Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-03-19
FACT AND FANCY.


During the recent ice-jam in Chesa-
peake bay millions Of ducks were
crowded into small open spaces of wa.
ter. This afforded sportsmen and pot
hunters fine opportunities for killing
them, and great numbers were
slaughtered. One man is reported to
have killed thirty-two at a single shot.
The passage of the new penal codo
in the Minnesota legislature recalls the
fact that the last hanging in Minnesota
was in 1855. This was when Minne-
sofa was territory. Heretofore the
passage OF death sentence was left
to the option of the court, but no
Judge has ever exercised that privi-
lege.
The fact that three members of tho
new cabinet are named William has
led curious newspaper man to look
up the Williams in all the cabinets ev-
er made in tho nation. Among his
discoveries was that the interior de-
partment is the only one which has
never been presided over by Will
lam.
The North Carolina house of repre-
sentatives has adopted the following
design for new state flag: A white
bar and red bar run horizontally, the
red bar above the white. Near tho
staff the color is blue to depth of
one-third OF tine flag, in the center of
this blue portion is the coat of arms of
the state in gold.
A paragraph in The Scientific An,eri-
can tells how an engineer filled a new
boiler from reservoir below its level
without the use of 4 force-pump. A
few pals of water we're put in the
boiler, u light fire was built under it,
and the steam was generated. Then
the fire was allowed to die out, and
the hose from the reservoir being con-
nected, the vacuum created in the boil
er caused the water to enter.
While the Salvation army was hold
ing revival in Troy someone shouted
Fire. policeman tried to stem
the panic that eDsued, but was power
less to do so, and prayers were chang
ed to curses as the excited crowd rush
ed for the doors. Several persons were
trampled upon and badly injured.
Finally the policeman started up
Were at the Fountain Drinking"
The salvationists joined in the song,
and the panic was arrested.
"Ah, my dear Mrs Parvenue, did
you 90 to Italy?" son! yes," was
the reply, 1--WE all were over it and
saw everything" "Did you see the
vatican?" "Yes, we were there, but
it was erupting fearful that day,
throwing up lava and smoke and stuff,
and they concluded that 1t would not
be safe to go up to the top. 1t was a.
fine spectacle from the conservatory
of the hotel, and | enjoyed it quite as
much as if | had been right on the
spot
One of the most remarkable oils yet
discovered is that found in the Arengo
oil basin in Wyoming territory. In a
shaft put down on the east side of
Bath creek to a depth of twelve feet,
oil flows in exceptionally high specific
gravity. 1t is, when first exposed, of
brownish color, and can be cut with
knife like soft butter. 1t gradually
turns black on exposure. 1t has little
odor when it first comes from the
shaft, though what escapes on the
south side of the adjoining ridge has
a slight pungency, which it loses on
exposure.
Mrs. Snobberly, whose husband
made a great deal of money very sud-
denly by rise in oil, puts on great
deal OF style. At recent banquet, at
her house ON Fifth avenue, New York,
she hired Herr BaenkclSaenger,
celebrated violinst, for the evening.
His first piece was the Swedish We'd
ding March, which is very slow.
After listening for n few moments, old
Snobberly became very indignant, and
said in very audible tone of voice:
Them musicians are just like all
other loafers. When they are paid by
the job, you bet they take their time
to it.
Cars in all stages of dismantled
wreck are constantly to be seen prop
ped up on movable platform on the
top floor of the big New York Third
avenue surface road car STABLES.
Workmen are busy all days with ham,
mers and painr-pots building the cars
up again and making them look new.
"They will be just as good as new,
too" the railway president said, land
nobody but an expert could tell the
difference. With good treatment and
care Il street-car will last nearly
quarter of century. If they ire neg
Iected they get all broken up in less
than a year,
One of the tricks of French pres
tidigitateur is Il surprising illusion.
A weddng-ring borrowed from a lady
is hammered into bar by some vol
unteer assistant among the audience.
The coniuror borrows programme,
rolls it into cornucopia.shap re-
ceptacle for the ring, and without the
use of the left hand crumples the pa
per into ball, which the volunteer
holds tight, full in view of the audi
ancc. When he is directed to open il
he finds that the crumpled ball of pa
per consists of five sealed envelopes,
Dne within the other, and with the
perfect wedding-ring in the smallest
and innermost.
The states whose banks have been
are Vermont, Massachu-
setts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
Y York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wis
consin. OF these New York has the
largest number (thirty-three), or near
y so per cent. Illinois comes next
with twelve. The finest counterfeits
Or a $5 bill on the Merchants Nation
II bank, of New Bedford, Mass a
300 bill on the Pittsburgh National
Bank of Commerce, the old $50 green
back, and $40 treasury note, series
IF 1875. Counterfeiting in America has
been reduced to practical science,
md Is the most completely organized
,ystem of rascality on earth. Its mem-
,ers include both sexes, all ages and
Countefeit money fire.
luently passes current fol- years, but
II the end some one has TO lose it, and
generally falls on those who are
east able to bear the loss.
The following claims of superiority
,ver steam traction are nude for cleo
ricity as railway motor: Absence
,f smoke and cinders; 1t obviates all
langer from explosion; it does away
With the necessity for heavy locomo-
ives and for tenders, and allows of
ightec bridges and tracks; the rails
ire not worn out so fast, as a perfect
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