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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-07
POstOfiices in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem has two postoiliccs, the
Turkish and the Austrian. No one
patronizes the former if he can posi-
bly, help it, for the Turkish post system
is like everything else that is Turkish
-slovenly in the superlatiye degree.
Letters may be seen lying on the floor,
in the windows, on the tables, and
everywhere about the Office. Some OF
these are such as have carelessly been
allowed to be around for days instead
of being dispatched by the first post.
If you call and ask for letters the an
swer will be n stupid and indolent
mo" In case there really is mail fol
YOU, and the agent knows it, he will
usually hide it until you are gone, and
then send a boy around with it. The
idea in this is that you are expected tC
paw the boy half franc backsheesh
and the agent will calmly pocket hall
of that when the boy returns.
LEARNED incidentally thata package
of newspapers had been sent to me by
the Turkish post, and, invading the
office, handed my card to the agent
He glanced at it in preoccupied way
and gave u.terance to a listless mo.
Not satisfied, | waded right in annie
the mail q believe that would not b'
tolerated at home), took the paper
addressed to me, bowed thoughtfully
and decamped. Among the letters il
the windows, to be calledfor, noticed
one addressed thus: "To the Nilsson
ri Pacific Railway, Palestine Depart
ment Gerusalemme," could but won
der what the writer meant to hav,
written. "Gerusalemme' is the officia
spelling. Cor. Mtw Orleans Times
| DemOcrdt.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-07
SAN HOUSTON AND BOOTH.


How the Tragcdian Became Responsible for
the Conquest of Mexico.
Gen. Sam Houston, who had just re-
turned from his first visit to Texas,
was walking up Pennsylvania avenue
one evening in the winter OF 1884,
when he met with his old friend Booth,
the tragcdan After mutual cNclama-
tions of surprise and salutation the
two ascertaincd that they were both
rooming at Brownies Indian Queen
Hotel and going there they went to
Booths room. Sitting down they re-
counted the adventures of their past
lives, and rs they industriously circu-
lated the bottle many loud shout
echoed through that hall and startled
the watchmen in the street as they
went their silent rounds. As the night
wore on their excitement increased
until at the close of thrilling story
relating to his strange career, HOus-
ton exclaimed:
"Now, Booth, lets have Il speech to
liberty, one of those apO,trOphGs to old
Roman freedom with which You startlc
audicnces!'
Had Booth been inclined to refuse,
he knew that his friend, when the
mood was on him, would not be denied
any request. however absurd or diff
cult of performance. But the tragedian
had himself entered into the spirit Of
his companion, and, nothing 10th, he
rehcarscd with magic power many Of
those electric passages in defense Of
of liberty with which the English
drama sbounds. Houston. whose
memory rs well as his habits partook
of the Indian character, caught up the
words. and with equal force, clcarncSs
and accuracy went through each speech
in regular succession Thus they pro-
ceedcd for time and then again sat
down to renew their potations and the
story of their personal adventure. Booth
drank and listened while the other
told of his own elevation in his native
state, of his disgust at civic honors, Of
his home in the distant forest, of the
uncontrolled freedom of the rcdmcn,
of their stole fOrtimdc and matchlcss
hcroism. Warmed by the recollection
of those thrilling scenes, he sprang at
last to his feet, and. in the tone of one
amid the battles din, lighting against
the most fearful odds, exclaimed:
"Now. Booth, once more for lbcrtyr'
The traccdian dared not disobcy. He
ran through. with all his usual energy.
the tale of Mexican thraldom, of the
Spanish conquest of that land. the
dangers incurred by that army. their
commanders cxhoriation before the
battle and the stubborn bravery of the
native chiefs. Before him stood at
that lone hour. liStcninp with nm intcn.
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Right and Left.

