Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-01-10
FACT AND FANCY.

There Is one lawyer for every 700
: people in tho United States.
Rhoda Howard, of Owingsville, KY,
is ll6 years of age. She has smoked
tobacco tor l0C years,
Holloway, the millionaire pill man
of London, who died recently, gave
, $500, 600 to the hospitals of London.
r Senator Salisbury, Of Delaware, Is
, the only member of the senate who has
| never been married. He is called the
Lone Star of that body.
Ex Governor English, of Connecticut,
who started out in life as carpenter,
is now worth $6,OO0,O00, and is the
richest man in his state.
Gen. Sheridan, Col. Taylor, Col.
BJniamin and DR.. John Billings, all of
the regular army, stationed at Wash
ington, aIo the happy fathers of twins.
p. T. Blrnum, the Snowman, has
made will covering 700 pages of
foolscap. He divides a fortune of
10000, 600 among twenty-seven direct
heirs.
Mrs, Whitney, wife of the Sanscrit
scholar, of New Haven, has established
kindergarten for the poor in that
city, to be Introductory to an industrial
school.
Miss Ellen Terry may have had four
husbands as has been asserted, but no
one who has seen the Boston FOlio's
latest picture of that actress would be-
licve it.
Mayor Latrobc, of Baltimore, has
ordered that the lions OF Calvert street
be re.tailed at the cost of S75 each.
Unknown hatcrs of the British twisted
them off recently.
Mrs. +. d. l.. n. SOuthworth, who
has written 50 many narrowing love
tales, is tail, spare woman, with
sad grave face and gray hair. She al
ways dresses in black.
Mrs. Robert L. Stuart has given
Princeton college SljO,0O0 to endow
the department of philosophy and meet
tho salaries Of professors in logic,
ethics and psychology.
Gail Hamilton" or Mary Abigail
Dodge, is said to be very fond OF dress,
adopting the most advanced styles not
always suited to her advancing years.
Sle is plain brown-eyed lady, short
in stature and inclined to stoutness.
"Is you gwine to get an overcoat
this winter?' asked darkey of COM
panion. well | dunno how dat's
gwine to be-" was the reply. "ps
done got my eye on a coat; but de
fellah dat owns it keeps his eye on it,
too"
A French marquis was riding out one
day, when he passed an old priest trot-
ting along contentedly on quiet
donkey. III, hal" exclaimed the
marquis. Glow goeth the ass, good
falher?' "On horseback, my SON
on horse-back!' replied the priest,
"Ah! Mr.. Pauier, have you been to
any parties this wluter?' asked Glen
dolen dc Smith of his friend. "No;
but | have attended three balls al
ready" Why, how delightful, weally!
Where were they at?' "At the pawn
BROKERS' sadly sighed Mr. Panier.
When n young man tries for three
minutes in church to brush sun
beam of his new coat under the i'm
preston that il is a streak OF dust and
then looks up and sees q pretty girl
laughing at him, he kind of loses the
thread OF tho sermon temporarily, as it
were.
"A penny Tor your thoughts, wife"
"But | need too Two whatP"
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nv thoughts" II do not understand"
"You saw my little poem of thoughts,
didu't you?" Certainly" "Well
the editor says must send two-cent
stamp il want my Thoughts back"
A close observer tells us that when
you sec Il man operating with needle
and thread on trOuSer button, you
can easily tell whether he is single or
married. II he uses thimble he is
married, but if he pushes the end of
the needle against the wall, and pulls
it through the button with his teeth,
you may safely bet that he is single.
Miss Harriet Martineau, in whose
honor statue has been placed in tho
Old South Church, Boston, is one of
the very few women in history who
have been thus remembered. She was
the author of severol books, and wrote
much for the magazines and also for
the editorial columns of the kOndon
News during the late civil war. She
was born in Norwich, England, in 1902.
1t is whispered in Mexico that ths
illfated Empress Carlotta owes her
madness TO n dose of the milk OF the
plant "TOloachi,h administered soon
alter her arrival in Vera Cruz. 1t is
a harmless looking plant, much re.
scmbling the Northern milk weed, but
a few drops of the tasteless white fluid
act Immediately on the brain, produc.
ing first violent insanity and then hope
less idiocy.
Tho blue laws of Massachusetts
saved the city of Worcester a heavy
amount in damages last week. John
M. Barker, a rich manufacturer, slipped
on the icy sidewalks week ago Sun.
day and suffered serious injury. He
sued the city for n large amount, but
the court held that he had no ground
of action because he was violating the
statute which prohibits travelling on
the Lords day.
The first jewish settlers in New York
city were twenty seven exiles banished
from Bahia, in Brazil, on the general
expulsion of the Jews from that king
dom, who came here in 1854 as the
Belrcst place of refuge. After fifty
years they comprised but 100 persons,
and for l70 years had but synagogue.
To-day there are 81 synagogues in the
city, and the Jewish population Is es'
timated at $4,000.
Tulare lake once had an area OF l.
7S6 miles and depth sufficient for a
steamboat that navigated ii; but its
area has bean reduced to 1856 miles,
and its greatest depth is only twenty
two feet. Its contraction is attributed
to the absorption of water for irrigat-
ing purposes from the two streams that
feed 1t. Some San Frantiscans who
have Just returned from visit TO the
lake predict its utter absorptioD,' as
every farmer who settles near It digs q
new canal for irrigation. There are
about forty artesian wells within o ra
dius OF forty miles around tho lake.
Dstroit's Miilionaires,
Detroit lines,
Forty residents Of Detroit own. at
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