Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-06-12
NOTES OF THE DAY.

rides a bicycle.
Vassar girls consume =, 400 pancakes
at one breakfast
New York city's employees will have
holiday July B.
Little or no rain has fallen in Cuba
the past four months.
Sweet potatoes sell at IS cents a
bushel at Kissimme, Fla.
The Tennessee Irish potato crop will
be ready to ship next week.
Forty million acres in Texas are de-
voted to educational purposes.
Morclia, Mexico, recently celebrated
her 3i3d anniversary as II city.
The cost of erecting u crematory of
ordinary capacity Is about $4,000.
1t is said that there are 1864 wild
ows under 10 years of age in Bengal.
In August Miss Agnes Benedict will
attempt to swim the English channel.
The army worm is said to be doing
great deal of damage around Greece,
N. Y.
In southern and middle England
thirty thousand women steer canal
boats.
The Washington whcelmcn are to
take a four hundrcd-milc jaunt next
month.
A Goldfish bank has been discovered
near San Pedro, Cal. Fishing is said
to be good.
Hiram Siblcy, Of Rochester, has
given $50. 900 to the Cornell mcchan.
ical school
Over 4OO,OOO.OOO gallons of pctro-
lcum, valued ut SGO,OOO,0OO were cx-
ported last year.
\ Southin. ton, Conn, man has in
vented noisclcss rollcr-skatc, and ap.
piled for q patent.
A man in North TiSbury, Mass, says
he has recently drawn up cighty-ninc
snakes from his well.
Boys at the forks Of Coos river, Ore
gon, receive - for each crane killed
in that ncighborhood.
The citizens of Pittsburg, Pa, are
proud because their city covers more
territory than Chicago.
All but four prisoners in the Stcubcn
county. New York, Jail have signed
the temperance pledge.
The railway system Of Prussia covers
about nine thousand miles a little
more than that of Canada.
The police board of New York city
has created % new election districts,
making III districts in all.
The Massachusetts legislature tried
to raise salaries from $500 to $3.50,
but the senate killed the bill.
Glass made from sand procured on
the GciScr ranch, near San Antonio,
Tex, is now made in that city.
Potato bugs are more numerous than
for years in New Jersey, and are de-
stroying potatoes and tomatoes.
The swinging signs Of Philadelphia
will swing no longer The mayor has
ordered them to be taken down.
About six thousand fathoms of gill
nets will be used ON Rogue river, Ore
gon, during the coming fishing season.
Five of the six murdcrcrs hanged on
Il recent Friday in this country de-
clarcd that rum had led them into
crime.
Dogs in Orange county, Florida, are
dying of the "StaggcrS, a disease akin
to that with which horses are some
times afflicted.
A clothing-housc war in Buffalo has
been wagcd so licrccly that on Monday
last one firm began making suits TO or.
der for - each.
Mount Clements. II small town in the
interior of Ohio, makes $4,000 worth,
or about 100000 yards, of straw
braid annually.
A Vera Cruz, Mexico, young man
kicked his wife, recently,
because She refused him 81 week for
spending money.
At Nantucket Beach hotel II Sioux
Indian is employed rs a waiter "His
luly is to scalp the butter" says The
Ncw York Graphic.
The most remarkable known echo is
hat on the north side of II church of
ihiplcy, Sussex, England. 1t repeats
.wenty-onc sylablcs.
New Orleans has u society called
Athcncc Louisianais, established for
he purpose of perlccting the French
language in Louisiana,
New Mexico embraces 77,5S6,6i0
acres of land, on which about 5,000,-
200 head of stock. over 100000 of
which are sheep, are kept.
A voters league for Washington ter
ritory is proposed, having for its pur-
pose that of inducing women to take
more active interest in politics.
The stamping and loud ncighing of
Twelve hor. r.cs in n stable next to a sash
factory in Brooklyn gave the first
alarm of a $50, 900 fire Thursday.
Preparations are being made at
Brandon, in Coos county, Oregon, to
destroy the sea lions, which are a great
detrimcnt to the fishing interests on
the CoQuillc.
4 vcracious commercial traveller is
responsible for the statement that
Flint has more money invested in the
liquor business than any other city of
ltS slhc III hlOhlSoh
Abraham jackson, a heavy Boston
forger, sentenced in 1876 to ten years
in prison, was let out last week, good
time" having shortened his term. He
is 20, and will come west.
The season for large turnips is al
hand. One at San Diego, Cal, meas
uring twenty-seven inches in circum-
ference and weighing seven and half
pounds, so far heads the list.
Two years ago New York capital
st was in Port Huron and borrowed an
which he did not return.
He was there again this week, and was
sued for the value of the UNI
brella.
Three rattlesnakes were killed inside
the walls of the insane asylum in one
week at Chattahoochee, Fla, One was
caught by lunatic and brought up to
headquarters by the tail without any
bad effect,
An attempt is to be made in New
Orleans at the coming exposition to in
Lroduce cents into circulation there.
The effort has been made half a dozen
times before, but each attempt has
been failure. Ia
Henry p. Rowe will put down 450,-
400 bushels of shells on his oyster