Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1884-10-02
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Atlanta, Ga, is to have 4 grand tab
crnaclc for people who ore not regular
church-goers. 1t will cost 100000, of
which Senator Brown gives $4,000.
Prof. Hobson, 4 Texas scientist,
wants the government to advance
$4,000, 900 to assist him in discovering
whether or not the moon is inhabited.
A new form of dynamite is made
from poplar wood flour, and resem-
bles a vanished dOughnut. 1t is as
explosive as the ordinary kind, but far
safer.
The soap industry in California is
falling of at Il frightful rate. In 1876
the annual product was estimated at
Sl,OOO,O00, while last year it barely
amounted to $3.50, 900.
A New Jersey dcfaultcr tried to kill
himself after being informed of his
crime. The news should have been
broken to him more gently, as he had
probably not heard Of it.
A Syracuse man is astonished be-
cause one of three women walking
abreast stepped aside and permitted
him to pass-tho first time in his ex-
perience. She was young, pretty, and
"rcal lady"
The numerous lynchings in Arkan-
sas are running the sherilfs business.
Every time n man is hung by 4 mob
they loss fee Of $50, and very natrlr-
ally they are opposed to this sort of
competition.
Visitor-"Tell me why you omit that
part of your text about the rich man
and the eye of the needleP" Bishop
''Oh, | have to be careful in such mat
tiers; there are several millionaircs in
the congregation"
They can execute prohibitory law
in Georgia. Since the whisky traffic
has been taboocd in johnson county
there has been steady decrease Of
crime and the Jail has become almost
a useless appendagc.
The hungry tramp who, instead of
being furnished with food, was told to
go off and take the pledge, went and
took three and then was arrested.
The pawnbroker he took them from
was the prosecutor.
The Bible society has determined to
stop putting bibles in railroad cars.
One of its officers said: "Of thou
sand distributed we believe but ten arc
read, while three hundred were SO
mutilated as to be worthless, and four
hundred stolen"
Gilroy, Cal, has a model Justice of
the peace. He recently fined man
Sc for being drunk, and took in pay
mcnt thereof one bladed iack-knifc,
deck af cards, clay pipe, q days
labor, so cents in cash, and n promise
to pay the balance the next time he
came to town.
A San Bernardino, Cal, man drew
a strip of cloth through the stems of
his watermelons and put the ends of
the cloth in vessel filled with lemon
juice. The result is lemon-navored
melons, and now his neighbors are
producing whisky-navored melon by
the same process.
A Galveston darky rushed breath
lessly into n Doctors office and ex.
claimed: "Come on, doctor, right off.
Dar is somebody who is in an awful
fix-laid up in bed agroanin' and
agroanin'." ''Who is it?n "lt's me.
You see, boss, didn't hab nobody to
send, so como myself"
1t is said that the annual cost of
maintaining fences in this country Is
not far short of $50, 200, 900, and the
total length is estimated at 100000
miles. II this be true the farmers
lose pretty snug sum, and no wonder
that in some portions of the United
States a general abolition of fences is
strongly recommended.
The people of Kings county, New
York, are seriously considering the
proposition to build crematory for
the purpose of incinerating the bodies
of the pauper dead. The potter's
field at Flatbush contains no fewer
than 5000 bodies, buried two deep,
and the effect upon the health Of the
surrounding country is seriously con-
sidered.
A Germantown correspondent of
The Philadelphia Record says that forty
years ago Erasmus Pierce, who lived
at Mount Airy and did business at
Third and Market streets, Philadel-
phia, wrote phamphlet predicting
that "steam vessels would cross the
ocean in six days inside forty years. "
Mr.. Pierce was considered crazy, and
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