Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-11-13
NUMBER l3.
FACT AND FANCY.

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1t is proposed to put time" stafl
and ball on the top of Washington's
monument.
Infant mortality in France is com.
puted at from 20 to % per cent Of tho
population.
The "genial commercial solicitation.
ist" is the Boston style of address for
q drummer.
The awards for lands taken by the
state for park at Niagara falls foot
up nearly Sl,500,000.
Elastic silk jerseys are now sold In
all colors, and they dispense with the
dress. makers entirely.
Fashionable cats are now ornamented
with collar and bells, so that puss
makes music wherever she goes.
"I'm ut your servivce, madam"
said the polite burglar, when caught
with his arms full Of silverware.
A new species of horses with erect
names like the quills of the fretful por.
cupine has been discovered in Central
Asia.
Occupants Of apartment-house in
New York are called "roomers" and
fiat residents are termed "sky-scrap-
ers."
Bears are being killed by the dozen
in Lewis county, Wyoming. and are
more plentiful than ever before
known.
The English city of Birmingham now
has the largest railroad station in the
world. 1t is just finished at cost Of
S2, 200.
A Paris correspondent says that
French boys continue to have an aver
sion to all games, such as football,
which may entail bodily hurt.
Bean-bread is the chief food of the
Indians in Indian Territory. tits CON-
posed of powdered beans, mixed with
water, and baked over an open fire.
An Alabama negro was heard to
soliloquizc, philosophically: "Do sun
am so hot, dc cotton am so grassy, de
work am so hard, dat dis darky feel
called upon to preach
Mr.. Sigwalt, municipal councillor
at Muttersholz (Alsacc), was lately
killed by his son, aged %, who had
come home from an asylum before his
mind had really recovered its equilib.
rum.
On many of the transatlantic steam.
ers the collections taken up among the
passengers, instead of being given to
the British Seamans orphanage, are
now divided, onc-half being given to
some American charity.
A man who married widow has in
vented a device to cure her of eternal
ly praising her first husband. When
ever she begins 10 drscant on his noble
qualities, this ingenious Number Two
merely says, Poor, dear man; how /
wish he had not died.
An eccentric individual has Just be-
queathed the French Academy of Fine
Arts n sum of money to he devoted to
an annual prize of 1000 francs which
will fall to the painter who has taken
the lowest position in the competition
for the PriN de Rome.
a prominent member of the Ten.
nesscG bar was arrested the other day
in one of the cities of the western por-
tion of the state. He came in such
questionable shape in the carelessness
of his attire that he was taken for n
tramp by one OF the local conservators
of the place.
When you write "rush" on tcle-
gram the clerk sees at once that il is
important. He rushes it to an opera
tor, the operator ruShcs it over the
wires, the receiving operator at its des-
ruShcs it onto paper, puts il
in an envelope with Il rush, and hands
it to Il messenger boy. There tho
rushing stops.
The marriage of very young Italian
girls without their consent, but by
family arrangement. is generally prac-
ticed in the Italian quarter of Phila-
delphia. Wives of u and 10 years OF
age with little babies are very CON-
mon sight, and other cases of even
more youthful age are occasionally
heard of.
The Mississippi steamboat men have
a general superstition against all boats
whose name begins with the letter NJ.
One captain says: II have never
known boat on the western waters
whose name commenced with the let
ter NJ that has not either burned up,
sunk, or been blown up, or been fin
lncial disaster to her owners"
$50 you are the new girl" said the
ooarders to the new waiter; "and by
what name are we to call you?h
Pearl, said the maid, with a saucy
toss of her head. "0hw asked the
smart boarder, "arc you the pearl of
great price?" "No; | am the pearl
that was cast before swinc,n rctorted
the pretty waiter. Then there wasa
long silence, broken only by the buzz
Of the flies in the milk pitcher.
just as public executions are going
out of vogue q California sheriff has
introduced fantastic novelty into
these solemn events. When a wife.
was executed at San Jose, a
lew days ago, the trap was held up by
4 tress of the murdered woman's hair.
When the fatal signal was given the
hair was cut and the murderer shot
INTO eternity with tho aid of the very
ocks he once toyed with.
Montana has had great prairie
ire-the most stubborn and destruc-
i've known since the white man set
'oot in the territory 1t originated in
ho vicinity Of a log camp in the Bears
Paw mountains, Oct. IL, and IL was
hought at first would not amount to
much. But ii ragged and spread, and
threatened Fort Asinaboine. Troops
we're sent cut to attack it while It was
ret several miles from the fort, but
hey were driven back in dismay.
leinforcementS were sent to fight the
lanes, and the soldiers finally sue
'eodcd in turning the force of the fire,
md thus saved the fort. But 1t
'urned everything up to within fifty
ards OF the buildings. The district
'urned over is thirty miles square.
line hundred square miles. 8
The story that tho head of Charlotte
)orday blushed when the executioner
it to the crowd after he had
ut II off with tho guillotine blade. says
The Pittsburgh Dispatch, is generally
reated as romance Of the French
evolution; but that other story Of the
amo period, Of the severed head Of
no victim that turned its eyes and
moved its lips in indignation, is
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