Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-06-18
PASSING EVENTS.
Nearly all the London newspapers

CnuTCneS anu 20, 100, OUU LOT liquor liSt
year.
A 60.pound Columbia river salmon
was recently sent to James G. Blaine
from Portland, Oregan.
All the prizes this year awarded in
the University Of Mississippi were
carried off by young women.
A new fish, the cherna, belonging
to the halibut family, has made its ap-
pearance in the Gulf of Mexico.
Sixty pounds of honey to hive in
two weeks time are reported from an
apiary in Inyo county, California.
The eggplant and the tomato form
the chief vegetable crop of Florida,
shipments of these being made twice
week.
California papers state that John W.
Mackey has given $780, 900 to Bishop
Monogue for the erection of church
at Sacramento.
Fourteen women are employed at
gathering the crop of cherry orchard
near Suscol, Napa county, Cal. They
earn 81 day each and their board.
The craze among young ladies for
military buttons has brought together
several collections, which include
army insignia from every nation IN the
world.
Fortinin, the French cook of the
white house, recently dismissed, was
paid a salary of 800. The colored
cook who now does up plain dishes
gets Sl,25 day.
The second prize in political science
at the Columbia law school was award
ed to Mr. John NJ. Ward, one of the
best professional baseball players in
the country.
Prof. Dwight told the graduates of
the Columbia law school that lawyers
were divided into four classes-the
iurist, the advocate, the toiling law
yer, and the shyster.
1t appears that the Cleveland gem
which the enterprising manager of
Miss Minnie Palmer claims to be worth
100000 is not pure stone and is not
worth more than $4,000.
A gold coin has been exhumcd in
Salt Lake City which is not mentioned
in any numiSmatical work, and is sup
posed to be arelic of the prehistoric
inhabitants Of the continent.
The despised milkwecd can be used
to advantage. It's seed yields finer
oil than lnseed, its gum is as good
as India rubber, and its floss re-
sembles Irish poplln when spun.
A man who threw n stone into the
cab Of 4 Wabash railway locomotive
was discovered the same day, arrest.
ed, tried, and sentenced to four months
in Jail, all in the space of nine hours.
The clergy of Florida in the past ten
years have increased from Il to 40
and the list of communicates from less
I han 700 to 1894. There have been
I erected in the same period AZ churche,
, and chapels.
The English sparrow has fresh in
dlctment against hrm, that of wanton,
ly nipping of the blossoms from orange
trees in louisiana and Florida, where
the growers are complaining that ;
short crop will result from this de
4 structlon.
There is a tradition that the Broad
woods, the famous English pianomak
ers, once pad SO, 0O0 for three logs o
mahogany from the same tree, cacl
fifteen feet long and three feet tw,
inches square. The cost was in tn,
unusual beauty of the "curl' whcl
made it valuable for ycnecrS.
There is bird rookcry at LAX,
Gentry, in Brevard county, Florida
covering tract Of eighty acres, il
which it is estimated over seven mil
! lion birds gather every season. 1t ha
been resting place for birds iron
! timo immcmorial, and IN immens
! quantity Of qua no has accumulated.
D There are more subscribers to tn,
. teleghone system in New York and it
d nCighborhoOd than the whole OF Grca
Britain, Notwithstanding that tn
S charge in New York is about doub
g what it is there. The number o
G transmssiOns by telephone in Grea
. Britain last year was about IL, 900, ,OO0
and the average cost per message
T. little over cent.
A Pennsylvania schoolgirl astonish
y, ed her teacher with the following com
! position, "George Washington tn
/ first president OF the United State
} born in Virginia in the year. Wher
4 George was little boy he would neve
= tell lie. Because he thought it wa
not nice. 1t It's not nice neither Ii
!, studied all kinds of things TO be
q president" :"
II There is great deal of true rel
|. giOn in nature" solemnly remarked
young clergyman, while calling upo
!. a lady of his congregation the othe
n evening, "Ihere is indeed" was tn
\, quiet reply. 1--WE should never forge
c that there is sermon in every blad
OF grass Quite true. We shOul
q also remember while we are about
+. that grass is cut very short ut this sea
$ son of the year. "
5 \ bottle Of lager-beer costs 70 cent
+ in Mexico. The fruit drinks of tn
: people are sweet almost to nausea, an
. pulque to all except the inhabitants Q
u the country has an unpleasant taste
u 1t is not surprising, therefore, to fin,
an American traveller in the land G
J the Aztccs going into rhapsodies upo
:. finding unexpectedly some native beer
l. which he says is very like our root O
r spruce beer.
g The first carload of cherries eve
U shipped from San Francisco to a
7 eastern market was dispatched on til
2Oth inst. The fruit came from Ala
media county. Eight tons of cherrie
+ were putup in small baskets of fv
pounds each, and these were put int
crates, through which the air circu
lates freely. The car was also open a
each end, the ends being protecte,
with wire gauze.
Mr.. Huber. the "armless wonder,
n of Philadelphia, in marrying Mis-
Boustein, took the ring in his righ
/. toes, and, holding her left hand wit
d his left foot, slipped the golden circl
\ on her left finger. Then, putting hi
d left leg around the BRIDES waist, h
drew her to him and kissed her. Mr.
Hubert, it Is safe to say, will neve
b have any trouble in reaching for tn
{ paregoric bottle.
The stranger on the Pacific coast Ia
. day is often astonished to see what
c resemblance to tho spirit of the "ol
i A9ers' still exists there. Many ma
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