Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-04-03
NOTES OF THE DAY.


An industrial exposition will be held
at Raleigh, n. G., next September.
A l4-year old lad of Rockland coun-
ty, New York. measures six feet and
five inches in height.
Nearly every city and town in
Georgia is collecting its baseball tai
ent and organizing clubs.
Good water must be scarce in Cisco,
Tex. A saloon there adyertises SANDY
well water as a speciality.
There is Il young man in Chico, Cal,
who has almost entirely lost his speech
from the excessive use of cigarettes.
A Vermont paper chronicles the
death of Il bride Of Il year at st. Al
bans Bay last Thursday at the age of
73.
The body of Miss Blanch Tilton, of
Philadelphia, has been sent to the
Washington, Pa, furnace for crcma-
ton
An oldmaid in Batavia, N. Y, sleeps
with an almanac, horseshoe, and
three pantaloon buttons under her
pillow.
Banana-vcndcrs are obliged to pay
30 cents bunch for their fruit whether
the bunch contains three dozen or five
| bananas.
A Rochester inventor has obtained
patent on Il bowl-shapcd floor as sub
stitutc for an inclined plane in places
| of amusement.
4 block Of ice found on the bank of
the TuScarawaS river after the break
up contained iivcunuSually large water
snakes frozen fast,
Joseph Hueling, Of Buffalo. thought
| he was to be Son-in-law of Mr.. Van
dcrbilt and has accordingly been
! placed in Il lunatic asylum.
4 gentleman farmer near Ncwburgh,
n. Y, has been offered S2j,O for his
IIolsticn COW, Jamaica, and her calf.
or so, 600 for the calf only.
Some of the older business men of
Cincinnati express alarm that the yield
of lard in that city has fallen off 3,296,-
600 pounds since last season.
New York manufacturers, it is al
| legged, adultcratc their mustard to II
| poisonous extent One lot recently
examined contained enough poison to
killa dog.
A photographer at Brockyillc, Can
ada, was recently fined 5000 for placing
the photograph of Il respectable young
| lady of that city in his studio decorated
with Il mustachc, a cigar, and dog
gcrcl rhyme.
/ Immense quantities Of plates made
from the common gum tree, ground
up into pulp, pressed, and manufac-
turcd in Ncwburn, n. c., are daily
shipped from Norfolk to points all
over the country.
Tcrrapin-hunting in some parts of
Dorchester county, Maryland, is quite a
| paying industry, parties making aS
high as S2j in Il single day, but the ay-
cragc profits per day of an expert
cnccd catch is from - to s.,
A young man of Johnstown, Pa,
one day last week deliberately com
mittcd suicide by means of an electric
shock. Procuring plain iron rod, he
held it in his hand and touched an eN-
posed clcctrc-light wire. Death was
instantaneous.
The will of AmadiaS Ruche, who
died recently at Allentown, Pa, lcav-
ing 100000, will be contested by his
two sons, to whom he left 50 each,
and the residue to his wife. The sons
claim that he was of weak mind, and
was under undue influence.
Mrs. Edward Moore, of Glcn'S Falls,
n. Y, pared corn on her foot unu-
Sually close several weeks ago, and
put ON red stockings that had never
been worn or washed. Blood-poson-
ing resulted, and her life is desparcd
of.
Robert Wilkinson, of Brooklyn, SUI
pcrintcndcnt of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, has
discovered that kind of rock-and-ryc
candy sold in that city contains fuscl
oil in such proportions that two pounds
of the candy would constitute fatal
dose.
In order to promote the cultivation
of amber cane in Wayne county, New
York, it is proposed to erect at Clyde
a large mill for crushing cane. 1t is
stated that the 0uIy obstacle at present
to large increase in the cultivation OF
this crop Is convenient facilities for
crushing.
Circus parties now engage the
attention of the elite of
New York city. Though they are
not attractive in themselves, their Wis
its to the circus are considered excel
lent excuses for Il dinner at belmont
cos and not little Irritation among
the young folk.
The late Judge Otis Phillips Lord, of
Massachusetts, is said to have made
but one direct mistake on question of
law while on the bench, and that was
on statute which haG Just been
amended. On discovering his mistake,
and that it was due to the action Just
taken by the legislature, he said
"Well, the Lord only knows what the
Massachusetts legislature hasn't done
in the last six months
Postmaster Thomas Coggeshall, of
New Bedford, Mass, has been in the
employ of the office without break
for half century. When he first be-
gan work as Il clerk, the mails were
carried to Boston in fifteen hours by
stage, and to New York in four days
when navigation was closed.
The women in the neighborhood of
Pocahontas, Va, who lost relatives in
the recent mine horror, are not back
ward in taunting men for not entering
the mine and roscuing the bodies.
Mollie Morris, the belle of the village,
recently jumped upon a barrel and in
the hearing of two dozen men an
nounced her willingness and promised
solemnly to marry the man who re-
covered the body of her father, who
was one of the victims The appeal
met with no response, and, with the
remark, "No, you are all cowards3'
Mollie rejoined the other women.
There is a large deposit of white
earth, or white mud" as 1t is COM
monty called, within the corporate
limits Of Greensboro, Ca, which has
the property of extracting grease
from floors, and has been used from
time immemorial by the housewives of
the town for that purpose. 1t is also
used quite extensively for whitewash-
ing hearths, and in some instances has
taken the place of whitewash for