Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1885-01-29
FACT AND FANCY.

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The first case of cremation in Mex
leo took place on the 22d ult. at the
City of Mexico.
A tobacconist in Easton, Pa, re-
Gently received 5000 pennies in pay
ment for debt.
A strong organization of wire-fence
cutters have commenced operations
in Colfax county, New Mexico.
The families of idle mill operatives
at Paterson, N, D., are reduced to
eating cats and dogs to keep alive.
The average gold yield of the mines
Of Nevada county, California, ranges
from S3,OO0,0O0 TO 81, 10000 per year.
An English doctor asserts that q
person who can move his ears at will
is suspicious character and can not
be trusted.
Canadian customs officials as
special favor permit the bringing over
of costumes for the Montreal carnival
at a duty of 10 per cent.
The new conservatory OF Mrs. E. b.
Crocker, at San Francisco, is the
second largest in the country. 1t COW
ers $4,000 square feet of ground.
Some New York ladies who Civ
Sunday evening receptions have been
requested by clergymen to discon-
tinuc for the sake OF social morality.
A commercial salesman says that
more cigars and tobacco are used in
Washington in proportion to popula-
ton than in any other city in the coun-
try. :.
There arc four thousand public Ii
braries in the United States, contain
ing fifteen million volumes, toward
the support of which $3,00O,0OO arc
annually paid.
Floating sawmills are common on
the lower Mississippi. They pick up
the drifting logs, turn them into lum-
Der, and sell the product to the plan
ters along the shore.
During the past week about 14O
families, aggrcgating 700 persons, en-
tered North Carolina rs settlers. Tho
majority were from the New England
states and Pennsylvania.
Sister Mary Cyril, of the charity
hospital, New Orleans, was last week
invested with golden crown, in COM
memoration Of the completion of fifty
year services III inc oruor.
The living worms that have been
discovered III ice are described by
IrOf. Lcldy as being whlte or colorless
anu from ohe-llaf'er 10 one-slAta vi
an men lohg py one scVehIy-llth vi an
men III lhlckheSs' the sPccics poinS
unknown.
Inc phosphate traue IS undergoing
great deVelopement IN Canaua. Dur- @
ing the past year 'he sniPinea's Vi 'ho
mineral amounted 70 10 Eo'4oa @ IONS US as
cohlParIW WIN n nno I.,ooo III ioIS, ,Ssi i',voI
to.is III ioo-, iU,oV0 ,oy 'o'i' !" 'o'' "AN'
'oUV ,U' 'o"' III i'o0' ~, :,
Inc question Oh Drahulhg cattle ~
aS"'h ueihS coiS'uclcu w moh'ann AM,
SIockhieh' "a nlue not pl"hueu miii
prlnS - W 9,'op 'norc tn"h ono .siuo-
orahueu' anu the present custom ID
estimated ad0 10 oco cost VI MO, MONTANA OreeuerS
"lono 'i'"oV'oOo o"i'
Inc ygar 100, 1903 'Ihns i!', iour ,h Engiish Is,
JuuSGS, ,, sun acIivo.y pnisu.ns 1helr |u,
9lclal lapors nllcr ,,I'I ml.a'nins i the "6c VI
loTrsc3re years, lhe{ are t. 'Iee zee, onan. nar
GcIior ' paeoh' n' WIN % i" h'' o. Gun yon,
JuGSe leto's"oIn' III ms o. ouns'
huiton' .h Ir, ~ ms oou' anu o ou"o n"yiiHy
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III MS o'" ,o"i'
A movement has been started 70
keep Francis Murphy IN fittspurgh as
the minister OF n "church OF gospel
temperance a iunu OF so'ooo mas
already been raised In us support.
During his late campaign OF eight
weeks IN that city MI Murphy ootain-
ed eighteen thousand signatures 10 tne
temperance pleuee'
Mr.. Alexander dumas mas presented
10 the Iomeule Francahse lne ohly
known example OF the handwriting OF
Mollere. II IS an act oil one Oh ms
plays, win MS signature appendod NJ
the bottom OF tne last page IL Will DO
framed with TINS signature exposed 70
view, and placed IN the green room Oh
the theater'
A Vicksburg, Miss, colored man
has written and published book with
the odd title of "a Negro's Opinion in
Little Book of Big Things" The
book refers to the condition OF the
colored race, and, although rather
ambitious in style and language, con-
tains many excellent ana very SOUND
ideas.
1t being shown by test that 2S2,24O
pounds of coal will propel ship and
cargo weighing 5,6O0,OOO pounds a
distance of $3.50 miles, The Railroad
Gazette goes to its arithmetic to show
that an ordinary letter, if burned in
the ships boiler, will generate sufii-
cient energy to transport one ton Oh
freight one mile.
Alma Tadema's latest picture rep
resents boys and girls lying under a
spreading oak and reading Horace.
Speaking of the Roman poet, the late
President Garfield once asked j. Ran
dolph Tucker if he knew whore our
motto, "E Pluribus Unum,n was
found. Mr.. Tucker didn't. well, ="
said Garfield, "it comes from Horace" ="
and he turned to page where the
poet describes the making of a salad,
winding up with the remark that II
was "e pluribus unum
Mr.. Labouchere relates in Truth
that he was at Florence when the