Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-08-14
FACT AND FANCY.

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A fine 5000 setter was killed in the
New York dog pound Thursday.
In eight years the fourth centcn-
nial of the discovery of America will
occur.
Baltimore, Md, with population of
100000 inhabitants, is without
morgue.
New Orleans is to have profession
al baseball club during the exposition
next winter.
An actress, while dancing her third
encore in the Hermosllo. Mexico,
thcater, tainted.
A dog chasing a deer through pond
in Walton county Florida, last week.
was captured by an alligator.
Miss Aida Baer, Waynesboro, Pa,
has pink cactus in full bloom, upon
which are counted 2G0 flowers.
The Mother Hubbard costume has
been placed on the list of things for
bidden to employees by. the Western
Union.
Employ the hired man whose
/
than behind, is the advice of Il coun-
try paper.
Poison ivy abounds in Fairmount
park, Philadelphia, and many ladies
and children are in consequence suffer-
ing from swollen faces and hands.
Charles Mosher, of Troy, escaped
from the POughkecpsic lunatic asylum,
and marched enthusiastically in an
Odd-Fellows' procession before he was
caught.
The lag that the Chihuahua regi-
ment carried in the famous battle of
Pucbla has been accidentally discov-
cred in Il pawnship and rescued from
oblivion.
The sale of edible snais has become
a regular trade in New York city.
Most of them come from New Jersey,
where there are at least half Il dozen
snail farmers.
rhc lava fields north of the Snake
river, Utah, are on fire. A thousand
acres have been burned over, and the
fire threatens to destroy the great river
ranch Of Idaho.
Over million pounds of Sea island
cotton was shipped from Lake City,
Fla, last year There was also fifty
ears Of cotton seed, each car contain
ing 22,jOO pounds, making Il total of
seed of /, l2j 600.
Papa" said the little daughter of n
Clergyman recently, ''if God tells you
what to write in your sermon, why do
you so often scratch it out again?"
The clergyman changed the subject by
asking her how she liked her new doll.
A cast in plaster of pairs has been
taken of the largest watermelon
brought to Corpus Christi. The weight
Of the melon was sixty and onc-half
pounds. The cast will be painted
like the original and sent to the worlds
| fair.
In 1871 Benjamin Franklin made tho
city of Boston the trustee of funds of
El,OOO, to be lent to young mechanics,
calculating that in 1891 the fund would
amount to SjS2,00O His figures must
have been faulty, however, for the
fund now only amounts to S29l,000.
Savannah, Ga, uses only cemented
vaults, yet her physicians say they are
not tight enough to prevent mhealth-
fulncsS, and that if the vaults are al
lowed to remain at all the wells of The
city should be closed; but they con-
denim the vaults unanimously.
"For twenty years and more" re-
marks gambler, 1--WE handled the
chips in club-room. and I've watched
all sorts of men and seen every kind
of luck. have known only few
big winners, and only two men who
kept it up and prolitcd by their good
fortune
Three bulldogs were recently placed
in pit with wildcat at Charleston,
W. ", by their owners, whose object
was to see fight. One slap from the
cat settled the dogs, however, and the
sports were compelled to postpone
combat until suitable fighting material
could be secured.
A Red Bluff, Cal, fancier had a
large flock of Plymouth Rock fowls.
Noticing that his broods of young
chickens were rapidly growing smaller,
he instituted II close watch, when he
found to his surprise that large
Plymouth Rock rooster was in the habit
of killing and eating the little chicks.
The rooster has since been sold as
spring chicken.
The Georgians rightfully claim that
their state gave the women of America
and of the world the first college.
The Wesleyan Female college, Gre
ated in 1888 by the state of Georgia,
adopted by the Methodist conference
in 1910, endowed and remodeled in
1882 by George |. Seney, is to-day the
monument which marks the earliest
complete recognition of woman's
claim.
They say that nobody ever dies in
Nantucket; they simply dry up. ave
amt no chickens" said an old inhab.
itant the other day. "The boy next
to me is ninety-three, am eighty
nine; the boy on the other side OF me
is cighty-iive, and the youngest sitting
beyond is the baby, being only seven
ty-nine." Then they all began to dis
cuss what they would do during the
next ten years.
Savannah, Ga, is shipping frese
oysters to the north. A dealer theirs
says: "The oyster is as good and as
healthy food in July and August at
in September, December, or April, but
you must know where to get him.
There are extensive beds of oysters on
the southern coast that have scarcely
been touched, and there is no danger
of the supply running out for many
years to come, il ever"
The first wheat raised in the new
world was sown by the Spaniards on
the island of Isabella in January, l494,
and on March 80 the ears were gather
ed. The foundation of the wheat har-
vest of Mexico is said to have been
three or four grains carefully cultivat-
cd in 1880, and preserved by a slave Of
Cortes. The first crop of Quito was
raised by Franciscan monk in front
of the convent. Garcilazo dc Ia Vega
aiiirms that ia Peru, up to 1868, wheat
en- bread had not been sold in Cusco.
The ordinary excuses will not avail
women to escape jury duty in Washing
ton territory. One lady, the wife of an
ex-judge Of the territory and the