Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-12-06
FACT AND FANCY.

increasing.
A hon's-nest has just been patented
in Washington.
There are forty-two towns in Duval
county, Florida.
There are nine negroes in the new
Virginia legislature.
The granadilla blossom is the flower
now at Apopka, Fla.
In Bibb county, Ala, peach trees
were recently in bloom
A fine botanical garden is TO be
established in Palatka, Fla.
Southwestern Colorado is consuming
Utah potatoes by the carload.
Deer are dying in the mountains of
Tennessee with black tongue.
Georgia papers are urging the use of
the whipping-post in that state.
In Sumter county, Fla, hands 10
pick oranges are paid 81 day.
Baseball is the latest amusement of
the FL Paso, Tex, young ladies.
A lady lawyer will soon apply for
admission to the Maryville Tenn, bar.
The tramp is still securing the coun-
try. 1t is the only thing he does scour.
The famous Biz rock, on the river
just above Little Rock, is advertised for
sale.
A iug-bellod runt is what Missis-
sirpi editor styles the opposition candi-
date.
One stage.driver out Of A Agusta, Me-,
gets 80 cents for his round trip of sixty
miles.
Texas is said to produce about one
half the cotton raised in the United
States.
There is y widespread contest over
who shall be the champion lightweight
grocer.
Fifty million envelopes were printed
in Hartford, Conn, for The government,
last month.
Bodic, Cal, has curiosity. 1t is a
grown legborn rooster with two horns
over the eyes.
The telephone is Il truly great inven-
ton. 1t has worn out the voice OF
Hartford female helloer.
1t is estimated that the corn crop of
Arkansas this year will amount to
thirty-tour million bushels.
In Mexico there are one hundred
PRESBYTERIAN congregations, ten native
preachers and two schools.
BY one haul of the seine $500 null
lets We're clught at Masonboro sound,
North Carolina, few days ago.
Two young ladies, Misses Ellie and
Birdie Moore, are making a success of
a daily paper published at MilIedgeville,
Ky.
One hundred and ten pounds is the
weight of n 3.year-old child named
Fitz Buchanan, who lives in Greenup,
Ky.
A lady in Binghamton, N. Y, who
had been ill . long time suddenly
coughcd up Il snake thirteen inches
recently.
The English are surprised 20 learn
tirr lIu Uutui Stutgs Weather than
Great Britain by $4,000, 100000.
Quite dot
To have an appetite proportional TO
that of robin, 4 man would have to
devour daily sixty-seven feet of sausage
nine inches in diameter.
Newbern, Tenn, has a law that
imposes u fine of not less than 1926 or
more than $50 on any person who goes
into 4 saloon ON Sunday.
A Hopkins (Ky.) county man is saw
ing up rattleSnake skins for the pur-
pose of making himself a vest. He
now has over ore hundred
Macon, Ga, claims as resident one
Df the descendants of the late Sir
Francis Drake, who died in England
leaving fortune of SIG, 100000.
A cow in Hart county, Kentucky,
gave birth to five calves at
one time, three of which were well
developed, alive and healthy, and two
lead.
The new pasture of Capt. King, in
Coleman county, Texas, is to contain
$4,000 acres, and will be the largest
ract OF land within one fence in the
world
"Wush you'd take these pale ingons
away from here" said rural Arkan-
'as man, pointing to vase Of celery,
''an' fetch some that's got some git up
m git in EN-"
A professional woman bcggar, who
has Travelled over the state with child
and monkey, has settled in San
Tex, with $4,000 in cash, and
will 90 into business.
An illuminated cross, twelve feet in
height, similar to those in New York
and Brooklyn, is to be placed upon the
spire of St. Agathas Roman Catholic
church, in Philadelphia.
The school directors of Columbus,
o., have voted to abolish the study of
Greek from the high school of that city,
nj the end of the year, and substitute
course of classic English in its place,
Having demonstrated the feasil,Sas,,.
the hundreds OF lines in this country,
the leading railroads are now trying to
agree upon uniform system of signals
for train-running.
When Grace put on new pair OF
shoes which fitted very closely, and
had low heel, she was ask
ed how she felt. Her reply was:
.Thev make me feel as though
wanted to walk like grassbopper.
A few days ago white child was
found in the Agusta, Ga, market by
some colored people, who carried 1t
over to Aiken county aud sold It to
highly respectable white family for $40.
The child is of the masculine gender.
A handsome young lady entered
draper's and asked for bow. The
polite shopman threw himself back,
and remarked that he was at her
service. "Youl But | want buii,
not a green one," was the reply. The
Young man went on measuring gooos
Immediately.
The use of tobacco, for over 5,OO0
wears, according TO one author, was
confined to Central America. In the
wear that Columbus discovered Ameri-
ca, while lying off Cuba, he sent two
men ashore to reconnoitre. On their
return they reported that they saw
''the naked savages twist large leaves
together light one end in the fire and
smoke like devils"