Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-11-22
FACT AND FANCY.


There are :, 200 passenger trains en-
tering and leaving London every day
The negroes of Fort Worth, Tex, are
to have the finest school-housc in the
state.
A farmers congress of the United
States is to be held at Louisville, Ky,
Dec. 3.
An architect at Yicksburg, Miss,
will furnish plans for the worlds ex-
position.
A single eastern railroad recently
discharged twenty-seyen employees for
color blindness.
A lady near Holly Springs, Miss,
realized S6S. 10 from the eggs of seven
hens in three months.
the Louisiana state election takes
place April lst, 1884, and will be for
state and parochial officers.
1t is claimed in Albany, n Y, that
the introduction Of the electric light has
decreased crime 40 per cent.
A Milford, Conn, chiCken-fancier
feeds his fowls on skunks, muskrats,
rabbits, and dead horses and COWS.
A widow in Yicksburg, Miss, has re-
cciycd Sl2, 300 from different orders, of
which her husband was a member.
A Tate (MissisSippD county farmer
raised sweet potato that is an exact
imitation Of Il duck, head, wings, tail,
and all.
Gov. Proctor Knott, of Kentucky,
says cmphatically that he will not re-
nit fines imposed upon convicted
gamblers.
A man u. St. Helena, Cal, buried his
pet dog in his garden, put headstone
over its grave, and keeps it constantly
dccked with flowers.
j. c. Flanagan, of San Bernardino,
Cal, was stung byascorpion last week.
Applications OF tobacco, soaked in whis-
ky, removed the pain.
An old citizen of Dorsey county, Ar
kansas, has thirty-nine grandchildren.
all living 50 near to him that he can
visit them in one day.
Columbia, in Marion county, Miss,
one OF the oldest towns in the state,
and at one time the capital, has its first
church. 1t is Methodist.
Capt. Cole Denham, the notorious
pirate of Lake Pontchartrain, Louis
lana, who was sentenced TO the pcni-
tentiary, has made his escape.
The immigration association of Cali
fornia announces that there are still
open to settlement in that state nearly
fOrty.iivc millions acres of land.
Prayer-books bound in white velvet
and gold, costing from S2j up, are the
latest novelties for brides TO hold in
their hands at the nuptial ceremony.
Maine has twcnty-onc thousand miles
Of wilderness, and the whole state of
Massachusetts could be set down in
the middle Of them and not be able TO
find its way out.
A bee comb, nearly three feet long,
suspended from tree and pretty well
filled with honey, was recently found
near Santa Ana, Cal. The bees were
still working at it.
Experiments are in progress in Ohio
for turning palmetto leaves into paper
for news print. 1t was the material
used for Bank Of England notes with
such secrecy for years.
A gentleman near Aberdeen, Miss,
placed two carp mlLnOws in his pond
one year ago, aud in cleaning it out
found 2iO young ones. The two old
ones weighed four pounds each.
A cane brought over in the May
flower by William White, the father of
Peregrinc White, the first white child
born in New England, is now in pos
session of Capt. William White, of
Yarmouth.
The republic of Guatemala has en-
gagged Il CeylOn planter to introduce in
/ That country five hundred thousand
cinchona trees, for obtaining Peruvian
bark, from which is distilled tho salts
known as quinine.
A pew in DR.. Halls Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church was recently sold
at public auction, for 81, $50. The first
| bid was 81 600. There were half
dozen bidders, and the contest between
them was spirited.
A tailor in Nashville, Tenn, is the
happy possessor of an old haudker-
chief with which Andrew Jackson used
to wipe his nose. This fortunate tailor
is so proud of the rag he will not even
allow it TO bo washed.
A young lover in Iowa paid $40 for
a locomotive to run him thlrty-hyo
miles to see his girl, and when he got
there tho family bulldog ran him two
miles and didn't charge HIM q cent.
Corporations have no souls,
Recently Kentucky Sheriff was di-
rocted to bring the body of 250-
pound parson into court Tho parson
lay down on hisback and directed the
Sheriff to go ahead, and they are now
trying to find out whether the parson
was in contempt
Alabama wedding: The bridal
march was played by Will Cor
lev on harmonica. The groom was
attired in q hickory stripe shirt and
copperas colored pants and on his arm
was gently suspended his bride, like a
clear rib side of bacon or bushel OF
meal.
"Why didn't you deliver that mes
sage as | gave it to youP" asked gem
, tleman of his stupid servant. 81 did
the best l could sir" "You did
, the best you could, sir, did
/ youp" initiating his voice and look.
"Pshaw! If had known that WAS
sending a donkey would have gone
myself"
, There is a lively contest now going
on between the citizens of the little
; town of Mary Ann, Ark. A number of
the residents have applied to have the
: town reincorperated and called "Mari-
auna," while the old settlers object.
aud say, in their paper, that 'if the
: dudes don't feel satisfied with Mary
5 Ann they can get up and git"
All the women smoke in Spain. In
Italy the like habit is general; in
Gen many, Austria and other parts of
D the Continent it is the fashion TO smoke
cigars. In Turkey every female has
: her hookah, narghileh and chibouque.
There is less lung disease in Turkey
than in any other country, and the
women retain their teeth longer.
James Giles, farmer near Austin,
Tex, cut down n live oak tree last
. week and found in the center a live