Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-02-28
FACT AND FANCY.

ONO coal minus WOTh CulluIeu VI
only 10 years of growth.
One of the Nevada cattle-kings
worth over 100000 signs his name
"X."
Hoggish- Banishing American pork
from the markets OF Continental
Europe.
Prince Albert Victor, eldest son of
the Prince of Wales, has reached his
twenty-iirst year.
Vanderbilt goes sleighing in $780,
600 turn.o out. And Brooklyn womsn
nj likes shirts at cents apiece.
The government has SS2 000,0 in
silver certificates in circulation or held
in banks as security for deposits.
Il il estimated that there are 10000
coo head of cattle, valued at Sl,OOO,-
coo, 900 in tho United States this year.
The hey of Tunis has given French
engineer authority to proceed with the
scheme of making an inland sea in the
Desert of Sahara.
b ,ar meat is said to be a popular
food in the west. Dyspeptics, how
ever, AVOID it for fear OF Druin trouble
in their stOmachs.
The winter packing of hogs in Chi
cagO shows u decrease of $4,000 when
compared with the corresponding
period of last year,
The three most valuable pearl neck
| laccs in America are owned in Gotham
and are vaiued at 100000, $4,000,
and S23 900 espectiyeIy.
An estimate of the cigar consumption
in the United States annually, shows
that about . OJ0, ,00O0O are used, and
these cost about S75,0OO,0 900.
Thirty-fve sheep belonging to j. H.
Weaver, of Petersburg, n. Y, are suf-
fcring from hydrophobia, all of them
having been bitten by a rabid dog
Passengers still drop bouquets at
Ashtabula bridge, rs mcmentocs 10
friends who went down into that dark
and awful abyss on the night of Dec.
20, 1876.
Tncre were 523 27O bushels of rye,
and , 500 79S bushels of barley re-
ceived in 81. Louis in 1888. Tho in
crease in barley receipts were l,O4l,-
S3J bushels
When woman is in love she turns
TO the poets corner first in picking up
the local paper. After she is married
Sho turns first to the advertisement OF
the dry goods stores.
You cannot make your figures
come up TO the scratch by constantly
using the ink eraser" is what tie bank
examiner said to the cashier, when he
discovered II ntdNy uUi'nOue'v..'
During the past four years the
amount Of national currency, paper and
sprcir in the United States, increased
$iGS, ,O1O, $40; and in five years the de-
posts in banks increased $1,000, ,OOO,-
OoO.
1t is an old saying that to make a
goose mature requires considerable
time and large number OF quills.
Not so with man. He can make q
goose Df himself with one quill in a
short time.
Dr.. Richardson, OF England, says that
; "whcn tho air is driest the drinker
Graves alcohol the most. This may be
the case in England, but in this coun-
try it is when the drinker is the driest
: he Graves alcohol the most.
During the year 1888. the regular
cash transactions in ST. Louis Mer-
chants Exchange in oats were 3 9i4,-
, 700, and in speculative futures, 2l 49,
coo bushels. In the above year, 6,452,-
757 bushels of oats were received IN st.
Louis.
Miss Winnie Hall, of Temple, Texas.
is 100 ears old She has plaiuly vast.
ed her time. How many husbands she
might have buried if she had not
chosen life of single blossedness! 1t
is never too late to mend, however.
This is leap year.
Some of the regular railway ticket
offices in Chicago are worth Sl5,OOO
year to the agents. There was a great
competition lately for the agency at
the Palmer house, which is worth
$4,000 to $1,000. This IS more than
most railroad officers get.
my poor man." said the doctor,
''you are dangerously ill. Is there any
word YOU want to send to your
friend,P" Gam really so ill?' asked
the sufferer. "Alas, can offer you no
home" VERY well, then" said the
sick man, ''iust telephone for another
Doctor"
"you oavo nv wife the wrong medi-
Gina y exclaimed n man. entering a
drnr store 81 hope no harm has re-
onited " rcplied the druggist. tremu.
IonsIr % ooh no she's all rioht." "How
40 49, van know if was the wrong medi-
ai,ooS,' "U oS' Nv beconso if beiped her
immediately
81 soo ro,,,vo oot q coIored servant
.,., ;, 9O soid % a M man to another the other
im' w. was tho replv. "You
u"y 'njI,,, S,stor has irst lost her
Ln.bnynd Iov hoy co az we had TO get into
,ir,, nu,""uu, 'T va discbarged our white
lno"amG; li.I and S;rod % . crIorsd one She har.
gh, gn;nns aaS " With tbo mournino. as it
, we're"
t The supreme court of Illinois has de-
o,ornJ tbn Harper high-license law
> Constitutional and valid. No decision
hos been reached in regard to the muni-
h"' ~" -. = CL;oor,c c,r,ntino-