Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-05-07
FACT AND FANCY.

IlNtlt bl.lllhs VI lEtl EtllllN'A bhA - NNNt
ago, has succeeded in creating a debt
of $4,000.
Summer cottages in chrome yellow
will vie with the tawny sca-sands this
season.
Making envelopes out of straw pa.
per is new and llourishing industry in
Ireland.
Penjdeh is accurately written and
pronounced Punjdeh, and means "liyo
villages"
The number of letters posted IN the
world each year averages about 52,-
600, 600, 900.
The pine tree, says an authority,
serves as n refuge for more than 400
species OF meets.
1t is claimed that there are l2j,00O
republican voters in Tennessee, to
l3j, 900 democrats.
The cost of each saloon TO the city
of indianapolis last year was Slj3, and
thcliccnsc only so.
The governor of OaXaca, Mexico, is
distributing by thousands textbooks
in the public schools.
The base ball clubs of this country,
it is estimated, will cost the people
SlG,0OO,OOJ this year.
Thirteen hundred new buildings,
worth about : Si,OuO,OOO, were erected
in Washington last year.
Fresno, Marysyillc, and San Jose,
Cal, were visited by an earthquake
shock Saturday, April 1.
A farmhouse at sumter City, Ga,
takes his fodder to the water trough
and vets it before eating.
The shipment of cigars from Key
West, weekly, amount to 100000,
with an increasing tendency.
Some GENTS has invented fishing
rod that registers the precise number
and weight of the fishes caught.
Mexican soldiers are said TO be of
all shades Of color, ranging from near
ly pure white TO perfect black.
A rcal.cstatc owner in San Francisco
adds to his large income from that
source by pcddling fruit about the
city.
\ wealthy timber merchant has had
his coat-of-armS painted on his carri-
age with the Latin motto "Vidi"-I
saw.
Coal mining machines capable of
doing the work OF twenty men aro
being introduced in the Panhandle
mines.
The pyromcter, an instrument in
which heat is measured by the cXpan-
sion of metals, will accurately mca-
sure heat up to 1000 degrees.
Every pcnitcntary in Texas is pro-
yidcd with kennel OF three or more
fierce bloodhounds for the purpose of
hunting and capturing escaped pris.
OnCrS.
A train composed of two cars OF
gold bullion, three cars of silver, eight
cars OF silk and four ears of tea, is on
its way east from California and Col
orado.
An iror car-whccl will travel about
10000 miles A steel tire will run
2Oo,ooD miles, costing two and half
times as much and running more than
four times as long as an iron wheel.
W. IL. Wood, OF New York city, re-
Gently caught on the gulf coast of
Florida tarpon weighing IT. pounds.
The tackle used was the ordinary rod,
reel, and line employed by bass fishers
on the Atlantic coast, and the feat
ranks without known parallel.
An entcrprising man, who wi5hcdito
be able TO announce the first sign of
spring placed twig on which was II
cocoon of 4 caterpillar near the stove
for week or two. The butterfly was
Matched in the month of March and
exhibited as the first harbnger of
SPRING
A Philadelphia minister has even
exceeded Mr.. Gillord's dcnunciation
of pleasure. He condemns not only
Skating-rinkS and thcatcrs, but all
church fairs and festivals, and says:
"lt's shame that whenever money
has to be raised for church purposes
some people think it can't be dono un-
less they must have little fun overit."
The tunncling of Tuscarora noun
tain, in Fulton county, Pennsylvania,
is u gigantic work. Drills propelled
by compressed air are in operation on
each end of the tunnel night and day.
The tunnel is already bored 1900 feet
on the west side and 1900 on the cast.
As the mountain is calculated to bo
just one mile through the boring is
now half completed.
An effort has recently been made to
measure the dimensions and speed of
dcGp-sca waves with marked success.
The longest wave recorded measured
a half-mile from crest to crest, with
period of twenty-three seconds. Waves
having length of five hundred to six
hundred feet and periods of ten to
twelve seconds are the ordinary storm
waves of the north Atlantic ocean.
1t is not generally known that YER
mont has n gold mine. 1t is called the
Brooks, and is located at Plymouth.
From annual report it appears that the
mine produced from September, 1888,
to January, 1885, SGS,070 in gold, and
paid four dividends aggregating S46,-
600, the yield varying between SS3 SO
ana sou ~, Wllllc lnc COSI declined
$40 10 to 81 20 per ton for mining and
milling,
A colered preacher in tho outskirts
of Columbia, 5. c., notified his congre-
cation on y recent Sunday that he
would not preach till he had S.. The
hat was passed round, and when re-
turns were made SO. 30 was in the pot,
whereupon the preacher said he must
have $3.50 more before he would
preach. The hat was passed around
the second time, and the IS made up,
when the congregation was treated to
one of the best efforts of the thrifty
pastor.
From recent surveys it has been
ascertained that tho entire city of Vir-
ginia, Nevada, has moved over thirty
inches to the east since the big fire Of
1876. The Maynard block, in Golden
Hill, is known to be gradually sliding
down in the direction of Gold canyon,
and has moved nearly two feet since
its erection. This movement is so
gradual that 1t does not affect in any
manner the safety of the building, as
the ground 10 the depth of nearly ono
hundred feet to the bed rock is known
to be continually sliding. 1t is we'll
known fact among practical miners
that the ground on which Virginia
City is built is what is termed slide,