Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-09-18
FACT AND FANCY.

Brooklyn has the greatest tin factory
in the country.
Striped suits have been discarded in
the Ohio pcnitentiary.
One Ohio brakeman in eight is killed
or maimed every year.
There are $50 Icclanders in Mani
toba, engaged as farmers.
An alligator twcnty-nino feet in
length was killed recently near Mobile,
Ala.
A new survey of the Hudson river
between Troy and Hudson has been
ordered.
An average of seven hundred build
ings are burned every month in this
country.
A snow-storm set in near Glendale,
Montana, last week, and lasted twenty
four hours.
Mrs. Hannah Carey, colored, of
N. j., is said to be ll2 years old. A
sister died year ago aged l0S years.
The ushers of New York theater
are neat young ladies, uniformed in
black dresses, white collars, cuffs, caps,
and aprons.
Julius Caesar keeps Il saloon at
Tombstone, Arizona. He is not dead
and turned to clay, but wcts the clay
of his customers.
John Folk, aged 20 years, of Now
ton, l.. |, has instituted suit for divorce
against his wife, aged 10 years. They
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The sunilowcr day has come again.
Kentucky has one sunilower with 105
flowers on it, but is dstanced by
Georgia with Il stalk having lfS flow
ers on it.
Another cave has been discovered in
the Neptune mine, in White Pine
county, Nevada, hanging from the
roof of which are stalactites fifteen
inches in length.
The average cost of sinking an oil
well in the Bradford, Pa, field is SS,-
900. The depths vary from 1000 to
1900 feet though few have been
drilled between 5000 and 1000 feet.
The high prices paid in Fulton mar
ket for mapping and mud turtles has
induced many farmers in Rockland and
Orange counties to go into the raising
of these animals as n legitimate trade.
A negro witness in Macon, Ca,
testifying in u bicycle case, gave this
as the result of his observations: 'If
you ride slow you turn over yourself;
If you ride fast you turn over some
body else.
OF the three branches of engineer
ing mechanical to day pays the best.
The average civil engineer makes So
cooper annum, the mining 81, 200, and
the mechanical S2,S00. This includes
bridge and locomotive construction.
The sheep in the United States, ac-
cording to the department of agricul-
ture, number j0,G26, ,626. The losses
during 1888 were per cent, or 4, ,2SS,-
66i head, largely from dogs. The aver
age value is S2,5 per head. The total
number of swine is Al, 200, ,S93; average
value, S6.75; total number of cattle,
42,547 1907.
A queer species of water-bectle,
caught in creek near Napa, Cal, is
on exhibition in that town. 1t is nearly
two and one-half inches in length, and
possesses four long and muscular legs,
with which it propels itself briskly in
the water. When captured it had
fish in its embrace, upon which it was
making a hearty meal
A good crop of onion seed ranges
from three hundred to six or seven
hundred pounds per acre. Last year
the wholesale price of onion seed in
the United States was only 40 to 80
cents per pound. Only the best was
salablc, some growers having several
thousand pounds on hand which they
were unable to dispose of.
Many cases of severe sickness re-
sulting from eating green peas which
have been long picked and covered
with some species of fungus have been
reported in England. The peas that
were in the worst condition were
shelled before they were sent to mar
ket. 1t is quite common to shell peas
in Europe before they are sent to mar
kct.
Many people who have lived where
they grow would like to obtain ripe
pawpaws. Boys would do well to
make q note of this, and gather fine
lunches of pawpaws, pack them care
fully in boxes, and consign them to
fruit dealers in northern cities. There
is also good demand for ripe persim-
mons, which should be packed in
paper boxes like those used for choice
grapes.
The work Of repairing the steeple OF
Trinity church, New York, is still
going on, the defects in the spire hay
ing been found more serious than was
expected. The mortar between the
stones has crumblcd away so much
that the task of restoration is extreme
ly difficult. To effect this and bring
the cross and capstone to perpendic-
ular will require considerable further
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The supert,ion connected with tbo
horseshoe is supposed to nave us rise
/ in The halo which is made to surround
the heads OF saints in pictures hung
upon the walls Of churches.i The
halos were often made of shiny metal,
in the form which one r
cngraving5. In the co' III
colors OF tho pictur "a 3 NSS.dc
the metal which Y saFing
exactly like ho- WIS ~ od almost
Some fannyf srseshoe,
British soie- stories are told Of the
ono of ~ ,sntilic visitors at Montreal,
Wind lde scientists approached the
thu sor hotel desk aud blandly asked
| | CLERK to info m him Of q good
I .ality to catch butterflies. Another,
taking horse and buggy at livery
stable, as tue evening was chilly was
asked by the groom Il he would like a
couple Of builaloes (robes) mo, ".
replied tho scientist, mo, we would
much prefer horses
Tho freeman's oath in Vermont re-
quires the citizen TO ''soiemnly swear
Tor ailirm) th,s Whenever You give
your vote or suffrage iouching any
matter that concerns the state OF Yer
mont you will do so as in your con-
science you shall Judge will most CON
duce to the best good of the same, as
established by the constitution, with
out fear or favor of any man." The
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