Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-06-18
FACT AND FANCY.

About dozen English sparrows
have taken up their abode in Pickens,
S. &.
Twenty ounces of gold dust were
tho result of months work for ono
man in the HAssayampa placers, near
Prescott, Arizona.
The love of notoriety is illustrated
in a Gilmcr county, Georgian, man
who claims to have haudled rails that
Abraham Lincoln split
The LecSburg (Vo.) WdShingtonian
has been published scvcnty-nine years,
and its present editor has been on duty
as such for thIrty-fve years.
In the course of a recent Montana
cattle case n cowboy testified that "a
maverick is somebody clse's calf
that yOn get your brand on first.
An effort WILDE made To secure n stat
ne of ex President Pierce, to be placed
in the capitol park at Concord, n. H.,
as n companion to that Of Daniel Web
stcr.
A farmer in Marion county, Florida,
has 1863 acres planted in watermclons,
which he expects will yield 4iS,SOO
melons, at the rate of three melons to
vine.
California has produced 800 OOO,-
600 IN gold out Of total of ,267,-
OOO, 900 worth of gold deposited in the
mints for coming since their organ
izatlon in 1893
Fish are dying in large numbers in
Suffer lake, near Sacramento, Cal,
and their death is attributed to an over
supply of food furnished in the shape
of grasshOppCrs.
Sccrct.socicty skeletons, that will
stand the racket of the goats attacks
as well as any, cost about $50 each.
They are nearly all imported from
foreign catacombs.
The Californians are n patriotic pco-
pie. Four hundred dollars has al
ready been subscribed at the little
town Of DOnniCvillc toward the Fourth
of July celebration.
An express train recently made The
run from Yuma to Tucson, Arizona,-
2iS mlles,-in slN hours and twenty
n.J, n,'o'. ,L,, Ina r VS.
o'u" w. W. '""' INV ,v
city has contributed $4,000 TO tho
Bartholdi statute pedestal fund, and
promises 10 uouplc inc amount Inc
grahu 'otai Is now over foo'Voo'
Complaint of the pollution of the
national capitals water is still being
made. The Washington star AYERS
that inc water drawn from any .sPiSot
OF ENuraht III lI"V Guy mas oh ohchsiNe
smell
SnappnG-turtlrs are contrary crea-
lures. When IN captivity they are so
delicate that they are liable to die Mt
at any time. But il their heads are
cut oil they will live for an incredibly
long time.
The San Francisco board of educa-
ton asks for an appropriation Of about
81, ,OOO, 900 for the wear beginning july
/, and of that sum less than 81, 1000 is
for teachers salaries. while over Si3,
| 900 is for ianitorS' salaries.
"Supposc. said an examiner to n
studnnt in .n,;nccrinp .,von had huiIt
m rnrinc vnmrsclf ncrformrd every
mnr, 1f Tho wnrk wiihnnt oss;s,orcc
nnJ know thot il w,s in comnlc,o
orJcr Inn, whom nui nm tha rooJ tho
numn woulL nnt draw wotor what
wnutL Won d,p' al sboulL lo,l; into
,ho ,,nl, and oscorto;n IL ,boro was
any w,,cr I'm draw " rorIiod tho s,m.
dan,
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Wo VI t''u "."utl' ,ot 'liu snNu'n-
nrnl t GnvrloPo cohtr9o'; ,y On tnc'r way
from liolyohH 10 W 'sn'hslon' were
'alN'hH '''r thc Sl'ual'o'l WIN hiucn
asSu'hcu c'nGpr' IL was ro"u''y aSreeu
mat rs inc D'uS hau p"ch reEstcrcu'
'herc cou'u pe no r.sh III comparing
notes. so cach PROMISED 10 marx nus
Did on paper ana pass II over both
scra'chGu away .he papers were y r eN-
v w"os,,I % romm,eJ @ on tbc somnnIcrt con'
dillon of ,he nthcr
A soclallstlc society called the Har-
mohlStS' at ECONOMY fa'' near fltts-
Durgh' whlch once numbered tnlrteen
hundred members has dwindled to
thlrty' me survivors are an ages, and
none OF them VIII probably be alive
ten years hence Inc property OF the
society Is estimated at tully Si'O9O'OO0
for each member, ana what VIII pc tho
linal disposition ot II Is known only to
a small circle. 1t is said that many OF
! ihn m hnrs hnNn nnt hln1lnI "a