Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-20
FACT AND FANCY.

A Columbia county, Florida, farm Is
making vinegar from tomatoes.
The largest ship ever built in Maine
was launched from Bath, Wednesday.
Two Boston houses send about 600,-
600 gallons of rum to the Congo every
year.
1t is predicted by fashionable New
York optician that ladies will wear
the single eye-glass very extensively
this winter.
Escaloped lobster in shell la diable
looks rather badly in print, but it Is
one of the most delicious dishes on the
bill of fare.
San Francisco has but just adopted
the new standard time. which, for the
Pacific coast, listen minutes faster than
that of the city.
An Oregon Chinaman named All
Chung fell in love with a German
nursemaid, and on being rejected be-
came n raving maniac.
The Presbyterans of New York are
trying TO raise $500, 900 for Hamilton
college. If they succeed they will have
control of the institution.
The Kentucky tobacco crop is good
and well maturcd. 1t has been housed.
Connecticut has the largest crop this
year il has seen since 1871.
A watermelon may be saved in good
condition up to the Christmas holidays
by wrapping it carefully in straw and
burying it two feet in the sand.
Four sisters named Carr wore mar
ricd the same evening recently at Jo-
liet, H., by one clergyman, and now
they call that parson a "car-coupler."
A laundry firm in New York city is
getting ahead of Chinese cheap labor
by employing women who darn the
socks, mend the linen, and sew on the
buttons of all garments :ntrusted' to
them, charging only the usual laundry
prices.
A wooden Indian, stationed in front
of Wilmington cigar store, killed a
nan the other day. As usual With
Indian outrages, the white man was
drunk and assaulted the Indian first,
who promptly fell on him and frac-
trred his skull.
Englishmen cat at much shorter in
tcrvals than Americans are accustom-
d to. The farm laborcr eats four
meals day, and in some of tho bar
jnial halls in England the tables are
spread for meals at intervals of four
hours during the day and evening.
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the widow Of French marshal, who
now grinds a hand-organ, the top OF
which is decorated with her husbands
medals. She is said to speak the pur-
est French to be heard in the Hub, and
her face resembles an English walnut.
A vew perfume, called "a Lily's
Sigh is now in use among women
whose purses are long, the price being
20 per tiny phial. 1t produces an ex-
quisite odor, very much like the hello
trope, and is said to have been origi-
nally introduced in this country by
Mrs. Langtry.
Trains are now run on all the eleva-
ted roads in New York on Sunday for
the price of cents. The company's
method of observing the Sabbath quite
suits the public; and the patronage Of
the roads on these days is nearly
louble what it was on the correspond
ing days of last year.
Glass bearings for journal boxes,
glass shingles, glass pulleys, etc., have
been tried with favorable results. Ves-
sells hava been sheeted with glass in
stead of copper, with the most salts
factory results. With glass pulleys,
especially for cable roads, friction is
reduced to minimum.
The travel across the Brooklyn
bridge is slowly but surely incseasing.
The receipts for the month just closed
were the largest yet, being $50,0S6.
Last Saturday was red-letter day.
Thirty-four thousand five hundred and
forty people crossed in the cars, and
the total receipts were $2,026.
Little Rudolph one day begged an
invitation to dinner at the house of q
little friend with whom he had been
playing during the morning. At the
table his little hostess anxiously in
quired: Rudolph, can you cut your
own meat?" "Humphr' said Rudolph,
who was saving away, "can't IP rve
often cut up as tough meat as this at
homem
A novel experiment Of carrying
railroad through forest has been tried
in Sonoma county, California. The
trees are sawed of and levelled and
the ties are fastened on the stumps,
two of which are huge redwoods
standing side by side and reaching
seventy-five feet from the ground. So
firm is this support that heavily loaded
cars pass over with perfect security.
In Ontario passenger trains are not
started on unday. Recently it was
attempted on the Credit Valley, new
road, but so strong was the public
feeling aroused that the company felt
constrained to abolish the Sunday
train. When the Dominion govern
ment directed that the Welland canal
be opened during twelve hours on Sun
day, so strong was the expression Of
public opinion on the subject that in
few weeks the order was counter
manded.
II is stated that at none OF the ship-
yards in Philadelphia have any con-
tracts for new work been taken in
recently, and where any vessel build
ing is going on hands are employed in
finishing them up. and it is understood
that unless new contracts are offered
the end of the year will witness a total
cessation of vessel-building In this To-
cality, but at all the yards, except,
perhaps, at that of the American Ship
Building company, repairing of YES
sells will be carried on to o limited ex-
tent.
A discouraged carpenter. Of Macon,
Ga, being arraigned in the recorders
court for an attempt at suicide, plead
ed that he wanted to die, and as
whisky would not kill him he tried
laudanum. He said II he was let of
he would not try to kill himself any
more. The recorder SAID that he would
strip the imaginary romance Of the
drunk by holding him responsible for
being drunk on laudanum as we'll as
II he was on whisky. He fined him s.
for getting drunk on laudanum and
trying to commit suicide.
The Western Union telegraph Office
at Washington is utilizing the bicycle
in the delivery Of messages very sue