NJ. DclaunaS, of Paris, has made an
extended and careful investigation to
ascertain if in the majority of eases the
right upper and lower extremity be
crossed over the left or the left over
the right, and which side most persons
incline to when in the sitting posture.
According to NJ. Dclaunay, certain
breeds of dogs, terriers, Newfound-
lands and poodles cross the right foot
over the left. The Chinese and Japan
csc cross the left over the right, Euro
peans cross the right over the left.
N. Delaunav observed in the "crcchcS
and sale d'asilc' that infants under
three years of age cross the left arm
over the right older childreI crossing
the right over the left, GO per cent, do
ing so ut six years of age. Robust
Children cross the right arm over the
left; the idiotic and weak, including
those who are incapable of working,
cross the left over the right. The Cal
mucks and Arabs cross the right over
the left, like the Europeans. a great
many women cross the left over the
right, Among the opara dancers some
cross the right leg over the left, but
not the left over the right; the majori-
ty cross the left over the right or the
right over the left, inditlercntly.
Robust children cross the right leg
over the left earlier than their weaker
playmatcs. Persons who cross the
right leg over the left lean towards
the left when sitting; those who place
the left uppermost lean to the right.
Hence, consistently with what mi ght
have been expected from what is OBJ
served in children with regard to
crossing legs, until six years of age
children lean towards the right, and
afterward towards the left. French
shoolmasters, it would appear, try to
prevent their pupils from assuming
this position, believing that scoliosis
results; hence they encourage or en-
force the use of elbow-rests (accou-
doirs), which oblige the children to
sit straight, n useless measure accord
ing to NJ. Delaunay, a' the position
they choose is in conformity with the
process of evolution. Tailors affirm
that the back of a pair of trous-
ers is always more worn on the left
side than on the right Left-handed
people always sit towards the right.
M. Delauney concludes from these OBJ
servations that the left brain develops
previously to the right, and finally the
right predominates.- British Wedica
| JOurnnl
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The Lonely Young Man.

"lt's the easiest thing in the world
to get married. said the lecturer adj
vocatng matrimony for young men, in
an uptown hall; "it's MS easy as roll
ing of log, as the saying is. Minis
ters tell him that it is his duty; moral
lists upbraid him because he does not
get wife; philosophers argue that the
foundation of the state is the family;
friends point out to him the happy life
of many persons. The young man has
no protection against all this opposi-
tion, and, if he is Il right-mndcd per-
son, he will not try to oppose such
logic. If he is of proper age, is
maturcd in his Judgment, can support
Il wife, and is reasonably industrious,
he ought to be married before twenty
five. But there are many less fortu-
nate young men in this city who never
speak to Il decent woman from one
years end to another. Some are Un-
gagged in shops where only men are
employed; others in offices which never
have female visitor. Their homes
are in lonely furnished rooms, with
meals ut restaurants. These poor fel-
lows actually pine for refined female
society. One whose lonliness comes
to my notice lives in Harlem
The reporter saw this celibatc, and
got from him this story; He was liv-
ing in furnished room and boarding
at u restaurant. After two years OF
this life, he began to wish for some re-
fined female society, and accordingly
engaged board in n fashionable board.
ing-house on East Seventeenth street.
He was somewhat surprised by the
greed with which his weeks board
was demanded in advance, and almost
snatched out of his hands, but com
forted himself with a glimpse of I
golden.haired head through half-op
ened door.
The young man had stipulated for {
fire in his room, but on going up a
night found ii as cold as a barn. He
called for the landlady, and, after re
peated trials, succeeded in gaining hel
attention. In an injured tone, shC
promised to raise little lire in the
room. In half an hour or so, during
which the young man grew warm from
inward heat, II frowsy and slatternll
servant girl came in with n bang
threw some kindling wood on tn,
hearth, lit it, put on little coal, ant
went away, taking the coal-bucke
with her. He started after her to Sc
cure the bucket, but too late, and h,
heard the golden.haired beauty say
whats the matter with that galoo
up-stairsPn
"Oh, he wants fire, bad luck t,
, him."
"Well, he must be a gilly. Carr.
him up the kitchen stove."
Slowly and sadly the young man il
search Of refined female society pullet
on his overcoat, walked down to tn
: street, hired an express wagon
: helped to put his trunk on, and qul
, the house Just in time to hear tn
golden-haired young woman remark
"Well, knew that fellow was frau,
when l first saw him"
He went to his old "furnishe,
room.n 1t had not been let. 1t wa
warm and comfortable, and he hear,
: the CHEEKY laugh of the landlady AM
Eher delighted remark: ~ expecte,
you back, but not quite SO soon,
That was his last attempt to find re
fed female society. The younI
s man said there were sixty such isc
+ lated fellows in his block Nc,c Yor
Sun.
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A Plea for CO-EducatiOn.

