Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-06
FACT AND FANCY.

Trenton, n. j., is to have school
of cookery this winter.
Yale's champion clog-dancer of last
6ear has become divinity student,
West Tennessee peanut-growcrs are
holding their stock for better prices.
The wages of several thousand
feather-workcrs in New York have
been reduced
A Pennsylvania murderer who had
served out his time was struck by an
express train and killed.
A Shepherdsville, Ky, colored
woman has given birth TO twins-the
one white and the other black.
The school law is to bo enforced in
such manner in Gridley, Cal, as to
make boys attend school or leave the
town.
1t is said that gold and silver mines
changed hands over the result of the
Owens-MIrphy pri2o-ight at Butte
City. They do things IN large way
out in Montana.
The state fish commissioners of
Pennsylvania have agreed upon plan
for the establishment at Erie of fish
hatchery, fol the propagation of white
fish for Lake Erie.
A clerk in one of the hardware stores
of Ithaca, n. Y, fell asleep the other
day, and then fell through glass show
case, against which he was leaning,
completely dcmolishing it.
There is great excitement in Buffalo
and Fort Erie over the squabbles of
two rival ferry companies, one Of which
holds alicense from the American side,
the Other from the Canadian.
The magnificent First Spiritual
temple which the Spiritualists Of Bos-
ton are building in that city, Is slowly
nearing completion. 1t will have cost
about s2jOO0O when completed.
a student of New York names finds
that Taylor keeps a clothing store,
Brewer Il saloon, and Baker q confGc-
tionery; that Reiter is book.keeper;
Sellers, II salesman, Baycr, a buyer,
and Scholar, teacher.
A Pittsburgh, Pa, lady who lost
her voice almost entirely Il year ago.
being suddenly Y startled the other day,
uttered an exclamation of fright, and
was delighted to find her voice restor-
ed. This is not claimed as faith cure.
"Oh, darn these giElsr' was the
first audible words Miss Ellen Esh-
worth, Of Rochester, Pa, had uttered
for twelve years. She runs millinery
store, and her employees now expect
to hear from her with much frequency.
A young lady in south Georgia in
serts the following advertisement in
local paper: Wanted, by young
ladyrot 30, a husband, be he bachelor,
widOwcr, or dude. am good-looking.
weigh ITO pounds, can cook, wash and
IRON
Philadelphia has 237 carpet estab-
lishmcnts, winch turn out S22, 900. 900
worth Of goods annually. Some twelve
thousand persons find employment in
these factories, of whom over one
thousand are children and nearly four
thousand are women.
A significant incident of the recent
vote in Connecticut on the constitu-
tional amendment providing for bien.
nial sessions of the legislature is that
Hartford, the capital, voted lap
against it, and New Haven, the ex-
semi-capital, 1886 for it.
A barber says that when lady's
hair begins to come out, as after
fever, it is much better to singe it of
than to cut it, The singeing deadens
the ends and allows the hair to devote
all the energy to growing strong
rather than to increase in length.
The rivers on which Shanghai,
Ningpo, and Canton are situated have
all been partly ob9uucted by the Chi
nese authorities laying down piles and
iunks. There is room only for one
vessel to pass at Il time at the place
where the distractions are. Torpe-
does have also been thickly laid down
in these rivers.
In opening grave recently in tho
Va, free burying.ground,
under city control; tombstone was
found four feet under ground. which
recorded the death in 1907 of Nancy
Dove, age - years. Deceased was
one Of the first settlers in Belle Haven,
no doubt, and a contemporary Of
George Washington.
1t was the request of Mrs. Annie
West, who died in Belfast, Me-, last
week, that after her decease her body
be cremated, but it was found impos-
sible to comply with this, as the laws
Of all states where crematories exist
provide that no bodies can be so dis
posed Of except those of persons who
liein the state. The body was there.
fore deposited in the family tomb.
A curious animal was recently cap
.ured near Elmira, n. Y. 1t is a won
1erful conglomeration of several forms
Of beast and fish, and as a peculiar for
nation is unexcclled in the history of
Its body is in the form
Of fish, while its head closely re-
'embles that of bulldog. 1t seems to
oe devoid of all feeling, rs the prick Of
| pin produces no outward expression
1f pain.
The competitive tournament in fly
fasting held during the past two days
n the New York Central park was an
exhibition of the skin of
anglers in throwing their fine grass
ines distance of 20 and so feet. The
fleet of these long throws with light
'ods was like legerdemain upon the
pectators. William Blackford, a boy
i 18, son of the fish commissioner,
brew line Ga feet lsd a'.i
Since Akai Kagebara, a Japanese
Who was sentenced to ten years'' i'm.
,risonment for havingplotted to assas-
mate the prime minister and other
'fiicials, escaped from jail, considera-
'le anxiety has been felt among the
Ugh classes. The police authorities
ave exerted themselves to the utmost
o recapture him, but hitherto their
forts have proved futile.
Immediately on being stung by
zee, place tho hollow barrel OF q key
ound the sting and press until IL be-
ins to hurt. On removing the key the
ting will bo found lying outside the
nncture IL has made and inside the
ing formed by the pressure Of the key
ai'rel. All pain ceases at once, no,
yelling takes place, and In a few min
tes it d difficult to lind again where
no has been stung.