped, shook hands, and the
cutter, perceiving that the generals
mind NEED refreshing, said quietly:
MADE your shirts" "Oh! beg par
lon," said the general quickly, and
turning to the gentleman with whom
he was walking, he said: "Ah! Col
onel--, allow me to introduce you to
my friend, Major Schurz:"
Senator Bowen, of Colorado, tells
The following story about himself; On
his return from Washington some
weeks ago he was riding through Iowa
On the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
road, and late at night passed Creston,
he little town where Bowen lived
when boy. At that point an old
man, Deacon Elihu Baxter, boarded
he train and Bowen recognized him.
Of course the venerable deacon didn't
know Bowen from anybody else, and
when the two fell into conversation and
Bowen gave out he was from Colorado
ne had the Deacon all at disad-
vantage. From Colorado, ehp" said
Deacon Baxter "Their new Senator,
Tom Bowen, is an Iowa boy-did you
,ver meet the cussp" "Well, yes, off'n'-
,n." replied Senator Bowen, rather
They tell heaps o. yarns
IN him." continued Deacon Baxter,
.an' some o. the stories Is purity
.ough. But l guess most on 'em is
.rue, for knew him when he was
poy, an II my recollection serves mo
right, he was leetle the orneriest
,uss | ever seen."
An old butcher way out in Missouri,
With neuralgia, he suffered like fury,