Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1883-05-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


q population of II 900.
Every wcll-regulatcd newspaper has
the Cars obituary ready.
One may remain in Bermuda until
the end of May. After that it is very
hot.
The growing crop of oats is two feet
high in some of the fields in Sumter
county, ia.
The newly discovered placers on tho
Agna Fria, Arizona, are attracting con-
siderable attention.
Besides his duchy of Cornwall, the
Prince Of Wales owne5 real estate
valued at 100000 year.
An artesian well, four hundred feet
deep, at Parnasus, Va, has been fin
ished, and affords excellent water.
A London physician says the English
sparrow is subject TO the smallpox,
and can easily spread the disease.
The green three.cent stamp will have
been in use thirteen years when the
new rate goes into effect next October.
One billion seven hundred and
seventy-six million letter., cards and
newspapers last year weit through the
British postollice.
A Georgia bottle OF whisky, found IN
the wall of an old courthouse, was
sixty years old. That was as old as it
was allowed to get.
The California wine production, as
measured by receipts at San Francisco,
has risen from 3 36l, COZ gallons in 1879
to 7,OOO,OOO in 1882.
A law has been made in New Jersey
to prohibit the sale of tobacco to min
ors. A line of so is imposed upon
the sellers who disregard it.
Od-faShioncd hint-lock shotguns are
still made at Birmingham, England,
for use in remote places where, should
the ammunition for patent guns give
out. the hunter would be helpless.
After the wheat came up on Ken
lucky farm Il slcct-stOrm covered the
field with ice. Before this melted n
Hood swept over, and the ice, rising TO
the surface of the water, pulled every
blade of wheat out of the ground and
carried it away.
The new married woman property
act in England encourages woman
to lend money 10 anybody except her
husband. 1t enables her TO sue him
and to be witness against him. 1t also
renders her liable to maintain both her
husband and her children.
An immense amount of building is
inprogrcss at Washington. Many gov.
crnmcnt employees ut from $4,000 to
$1,000 Il year own handsome houses in
more or less fashionable quarters, and
invite the reflection that they must be
marvellously good managers to do it.
A recent visitor in Maine said he
succeeded in getting drink of whisky.
The "bar' was the vest pocket of u
hotcl.kcepcr, and the liquor was poured
ont for him in Il secret room. After
drinking it he made n rush for the
hotel pump 10 put out the fire.
A Wisconsin court decides that
pound-mastcr does not hold an Office
or place Of trust, and need MOI there
fore he sworn. The owners of I'M
pounded stock, however, seem TO think
that considerable swearing is absolutely
essential and therefore do it themselves.
The Boston sheriff who made tho an
neXcd remark is level. headed: "Many
women come to me at the Jail and want
to read and talk to the criminals, but
tell them to 90 and read and talk to the
same class that are not as yet crimi-
mails, and Keep them from being such.
NJ. Fcrd. Rcibcr, of Strasburg, has
published II book on beer in which he
states that it has already invaded the
south of France, aud is rapidly making
its way into italy, He gives Il curious
reason for the fact. Beer is the only
liquor he says, (which one can drink
and enjoy while smoking
A married man in Rochester, accord
ing to the Post of that city, took
young lady to the thcater one night,
and after tie first act excused himself
for moment, as he wanted to 60 out
to "scca man." He didn't come back.
Instead of Sccirg a man he saw n wom-
an. 1t was his wife, waiting for him
at the door.
A La Crosse county, Wis, farmer
who had adopted boy from charita-
bic institution slit the lads tongue with
n pair of scissors because he caught
him in lie. Lying is, no doubt, a sin,
but of the actors in this tragedy the
boys chances of heaven ought to be at
least equal to the brutc's chances of the
gallows.
Prof. Cohn, of BreSlau, believes that
states leads to shortsightedness, and
would substitute pen and ink, or an
artificial white slate with black pencil,
manufactured in Pilscn. Black OF
white is proved by experiment to stand
out most clearly to the eye, The Zurich
school board forbids states. They are
noisy, and invite dirty habits in erasurc.
According to carefully prepared Of
fetal statistics, the decline of the ma.
tive race in Fiji has been arrested, and
slight increase in the population has
taken place in the last two years. This
result has been achieved mainly by the
measures which the government have
taken to soften the contact of the ma
tivcs with civilization and TO promote
among them some knowledge of the
laws of health.
The Arizona man, with the thousand
dollar watch and chain, the thousand
dollar diamond stud, and the pocket
book stuffed full of mining stocks, fell
among thieves again in Chicago the
other day. 1t is n somewhat remark
able fact, says the San Francisco Post,
that these Arizona men with thousand
dollar watches and chains, and thOus-
and-dollar diamond studs are never
seen in Arizona, but are only heard of
from some eastern city.
When Reno (Nov.) man wants
night of peace and quiet, says a cor
respondent, he tells his wife he is GO
ing down town and then goes and
crawls under the bed. When she has
got thoroughly mad at him for staying
out she prepares to retire. quite re-
solved to give him hurrah of lec-
ture when he returns. OF course, be-
ing alone in the house, she looks under
the bed, sees man, gives a yell and
fees from the house to her mothers,
two blocks away. In the morning she
returns and her husband tells of