Col. L. w. HigginsOn writes to the
POman'S Journal; The great argument
for co-educatiOn is and will always be
the mutually healthy influence cXcrted
ON each other by the two sexes, when
in simple and natural relations; an in
huence apparently part of that plan
of creation which ''settled the solitary
in families 1t is one objeetion to
the best colleges for young men only
as Harvard, for instancc-that it
breaks up this natural and hcalthful
relation, and substitutes for it eitheran
exclusion from the society of the other
sex, or limitation of that society to
mere gayety and amusement, emitting
all serious cooperation for earnest
work. Similar objections attach, in n
minor degree, to colleges for women
only. attended with great pleasure
the closing exercises at Wellesley, and
it is certainly privilege to any young
girl to come under the personal intlu-
encc of Miss Freeman, yet the same
evil exists therc-the exclusive, that
is, monastic, system of education. For
one reason, however, the evil is clearly
greater in the colleges for young men
than in those for young women. The
repression and discouragemcnt OF wO-
mems intellect form so large Il part OF
human history that yonng women arc
under no temptation to think that they
are set apart because they are super
| iOr, but rather the contrary. The
exclusive privileges of young men
bring with them, however, an associn-
tion of superiority. They are set apart
in the first place, because their brains
are considered better: while young wO'
men are supposed to be excluded as
being inferior. A very little co-cduca-
tion wipes out this folly, for the time
at least, though four years of wholly
masculine association sometimes brings
it back again Yet | noticed, some
years since, when had to read num-
Der of themes by Harvard students, on
the subject of co-cducation, that thcir
views on the subject were based large
ly on their personal experience or in
experience. Wherever young man
alluded incidentally to having person
ally attended school with young wo
men, he always spoke well of their in
tcllccts, while those who, to my knowl
edge, had never been at school with
girl since very early childhood. Thi,
class it was which always expressed
the greatest solicitude lest the intel.
lcctual standard of our colleges shoulc
be lowered by the admission of young
women; and it was curiously the fact
in some cases, that those making the
most of this solicitudc were thos,
whose own standard of intellectual
attainments would not bear much low
cring, if one might judge from thcil
stYle OF cOmpOSitiOn.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-07
Washington Wagons.

An Old-timer recently vouchsafed
much valuable information concerning
the history of driving in Washington.
Forty years ago there were fine car
riages, to be sure, but they were the ex-
ccption, not the rule. Then well.to-do
family was satisfied with a substantial
barouchc or carry-all, and a pair of
horses that could be gotten for $3.50 in
gold. But now the head of house
feels it incumbent on him to have a
coupe costing at least $1,000 and Il
pair of horses worth no less than 5000.
There were some few old families that
INDUCED in the luxury of the old
fashioned, clumsy Queen Anne car
ragcs, that were rather costly and
generally imported, but these were few
and far between. The fancy vehicles
Of to-day were entirely unknown. Rich
men used to ride horseback much
more, and an old citizen on the back
of plug horse cantering along the
shaded streets was no uncommon spec,
taclc. Such thing as lackcys in livery,
except those of the diplomatic corps
wou.u h1Nc pec,l h1oi'u "'' anu even Il
sas,'Ioll"plr t. i"Il uIu ho' ,'',, cons,lcl Il
iootII'"i' aI iluIsPchs"Dic H''"cn'icht
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tIe'l ucn' ltn'arh Vi loieiSll NlSl'olS .n"I
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Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-07

