Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-07-02
pith and Point,
The man who fails for a million dol

| Plth ana Point
The man who fails for million dol
lars must command respect.
New York has received as many as
100000 bananas per day. That is as
good as 100000 slip-ups.
1t may do for thcologians to call it
"Sheol," but tho old term is good
enough for most of us in the usual
daily walks of life.
No sooner did real Boston girl re-
move to Chicago to reside than she
dated her letters from "Chicago.by-
the-Lake.
1t was Nashville cook this time
who mistook arsenic for baking pow
der. OF course she kept them side by
side on the shelf.
The consumption of beer has in
creased by jS,0OO,00O gallons in one
year. Somebody's head must be get
ting used to the motion.
Ten yards of Irritation and bushcl
of gush are mentioned by the Boston
Globe as full seaside outfit for the
average young lady.
England's big cannon booms n
charge Of almost 600 pounds of powder
at once. Such spendthrift habits
should not be encouraged in a gun.
1t has been satisfactorily settled
that yachtsman need not know how
to sail yacht. All that is needed is q
uniform and roll to his gait
This country imported about Is, ,OOO.-
600 bottles Of wine last year and con-
sumcd 29,OOO, 600, Nobody got hold
Of Il bottle that wasn't imported
New Hampshire could put about
800 militia in the field if occasion de-
manded, but they would have TO carry
pitchforks and wear their everyday
clothes.
They keep finding indictments
against Fcrd. Ward, but after man
has been drowned fifteen or twenty
times it's no use to pour more water
over him.
The New York ErcHWg Post gives
up the fight at last and says: "The
time has arrived for bidding farewell
in these columns TO Kecly and his
motor.
Apples are getting large enough to
twist a boy Of 10 out Of bed and hall
way down stairs at every grip, aud
the opportunity should not be lost by
II single youth.
Ii il can on the one hand be called
"cholera infantum,' why cant il on
the other hand be referred toas "chol-
era adulmm?' The infants shouldn't
have all the advantage.
1t is believed that if Miss Dudley is
keptin prison much longer She will be
driven to write poetry, and for this
reason many influential people are
moving TO have her released.
A ST. Louis woman was spit on from
n third-slUry window by II boy and
she has sued the lads employer for
$1,000 damages. The defense will he
"contributOry negligence"
Eighty-two per cent of all the fires
occurring in New York city are traced
directly TO CarelcSSncss It's no won
der an Oycrworkcd reporter slips his
grammar now and then.
A chap in Arizona has improved on
the idea of IN art loan, He has got up
a money loan" scheme, and only the
other day eight stage coach passengers
lent him nearly $1,000.
The brooklyn EdyiC knows of n pro.
fcsSiOnal rollcr-skatcr with bullet in
his head. We can't see anything odd
about that. That's no place 10 shoot
one OF those chaps if you want to lay
him up.
Prof. Proctor SAYS that at least 40, :
900 mcteoric bodies fall from the hcav,
ems every hour of tho twcnty-four fol
the entire year, and yet it is hard work
TO find Il chap who has had his hal
knocked Oh.
OF the nine great musical composer,
of Germany not one of them had Il
face an average man would like tt
. meet on lonely road ut twilight,
solemn hour. He'd count on either
being dunncl or thumpcd.
= A Chicago paper asserts that tn,
young man who starts out in life with
= the feeling that he doesn't know bean,
from broonslrkS has at least 5000
capital over all others. No such man
e ever started in Chicago.
Fargo has all along supposed that
she had 1000 population, but cen
SuS taken by the police fails to show
quite 10000. How 1000 pcopI,
slipped out of town inside of two day.
is what bothcrs those who didn't 20.
More than loo men and women ovcl
6Oycars OF age have lcen injured ol
, killed in skating rnks within the last
six months. Most of 'cm were wild
owS and widowcrs who were irving tC
show off like people Of 2O.-Dcirol
= Free Press.
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