Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-05-14
FACT AND FANCY.


Guests worth $3.50, 100000 we're at
the San Marco hotel, st. Augustine
Fla, one day last week.
One of the curiosities of the New
Orleans exposition is pair OF trossers
which had been worn for more than
fifty years.
A harpoon OF the pattern made over
forty years ago was taken from q
whale caught near Goes bay, on the
Pacific coast, recently,
Of the cighty-onc Wholesale liquor.
dealers in Nashville, Tenn, siXty'elght
are church members. The rest may
he presumed to constitute thirteen
club.
During the past two or three months
between thirty and forty Chinese
bows have been sent from San Francis
co to China by their parents to be edu-
Gated.
The female chimpanaec at the Phila-
delphia geological garden has begunto
shed her teeth exactly in the same
manner us the human child at the
same age.
On the southern front OF the white
house at Washington, quinlnc is the
principal food of those on night duty,
ani'the Waterman learn to like it as q
daily tonic.
Francis Turner is the name OF an
old and impecunious seaman who re-
Gently started oil from san Francisco
behind a wheelbarow, which he pro-
noses to trundlc to Baltimore, his
former home.
A writer from Fiji asserts that when
llocks of tern and other fowls rest up
on the sea the water becomes smooth,
an effect which he ascribes to oil emit
ted by the birds.
A tame squirrel, released from cap
tivily by Cape May county, New Jer-
sey, family while moving, came back
when the household returned after an
absence of six months.
An undertaken of Tucson, Arizona,
has held the embalmCd body OF man
since 1882 as collateral for the cost OF
the operation, which his relatives in
tine east refuse to pay.
The average maple-sugar crop OF
Vermont. is in the neighborhood OF
twelve million pounds, but this year it
will exceed that amount. The Green
mountain state produces onc-thlrd OF
the maple-sugar crop OF the country
The specks of beads which float be-
fore the ewes are due to slight defects
in their tissues and fluids. They arc
generally present to some extent in
all eyes, and are not necessarily
symptom OF disease
1t appears from the Cornell univer-
sity register for lSSi-Sj that the Ii
brary of that institution contains
), about 81, 200 volumes and $1,000 PAM
phlcts, and receives additions now at
! the rate of about 1000 volumes annu-
|, ally. The library has fund, not yet
!, available, of about 500, 600.
i There is so little demand now for the
/ famous sea island cotton OF South Car
a olina that few planters have sold their
last wears crop. TWAS formerly used
+ to adultcrate silk, but the demand has
!. ceased without any apparent reason:
h except that by means of improved
machinery, ordinary cotton may be
y used for thread and other purposes as
y well as the long staple.
). A harvest was rcaped recently by q
II peddlcr in Marietta, Ga, who painted
: ihe rumage of Il number of birds and
# disposcd OF them like hot cakes and at
n ycry fancy prices to unsuspecting buy
"a crs. The fraud was finally discovered,
however, by one of his purchasers,
who dipped one Of the bird S feathers
in water, when its beautiful tint dis
s. i writer in an English journal says
y that anyone may be cured OF stammer-
u ing by simply making an audible note
" ON expiration before each word. Stam
) mcrers can sing as easily as other per-
y sons Jacky Brostcr, of Chester, who
u made 4 large fortune by curing stam'
IL mcring, simply made his pupils say
II cher" before each word beginning
~ with consonant.
Ia In the early days of the war of the
II rebellion Nathaniel Klmball, of YorE
~ county, Maine. brick manufacturer
contracted debt of so cents. To pay
ir it he produced from his pocket a var
n n. nished brick inscribed Good for a
I'd cents-Nathaniel kimball, and
o. pumpkin-seed marked "Good Tor
Q. cents-N. kimball. ms currenc.
" was accepted. Tho brick Is sun IN OK
x. istcnce, and kimball is ready TO re
il deem it, but the present owner, wh
n paid 81 % for it, will not sell It,
ar The editor of n Buffalo newspape
on recently asked the subscribers to nam
,ss the ten most important inventions
all time, More than eight hundre
I'D answers were received, and the te
p- inventions receiving the most vote
Sc, were: The telegraph, printing pres:
eli steam engine, cotton gin, telephone
he mariners compass, gunpowder, sew
10. ing machine, telescope, and protogr9
ng ply. Twenty-one votes were in fave
.ge of the steamboat, six for paper, tw
led for tmepieces, and only one for th
me ocean cable.
oor The attention of photographers h;
A lately been called to an ingeniol
.lly device known as the air brush. A Ii
wv tie holder is charged with India IN
ill and by n bellows operates with To-
ant pedal after the manner OF sewlnl
lin machine, the fluid is blown upon
the faintly-outlined portrait, the resu
,;la o;vinT a nirture suDeriOr in many r