Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-04-23
FACT AND FANCY.

The "Oldest inhabitant" says this is
the earliest season ever known in Cali
fornia.
Ten million basc-balls will be knock
ed to shreds by the batsmen of America
this year.
1t ia stated that the weight of one
ostrich egg is equal to twenty-eight
hens eggs.
The Mormon church has more mis-
foreign missions.
The Georgia Gazette, the oldest news
paper in the state, was founded in
Savannah in 1868.
Swans have been known to live to the
age of 800 years, and Cuvier thinks IL
probable that whales sometimes live
1000 years,
Much of the fun in Gilbert & Sulli-
vans new comic opera is enhanced by
ALTERATION, II device of the composer
to enhance effect.
A monthly allowance of $l.50 for
the support of cat was recent
item on the payroll OF the Lexington,
| n.y., llre department.
Frank France, of Wicklile, Ky., as
a possible warning to spring poets,
advertiscs himself in his own paper as
"cditor and undertaken.
Probably the oldest deed on record
in North Carolina Is that at Hertford,
given by Kucatenaw, an Indian king,
to George Durant, dated March l, 1861.
A Raleigh, N. c., sportsman ro-
Gently went out with 1l5 cartridges
and returned with Ill robins and
one rabbit, having missed only three
shots.
A late device for checking the col.
lectiOns of strect-car conductors is a
photograph apparatus that at intervals
photographs the interior of the car and
its passengers.
A sarcastic clergyman in 4 ministers
meeting predicted that a time was COM
ing when everybody who took active
part in 4 prayer-mcoting could de-
mand pay for his services
Hop vines usually n waste product
in this country, are said to have proved
not only good stock for fine paper,
but the best substitute yet obtained for
rags in French papcr.mills.
A scientist claims u have made the
discovery that if n fiddle be played in
the midst of geese they Will immcdi-
atel ly begin marching about in a circle.
He was a spectator when he made tho
discovery.
The ruins of Fort Sumter are now
but one story high, and there are but
half a dozen guns, not one of which is
fit for use. The government pays 5000
per month for watchmen, who keep
lights burning for the guidance Of
mariners.
The Massachusetts Legislature will
asked to pass law protecting the
types and forms of newspapers from
attachment for certain number of
hours before going to press, providing
that the proprletors furnish other
property or satisfactory bonds.
At Faurinberg, n. G., Il hog ate
heavily Of dynamite, and then entered
Il lot where there was drove of mules.
The hog was kicked by one of their
number, and Immediately exploded
and killed twenty of the mules. This
is vouched for by the local paper of
the place.
Someone counts up that out of 32
foreign ministers President Cleveland
has only changed IS; out of 1872 con-
suls but seven have been recalled;
among l2O marshals and district at
tOrnoys only half.dozen changes
have been made; and of the 1850
presidential pOslolices he has filed
but IS.
According to The Hiialelphia Press
there is about Si,0O0,0OO invested in
wild animals in the United States, not
including elephants. There are thirty
elephants in this country, ranging in
price from $4,000 to $4,000. An ele-
phant trained and acclimatcd is worth
$4,000 but the stupid and untractable
never bring over $4,000.
Firc-trap hotels are discussed in
The american Architect, which suggests
that ait might not be n wholly bad
plan to authorize building inspectors
to advertise such places in the daily
papers continuously as notoriously I'm.
safe. Almost anything would be bet
ter than the cruel destruction of life
and property that goes on year after
year almost unchecked"
Tho fact that CARLYLE did not escape
dyspepsia by eating oatmeal has at
tractcd general attention to that ar
ticlo Of food. A French physician has
pointed out that the Scotch, who eat
more oatmeal than any other people,
are pre-eminently dpspeptic people
so long as they remain at home and
adhere to their oatmeal diet, and he
rightly argues from this fact that
oatmeal is exceptionally difficult to
digest.
The California orange-growers have
discovered new process for removing
all substances that injure the appear
ance of their fruit. They put half
bushel or so of dry sawdust in barrel
and then pour in two or three boxes of
oranges, and turn slowly with crank.
The fruit comes out as clean and
bright as n gold dollar. One man can
clean about eighty boxes day,
while washing ten boxes is good
days work.
The old story about the size of
whales heart is being revived. A
dissector was engaged in getting out
the heart of very large whale.
While doing so his fool slipped and he
fell into one of the ,ventricles of the
heart. Thence he was sliding into the
aorta, and, if he had not been pulled
out, would assuredly have been suffo-
Gated. After his rescue he cut some
rings from the aorta and found that he
could easily slip them over his
shoulders.
The spirit of the world just now
seems to be pretty generally beligerent.
'knock-downs" in the legislative halls,
luarrels among statesmen, cabinets
broken up, cities burning in the trop-
cs, and rebellion among the half
civilized in the far north, while red
landed war RACES in the Soudan and
n the Chinese kingdom. The great
Nations of tho earth generally seem TO
20 walking around with chips on their
houlders daring some other to knock
hem of. The condition seems to be
epidemic, and contagious.
Mayor Courtenay. of Charleston