Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-12-27
FACT AND FANCY.

college.
A company of gypsies is doing Fell
ciana, La.
Ninety per cent OF the Russian peo-
pie are illlterate.
The widow OF Lord Cavendish is
about to marry again.
Watermelons are ripeniDg down IN
Brovard county, Florida
Rve grass is being experimental with
by Gilroy (Cal } farmers.
The Mormons have successfully in
vaded the Sandwich Islands.
The American grain-elevator system
is to be introduced in Russia.
Bro ansvllle, Tenn, has eighty wild
ows and not single old maid.
A slight shock of earthquake was re-
Gently felt in Oaxaca, Mexico.
There are 1863. Si4 Christians in In
dia out OF Zjt 500, ,jl6 inhabitants.
The white inhabitants of Fiji are ag-
itetng for annexation TO Australia.
Even missionaries are excluded from
tho San Carlos (Cal) reservation.
The Mormous are anxious to pur-
chase the old state-houso at Fillmore,
| Utah,
Yazoo county, Mississippi, has 25,-
0OO negroes, 5000 whites, and
Chinese.
The total number OF deaf mutes in
the United States is $1,000, or one to
every $50 people.
Las Vegas boasts cowgirl, or fe-
male cow boy, who can "rope" an ami
nal with more than male dexterity.
Henry A. Mann, 4 county treasurer
of Saratoga county, New York, in 1875,
is, according to a recent discovery Of
TIE Troy Telegram, Il defaulter TO the
tune Of Sl1S.0O.
An old negress in Waco, Tex, when
asked her ago by the census-taker, ex-
claimed; Law, bress you, boss, |
don't know, but | was 10 years old
when the stars fell"
A Mexican near Pdeblo killed his
child for burning up 5000 in paper
money, and then in TemOrse threw him
self before locomotive and was killed.
flis wife has become insane.
1t is said that it would have taken
wagon train 32Sl miles long TO have
moved the wheat crop out Of Walla
Walla valley, Washington territory,
aud Uma,lla county, the present
season.
A female teacher in Portland, Me-,
uses on the boys a strap about eighteen
inches long. made by doubling q strip
of harness leather and stitching tho
sides together, leaving at the center
oop-hole for the hand.
Vennor says that the mildness of the
early winter daysis veriiication OF his
propaesies, He now predicts sum-
mer warmth in midwinter, but that We
shall catch it hot, that is cold and
heavy along in March and April.
Federmeyer and Guerrero, who are
trundling wheelbGrrows across the con-
linent, from San Francisco to New
York, Tor a purse OF $4,000, arrived at
Ogden on Dec. 3. They started from
San Francisco on the 7th OF October.
Charles Stephens, iifty-year old
resident of Fulton, N. T., claims that
he has never tasted meat OF any kind
that he can remember. When four
year old child it made him sick, and
the dislike he then took to it has never
been overcome.
When widow says she doesn't in
tend to marry again, it may be that her
husband was so good that she never
could care for another man; and then
again it may bo that her experience
with married life hasn't made her wish
for any more of it; and it may be that
she lies.
"I'll take whisky what will you
have, FredP" said man in New York
saloon. a don't feel like drinking"
said Fred The first speaker poured
out q generous glass OF whisky, drank
half of it, and handed the rest OF it to
his friend, remarking, with wry face,
There's something the matter with
that stuff. Try it," Fred finished the
liquor. The first speaker laid 10 cents
upon the bar, and they walked out.
''Thats new game, remarked the
bartender.
In Logan county, Kentucky, John
Calvert set steel-trap to catch large
owl that was frequenting his hennery.
On going to look after his trap the
next morning he was surprised to find
it gone. A few nights afterward he
was aroused from sleep by n noise on
the house-top, and taking down his
gun he crept out to see what was the
origin of the noise. Outlined in the
moonlight, he discovered huge bird,
which he promptly shot. Upon secur-
ing his game, ho found it to be his
enemy-the owl-with the missing
trap clamped on to its leg.
A few days ago Homer Moore, of
Greensboro, Ga, was driving yoke of
oxen along the road, when they became
frightened and dashed off through the
woods near by. They ran into tree
and the horns on one of the oxen was
knocked completely off, flying a dis
tance of ten or twelve feet from the
tree. Homer hurriedly grabbed up the
horn and soused il in its socket. 1t
took holt. and grew in its former place,
and is now as solid as ever. The only
objection is that Homer in his haste
put the horn on bottom upward and it
has tendency to be lop-sided. Save
this little fault the horn is all right and
the OK prances around and hooks
things with bis old-time energy
There is Clergyman in Tennessee
called the satisfying preacher" Ha
congregation is disconnected he is sent
for, and so atrociously bad is he that
after hearing him once or twice the
congregation is entirely satisfied to
keep the pastor it has. The Christian
Advocate tells this story, and adds
that when the great Robert Hall was
recovering from mental alteration he
took whim that he would not preach.
Several clergymen filed his pulpit.
AT last he heard one so poor that he
said to him-so the tradition is: "Sir,
you have produced great effect by
your sermon to-day. II the people
must hear you or me, my duty is clear
I must resume preachingP"
Mr.. j. +. Arands, whose farm is
near Houston, Tex, within the past
few days has had to shoot five OF his
cattle on account Of tho mad hts that
seem to be epidemic in that vicinity.
The first symptom Of the disease IL
SOLDERING excessively; then they be-
come restless and look up all the time,
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