Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-02-12
FACT AND FANCY.

Twenty dollars per cord is the price
of wood at Tombstone, Arizona, and
it is scarce at that
Twenty-Five of the great sugar plan
tatious Of the island Of Cuba are farm
ed by the Jesuit order.
There are 333 boys on board tho
United States training-ship New
Hampshire, at Newport, X. L.
1t is stated that Lord Garmoyle at
the opera in New York changes his
gloves whenever the curtain falls.
The largest potato starch factory in
the world is at Carbon, Me. It's ca
pacity is from 100000 to 100000
bushels
New Hampshire has 1893 Presbyteri-
an churches. Seventy-iive of them do
not sustain permanent preaching with
out help.
The Massachusetts, legislature has
refused to allow Il woman preacher OF
Nantucket to perform the marriage
ceremony.
DR.. bio Lewis says that tomatoes
are medicine and not food, and
should only be eaten when prescribed
by physician.
The Columbian university, of Wash
ington, has decided to admit women
to the study of medicine, with tho
same privileges accorded to men.
The widow of Gen. Stoncwall Jack
son has consented that his war-horse,
| Old Sorrel. shall be exhibited at the
| New Orleans exposition for the benefit
of the Confederate Soldiers home.
A Kansas City physician expresses
the opinion that hundreds OF people
are buried alive every year, and that
an average Of three out of every hun
dred corpses might be rcsusitated.
\ Chinese opium den has just been
broken up at Dalton, Tex, in which
pcephOlcs were rented for % cents per
hour to those who wished to watch the
female victims of the drug enjoy It's
influence.
A large meteor fell recently near
Gainesville, Ga. Its course lay di-
.ag'!l 49, V n,, i,,onso wos Ito hrightness
,%oi %; !, ronJcrcd objects in darkened
rn"v,s n' Mainly visihIc
Inc dlaphraSm OF Il ne" 'eiePhono
through which conversation has been
held between New York and Cleveland
is made Of cork. The extreme sensi-
tiv'n,SS oi TINS substance 10 'nG zones
Al, - "a nj lISnnV-
OF inc huii''l 'olcc 10 i"'o "'''o'-
wy ~ ,,
1t is like story OF ~ TO reau llal ~
4 recent performance at the Standard
thcater, San Francisco IN upprecis-
tive man became SO en'huslsIlc ovcr
the introductory portion oil inc per-
formancc that he began throwing
money ON the stage
The ink pencils lately brought into
usr are stated TO be dangerous innova-
tious, rs the transfer ol writing made
by them is very easy matter. Any
signature can be reproduced by using
two sheets of dampencd paper. The
first will take the impression reversed
and the neat will receive it precisely
as originally written.
,hor, . docodo aco I, German postal
oGi,;,I hit mon tb, iJn, of nrintino n
W"w vars wish mon tbe bands or
,.,a,,nors of r,aii matter that was adj
,Irest.rG I,"t to FOREIGN countries. The
cnnroit ,ook and now the middle Off
cinis in nearly every country in the
postal union greet each other, at the
beginning OF the year, in this novel
way.
n, Crrdolli os Rouo c;vos tbe fol.
Iowinc directions for nreparing n
romnit for malaria. which has proved
cOir.cIons when ouinine has given no
rnIief. Cnt nm a lemon. ncel AID pulp.
=, .I,;n sIioos omd hoii II in n nint and
haif of water until il is reduced to
Loif nint Strain through n linen
"inth inneozing tbo remains of the
bniInd lemon and set il aside until
cold. The entire liquid is taken fast
ing.
The total number of banking institu-
tions that failed in 1884 is l2l, II of
which were national banks, go state
hanks. II savipos banks. and n private
bonking institutions. Nineteen Of
these failures are tTaCeaDlg 10 tine ITHuu
Of bank officers: 25 of them resulted
from unfortunate operations In stocks,
disconnected from the clement of fraud,
and e. or more than one.half of them,
were dpc. either directly or indirectly,
to some form of speculation.
uisossorted bv some wicked person
that Il Is now tbs custom for lovers to
wife necnIiarIv affeotionate remarks
on m the outside Of envelopes. and to
cover such remarks with a postage
stomn Tins n vouno man NAV write
q nnte which a5v Young giri could
. Show 70 her mother. wbile at the same
, % t;n,o be w could nse tho most affection
+ ota otni Ionruoae nv % nnder cover Of n stamp.
q All All tha yoSno Iodv has IN do is secref-
IA, Hu 70 ,nU romouo yOu tho stamn without de-
r ~ stros;ra w Nth tbe wiring underneath.
. ''io''"s '"0
For recent marriage the groom
| purchased new coat anu inc Vriac . d
n trunk for The bridal TRIP, and the
, bappv pair started west. The train
I had not gone far when the baggage
= master noticed the odor of burning
wool and an examination resulted In
. seeing smote issue from n trunk. II
, was f6e trunk of tho newly-married