Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-01-04
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hundred years.
Paupcr lunacy is largely on the in
crease in London.
The resources of Cornell university
are valued at S7,72l, ,2jj.62.
Victor Hugo will not keep plant or
bird aS prisoner in his house.
Nearly every town in Turkey is now
lighted by American petroleum.
The American system of postoi6ce
boxes has been adopted in Rome.
The crrand boy who smokes cigar
cites will never be proprietor OF store.
Green corn, cucumbers and water
melons have appeared in the Florida
markets.
Prof. Schill, the Florentine vive-
sector, has used up l4,OOO dogs IN his
experiments.
George w. Childs, of the Philadcl-
phia Ledger, gave his employees $4,000
in Christmas presents.
Gov. elect Butler Of Massachusetts
will, it is said, appear in full military
uniform at his Inauguration.
Harry A. Garfield, son of the late
president, has been elected editor OF the
Williams College Athenmum.
The Boston Post says that the Long
fellow Memorial association has raised
$4,000 of the 100000 wanted.
Nearly Sll,OOO,OO0 worth of cattle
are now grazing in what six years ago
was absolutely Indian country in Texas.
A collection of old boots, illustrative
of the history of boot making, is to be
made in January at the Paris Musee de
Cluny.
Winnipcggcrs are obliged to invest
in 5000 fur Oycrcoats in order TO keep
comfortable during the present cold
snap.
The great Dismal swamp in Virginia
is passing away. Much of the area has
been reclaimed and converted into good
tillage land.
\ popular writer, speaking of the
ocean telegraph, wonders whether the
news transmitted through the salt
water will be fresh.
Lord Berwick, who has Just succeed
ed to that title, has, with his wife, made
his home for twelve years, winter and
summer, on his Yacht
A sleeping ear porter who Travelled
$50 miles with ten passengers worth
over S3,OOO,0OO each says that his per.
qmsitcs amounted to only fifty cents.
New York has thirty citizens whose
combined wealth is estimated at S62l,
600, 600. Vanderbilt heads the list with
1925, 900, ,OOC, and ittapcrs down to SIC,
GOO, 600.
An exchange suggests that "dog
cheap" don't mean much, when at tho
recent bench shown New York any
number of dogs were valued at from
$500 to 81 900.
The relatives of Henry Rich, miss
ing New Yorker, have sent out $4,000
circulars to the different insane asylums,
newspaper offices, and public institu-
tions throughout the country.
The moss hanging from the branches
of southern trees, so familiar to any
one who has visited Florida and the
adjacent states, is being used in place
of hair for upholstcrers purposes.
1t is curious coincidence that at
about o'clock in the morning of De
ccmbcr 7th, 1867, her maiesty's theate.
was in flames, and little later in ru
ins. At the same hour of the SAINT
day in 1882 the Alhambra theater suf
fcrcd an exactly similar fate.
The Princess Louise and vice royal
party will embark early in January, at
Richmond, Va, on British man-of
war and proceed to Bermuda, whert
she will remain during the most sever
portion of the winter, as her health
suffers from the intense cold.
Mr.. Laboucherc says in truth tha
Anthony Trollopc never made any
thing approaching 100000, " and tha
the most highly remunerated and sue
ccssful author of the nineteenth cen
fury, taking into account the amount of
work accomplished, was certainly
George Eliot.
Philadelphia News: That butter is
all right, said boarding house keep
cr; lit is lirkin butter, and tastes a lit.
lc of the wood, that's all" "1f that's
he case replied the boarder, who is
Il contractor, Il should like to get
some of that wood TO make railroad
bridges out Of"
Mrs. Ralph Waldo Emerson, wishing
at one time to have the children christ
ened, Mr.. Emerson said he would not
,stN pnttl1 hn
found to christen the children who was
as good as they were. Subsequently
Mr.. Canning was weighed in the bal
ancc and not found wanting.
New York Commercials Il wish
was n horse!' exclaimed u boy who had
Just been soundly whipped by country
schoolmaster. "Why do you desire to
be like a brutc?n asked the astonished
pedagogue. because" whined the
lad, "whcnever you licked me, you'd
be arrested for cruelty to animals.
The report of the secretary of state
of Wisconsin presents some curious
features. There is one horse to about
every four persons, and one wagon to
every six. A "serious drawback" is
that one person in every twenty-fom
has u piano or musical instrument
about one to every thirteen families.
A Cleveland man has invented q bar
rel without hoops or slaves. 1t is mads
of papier mache, being revolved very
fast. The mache lines the inside, and
by air pressure, is pressed hard. The
iron-cylinder is then opened and the
papier mache barrel taken out and
baked. The bung-hole is left open in
the manufacture.
THAI Iorgost HoC I'm the World.