Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-07-10
FACT AND FANCY.

gers to abolish the hated Wednesday
= matinces.
} Large bcets are the general attrac-
ton in the store windows of the south
ern states.
A shower Of frogs occurred recently
near Knoxville, Tenn, the land Of
tough stories.
1t is wise man who can recognize
his woOd-cut portrait in the cnterpris-
Ing newspaper.
Mormon bishops are holding Il con-
vcntion to devise means to check the
Jordans Hoods.
A blacksnake measuring H. feet in
length was recently killed in Warren
county, Mississippi.
; Francklyn cottage, Elberon, where
Garfield died, rents for $500 y month
) to Augustine Smith.
One town in Arkansas ships two
thousand eases Of peaches per week to
the northern states.
Frog limbs" is the modest sign dis
played in New York restaurant con
trollcd by Il woman.
Philadelphia has dog boarding
house, where pets may be eft when
there owners are out of town.
The Chinese are meeting with sue
cess in Merced county, California, in
their cultivation of opium poppy
On the Mariposa road, near
Tuolumnc, Cal, there are two snow
drifts, each Il mile long and lj0 feet
high.
A Texas paper advertised that
everything except soap-grcase will be
taken in payment of subscriptions to
that paper.
The people of western Pennsylvania
are now in their turn disturbed over
the question of bible-rcading in the
public schools.
Forest fires in eastern Maine are
driving lumbcrmcn out of the woods.
Showers have checked the flames in
some localities.
1t is believed that four thousand
comets have roamcd through space
since the records began. Most of them
We're invisible without u telescope.
The supply of water at Aberdeen,
Miss, is obtained from artcsian wells,
Of which there are Il number bored in
the middle Of the principal streets.
Twelve million dollars will be paid
out in Philadelphia next month as semi
annual dividends and interest Sl,934,-
$50 of the amount being interest on the
city debt
The peanut crop promises well this
season in southern California, notwith-
standing some damage 10y the cut worm.
A considerable acreage has been plant
ed in the vicinity of Anaheim.
A band of Youngsters in Brooklyn,
whose lcadcris il Years old, have formed
II Jesse James gang. with the avOwed
purpose OF cNlcrminating all dudes. The
leader knitted two of the obnoxious
bipcdS.
/ A Cincinnati barber allirms that
poor people rarely get bald, but the
Weather classes get bald soonest, the
professional and business men, law
yerS, preachers, bankers, editors, and
rcporte :, said the barber.
There was recently born at Wynants-
kill, in Rensselaer, county, n. Y, Il
child with no ribs ON the left side. The
lungs are also out of place, being en-
tirely in the back, where large pro-
tubGrancc covers the lungs. The child
is well formed in other respects.
There is II tom-cat in Albany, Ga,
which had one rat in his mouth when
anOthcrran by where he had been sta
toned, and he caught the second rat
with his feet and held him securely
without ever letting 90 the one he had
in his mouth. At another time he
caught three mice ut one plunge.
a crematory is to be built at Buffalo,
n. Y, modelled after the famous one
ut Milan No flame. but intense heat,
will be used 10 reduce the body to
ashes. The high temperature is afford
ed through pipes from movable
heater, which will be connected with
the furnace. The required heat BY
this method must be 800 degrees, and
it will take four hours to reduce body
to ashes.
A toad was seen to enter the chicken
yard Of Andrew White, of New Castle,
N. H., climb into the feeding saucer of
some young chickens. and roll himself
over and over in the meal. He had
noticed that the flies swarmed about
the meal dish, aud they soon began to
do so about him. Whenever Il ilv
passed within two inches of his nose
his tongue dartcd out and the fly dis
A strange fatality seems to hover
over the mourners Of Park City, Utah,
who accompany the bodies of their de-
ceased friends to their last resting place
in the Mount Olivet cemetery. Accord
ing to The Sat Lake Tribune it is in
the case that some one of
party of the deceased's S friends whopay
the last tribute of respect to the re-
mains is in turn himself brought to the
ct metery for burial, and that within
short time after the burial takes place.
The electric light has proved great
blessing to the people of Sacramento,
Cal. For several nights after the cleo
tric lights were put up the sidewalks
under the street.lamps were nightly
covered with large black beetles. At
tracted by the light they would as
semblc in large numbers, and, coming
in contact with the electricity, they
would drop dead on the walk. For
several days past but few of the beetles
nave been seen, and it is thought that
heir tribe in that vicinity will soon be
The Chilian newspapers contain some
curious statistics concerning the occu-
,atinn nf imo hN fhair counfrvie