Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-12-18
FACT AND FANCY.


to Maine to pass the winter.
Agriculture has increased quite rap
idly in Maine the last decade.
A young lady "lathers and shayes
'em" ut Seattle, Washington terri
tory.
There are l6l patients in the Nevada
insane asylum and lGl convicts In the
state prison.
Walla Walla, Washington territory,
has forty. six Chinese students at q
school there.
Fourteen boys made ropes OF blank
cts and escaped from the Louisville
house of refuge.
Skin grating has been proposed as
u means of securing n new crop OF hair
on sterile scalp.
A New Haven, Conn, man pawned
his false teeth for n quarter recently
to buy theater ticket.
Camphor trees are growing thriftily
at Quincy, Fla. The plants were OBJ
tanned from Washington.
A company of Scotch capitalists
have invested 100000 in mining lands
in White county, Georgia.
A saloon at Laredo, Texas, recently
received a turtle measuring 8! by %
feet and weighing $50 pounds.
Peach aud Japan plum trees contin-
ne to bloom at Greene Cove Springs,
Fla. So do big.mouthed alligators.
Christmas trees are alIeady on their
way south from northern forests and
will soon make fir groves on city
streets.
There is band of elk in tho
Mogollona mountains of New Acxico
which many hunters have tried in
| vain TO c '-'''~-
Salinas, ual., is troubled by plague
of frogs. They hop in at open doors
and windows, and are nuisance and
terror to nervous housekcepers.
"Thc Working Girls vacation
society" is new charitable society In
New York. whose name, at least, is
suggestive of needed good works.
The red sunsets have again made
their appearance in San Francisco,
and are interpreted by some as the re-
Election of the war cloud waited from
China.
The Chinese have introduced opium
smoking among the Indians of British
Columbia, and it is said they are more
infatuated with the drug than the
Chinese.
Eighty-tive schools are now sup
ported in Utah by outside aid. These
employ 1856 teachers, who are paid
SgS,C0O year, nnd give instructions
to 1900 children.
Philadelphia girls wear silk stock
ings upon which snakes, toads, and
ali kinds of bizarre designs are paint
cd. Another case of feminine imita-
lion of masculine styles.
A Louisiana negro man attempted
to shoulder five bundles of cotton ties
at once the other day. He succeeded
in getting them nearly up, staggered,
and fell dead from over-eXertion.
New Orleans papers say that dozens
of small. low-priced restaurants are
being opened all over that city, and
at many of them "very decent and
filling meal can be had for 20 cents"
The term cut-glass is incorrect.
Glass can not be cut, not even by tho
diamond. The diamond cracks it and
enables one to break it, What is or
dinarily called cut-glass is really
ground glass
A jury at Fort Worth, Texas, has
given brakeman who had his head
crushed while coupling cars, $4,000
damages. The road thus heavily as
sessed is the Galveston, Harrisburg
and San Antonio.
A for IN rock fell from the arch
of the n..tural bridge of Virginia, the
other morning, With a noise like the
crack of doom. This is the first fall
on record since the bridge was struck
by lightning in l779.
Work on the walls of the Mormon
temple in Salt Lake City is about sus.
pended for the winter, rhe main
structure is up to the square, but the
central spires have yet to bo reared a
distance of ninety feet.
Mr.. Thomas Jordan, of Lisbon,
Maine, who is S4 years old, is one OF
the smartest of the smart old gentle
men. One day last week he held a
breaking-up pillow all day, and the day
before he had spent fighting fire in the
woods.
The springs in Los Angeles (Califor.
nia) mountains are said to have moro
water flowing from them at present
than at any time for the last twenty
years. Tho Los Angeles river is also
booming, considering the amount OF
rain that has fallen.
A Texas man ~ade bet that he
could inven' q question to which dfty
people woul ! all give the same answer.
He won the bet. The question was /:
Have you heard that Smith had com.
mitted suicideP" The answer in each
case was: "What Smith,"
A Florida paper is responsible fQr
the statement that the phosphoresehce
on the St. Marks river and bay, near
tho lighthouse, is nov more brilliant
than ever known; that al night the
bottom of the river can be plainly seen
when person is on the water In q boat,
In the old days when senators took
snuff, two boxes filled with the article
were placed on the presidents desk,
one on each side, by order of nerv.
GUS vice. president, who became very
tired of having senators walk up and
ask him for pinch. They are there
to this day.
The Washington treaty permitting
United States fishermen to take fish In
British waters terminates July 4, 1855,
and Eastport, Me-. people think they
will then be driven from their favorite
herring fishing-grounds unless some
new bargain be made.
The elaborate icing that initiates
frost and ice on Christmas cards is
done by scattering particles OF ground
glass over gummed cards. Tho tiny
atoms penetrate the lungs of the poor
girls employed in the manufacture,
and either kill them or render them
soon hopeless invalids.
Nine acres Of farm at Dias creek,
Cape May county, New Jersey, is be-
ing connected with the ocean BY q
ditch, and will be converted into an
oyster bed and pond. On two and
one.half acre cranberry bog in the
same place eighty.five barrels were
raised at $40 barrel this fall, and half
the berries rotted on the mes.
The property of southern MARYLAND