Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-01-31
Curious Facts,

Moles feed regularly at eight o'clock
in the morning, and three o'clock in
the afternoon.
1t has been found that slabs of mar
BILE, after being exposed to the sun for
long time may be bent.
Maine took its name from Queen
Henrietta Maria, whose father held the
appanage of the Duchy of Maine.
The Indians are the greatest con-
sumers of Venetian glass beads. They
like dull, Opaque colors, and will not
take others,
Almost i million persons are engaged
in the task of distributing food and
drink to the population OF London.
The town spends 100000 daily on
dairy products.
After many experiments sailors have
returned to the compass floating in Il
bowl of water, but instead of being
mounted on wood, as in the old days,
it is now fastened on card.
Pliny says that headache may be
thus cured. Extract the small bone
from the head of u snail found between
two cart ruts, pass it through a gold
ring with piece of ivory, sew it in n
piece of dog skin and fasten it to tho
patient.
In Japan, when man wants to make
his neighbours life burden 10 him, ne
has n caricaturc of him painted on q
fan, and gives it q wide circulation.
This is more effective than newspaper
libel, and not so likely to cause the ar
rest of the libellant.
Among the extraordinary vows taken
by Hlndoos is this: The devotoc lies
on his back, places handful of earth
and some mustard seed on his upper
lip and remains absolutely still until
the seed gCrminates, which it usually
does in about three days.
Schleidon maintains that n single
visiting card, when it is covered with
a white layer of chalk, represents
geological cabinet containing nearly
100. 900 shells OF animals. These shell,
are formed of carbonate Of lime, and
are so extremely small that it has been
calculated that it would require 49,.
900, 600 of them to make pound Of
chalk.
The jewish rabbis explain the Gus
tom which associates salute with n
sneeze by saying that before Jacobs
time men sneezcd but once, and that
killed them. Jacob was the first mau
to die a natural death. TO preserve
the memory of the sad fact that every
one befole Jacob had died of sneeHing
the princes of all nations ordered their
subjects to use some exclamation after
the act of SneGzing.
We will soon have half dozen grCat
railways traversing the American Con-
tinent from ocean to oceau. Amid the
rush of these enterprises it is pleasant
to stand aside and look back upon
various historical items in the distant
past. The great river, or Mississippi
is commonly said to have been dis
covered by De Soto; IN engraving OF
his arrival upon its banks may be seen
upon some Of Ournotes, but even before
Dc Soto's time, about 1920, there OK
listed map on which the lower part Of
the great river was traced, with the
name attached "Rio De. Espirito Sauto, -
i. @ the river of the Holy Ghost, which
De Soto, about 1910, found to be the
one called by the aborigines "Missis-
sippi." "The first European who
traversod the jntincnt from ,ea TO sea
from Florida, and who crossed the
Mississippi and other large rivers, wa,
Cabeza de Vaca, of whom Shea writes:
"Iie remains there in history, in a dis.
tant twilight, as the first European
known to have stood on the banks OF
the Mississippi and TO have launched
his boat upon its waters" De Naca
was a former follower Of the Spanish
Narvara. De Soto was the |
next explorer, in 1889, nearly $50 year
ago, and he died and was inferred up.
on the banks of the Mississippi.