Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-03-05
FACT AND FANCY.

Inc losses OI Cdlllc III ihulhh ~
ritory this winter are placed as high
as 6S per cent.
The Harvard annex for women is
success. 1t began with twen.y-seven
students, and now has over fifty.
Eighty-two turtles were frozen TO
death few days since, on the train
between Jacksonville and Savannah,
Ga.
The Idaho legislature has passed
bill to erect capitol building at
Boise City, and an insane asylum ut
Blackfoot.
The indianapolis street-car compa-
MES have established four places In
that city where drivers and con-
ductors are furnished hot coffee free of
charge.
The population of Portland, Oregon,
according to the new city directory, is
$4,000. This does not include 1000
Chinese, nor East Portland aud
Albina, which would swell the total to
$4,000.
There is n child's rocking-chair in
Quitman county, Georgia, that has
rocked the children of four genera
tions. 1t is sixty-eight years old,
and is still good for many years to
come.
The residences of foreign diplomats
at Washington, which are technically
territories, are not taxed, neither do
the ministers nor attaches residing in
them pay poll-taxes or any taxes upon
personal property.
A negro child was born near Shelby,
n. c., n day or two ago. with eyes in
the forehead, two inches and half
above the proper place. It's face look
cd very much like that of an owl, and
the eyes themselves were like frogs
eyes.
A Sunday-school teacher asked
little girl of her class if she had been
baptized. "Yes," said the little girl,
1.-TWO times" "Two times! Why,
how could that beP' exclaimed the
teacher. at didn't take the first
time" said the little girl.
Extensive and valuable phosphate
deposits are said to exist in Il singular
natural cavity in Alachua county,
Florida, known rs the Devils Mill
Hopper. About 81 per cent. of the
rock is pure phosphate, which is IL
per cent. more than is yielded by tho
deposits in South Carolina.
Returns of the Bessemer steel pro-
duction in the United States last year
show total quantity Of lngots con-
vertcd of l,j3S,30O net tors, falling
of of Z per cent. from 1888. The rail
production for the past year was: Bes-
semer steel, 4,ll6,0il tons; iron, d.
$50, and open hearth steel, 5000.
Instead of sending his eldest boy
to Florida, as the physicians recon-
mended, II. P. Hubbard, of New
Haven, has built conservatory over
his kitchen addition, and the boy
spends six or seven hours in the sun
shine every day, and is growing strong
again.
Nantucket is ice-bound. A writer
from there, on Feb. 6, said: mo boat
has left or come to this little town
since Saturday, January 81, thus de-
barring us from all intercourse with
the mainland. 'Sconset and every
other part of the island is frozen up
SO that no one can come to our assist
ance."
Hawaiian newspapers are appealing
for popular subscriptions in aid of
! leper children, the number of whom is
said to be largely on the increase.
The government, it is explained, is SO
nearly bankrupt that it has no money
to appropriate toward the home for
leper children which it Is proposed to
build,
Maine ranks second in her sea and
first in her river fisheries among the
states in the union. In her sea fisher
les ll,07l persons arc employed, and
the value Of the product last year was
S3,6l4,17S. In river fishing 1880 per-
sons find employment, and they
caught in 1888, fish to the value Of
S175,0i6.
A physician connected with one of
the hospitals in New York where
children receive special attention says
that many of the cases of spinal
trouble brought to his notice are the
direct result of the careless handling
of baby carriages. The matter of how
nurses and others handle these little
vehicles is one to which parents may
well pay attention.
Since 1856 there have qeen sold to
private parties 402 of the islands along
the coast of Maine. They range In
size from 1000 to $1,000 acres. There
are islands comprising from 1000
to 5000 acres, and AZ comprising from
100 to 900 acres. A large number Of
these islands are settled, having fine
farms upon them; others are wooded,
and still others are barren.
An important discovery of gold,
says The Alta California, has been
made within the last few days near
San Fernando, Los Angeles county,
Cal. The location is within four or
five hundred yards of Maclay Station,
which is three miles south of San Fer
dando. The range of low hills where
the mine is located resembles tho
famous Silver King mine in Arizona.
The ledge has been traced about q
mile. The vein is from four inches to
foot wide, and assays $3.50 to $500
per ton.
The officers Of the torpedo station
at Newport, X. l., experimental with
some torpedoes on the ice few days
ago. Tho water and ice arose In q
vertical column some two hundred
feet. The holes blown in the ice clear
about thrty-iive or forty feet across,
and 1t was shattered for some distance
beyond that. These torpedoes were
said to be charged with about thirty
four pounds of gun-cotton each, which
is estimated to possess force equal
to two hundred pounds of gunpowder.
A Virginia City, New, paper saysi
1.-THE energetic Kissing nightly az
corded to the heavy villain in the
melodrama now running at the Bald
win reminds old residents of the first
theatrical performance ever given in
Virginia City. Most OF the miners
had not seen play for score Of
years, and when the Johnston troup
opened in "0thello' the house pre-
sented a packed mass Of red shirts.
Edwin Booth was the Iago, and SO
faithfully did he portray the traitorous
friend that the audience lost control of
itself, and In the second act began
shooting at the fell conspirator. One
shot struck Othcllo's sword-hilt, and
all hands had to lie down on the stage
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