Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-05-28
FACT AND FANCY.

humane society
The giraffe has never been known
to utter sound.
The peach crop is promising in
spots in South Carolina.
The erection Of 800, 900 hotel at
Gainesville, Fla, is assured.
There are 1l6 students in the North
Georgia Agricultural college.
Selma, Ala, had $4,000 worth OF
property destroyed by fire last year.
There are fourteen Mormon preach
crs in the vicinity of AShcboro, N. Z.
Good farm labor is difficult to oD-
tain in many South Carolina counties.
Religious services are held in the
Washington dime museum every Sum
day.
Woman suffrage has received sixteen
defeats IN the Massachusetts legisla-
turc.
The recent cold spell did more dam
age in Texas than in any southern
state.
The poetry Of motion is shown when
the editor invites the poet to leave tho
sanctum.
Atlanta 5 artcsian well has already
cost that city $4,000, and 1t is far
from being bored yet.
a whale forty feet long was captured
at Cape Lookout, n. c., last Sunday.
1t was valued at $1,000.
A haf-dozen Pima Indian children
have been received at the Albuquer-
que. New Mexico, school.
A letter was picked up on the street
in Laurcnccyille, Ga, the other day
that is thirty-iiyo years old.
One of the best Latin and Greek
scholars in Athens, Ca, is working
for 10 cents per day sodding grass.
Lake Kuaya, whose outlet supplies
the water which forms the Mirror lake
of tine Yosemite, is over 5000 above
the sea level.
The pay Of street hands at Athens.
Ga, has been increased from 10 to 80
cents per day. They are worked
twelve hours.
Fruit trees are so heavily laden in
places on the Pacific coast that hum
drcds OF laborcrs are kept employed in
thinning out the fruit.
The vegetable shipments from Flor
ida north are quite large now. Among
other things quantities of cucumbers
and egg-plants are being shipped.
The police force of Charlotte, N. G.,
has been reduced from twelve to eight
men, and the mayor has turned over
$500 of his $1,000 salary to the grad
ed school.
The wheat crop of San Joaquin
county, California, this year will como
from the islands and tulc lands. Farm
ers are much discouraged throughout
the county.
The "boss" peach tree in the Della
ware region, according TO local fame,
is tree olght or ten inches through,
and hoary with age. Last season it
yielded eight crates of merchantable
fruit, besides a bushel and half picked
from the ground.
There are now 1898 newspapers
published in the United States, gain
of S23 since 1851 Kansas shows the
greatest increase, her gain being 7S,
Illinois coming next with H. One
newspaper Is now printed tor every
1867 Of population.
The demand for copyright protec-
ton is illustrated in the fact that The
century secures copyright protection
in Great Britain by issue there day
or two in adyance-a great advantage
to contributors, since their articles arc
now protected in both countries.
A Spartansburg, S. c., young lady
ldvertiscs in the local paper for hus-
band. She describes herself young
and pretty, charming and witty, petite
and piquante.' Either there are no
young men in Spartansburg or the
amsel has overrated her charms.
At an official reception in Washing
.on an old captains wife was heard to
say to pretty young lady standing
near: See Edith! Look at that
young man with the Eyeglasses; and
ust think, he can send your Uncle
Frank to the uttermost parts of tho
,arth."
The new Catholic university is to be
placed in Washington, because that
,ity possesses greater literary, sci
'ntilic, and philosophical advantages
han any city in the country. 1t is
he capital of the nation and the CEN
.cr of the social and literary life of the
This is eXorbtant praise
'or Washington.
The tulip is very prolific. A corre-
'pondcnt of The Garden, an English
horticultural paper, says that in 1880
40 had fifty bulbs given him, which
lad been forced in the spring and
placed out Of doors to dry off. He
planted them in November the same
iear and took them up the next June,
each year, and now finds
himself the possessor of more than
.hrec thousand good towering bulbs.
The French papers are filled with
accounts of the mineral and agricult-
lral riches of Tonquin, upon which
The NeW York Mail and Express un-
iindly remarks: "The country is well
,nough the only difficulty is to find
he proper class of immigrants. A
European dies if he remains in Ton
luin more than two years. And except
ministers, who arc never
lllowed to reside in one place for more
han two years, we can not think OF
my class of men who would care to
ojourn In that country"
The "wild" man who for nearly
-ear has lived in the Newtown woods,
IN Long island. New York, and has
chased and been chased by
,eoplc near Middle Village, was cap
ured Wednesday. after a sharp run
md lively struggle, near the Lutheran
cemetery. His only clothing was
,iece Of carpet tied around his waist.
\ justice sent him to Barnum's island
Is a vagraut. He refused to say who
le is, except that his name is John
Meyers and that he has lived in the
woods all winter, sleeping in hollow
rees and holes. His sanity will be
inquired into.
A New York company which manu-
actures every day ], 800 bustles stuffed
With renovated antelope hair has just
,egun tho manufacture of life-pre-
ervers stuffed with the same mate
erial. A test Of the comparative
-alue of different llfe-preservers has
,een made. 1t requires only ten
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