Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-10-09
FACT AND FANCY.
There are about seventy-fve Baptist
a aseociationa in Alahamd

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associations in Alabama.
Florida derives large income from
the sale Of alligator hides.
Grapes at New Berne, N. c., are
abundant at 80 cents bushel.
One man in Santa Barbara, CAL, has
raised 10000 pampas plumes this sea-
son.
On Sept. there were 2,640 patients
in the insane asylums at Napa and
Stockton, Cal.
Wild pigeons are unusually numer-
GUS Just now in Chehalis county, Wash
ington territory.
The women of Seattle, Washington
territory, have organized Woman's
Equal Rights association.
Capt. Worth of Strasbury, Pa, car
ries the sword his grandfather bore at
the battle of North Point in 1874.
The canal-boat navigation of this
country gives employment to sixty
thousand persons, number nearly
equal to that of our coasting trade.
The assessed value of real and per-
sonal property in the state of New
York is S3,0l4, ,59l, S72. OF this amount
81, ,276, ,677, l64 is property in the city
of New York.
AmCrican-lrish oysters are COM
mended TO the attention of the Irish
American citizen. Seed oysters are
sent from this country to Ireland, and
the full-grown bivalves are one of our
imports.
The type of The Hion On. W Citizen,
which is printed by the aid of an cleo
trio motor, is now composed by n type
setting machine. The paper claims to
be the first in the world to accomplish
the feat.
Among vegetable petrifactons from
Arizona are moss agatcs in which tho
field is cnlOrless crystal and the inn
prisoncd matter brilliant red, green,
gray, ard brown They are found in
large pieces.
In a single game Of lacrosse at To-
ronto one man was knocked senseless.
n second had thumb broken, third
injured his cOllar-bonc, and fourth
his arm, TO say nothing of several out
and out fights.
The topography of the moon is well
known to astronomers and has been
carafully outlined on detail maps.
There are five mountains in the moon
more than 10000 feet high, the highest
measuring $500 feet
The most popular course chosen by
the new students Of Cornell uniyersi-
ty this year is civil engineering, which
is taken by iiity-thrcc; science and let
tcrs come next with forty-ninc, and
me cchanics with twenty-ninc.
A man living near Edisto, in Aiken
county, S. c.. boasts of having three
mothers-in-laws still living, 90 brothers
in-law, 30 Sistcrs-in-law, the most of
whom are living, over $50 nephews
and nieccs, and only grandchild.
One of those rubber balloons with a
whistle attached was recently the
cause of the death of Brooklyn, N.
Y, lad. He drew it into his throat,
and being unable to cxtricatc it. died
in great agony before the arrival of n
physician.
Grasshoppers are numerous on some
farms from five to ten miles east of
Petaluma, Cal. They have eaten all
the leaves from the grape-yines, and
on one farm apple-trees are completely
girdcd by them, they having entirely
stripped oil the bark.
In regard to the discovery of silver
ore in New York and other Atlantic
states. Prof. Ncwbcrry asserts that sill
yer is not uncommon along the APP
palachian range, but seldom occurs in
paying proportions. Nino-tenths of the
mines in these districts fail.
One of the hotel proprietors at Rock
away calculates that during the sea-
son he has furnished 10 his guests re-
freshments as follows: 100, 900 kegs of
lager. 650, 600 miscellaneous drinks,
500,00 cigars, G,000 scecp, 100000
chickens, 100000 eggs, 50O,OOO gal
Ions of clam chowder, 10000, 900 clans,
and 25 tons of fish.
A California editor recently attempt
ed to telegraph to friends in neigh
boring town: "Can not be down till
Thursday-foreman drusk." He went
down on Thursday, and was astonish-
ed by the HILARIOUS manner in which his
friends received him. 1t came out
that the telegram, when received, read:
"Can not come down till Thursday
orenoon-drunk. "
Twenty-Five thousand men are build
ing ships in the United States. Twenty
two millions of dollars are the ship
builders capital Forty million dol
lars year is the product, AnL in the
transportation trade-for our railway
trains are also our ships-we employ
nearly two million people, or half as
many as in all our manufactures.
The Indians who are wont to swarm
into Anaheim, Cal, during the grape
picking season have so far failed to
put in an appearance. Their absence
is accounted for, says The Gazette, by
the fact that watermelohs, corn, and
acorns are abundant this year. They
will not leave their mountain homes
as long as they have something. to eat,
A postmaster in Texas, at an office
bearing the suggestive name of
Spring Valley" writing to the post
office department, offers his resigna-
tion, and urges its acceptance, as he
states, "on account of there being no
water left in the place." and closes
his letter with: 81 am your obd't
servant, drinking pond water haul
six miles till hear from you"
A dumb piano is the latest device
for the enjoyment of the neighbors of
a musical family. 1t is an instrument
the sound of which is so far reduced by
a strong felt border between hammers
and strings that the music can only be
sufficiently heard by the player to en-
able him to distinguish between the
chords. 1t was invented in Dresden,
where the ''piano nuisance" is seri-
Gus matter.
The number of foreign residents in
the treaty ports of China last year were
1894, one-half of them being English.
Great Britain is represented in China
by 29S business houses, Germany by Sc,
America by "a, Russia by II, France by
12, Spain by Z, and Italy, Austria, Hol-
land, and Denmark each by |. The
total of exports and imports for the
twenty-one ports in 1882 was l,0o0.-
900, 900 francs.