The Maryland papers speak well of
Mr.. Daniel. the candidate for vice
president on the prohibition ticket.
He was born in 1926. His ancestors on
his fathers side were natives of North
Carolina, on his mothers side of Mary
land His father was planter; he is
a lawyer. Mr.. Daniel joined the Meth
odist Episcopal church in the last year
of his collegiate life, and large por-
ton of the time since has been an Off
cial member of that church. Mr.. Dan
iel is thorough prohibitionist. For
wears it has been one of the great aims
of his life to help to advance all move
ments designed to suppress the liquor
traffic and intemperance and to secure
the enactment and enforcement ofpro-
hibitory liquor laws. He has been
president of the Maryland State Tenn
perance alliance ever since its organi-
zation in 1878, mainly through the in
fuence of which about half of the
counties of the state have adopted
prohibition by means of local option.
To increase the strength and efficiency
of this organization Mr.. Daniel has
contributed literally and has devoted
to 1t much time. He was three times
elected to represent his native county
in the legislature, twice to the house
of delegates and once to the senate
After removing to Baltimore he was
elected to the constitutional couven'
tion of 1868. Although he had beer
somewhat connected with slavery he
took a prominent part in the enamel
patton of the slaves. In the constitu
tional convention of 1868 he thus gave
expression to his views; II believe thai
slavery is a great moral evil, con
demned alike by the spirit OF Christi
anity, the teaching Of the bible, ant
the civilization of the age"
In the early part Of the civil war h
co-operated with Henry Winter Davi
in most of his measures. He Away
took high grounds for the union ant
the supreme power Of the general gov
ernment,
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-07
HER BONNET.

When mceting-bells began 10 toll
And piOus folk began to pass,
She deftly tied her bonnet on,
The little, sober mceting-lass,
All in her neat, white-curtaincd room, before
her tiny looking-glass.
So nicely, round her lady-checks,
She smoothed her bands Of glossy hair,
And innocently wondered If
Her bonnet did not make her fair
Then sternly child her foolish heart for harbor-
ing such fancies there.
So square she tied the satin strings,
And set the bows beneath her chin:
Then smiled TO see how sweet she looked
Then thought her vanity sin,
And she must put such thoughts away before
the sermon should begin.
But, sitting meath the preached word,
Dcmurey, In her fathers pew,
She thought about her bonnet still
Yes, all the parsons sermon through
About its pretty bows and buds which better
than the text she knew.
Yet sitting there with peaceful face,
The reflex Of her simple soul,
She looked TO he very saint
And may be was one, ON the whole
Only that her pretty bonnet kept away thC
aureOlc.
--iHll,St CcutItTH
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-07
Whose Mistake2

Mr.. Osborn Ward has written two
articles for Man in which he brings
forward n new basis for wCman's
rights, and this time he is arguing for
woman's right to have an easier time.
According to Mr. Ward there has been
n great mistake made somewhere in
the progress and growth of man a
mistake in what we may call II me-
chanical arrangement of the human
being; or, else, man himself has made
a mistake in assuming the erect post
ure. Mr.. Ward cites the fact in anat-
omy that the veins of the arms and legs
contain valves which expedite or make
easy the return of the blood from the
capillary vessels to the heart. The
blood is pumped out from the heart M
to the large artery, which. with its
branches, distributes it to all parts Of
the body. A large portion of blood is
being continually sent to the abdomi-
nal organs and the lower limbs. All
that blood must 90 back again and
veins are provided to carry it back.
But, us Mr.. Ward SAYS, the veins Of the
legs have valves, but the large vein
which carries the blood from the legs
to the heart, and also the veins of the
uterus, the kidneys and the spinal
column have no chcck-yalIcs. Four
legged animals, whose bodies are
carried in the horizontal position are
similarly constructed. But in such
animals the flow of the blood back to
he heart is easy enough because the
large veins of the abdomen and of the
abdominal organs are in horizontal
position. But when man rises to the
nrect posture the weight of all the
blood in these valvclcss veins tends to
gravitatc back to the limbs, and Mr.,
Ward thinks it is great strain on the
human organism to stand erect houI
after hour, while the heart is hard at
work, and the diaphragm and lung,
are doing all they can to keep the blood
in motion. He attributes the fatigue
of lonr.standinr, the falling of the
womb, and even malady of the kidney,
to this faulty construction Of the veins
in men and women. He argues. there
fore. that nature calls for more com.
fort, more opportunity to assume the
rrcumbent position, and he thinks al
stores and workshops should be furn
iShed with easy seats and sofas fOl
resting. He SAYS: "Rcason. whicl
caused mankind to assum the erect
posture to crafty pride and grass
/ 1IvantapcS is now WORKING the ruin
the suffering, in its own tenement
the body. SPRAYING ON the ground
suuatting ON the floor, reclining at tn,
table instead of sitting upright, wcr,
hrultbful attitudes well known. within
the historical age of man. But now
a-days we must not even rcclne or 81
at work. There seems to be something
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The Solemn English Joke,

