Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-07-09
FACT AND FANCY.

been incorporated at Seattle, w. l.,
with $50, 900 capital.
Happensbcrger's statue of Garfield
will be unveiled in Golden Gate park,
San Francisco, July 4.
Monroe II. Corbin, census taker in
Webster, Mass, has found one woman,
40 years old, who Is the mother of
nineteen children.
An Arizona man has stopped taking
an agricultural paper. He wrote to
the editor asking how to get rid OF
gnats The answer came in the next
issue of the paper, "Kill them. ~
A druggist at Quincy, ILL.,, advertis-
c d kauil' drops to those suffering with
colds. Abraham Kauil, citizen of
the town, called on the druggist, and
put out his left eye as reward for
being funny.
A large painting representing Gus.
tcr's last fight with the Indians, tho
work of Virginia artist, was tho
chief work of art contributed by the
south to the New Orleans exhibition.
1t drew well.
In Sinaloa, Mexico, woman is be-
ing exhibited who is seven feet high
and weighs five hundred pounds.
She is rs young us she IS charming, be-
ing only 26 years of age. She was
born in PaChuca.
An experienced educator says that
the ideal commencement programme
should always contain three features
n production bya member of the class,
one by an alumnus, and another by
wcll-knOwn speaker.
"a curious negro superstition Is
that 4 man who has been struck by
lightning can not swim, says an eX-
change. We have noticed the same
thing, too, about negroes who have
died from yellow fever.
The cash ier of the East Saginaw
Savings bank, who recently skipped.to
Canada with S3jO,0O0 has just sent
back check for 10000, to be used in
enlarging the almshouso at that town.
lie says that no one shall accuse him
Of not feeling for the poor depositors.
John, did you 90 around and ask
how old Mrs. Jones was this morn ing,
as told you to do last night'n "Ios,
sir" "Wcll, what was the resultP"
"Shc said that seeing rs how YOU had
the impudence to ask how old she was,
she'd no objection to telling you she
was "A.
The huge group of sun spots which
was seen coming around the eastern
edge of the sun several days ago has
now nearly advanced to the center of
the disk. 1t is large enough to be
seen without telescope aid by pro-
tcciing the eye with dark glass. In
the telescope ii is Il wonderful phe-
nomenon, and rough measurement
shows that its length exceeds hun
drcd thousand miles, and its breadth
thirty thousand.
al have sold hundreds, | might al
most say thousands, of lots to Ger
mans said Buffalo rcal-cstate man,
"and have noted one significant fact.
The moment a German takes to whisky
he's gone. lie may swallow beer, ale,
wine, and cider enough to float snip,
and yet pull through and pay for his
lot, but old rye will lay him out.
When whsky-drinking German
wants to deal with me say mo- with
an emphasis that makes his teeth rat
tie. y
"YO' wan ter know what fust
started me fer to preach dc gospil,
sah?' repeated IN old darkey minis
ter. "YGS, Uncle Jake" 81 will
tole you 'zacly all bout it, sab. One
day war workiu' out in dc co'nfielG.
an de sun war berry hot, an dc
groun war stony, an it's mighty
pow'Gu work hocn' con in do hot
sun on stony groun', boss, an | war
berry tired, an leaned back on de
hoe an got ter thinkin', an all OBJ
sudden, like, feel dat dc good Lord
called 'pon me fer ter preach de Cos.
pil, sab. "
"My dear" said q father to his
daughter, chow long ago was it that
George Jackson went west to seek his
iortune?' "Just year" the girl re-
piled with a blush. "Was there any
thing between you and GeorgeP |
sometimes thought he was fond Of
YOU" "Hc was, papa" and the girl
hid her face on the old man S shoulder.
81 promised George when he went
away that | would wait for him for
years if necessary II have letter
from him" "Oh, papa" she ex-
claimed; "DOes he--er-has he-oh,
tell me, what does he say?" "He
wants $50 to get home with"
Some persons are apt to look upon
Mexico as half-civilzed nation.
Journalism in that section varies from
the sensational work put into seme
American papers. A mdrder is briefly
announced, with only the leading facts
and names, and with no artistic elab.
oration of details The taste of the
Mexican reader docs not incline to-
ward crimes. Still less does he de.
light in tho miseries of unfortunate
families. The family circle is the
last place the reporter invades. The
rattle of the family skeleton is rarely
heard, and when it Is, truth is rarely
lost sight of in an unseemly scramble
to be the first to exhibit it.
Why do the revisers of the Old and
New Testament. asks The London
Ldw Times, insist on using the SPELL
ing "judgement" instead of judg-
mentP" The word being one of special
ly legal use, it says: We should have
thought the universal practice of law
yers in modern times, supported as it
is by all contemporary English litera-
ture, ought to have been followed.
We can only answer our own question
by supposing that the revisers have
gone back to the spelling of 1911; but
this is totally insufficient reason for
adopting mode of spelling which
must be an eyesore to every lawyer,
not to speak of literary men in general,
and which gratuitously adds to the
confusion through which every school
boy has to struggle his way to q mas
terry of English photography"
The Yaquis hold their title from the
king of Spain and do not recognize the
republic of Mexico. No taxes or inn
ports are levied on them, or II levied
they have not been collected. They
arc hardy, agricultural race, living
on small patches of fertile soil on tho
Yaqui river. They steal stock when
an opportunity offers, but have rarely