Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-04-09
USEFUL AND PLEASANT.

years old, weighs 1870 pounds.
A New Haven oysterman discovered
apetriied oyster the other day.
The three selectmen of Wllmot, N
H., together weigh Gi9 pounds
Four sisters at Palmer, Mass, to-
gether weigh eight hundred pounds.
Yarmouth, Mass, boy recently ate
thirty-six corn cakes in twenty min
utcs.
1t is estimated that 800, tons Of
ice have been stored on the Kennebec
this season.
Pieute Indians are proving success
full farmers on the Pyramid reserya-
tOn in Nevada.
A Shelton, Conn, man drank eigh-
teen bottles of birch beer for wag-
ner of 2j cents
Mrs. Elizabeth Granger, of Pitts
field, Mass, if she lives, will be 100
years old in May.
A Lancaster, n. H., man has a cook
stove that has been IN constant use for
thirty-three years.
Rockland, Mass. claims TO have
more dogs to the square mile than any
other town in the state.
A man in Il Saco, Me, mil sawed
40, 100 feet Of boards one day last week,
and thus beat the record.
College stuLcDts are preparing to
enjoy the easter holidays with their
sisters, aunts and cousins.
Andover, Me-, at its recent town
meeting, appropriated just 81 for town
expenses for the current year.
The feat has been accomplished OF
sending scnty.two simultaneous mes
sages over one telegraph wire.
Among the many applicants for tho
poStmastership of Kndcrhook, N. Y,
is niece of Martin Van Burcn.
Frank Anderson. a Swcdc, at Had
dam Neck, Conn, lately carried one
hundrcd-pound bag Of meal thirty
rods with his teeth.
Pussy willows still determincdly re-
fuse to open their silver spring sig
nails, and other early signs Of the gen
llV ocuSoH uIt WANTING.
Miss Gcrtie Gardiner, of Canaan
daigua, n. Y, has accepted position
as governcss of Il young princess of the
royal family in Honolulu.
A Maine prophet announces that tho
end of the world will come on April
%. About twenty of his neighbors
believe him, and are nervous.
While New York has been discuss
ing the scheme of making a park at
Niagara, Canada is planning to allow
her side to be even more disligured.
Writing will look like silver, il is
stated, if the ink is composed of muci-
lagc water ntermiXcd with one ounce
of fine pewter and two ounces of mer-
curry.
a little negro boy in Georgia killed
and cooked big lizard the other day,
and forced Il smaller negro to eat the
reptile. HIS father gave him mild
'cowhding.
Tripe and bone dust olcomargarine
and artificial manures, tallow and
glue stOck-such is the curious list of
productions turned out by one factory
in Rhode Island.
Rents of cottages at Newport will
be from to 10 per cent lower the
coming season than for several years
past, and hotel prices will experience
a similar reduction.
The power of Niagara falls, cxclu-
siyc of the velocity with which the
water reaches the brink is calculated
to be five million horsepower, ornear-
ly one.fourth OF the whole steam
power of the earth.
The magnitude of the slate industry
in this country can be imagined when
it is stated that the total amount pro-
duced of roofing slate alone is 100000
yards per year, A square is about
100 feet, or sufficient to cover space
lOXl0 feet when lald on the roof. 1t
covers the same area as 1000 shingles.
For nearly a year, it is said, there
has not been criminal case before the
district court of Douglas county, Ne
yada, and the last case in the JUSTICES
court was on the 18th of last Novem-
ber. The county jail has long been
empty, and the officers whose duty it
is to settle all disturbances find moth
ing to do.
A Pittsburgh loafer who spoke dis
respectfully of Gen, Grant on Monday
evening was dragged into stable by
the crowd, a rope put around his neck,
tho end drawn over beam and the
,,,nr lifIn1 off btl fnnt t,,,inn L.,
soon out of breath and blue in the face
and was at length released and sent
home in carriage.
Thomas Mulvey, an old man living
near BiddefOrd, Me-, died n few days
ago, and after his death his family
found secrcted in his bed, greenbacks
10 the amount of $4,000, and bonds
and cash amounting to $4,000 hidden
in various parts of the house. None of
the members of the family knew of tho
existence Of the money.
Large numbers of Mormons, chiefly
are moving southwark
from Utah into Arizona, where, they
give out, they intend to settle, but
after they reach Arizona they continue
to move southwark and will not make
4 permanent rest until they get in
Mexican Territory, where they will
make homes for themselves.
Florida oranges are being exported
from Boston to Liverpool in large
quantities. A lot of one hundred
BOXES, which were shipped some three
weeks ago, arrived in good condition
md were sold at satisfactory prices.
although they came in competition wiki
he Mediterranean oranges, which are
iold in England at low prices.
1t is very fashionable in Washington
ust now to be very literary or very
centific. Consequently the literary
md scientific clubs multiply and grow,
md an academic atmosphere prevails.
Boston girl said the other day that
t seemed almost like home, She had
,een at French club in the morning,
It q musical club in the afternoon, and
1t a scientific club at night.
Among the deeds recorded in the
Monmouth county, New Jersey, clerks
,ilice, last week, was one from David
Knott to John Newman, Sr., dated
[une 8, 1866, for consideration of
e64, "procamation money" and also
me from William Brinton to John
Newman, dated Sept 10, 174S, tho
being f75, current
Both of these deeds are for