Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-05-03
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Beef tea has been prescribed for
wakcfulness.
It is SAID that France has 219, ,270
houses without single window.
Baton Rouge, La, has band of or
ganized thieves composed of boys.
The fruit vendors of New York city
have formed Il protective association.
Texas will net S13 10000 from the
increase of her sheep farms this year.
Roanoke, Va, is only about two
years old and has population of 1900.
4 whale eighty feet long recently
grounded on tine bar of St. Johns, Fla.
The prospect for heavy yield of
apples throughout Texas is encourag-
ing.
Let men lift their heads aud take
courage for the soft-shell crab season
is at hand.
Canada is having larger immigra-
tion this year than last, the United
States less.
4 siX-foot vein of coal has been dis
covered Il few miles north of Cathla-
met, Oregon.
Strawberry farms in the vicinity of
Little Rock, Ark, pay an average
profit of Slji per acre.
The people of the far west have an
idea that dude is something given
away with pound of tea.
There is good-sizcd date tree, 4
relic of Mission days, growing in the
town of San Luis Obispo, Cal.
\ Texas farmer has made Il COM
plant against one of his neighbors for
sewing up the eyes Of bis COW.
The saloons in Fort Worth, Texas,
are kept open on Sundays, the proprie-
tors paying their fines regularly on
MONDAYS.
4 poor but enthusiastic laborer says
that if Peter Cooper be not in heaven
it will BE- because he is founding an in
Slilutc in-thc other place.
The "Formarina,n the portrait of
Raphael's mistress, was the picture by
him most visited by the crowd on the
iOoth anniversary of his birth.
Peter Sharp has been postmaster of
kdgewar, Mich, for thirty years.
When the office was first started about
one letter week comprised his mail.
\ Mexican woman residing in ST.
john, Apache county, Arizona, is said
to BE- 11j years old. She is childish,
and will cry for cake and candy like
child.
There is lying in the United States
treasury more than SlO,OO0,O00 of un-
claimed money-intercst and principal
OF public debt, some Of which dates
back to 1887.
Many Of the northern tourists on
their way home from Florida carry with
Them pet alligators. AT the Charleston
hotel Il waiter is detailed especially to
feed and water the alligators.
A libel suit is described as n legal
proceeding where II man pays a lawyer
$4,000 in order 10 get 81 900 out of
another man who thought the first man
was a fool and is now sure of it.
The buffalo gnat, one of the pests of
the south, has invaded Desha county,
Arkansas, bv the million, and is PROV
ing very destructive to the stock.
Nearly one hundred mules in Bolivar
county, Mississippi, have been killed
by the gnats.
The baby camel who is now flourish
ing in Central park, New York, is
about the size Of a colt, with long legs,
and without any hump on its back.
The neck is very short, but will develop
in time. As the mother was born in
the park, the baby camel is a true
American,
The sum of Sj,OOO-which might
be multiplied ten times-has
been offered by Mr.. Paul to the French
of Medicine to found a prize
or the discovery of q cure aor
liphtheria, the competition to be open
o tbc-world and not confined to the
medical circle.
As soon as young man and young
woman are engaged in Norway, no
natter in what rank of life, betrothal
ngs are exchanged The rings are
worm ever atterward by the men as well
IS by the women. The consequence is
hat one can always tell married, or
t least an engaged, man in Norway.
There is a determined effort on the
art of some Of the people of Florida
o divie the state into two parts. to be
nown as North and South Florida. 1t
) said the interests of the different
arts are not identical. This is true,
MT in what state of the union will the
interests Of all parts be found the same.
The man who claims to be the great
st opium eater in America lives at
n. IL. He began in 1S45
With minute doses, but slowly increas-
d them until now he consumes pound
month. He swallows enough every
ay to kill u score of ordinary men.
mike most slaves of the drug, he is
cry fat, and has not become mentally
wreck.
At Virginia City, New, they have
arrot which talks Piute. The bird
licked up the language from the Pluto
quaws, who never tire of jabbering to
Polly" Wild Indians who go to
own are thunderstruck at hearing
ird sing out at them in their native
onguc. Some of them are inclined to
ook upon the big green fowl as being
he devil in disguise
A Chicago undertaken said the most
ostly casket he ever saw was for
widow, who left $4,000 to be spent for
er funeral expenses. The casket it.
elf cost 81 400. 1t was lined with
lack and purple silk velvet and had
olid gold plate, which alone cost $500.
he florists bill was 1910. Drapings,
arriages and numerous other incIden-
Al expenses made up bill of $4,000.
Tie first hint of summer travel ap-
ears in western journal, which says:
And now, as the violets appear, and
oses come about 20 cents apiece cheap
r than they were month ago, the
Dung man goes around and tells his
riends that he thinks of going to Eu-
ope some time in June. And all his
contemporaries secretly envy him and
,ok upon him as a man born with
liver spoon in his mouth. He tells
hem how he is going to climb the Alps
nd sail over Lake Como and wander
trough the Colosseum and the Castle
( Chillon. He makes great impress
ion on his friends and invites them to
go him off, which they do with great