The average English Joke has its pc
culiaritics. a sort of mellow distance;
a kind of chastencd reluctance. A coy
and timid, yet trusting, though evan
esccnt inta giblity, which softly ling
crs in the troubled air, and lulls the
tired senses to dreamy rest, like the
subducd murmur of Il hoarSc jacliaSs
about nine miles up the gulch.
He must be hardened wretch, in
deed; who has not felt his bosom hcavc
and the scalding tears steal down his
furrowcd cheek after he has read an
English joke. There can he no hope
for the man who has not been touched
by the gentle, pleading, yet all-potcnt
sadness embodied IN the humorous
paragraph of the true Englishman.
One may frittcr away his existence
in chasing the follies of our day and
generation, and have naught to look
back upon but choice assortment of
robust regrets; but if he will stop in
his mad career to read an English pun,
his attention will be called to the sol
emn thought that life il after all but
a fearful journey to the tomb,
Death and disaster on every hand
may fail to turn the minds of Il
thoughtlcss world to serious matters,
but when the London funny man crap.
pies with u particularly skittish and
evasive joke, with its weeping willow
attachment, and hurls it at n giddy
and reckless humanity, a prolonged
wall of anguish goes up from broker
hearts, and .omber pail hangs in the
gladstone sky like pair of soldier
pants with only one suspcnder.
If the lost and undonc victim to the
geat catalogue of damning vice and
enervating dissipation, will for mo
ment turn his mind to the solemn con
sideration of The London Punch, ant
wrestle with it alone where the prying
eyes of the world cannot penetrate
though unused to tears, the fountain
of the deep in his nature will be open
ed up, and he will see the blackness o
intense darkness which surrounds him
and be led to penitence and abjec
humility.
The mission of the English humor
ist is to darken the horizon and shu
out tho false and treacherous joy of ex
istence-to shut out the beauty of the
landscape and scatter 50 gloom owe
the glad green earth.
English humor is like sore toe. |
makes you glad when you get over it
1t is like having the smallpox, becaus
if you live through it you are not like
ly to have it again.
When we pass from earth, and on
place is filled by another sad-eye'
genius whose pants are too short, AM
who manifests other signs of great
ness, let no storied urn or animated
bust be placed above our lowly restin
place, but stuff an English conundrur
so that it will look as It did in life, ant
let it stand above our silent dust I
shed its damp and bilious innuenc
through the cemetery as monumen
ofdesolation and fountain of unshe
tears and the grave robber will shu
our final resting place as he would tn
melon patch where turks the sprin
gun and tho alert and irritable bul
dog. Bill Nye.
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l.. j. ROSE has sold his estate, prob
ably the finest in California, for $780,
600. The plantation is known as Sun
ny Slope, near Pasadena, and it con-
tains more than 1000 acres of we'll
watered land. The orange crop was
sold on the trees by Mr.. Rose this year
for $4,000, and the vintage last year
from 1000 acres of vines was 1,SOO
tons of grapes.
Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-07

AUTHORITIES in many cases diilN'
with Dr. Koch as to the nature of the
cholera in France. They insist that
the disease may be sporadic and local
despite the presence of bacillus SIM
liar to those found in Egypt and India.
In India, epidcmics of cholera occur
in cats, and one of these is now raging
in Bombay. Yet DR.. Koch was unable
TO produce the disease in those animals
with his bacillus.