Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-02-05
FACT AND FANCY.


itol will be laid March 2, with all duo
ceremony.
Edmond About is said to have been
worried to death by the stockholders
of his newspaper.
A Pennsylvania preacher has been
arrested for baptizing converts IN cold
water in January.
The total amount of taxable prop
erty in Florida, as reported by assess
ors, is 500, ,0i2, ,655.
There are 2SO Canadian families, in
Guiding l,i95 persons, residing IN
Glcn's Falls, N. Y.
English peas are standing in some
gardens at Madison, Fla, twelve or
more inches in height.
The most costly glove-fights are
those wherein the girl tries to punch
n y fist intoa 81 glove.
A little coarse bread fruit, and lem
onade are recommended as the best
food for passengers at sea.
Dogs attacked flock of fifty sheep
at Guelph, Canada, a few nights ago
and killed twenty-siX Of them.
A bill has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania state senate providing
for the whipping of wife-beaters'
A woman has just secured hor
fourth divorce at Sacramento from
man who was her seventh husband.
John Mitchell, the Irish patriot, was
transported to the Bermudas in 1S4S.
His wife died few days later at her
home in Ireland.
An experimental shaft in the new
OIL region of Wyoming territory, sunk
only fifteen feet, yields six barrels OF
oil in twenty-four hours.
According to the best estimates there
are about $iGl ,0OO, 900 in gold in the
United States, although some figures
place the amount above that limit.
When Jimpkins got married for the
fourth time, and his friends teascd
him about it, he said he couldn't help
it, as he'd Benedicted to it for some
years.
An East Bridgewater, Mass, farmer
has eaten but one meal day for so
years. He is "a, perfectly healthy, and
does as much work as average farm
ers around him.
A young man in Sullivan county,
New York, made q wager the other
day that he could drink gallon of
cider without removing tho vessel
from his mouth, and did it.
The cost of carrying a bushel of
grain from Chicago to New York by
lake and canal was, in 1868, 2j cents,
and by all rail AZ cents. In 1882 these
figures were reduced to and IA cents
respectively.
The grass in Willamette valley,
Oregon, according to papers from
that region, is as green as in May,
while only few weeks ago the same
ground was covered with snow to q
deDth Of two feet.
One provincial singer said to an
other: "My daughter has inherited
my voice. - OH said the other with
most innocent air, ''that is the eX-
PLANTATION then. | have always Won
dcrcd where it was"
An oiler of 800 has been refused by
citizen of Thomas county, Georgia,
for Il maidstone which he found in
Montgomery county while on a visit
there recently. 1t is egg-shaped and
about half the size of a hens egg.
The will of the late Maria l.. Chism,
which has just been admitted to pro-
bate in New York, is model of brew
ity. 1t says Il, Maria Chism, do
rive to my daughter Sarah Phelps,
all my real estate and personal prop
crty, to do as she sees fit. Sole exec
utriX.
isn't it provoking, Mrs. NipupP
My husband and were going to the
rink tonight, and | broke my skates
this afternoon" I'll let you take
mine, if you think they will fit, Mrs.
Flipup.n "Oh, thanks, awfully! II
they don't fit can let my husband.
wear them and can get along with
his. He has a real little foot for
man"
Among the bequests made in the
will Of q bachelor who had died in
Spotswood, n. D., recently, was one
giving $500 to church, provided that
annually, on the anniversary OF his
death, the bell be tOlled, and the same
number of strokes struck as he had
attained years. The residue of his es-
tate he bequeathed to another church
on condition that the family burial
plot be kept in good order,
An appeal for clergymen to go there
is published in Houston, Idaho, pa
per, which says: "Among our people
are many who desire an opportunity to
attend religious services, and they are
already making arrangements for the
construction of suitable edifices in
which to hold them. First come best
served; therefore gospel men should
not delay, for now is the accepted
time
After travelling seventeen weeks
party of four families, comprising four
children, four women, six men, seven
horses, two wagons, two dogs, arrived
, at their destination in Baker county,
Florida, from north Wisconsin. They
travelled fifteen to twenty-five miles o
day, and encountered some very se-
we're weather. One infant died on the
Journey, and two horses were lost. The
rest of the party were in good health.
Two residents of one of the suburbs
of Boston whose houses are only about
five hundred feet apart, but one Of
r them standing some sixteen feet high
, er than the other, have been compar-
ing notes on temperature this winter,
and have noticed that on the first ad-
vent of cold snap the temperature is
| from degrees to 10 degrees lower on
the low ground than it is on the high
|, ground, the thermometers reading
; more nearly alike as the cold spell con-
tinues.
A gentleman in Albany, who broke a
rule of the Associated Charities by
| giving aims on the street, tells the
following anecdote: A poor woman
Q with child met him and said: "0h,
sir, you are rich and happy, and 1
4 should be perfectly happy if | could
y only have S. for the children at home"
: The gentleman said: "Well, if $5 can
: make any human being perfectly hap
DIV, here it is" The woman, seizing
It, replied: "0h, / wish l had said
ten!'
Two great RATS Of logs were brought
0 to Cleveland from Lake Superior last