Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-12-04
FACT AND FANCY.

Cider drinking is good for rheuma-
ism, and sure preventative OF stone.
American securities are being
doomed on the London stock-eXchange.
A clcrgyman's fee at fashionable
wedding in New York last week was
$1,000
There is talk of uniting the Central
American states into a new United
States.
Infant mortality in France is com.
puted at from 20 to % per cent of the
population.
The female lobster yields from
twenty thousand to thirty thousand
eggs year.
Among its varied industries, New
Zealand has established n tobacco and
cigar mandatory.
In England there are over two mil
lion families that possess an average
wealth Of $4,000 each.
A woman whose husband owns
bicycle is happy because she knows
he cant take anyone else to ride.
The Sevonty-Scvcn Devils or, The
,irandfathcr's Revenge" is the tito
Of a Chinese drama recently presented
at San Francisco.
The paupcr population of England
exceeds by 100000 souls the entire
population of the great colony of
New South Wales
An Indian horsc.thicf was hanged
to tree fifty miles from Socorro, New
Mexico, six months ago, and his skele-
ton still hangs there.
Paris proper made a better record
in respect to crime last year than in
1882, but the suburbs showed a large
increase of criminals.
Tommy, my son. what is longi-
tude?' "A clothes-line, papa"
prove it, my SON because ii
stretches from pole topole.
A Paris correspondent says that
French boys continue To have an aver
sion To all games. such as football,
which may entail any bodily injury.
A steamer recently sailed from San
Francisco with consignment Of
ninety-iive thousand gallons of Cali
fornia wine for New York merchants.
A little boy had been sent to dry a
towel before the nursery fireplace.
"Mamma, is it done when il is brown?"
he asked as the towel began to smoke.
Four splendid horses from the I'M
pcrial stables of Austria, have been
dispatched by Emperor Francis Jo-
Seph as present to the mikado of
Japan.
Although newspaper reading is
greatly on the increase in Austro-
Hungary. il is estimated that some
twenty millions of the nation never
sec paper.
Are you feeling very ill?" asked
the physician: "let me- see your tongue,
please. " Its no usc, DOCTOR" re-
piled the patient, mo tongue can tell
how bad feel"
"ln what condition was the patriarch
job at the end Of his life?" asked
Sunday-schOol teacher of a quiet-look-
ing boy at the foot of the class.
dead, - calmly replied the boy.
A clergyman at Mount Desert is said
to have recently closed his prayer by
saying: 80 Lord. now that our sum
mcr visitors have departed, wilt Thou
take their place in our heartsP"
A patient at the Santa Cruz county,
California, hospital coughed up three
livebots. His doctor says he never
heard of similar case. The bot is a
small worm found in the intestines of
horses.
"Ain't You almost boiled?" inquired
child of a gentleman calling on her
father and mother. mo, little one, /
cant say that am. Why do you ask,
Daisy?' "Oh, because heard mamma
say your wife kept you in hot water
all the time.
"Mr, Jones' said little Johnny to
that gentleman, who was making an
afternoon call, Can whisky talk?"
mo, my child; however can you ask
such question:" "Oh! nothing;
only ma said whisky was beginning to
tell on you
A young loon was captured recently
in Hagerstown, Md, by lad, the son
of Joseph Bragunior. The bird alight-
ed in the yard where the boy was play
ing, and he secured it alive after se-
we're struggle for its liberty. 1t is be-
ing retained in n state of captivity on
account of the curiosity that has been
shown about the bird.
One of the old ladies of the Salvation
army at Marblehead states that the
earth is formed just like q man, with
arms, and legs, and body, The open
sea at the north pole is just beyond
one of these arms, and the explorers
must sail around the arm before they
can reach it. The vegetation at tho
poll is very rich, she adds,
At the term of the Orange county,
New York, supreme court, which has
has just closed at Newburgh, one jury's
verdict said n negro's life was worth
only 1925; the next one made yer.
dict against the same defendant Of $500
for an old beer wagon and slight
injury to II horse, and the third gave q
woman for stumbling over stone and
breaking a rib $4,000 damages.
1t is now five years since N. S. Silver,
of Auburn, Me-, began eating only one
meal day. He spends an hour In
eating, but eats no more than he would
if he had the other two meals daily.
He is twenty-five pounds heavier, and
is able to endure more than when he
ate three times day, He never has
cold. at is a problem of perfect as
similation of food" says he. '"rwo-
thirds of the food eaten by person
ordinarily is wasted" Mr.. Silver's
wife, too, has eaten but one meal a
day for three years, and she is in per-
feet health. He says that fifteen or
twenty of his acquaintance have adopt
ed his system.
A good story is told of the good
deacons who laid down the law at
town meeting in western Massachu-
setts, held to discuss the running OF
trains on Sunday. The first deacon
objected. 1.-The Lord" said he, ..al-
ways blessed this state when her
people remembered the Sabbath day
to keep 1t holy. And what says the
scripturep Six days shall thou labor
and do all thou hast to do, and the
seventh thou shall rst.'" The sec.
ond deacon arose to say a word for
liberal construction of the command
ment, in view Of the public needs In
the matter Of Sunday travel. II ask