Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-02-26
FACT AND FANCY.


| The losses of cattle in Indian Terri
tory this winter are placed as high as
| Is per cent.
Harvard students complain that the
faculty give them more liberty in their
studies than in their sports.
1t is said a pinch of powdered alum
dropped into pitcher of muddy water
will clear it almost instantly.
OF the 62S newspapers and periodic
ais published in foreign languages in
this country 4S3 are in German.
On the 1st of February the sum of
| SIG, ,343,53 remained as balance in
the general treasury Of Mexico.
From the various signs of Candle
mas day it was inferred that there will
be six more weeks of winter weather.
Oysters are becoming so scarce in
Maryland waters that several vessels
have given up the business as bad
job.
Piano-tuning has been added to the
course of instructions for women in
the New England Conservatory of
Music.
1t is expected that the subscription
opened in the City of Mexico for
Spanish earthquake sufferers will reach
$4,000,
A New York letter says 1.-THE feel
| ing against O'DOnovan Rosa since he
was shot by Mrs, Dudley has been very
marked here"
The February moon fulls on the 2Sth
at II o'clock in the evening so that we
come within an hour of having no full
moon in February.
Fall River roughs took the Saliva
tion army at its word, with vollcy Of
stones, disabling several women, and
fatally injuring one.
Seth Green is probably the first fish
dentist in the world. He recently cx-
tracted live trouts teeth without in
juring the "speckled beauty"
Legislation against the sale or gift
of cigarettes to boys under 10 years of
age has already got through one
branch of the North Carolina legiSla-
ture.
The Chinese government intends
making the expulsion OF Chinese from
Eureka, Cal, an international matter,
and will claim indemnity from the
United States.
A Maine Judge recently gave pris-
onCr light sentence, saying he was
entitled to some consideration for not
taking the stand and adding perjury to
his other crime.
A file and knife throwing artist
nailed conliding Winnipeg youth to
to the back OF the stage while illustrat-
inc how near he could come to hitting
him without actually doing so.
Good, cultured Boston is shivering
on the brink OF big social sensation
that promises one or two divorce suits
and IN interesting chapter IN the ca
recr of at least one local literary idol.
A correspondent asks Western ed
itor why it is more natural for women
to shed tears than it is for men, and
he replies that it is because women as
class drink more water than men do.
II is more than suspected that very
many of the snake bites causing death
in India are caused by parents desiring
TO put an end 10 supcrlluous offspring
in manner which delies discovery OF
guilt.
A person sleeping on his right side,
according to celebrated French phys
iologist, will have incoherent and alb
surd dreams, but when sleeping on the
left side the dreams will be OF an intel
iigent nature.
Many southern railway companies
have this year placed their old cross
ties at the disposal OF the mayors OF
towns along the zines OF their roads to
be distributed TO deserving poor pco-
pie for tirc-wood.
In a dry-goods fight at Chambers.
burgh, Pa, one firm put the price OF
calico down to one quarter of a cent
per yard, whereupon the rival concern
offered calico at one-cighth of cent,
or eight yards for cent.
Prof. Bauer of San Francisco states,
as result of careful research, that
sure remedy for phylloXera is to mix
half an ounce of quicksilver with its
weight of clay and introduce it into
the hole in which the vine is planted.
"What makes you so late coming to
school this morningP" asked a teacher
in one of the New York public schools
of tardy pupil. "They arrested
burglar on lifty-eighth street, and ma
sent me to the station-houSe to see if
1t was pa" was the reply.
A steamship captain who was marri-
ed in Boston recently was denied the
the pleasure of his wifo's company on
his return trip to Europe, as it is
against the rules of the company by
which he is employed for a captain to
have his wife with him on his trips to
and fro across the ocean.
An extraordinary amount of suffer
ing among the widows and children Of
the lost Gloucester fishermen is re-
ported by The Cape Ann AdUertiSer
The fund subscribed for the benefit of
these people is nearly exhausted, and
the stores of provisions and clothing
collected for them are rapidly dimin-
ishing under the steady drain that is
made upon them.
Bookmaking five hundred years ago,
was Il costly business. The bill for de-
signing and writing in manuscript in
1i02 has just come to light. The
parchment, the writing,rhe miniatures,
the silver nails, gold-plated and enam-
eled, ink figures, seventy smaller gold
plated silver nails, II gold-pated silver
clasp, sky-blue satin, and binding to-
gether cost, according to present
value, 1886, the miniatures alone cost.
ing $50. The missal is now no longer
extant, but is called pHlcheyrimuH el
elegantisSimum in the bill.
The Revista de Monterey makes
known discovery that calls to mind
the prediction of Nostradamus that
the world would come to an end in
1886. There was recently found in the
church at 0bervel, in the diocese of
Trevera, Mexico, a stone upon which
is an inscription to the effect that the
destruction of the world will take
place in the year when the Passover
occurs on St. Marks day, Pentecost on
st. Anthony's day, and Corpus Christi
on ST. Johns day. All this will hap
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