Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-07
FACT AND FANCY.


of steel or iron cross tics.
The sardine packing business on the
coast of Main is ceasing to he protita-
BILE.
A farmer of Clay county, Missis-
sippi has 100 acres planted in pepper
mint.
Over in Fairmount park, Philadel-
phia, the boys play draw-poker among
the shrubbery.
There are about fifteen hundred
Cherokee Indians in Swain county,
North Carolina,
Specimen postago-stamps are no
longer furnished collectors by the pos
tai department,
New Orleans mayor is prosecuting
persons who are derelct in clearing
up filth deposits.
Fifty Italian tramps are travelling
across Pennsylvania, working their
way west in a body.
San Francisco merchants laugh at
the idea of Northern Pacific steamers
to Japan and China.
The Italian and Chinese sections OF
New York are those in which cholera
is first expected to appear.
Traynor, the Atlantic dory vOyagcur,
had to kill his dog because he went
mad and tried to bite him.
There were one million cigars and
two hundred bales of sponge shipped
to New York from Key West last
week.
A gentleman died recently in Hunt
ington county. Pennsylvania, of lock-
jaw occasioncd by the bite of stall
| lion.
Two hundred cars are necessary to
the transportation of the product OF
California orchards and vineyards to
eastern cities.
A strolling band of Turks is doing
Jefferson, Tex The women carry
their children strapped to their backs,
Indian fashion.
Three clerks are kept busy signing
| the pension commissioner name, and
| it is all they can do to furnish the num-
Der of signatures required.
Sanoncus Lee, 1O3 years old, is the
last full-blooded squaw of the Shinne-
cock Indians, and lies at the point OF
death at southampton, l.. !.
A zap of about $50 miles yet re-
mains to be built ere the Mexican Ma
tiona road will be complete from
Laredo, Tex, to the City of Mexico.
A bunch of timothy hay, the stalks
of which are seven feet two inches
long. is on exhibition ut Nevada City,
Nevada 1t was raised on 'slickens"
land.
Patent fruit-carS are now being run
from points in Maryland and Now
jersey through to Boston and Bangor,
being fcrried from Jersey City to New
York.
Four ablc-bodicd Arabs, who were
arrested at Corpus Christi, Tex, for
importunatc begging, were found to
have 800 in gold concealed on their
persons.
During the first six months of this
wear nearly S0,000,000 has been in
vested in buildings in New York, an
increase of S3,O0000O over tho corre-
spending period last year.
There are men who cannot be treat
ed kindly by women for instead of AS
cribing such courtesy to natural sweet
ness and amiabilty of disposition, they
set it down to admiration of their own
worthless selves.
jackson Brown, an aged colored
man OF Harrisonburg, Va, while re.
turning from wood-cutting the other
night attempted to crawl through
board fence. his head became fastened,
and he stranglcd to death.
In the island of San Domingo there
is remarkable salt mountain, mass
of crystalline salt nearly four miles
long. estimated to contain S9,337,6O0
tons, and said to be so clear that type
can be read through block a foot
thick
A sanitary commissioner asserts that
women are far more alive to the ncces-
stiles of health considerations than
men; that when he is called to exam
inc house he finds the master OF the
dwelling much less alive to the subject
than his wife.
The universal antidote in the south
for snakc-bites is whisky, but that is
not relied upon wholly. The person
bitten is not permitted to rest. He is
kept on his legs by main force, and
compelled to go through the most
violent exercise possible.
Prof Cassius NJ. Zedaker, of Karns
City. Pa, n weak-minded young man
who is an imitator Of Oscar Wilde, is
hopelessly insane, He is well known
throughout the oil regions, where he
has lectured and sold his book of
, poems. He writes poetry to order, and
! takes pay in flowers.
The Meadville, Pa, glass-works re-
Gently imported some Belgian work
men, arranging that certain sum was
to be deducted from their wages each
month to pay their passage from Bel
gium, which had been advanced by the
company. When some money was
stopped to repay their Indebtedness
they struck.
A romantic story comes from Lapaz,
Mexico. A young man of good society
was about to be married That night
he was visited in his room by a jealous
mistress, who plunged dagger into
his breast, leaving him dangerously
, wounded, and, as she thought. dead.
The wedding has been indefinitely
postponed,
, An English statistician maintains
that the daily increase of wealth in the
United States is upward of S25, 100000,
or about SS3S, 100000 year, which Is
one.third as much as the entire in
crease in wealth Of the whole Of the
, rest of the world. England, whose in
4 crease in wealth is next to our own,
makes only profit on all her business
' of $500, 600, 900 year, or but little
1 over third of our own.
1 A very interesting curiosity is shown
S in a show-window in Pittsburgh. tits
Y miniature working model of the lar
Q gest steam hammer in the world-tho
!. Cruzot hammer, in France. The model
S is simply clock, and the great ham
: mer, which in one case weighs hund-
a red tons, in the other is pendulum
g that moves noiselessly up and down.
! Not single detail In tho great ham