Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-12-11
FACT AND FANCY.


the Idaho legislature.
The new American Episcopal church
in Paris cost S500,0O0.
Christmas and New Years day fall
on Thursday this year.
Bible is the appropriate name Of a
Bellefontaine, Pa, editor.
Nevada sends exhibits to New Or
leans to the value of 5000
Victoria, b. c., is having touble
with filthy Chinese opium dens.
Boston girls carry their banjos on
the street in green flannel bags.
Tie United States uses three times
as much paint as any other country.
instruction IN sewing was introduce
ed in the Philadelphia public schools
recently.
1t is said that the illustrations in
Harper'S Magazinc for the last year cost
over $4,000.
Within ten years the union illprob-
ably number forIy-eight instead Of
thirty-eight states.
A Britisher has discovered that
North America was at one time colo
nized by the Romans.
A man in Tallahassee, Fla, in dig
ging well, the other day, struck a
deep layer of oyster.shells.
More than O,0O0 New Workers live
at hotels, and there are 100000
strangers in town every night.
In India cats sometimes have the
cholera. Thus do the most terrible
visitations prove blessings in disguise.
A 14-year-old lady and l7-year.old
gentleman recently assumed the holy
bonds of matrimony at Kcnncbunk
Me.
Hay is being transported into the
upper counties of Canada, the scarcity
there being due to drought last sum.
mer
American oysters are being shipped
to Germany alive for the purpose OF
being acclimatcd in the waters of the
Baltic.
Three negroes who left Chattanooga,
Tenn, for Utah last Friday are said to
be the first converts to Mormonism
from the African race.
Indiana polls nearly 100000 votes,
and consequently must have about
2,jOU,O0 population, an increase OF
over 800, 900 since 1880.
John Jackson, of La Grange, Pa,
keeps barrel Of sweet cider on tap by
the roadside with cup beside it for
the rcfreshment of thirsty travellers.
Gov Cleveland will be the first New
York governor to resign that Office
since Martin Van Buren, resigned to
enter Jackson's cabinet over half
century ago.
The Young Mems Christian Assoca-
ton, Of Little Rock, Ark, are very ac-
tive, and are constructing building
for the association, TO cost, when COM
pleted, S2OO,OOO.
Seattle, Wyoming territory, cast
1926 votes at the recent election;
Tacoma, 1868. Women cast onc-third
of the votes. Olympia cast 993, and
Bcllingham Bay 4s2 votes.
Texas, the largest state in the union,
is to have the largest capitol in the
union. The cornerstone of the struct-
ure will be laid on March . 1t is now
found that it will cost $1,000, 900.
Natchc2 says he has been chief of
the PiutcS since WinncmuCca death,
and there has been no occasion for
such an election as that which is re-
ported to have taken place lately.
A New Haven druggist says he has
many calls for cigarettes from act
resses and also from young ladies Of
good families. Some married ladies
smoke with their husbands consent.
Hunters in Sullivan county. New
York, say that deer have been SO
sCrcly pressed for fodder of late that
now they may be seen hanging around
the outskirts of small hamlets and vii
lagos
"Im afraid our little boy won't
live" remarked an anxious mother.
"What put that in your headp" in
qured her husband. II read to-day
that one-third of the adults in this
country die in their infancy"
Sun Fong Lows new Chinese res
taurant in San Francisco is receiving
such gorgeous decoration that it is
said that when the decoration is COM
pleted and the house furnished the
total expense will approach $4,000.
The Celestial citizens of New York
city recently celebrated the fiftieth
anniversary of the birth of the grand
mother of the Chinese emperor. Fire
crackers, lanterns, yellow flags, and
Chinese band were the features of the
occasion,
A large Newfoundland dog-it is
always a Newfoundland dog-belong-
ing 10 citizen of San Francisco re-
Gently jumped into the bay and res
cued poor terrier who had accident
ally slipped over the embankment into
the muddy water.
what business were you, engaged
in when in the United Stnesp" one
foreign tourist asked another. II was
a bank cashier" replied the traveller.
mot one of those with 'discropan-
cy,' | hope?n facetiously remarked tho
tourist. "Oh, no. There was no
discrepancy. cleared up everything
before left. The safe remains. 1t Is
part of the building, you know"
A Little Rock man sold his cooking
stove to get money enough to take his
family to the circus. When one Of
his friends demonstrated with him he
said 1--WE had no use for the stove
had nothing to cook" "But why
didn't you buy something to eat with
the money you got for the stovep"
Then we should have nothing to cook
it on. Don't talk to me. I'm phi
losopher."
"Oh, dear" sighed farmer swife,
wearily, as she dropped into chair
after a hard days work, "a feel just as
if were going to bc sick. My head
throbs, and my back aches dreadfully,
and" "By gosh ~ interrupted
the farmer, starting up and seizing his
hat, "that reminds me. forgot TO
give the 2.year-old colt his condition
powders tonight, an hos been
wheezin' all day" and he hurried to
the barn.
A young lady visitor called att Fifth
avenue residence in the absence OF the
family. As sho turned to 60 anvarth-
ly sounds issued from the basement.
"What in the world is thatp" she
asked of the servant who had opened
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