Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-03-26
FACT AND FANCY.

The manufacture of orange wine
has been begun at Sanford, Fla.
In Kingston, n. Y, frost was dis
covered in the ground at depth Of
six feet,
Montana paid out $4,000 in boun-
ties for the destruction of wild ami
mails last year.
The wise husband never advises his
wife to give the dry goods stores tho
"go.by,' for fear that she does NOT
spell AS he does.
"One country, one lag, and zwei
lager" is a new version of patriotic
proverb, probably given by German
American citizen
Many colored persons who have
married white wives are surprised that
white women are unwilling to take in
washing to support them.
Sometimes the husband of an actress
is her manager. 1t is only, however,
among actresses tha' husband ever
becomes his wifes manager.
The tomato growers of Florida have
not made any money this sea-
son, owing to the large quantities ship
ped from the Bcrmudas and the West
Indies.
Shad were moving freely Oh the
southern coast, and schools Of
this delicious fish will reach north
ern waters by the last of the present
month.
Boston girls have organized mu-
tual aid matrimonial society. When
ever one member marrIcs the others
arc assessed TO set her up in house,
I keeping.
The great attention which the waltz
receives, almost to the exclusion Of
other dances, is ascribed to tho fact
that square dances oycrtax tho con-
versatlonal powers.
One Of the richest single women in
New York receives several offers Of
marriage by post every week, and
doubtless most of the others are hon
orod in Il similar manner.
Two tramps begged money enough
at Yarmouth, n. s., recently, to buy
each Of them silver watch, which
they purchased 4 day or two later at a
jewelry establishment.
A Chinaman at La Porte, Cal, is
setting up business preparatory to re-
turning to the Flowery kingdom to
enjoy his wealth, said to be 81, 900, 900.
made in mining on the Pacific coast.
Two valuable tin mines are reported
to be in successful operation in West
| Virginia, one near Huntington, in
Cabell county, and the other few
miles from Grantsville, in Calhoun
county.
The asparagus eaters OF the south
smile at the people of the north who
buy the importations of that vegetable.
After Il trip OF this kind asparagus
sprouts might be used as whip lashes."
they say.
Five dory fishermen at Folly cove,
Gloucester, Mass, sold recent catch
! for 5000, making an average of 1920
TO a dory. They carry but two men
each, at most, some of them but sim
gle fisherman.
A poor family who recently went to
Los Gatos, Cal, and were the recipi-
ents OF divers acts of charity, have
suddenly turned out to be wealthy,
purchased Il $1,000 farm and still have
$4,000 in the bank.
The pcrils of arsenical floors is Il
new evil added to that of poisonous
wall papers. Floors washed with u
solution of arsGmc to prevent dry
rot is a new device for decreasing the
lonUnVity of tho race
An old Vineland, N. j., weather
prophet forecasts - snow-storm in
March deeper than any we have had
yet this season, and accompanied by
heavy wind. There will also bo two
snow-storms in April"
"Why,' asked Il govcrness of her
little charge, do we pray to God to
give us our daily bread9 Why don't
we ask for four or five days, or a
week." because we want it fresh"
replied the ingenious child.
1t is stated that during the last
twenty years there has been taken
from the Sierra forests on Lake Tahoe
and tho Trukee basin timber amount
ing in value to $4,000, 900, and paid
for at the Virginia, Nevada, mines.
BY ludicrous mistake of the copy
list, one article in the written warrant
for town meeting posted according to
law in post-oilice in Winthrop, Me-,
reads: 80 raise q sum of money for
support of poor and other necessary
town officers" D."
Cork is now made into bricks for
coating steam boilers and ice cellars.
The cork is broken up into very small
particles, II small quantity of cement
added, and then pressed into the shape
of bricks, which are first dried in the
air and then by artificial heat.
The members of the New Haven
board of selcctmen have been served
with papers in behalf of three students
in the Yale Theological Seminary, who
ask damages in 81, 700 each for the re-
fusal of the selectmen to allow them TO
vote at the recent presidential cleo
| ton.
Maple trees no longer lord it over
the maple sugar market. One gro
ceryman in Cattaraugus, N. Y, which
place annually produces 100000
pounds of the crystallized sap, has al
ready disposed of ten barrels of brown
sugar to a single proprietor of "sap"
bush.
The reason that it is not healthy to
breathe through the mouth is that
"the air is better warmed when taken
into the lungs through the nose, owing
to the heat Of the blood in that organ,
and because the capillary projections
in its cavity catch all the deletorious
matter and throw it out"
"Now, Johnnie" said the teacher.
elf your father borrows 800 and
promises TO pay $40 week, how
much will he owe in seven weeksp"
"0ne hundred dollars" said Johnnie.
"rm afraid you don't know your les
son very well, " remarked the teacher,
al may not know my lesson very
we'll" johnnie frankly acknowledged,
"but | know my father"
"Will you not como TO my mission
school this afternoon, my boyP We
are going to have an interesting exhi-
bition, and the rector will be there"
"What's thatp" "Why this is the rec
tor, said tho teacher, indicating his
smiling companion. "0h, my ~ cried
the urchin, gazing upward in admira-
tion; won't he be a help to his mother
vban ho erais ornwad ,.npr