Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-03-12
FACT AND FANCY.
An effort is being made to establish n
library for railroad men in Buffalo.

| board are in circulation, passing rs
cuartillas- cents.
Diamond-back terrapins on one side
and red herring on the other represent
the two extremes of the Lenton season
market.
While filling water-tank in a pas
senger-car at Altoona, Pa, the other
day, workmcn found in it trout eight
inches long.
The time for the transmission Of
cable messages has been reduced to
about one minute beween New York
and London.
A temperance society in Boston has
| Just resolved that the use of tobacco
for the qualification Of the appetite is
"a sin against God and humanity"
Little Rhode Island sports an army
of seven hundred men, commanded by
five brigadier generals, fifty-tive staff
officers, and seventy-seven interior Of
ticers.
The "lady" craze crops out in m
| advertisement in New York paper
which says: "a young lady would
like position as dish washer in res
| taurant.
The Manchester Union points with
pride TO New Hampshire women who
hasn't broken a lamp or lamp chin
ney in thirty years. Perhaps she used
gas or candles.
1t is reported that Queen Victoria
has never eaten piece of cake. This
accounts for her exemption from the
general rule, Uneasy lies the head
that wears crown"
There is scarcely n farm in Bucks
county to-day, says The DoyleStown
| (Pa.) MteiltgencGr, that would sell for
more than the improvements in build
ings and fences would cost
The California legislature is cousid-
ering bill requiring scratching Of
tickets on election day to be done with
ink. 1t is considered as in the interest
of the manufacturers of the foun.
tain pen.
Miss Mackey has married an italian
nobleman, and Mrs. Tom Thumb will
soon espouse another. The marrying
Of these fellows to ladies able to sup
port them will tend to abolish the
hand-organ nuisance.
Blood will tell sir; blood will tell, ~
said Mr.. OldfamilY, proudly. Yes
asserted his friend, Malthy; $50 will
breath. You may eat cloves and chew
snake.root till you burst, and then
your breath will give you dead away
the minute you go into the house."
Chattanooga, Tenn, has grown from
$4,000 population in 1880 to $4,000 in
lSS5. The manufacturing capital OF
the city was S2,792, 900 in 1880. 1t is
now double that amount. Capital in
wholesale trauo is fully six times as
great as the sum invested five years
ago.
A German scientist has counted tho
hairs on his wife's head, and says
they number 12S,000 to the inch. The
only thing which inclines us to doubt
this story is the fact that as a rule the
counting is done by the other sex on
their husbands heads; but no figures
have heretofore been given except by
handfulS.
Ayoung gentleman who was pledged
to take Il young lady to party re-
marked on the afternoon previous to
the event that he was going home to
take sleep in order to be fresh.
That's right, " she replied, "but don't
sleep too long" "Why?" he asked.
"Because," she answered, Il don't
want you to be too fresh"
The GaRSviNe (Ga,) Press makes the
following astounding announcement:
Numerous diamonds have been found
in our county of princely value, and
are in existence to-day, ornamenting
the bosoms or fingers of American peo.
pie. We know of one picked up in
our streets few weeks since. for which
the owner has been offered $4,000"
The reindeer skin suits for tho
Greely relief expedition were made in
Norway at a cost to this government
of S55 apiece. At recent sale
speculator of New York city bought
them for S5 apiece, and it is said he
has now sold almost all of them at
from $40 to $50 apiece. They have
been bought as curiosities, and also to
be converted into rugs,
A beautiful Auburn, Me-, young lady
of great attainments will soon be mar
RED to deaf and dumb gentleman
who lives in New York. He is high.
ly educated young man, and the ladies
call him very handsome. His betroth-
ed has learned the hand language SO
well that she converses with him as
easily as with anybody. The history
of their engagement is quite ro-
nance, says The Lewistor Journal.
The council of the Onondaga In>
dians are making arrangements for
the coronation of new civil chief in
place of James Rubin, who died sud-
denly while driving a team of horses
on Jan. u, Representatives from
other tribes will be in attendance. In
accordance with tho custom In the
case of such vacancy, the name Of
the person upon whom the choice Of
| the council has fallen will not be dis
closed until next month.
Some valuable hints to those who
contemplate a tour south, and who
want TO duly impress the natives Of
that part of the country, are given by
The Lincoln (Neb.) Journal: All per-
sons going south this winter should
learn to pronounce r-o-u-t-o "roote."
The southern people, in making up
their estimate Of their visitors, are
said to draw their line at roote. II
you wish to be taken for Kentuckian
or Virginian, always take occasion
to say Arkansaw in broad tone.
While the ice carnival may bring
fish to the net of Montreal, II is not
popular with the other cities in Cana
da. The Sarnia Canadidn declares
that Americans in general, through
hearing of nothing save snow.shoes,
toboggans, and ice palaces, get the
idea that Ontario is a "frozen up
country" with nine months Of winter.
"Not one out Of a hundred Of the peo.
pie of Ontario" says The Canadian.
''knows what toboggan is like, and
not one out Of thousand uses snow
shoes"
Hash has saved the lives Of great
many people-by their not eating 1t.
Hash is noun, common-in boarding
houses-often parsed and frequently
declined, neuter gender, singular
case. Shakespeare had It in mind