Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-21
CURRENT TOPICS.

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CURRENT TOPICS.
THIS years tobacco crop will not be
very large.
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BURNT cork is the old reliable cure
for hog cholera.
THE Tichbornc claimant says he
isn't crushed yet.
New York is running short of
confidential" clerks.
BISMARCK wears Il finely woven coat
of-mal which is bullet proof.
Two thousand people are rustica-
ting in the Yellowstone National
Park.
TIE western plains are furnishing
thousands of buffalo skeletons to east
crn phosphate makers.
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PINK, white and blue water lilies
grow as large as dinner plates in
Queensland, Australia.
EDISON promises to get out new
crop of inventions during the next
year in the electrical line.
A WASHINGTON hack driver was
fined $50 for careless driving, and his
next passenger paid the bill.
A EUROPEAN newspaper calculates
that SiXty-scven persons die each min
ute, while seventy are born.
MEMPHIS claims more cquablc
temperature the year round than that
enjoyed by any other American city.
TIE biggest salmon taken this sca-
son in Scottish waters weighed rcpcc-
lively sixty, iifty-thrcc, fifty and forty
three pounds.
AN estimate within bounds is that
which sums up the cost of the music
for the ten weeks of the watcring-placc
season at Slj0,000.
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A MAGNIFICENTLY-CUT cameo pia,
set with rare pearls, that was formerly
the property of the Empress Eugcnic,
is worn by n lady at Long Branch.
In their next visit to this country
Henry Irving and Ellen Terry will be
accompanied by Chief Justice Cole
ridges son Stephen, who also will bring
his wife with him.
LiEuTENANT EMORY has brought
back TO this country Il number of Is
quimaux dogs. He will try and de-
monstratc that they can live in this
climate as well as in the arctic.
TIE tea plant has lately been III
troduccd near Soukgoum Kalch, on
the Black Sea, and the Russians are
confident that they will soon be able
to do without either Chinese or Indian
teas.
A NEW geologic curiosity in Balti-
more is an Australian fish called the
goby. 1t is said to climb or jump out
of its aquarium and to crawl with
great ease for several hours upon
terra lirma.
PHYSICIANS and dealers in dyestulls
in London are trying TO drive anilnc
colors out of use and restore Vegetable
dyes. They assert that anilinc dyes
produce painful and Dangerous crup-
lons of the skin.
TIE new divorce law in France,
which was announced TO go into effect
on the lst of August, forbidS, in the
second article, the making of any
report of the proceedings, II penalty
not exceeding S4OO being imposed.
THE Chinese are rapidly learning
European ways. When an accident
lately befell the machinery of one of
their largest ironclads, the engine was
taken apart and put together solely
by native engineers and workmcn.
TIE fastest bicycle time ever made
was mile in minutes 81 2-5 seconds.
Ten miles having been run IN less than
80 minutes, 20 miles in less than an
hour, and 100 miles in B hours jC
minutes, which is three hours les:
than the best time ever made by q
horse.
TIE Puget Sound oysters are some
times two feet in diameter, and weigh
inclusive of the shell, as much as sixty
pounds. Two Of these gigantic mol
lusks were lately transported and
planted in the South Bay. Either the
trip or the now habitat disagreed
with them, as they both died Il few
days aftcrward.
The latest novelty in the show busi
ness is an exhibition of noses, whicl
has recently been held in Austria
Eighty persons competed for the priz'
offered for the most eXtraOrdinar!
nasal protubcrapce in form, size ant
color. 1t was awarded to a competito
from Vienna, who is the possessor o
what is said to be gigantic nose o
deep violet blue.
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