Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-01-22
FACT AND FANCY.

Maine during 1884.
Springfield, Mass, put 100000 into
buildings last year.
In Tucson, Arizona, the restaurants
are conducted by Chinese.
Portland, Me-, fish-dealers packed
5000, 900 Holsters last year.
Jeremiah Austin, of South Coventry,
Conn, says he is l02 years old.
Six to ten tons of mail matter passes
the Augusta, Me-, postoflice daily.
A citizen of Pittsfield, Mass, lately
invested S4OO in an African gray par
rot
Vermont has 1l3 Baptist churches,
with 9,326 members and LOG ordained
ministers.
A New Haven Oystcrman found an
old rubber boot upon which were o.
800 young oysters.
The Agricultural society of South
Carolina will celebrare its hundredth
anniversary this year.
A Connecticut genius has been
granted a patent on n machine for
harvesting potato bugs.
At Hill, n. H., man makes busi-
ness of. extracting skunk's oil, for
which he gets 81 per gallon.
Fruit trees and vines are rapidly
taking the places of the redwood for
est in the vicinity of Guerneyille, Cal.
Mrs. Ira jerks, of Lancsboro, Mass,
has n pork-barrel, tifty-four years old
which has preserved $1,000 pounds OF
pork.
The frightful condition of many Of
the tenement-hOuscs OF Boston is
arousing the citizens of the Hub to the
necessity of immediate and radical
sanitary measures.
4 piece of paper placed between two
blankets is recommended by physi-
clan for light and warm bed-cover-
ing. Paper is a poor conductor of
heat, and obyiatethe necessity of undue
weight of clothing.
A trout taken out of the water COM
pany's reservoir at Virginia, New,
has two heads and portions of two
bodies, these bodies ending in sort
of bladder, and the bladder culmi-
mating in sort of tail.
/ The erection of cotton-mills at the
south has not been stopped by the
general depression. The year will
show considerable increase in both
spindals and looms, according to The
United StateS Economist.
In recent letter to a well-known
Torontonan from friend residing a
few miles from Los Angeles, CAL, it is
said: at took four of the largest
steam thrashers four and half months
to thrash the grain on his farm"
Ants will forsakc any food for lard,
and they can be eXterminated by
greasing aplate with that substance
and placing 1t in their vicinity. When
the plate is well covered turn hot
Goals upon it, and few repetitions of
the process will clean them out.
News letters, in manuscript, were
sold before newspapers were printed.
The Italian name gazette was first ap-
piled to these letters, and afterward
to the printed copies. DR.. Skeat says
tHe NOlu 10 cltucl ulhiihubi'o "a
gazza, "a magpic, meaning chat
terbox. or else derived from gazetta,
a small coin perhaps paid for the
privilege of reading the news.
"Whnt are Won doing. pet?n liam
studyin' nv Sunday school lesson"
"Is il hnrdP" otis awful hard.
Here's u oucstion | can't answer II
saws. who was il said all men are
liarsp' DO ycu know who it was, pa?'
"Yes:it was David" David! How
did he come to say that, pap. We'll,
don't know, pet Maybe he was rum
ming for Office"
Little boy has been swearing, and
mamma, to punish him, washed thor
ourhlv the inside of his mouth with
sosnsHds. to- rs she EXPLAINS to him.
.clcon away the nauty words" A
few Goys later, while passing the bath
room. She sees the voungster with his
face one mass Of suds, and his mouth
so full that she barely understands his
splutterinc exclamations, "Getting
them all out, mamma! Swore five
times Yesterday"
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raro @ iiJciity ali sbo details Of feminine
toilots oil; So social innovotions and castro.
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