Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-10-30
FACT AND FANCY.

August Harting, Baltimore police
man, recently died while on duty from
Bright's disease.
A mountain eel, weighing seventy
three pounds, was caught at Ulida,
Montana, last week.
A rural obituary relates that I" the
deceased had accumulated little mon
ey and ten children"
A large amount of molasses made.
from sorghum will be produced in
Southern Oregon this year.
The salaries of the supreme court
judges Of Vermont have been increased
from $1,000 to $500 year.
Four-fifths of the aspirants for stage
honors in the New Y ork schools are fe-
males of the average age of 20 years.
Portland, Oregon, now ranks fifth
among the commercial cities. Of this
Out of about six hundred cases of
sunstroke noted in New York the past
summer, at least 2j0 turned out to be
drunks,
For slipping on the snow on the deck
Of a ferry-boat and for sustaining inju-
ries, Philadelphia woman has been
awarded 81, 900.
Two hundred citizens of Columbus,
o., have been fined for profanity in
tho public streets. One man has
caused the arrests.
A meteoric stone, nearly globular,
and about four inches in diameter, was
recently found by Prof. Marsh, near
Radensburg, Montana.
Oak pillars arc better support for
building in case Of fire than those of
iron. The latter are liable to warp
from the effect of the heat.
A man in Greenville, S. c., has been
blind for years, yet drives alono in a
buggy, and runs both saw-mill and a
gin-mill-that is, cotton gin mill.
The very small boy is so excited
over torchlight professions that his
family are required to use persuasive
coercion to make him sleep o'nights.
The Atlanta, Ga, city hall, erected
thirty-two years ago, was sold for old
brick at 1915. 1t was for many years
the finest building of the kind in the
state.
"Swampoodle" and "Gandertown"
are the names of Philadelphia's slums,
where, northward from the city, the
dregs of the city's population make
their homes,
The Indian agent of the Saskatche-
wan district, Manitoba, recently dis
tributed $4,000 equally among two
thousand Indians; 81 Il year is very
cheap living.
There are only four ports of entry in
this country larger than that at Puget
sound. The business of the great
northwest is rapidly assuming man.
moth proportions.
A traveller says Mississippi and Ala.
bama are covered with mortgages held
by New Orleans merchants. Good TIM
bered property in those states can be
bought for 50 cents an acre.
Twenty Cinnamon are in Jail at
Seattle, Washington Territory, await
ing shipment back to Victoria, British
Columbia, from which point they tried
TO sneak into this country.
Oregon hops are now being inspect
ed by eastern buyers, who are there in
large numbers. The hops are pro-
nounced inferior by reason of bad
weather interfering with the picking.
At the North Carolina state exposi-
tion at Raleigh, there are many inter.
esting examples of the manual dexter
ity of women. One lady exhibits some
beautiful specimens of intricate SCROLL
saving, and another exhibits a number
of examples of her skill in taXidermy.
Experiments in raising grain in
Camas Prairie, Idaho, show that where
irrigation is resorted to the crops will
not mature before the frost catches
the kernel in the milk. By dry farm
ing the crops have time to mature, and
the yield is abundant.
There is cell in the Leadvillc Jail
said to be haunted, and prisoners are
put into it for special punishment. A
woman was thus fright
ened nearly out of her wits, and has
since suffered serious prostration. She
sues the jailer for damages.
A Chinese laundryman in San Fran
cisco was asked if people in his coun-
try took any delight in music. They
do" was his reply, land if you ever
20 to Pekin you will find there the
first gongist in the world attached to
the emperor's coult with high
privileges.
Richard Hoodum, poor man who
resides in Westmoreland county, on
the line of the Pennsylvania railroad,
found package of money three years
ago. He advertised it, but it was
never called Tor, and few days ago
he opened and appropriated it. The
amount is said to be about S25, 900.
A band of gypsies went through the
northwest buying up uncontrollably
vicious horses. A stock was thus OBJ
tanned at triAing cost Then the at
tempt was made to tame the beasts.
Some of them became tractable
through clubbing, but others bit and
kicked until two men were killed and
several hurt.
The United States snag-boat Seizer
Is engaged in deepening the channel at
the Sacramento Salmon Bend, on Fif-
teen-mile Bar, CAL, where freighting
craft recently had SO much trouble.
She has increased the depth of water
fully one foot, and there is now in the
channel four feet six inches, with the
prospect of further improvement.
A miner named Blodgett, the owner
of the Silver Hill mine, near Butte,
Montana, has devised most ingenious
scheme to enrich himself, by which
he offers the public the chance Of be-
coming the rivals Of Flood and
He has put the whole thing
up at a rattle at SIS share, the lucky
man to got the enormously wealthy
mine.
A detective gives the surprising in
formation that there is no better place
to look for criminals than in library.
In order to keep posted with criminal
news the thieves carefully scan the
files of daily newspapers Of the large
cities. Once an important arrest Of q
iewelry thief was made in this way.
A man who spent several days In read
ing an account of jewelry robbery
appeared so interested that he was ar
rested and found to be guilty.
The efforts of botanists have lately
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