The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-07-23
STREET TALK.
In the Heat Of . Long Summers
Day.

All communication yesterday Vas carrie
on between fan waves, and fat man Vas e,
tremely hard to find. One was foun,
however, and Intercepted.
Reporter-Hello!
Fat Man (snsppishly )-Hei-hish, T.,
thinking.
Rep-Dont you ~ish you could cit o
top Of an iceberg aud sing from ''Greea
lands Icy Mountsins! ?"
F. M.-Dont believe Greenlandis 20
any ICY mountains. know what Sedalia'
got. though. She has got stream of filtI
and corruption running through the hear
Of Il, reeklng with poison, pestilence AMI
death. That Pearl river has got Sly,
enough in it for all our souls 10 cross upon
Rep.-But the Board Of Health hav.
ordered it flooded occasionally ~ carry o
all impurities.
+. M.-Carry thunder! Where will i
carry it too: do you suppose turning tn
hose on aud stirring up the sbominabl,
macs till it lodges up higher and stink,
twice - bad. il going to do any good.
kep.-Dunno, but whats the G,siier will
you. Must have got one ri those bach
slley billet doux from the Marshal.
r. M.-You just bet your life did, but
il faint my fault. There's Smiths Gun
founded old stable on one side. and Jones
pig pen on the other. The filth runs from,
both aides AID settles right behind me. I've
had four or Eve rows, bat the filth keeps
running. just the same. Now VIVA, the
ID is q fellow IA do?
Rep tsusgestivelyJ-Bum the stable
poison the pigs.
F. NJ, fmusingly )--Derned il don't be.
iieve I will.
ReP.-Did you 60 to the circus yesterday ?
+. NJ Yes, I did.
Rep.-ioing to church today,
F. Mo, l hain'l il know myself!
Rsp.-Why no.; salvation is free. cir
Gus costs four bits.
r. M.-Th.t may be, hut salvation don't
have any monkeys and brass hands.
So the reporter left that Wicked Old Fat
Man and hunted up lean one. who was
lying under tree in his yard. without any
boots. hat, coat or vest on.
Rep.-Mornin'. Awful hot.
Lean Man-Iou're right, il is warm hut
this is nothing tn what I've seen in Arkan-
ass.
Rep-How hot w.s that
l. M.-Well, you may not believe me,
but 1855 We all had IN live in caves, and il
wss SO hot the sun ret the dead trees IN
ire. When We we're hungry. We jns, stuck
,eeisteak on the end Of . ramr.d and held
t ont in the snn. In two minutes il would
,egin to >izzle, and ii yon didn't yank il in
mighty quick. it would he burned to crisp.
Rep, (doul'tingly )-Ye-ye--but-hut
i've how could cattle. Where did you get
rour beefsteak
L. NJ, t-lowly)-Why-why we killed
EN- before il got 40 hot.
Rep.-Have you paid your poll tax yet q?
L. M.-weil. I reckon I have. ] threw
way four dollars, # that's what you call it.
Rep.-How il that!
l. M.-Why what good did they do with
heir plows and scrapen! True. they killed
he trees along the sides and threw up the
lirt IN the middle of the street. But next
vinter il will be just ~ bad. There amt
10 bottom 20 that dirt. What We van, is
ock or our streets, or q line Of barges in
s inter time.
Rep.-Well. would you be willing to
'.y yonr share for macadamizing
L. M.--Course would. Course I would
'ut maybe my nelghbor wssldnt. So wha,
8 the use.
Rep.-You ought to take an inieres, in
he.e matters and stir them up. Go before
he Council, etc.
L. M.-Council! Council! Those fellows
lon't know anything. We amt had q
irsi-class Board of Aldermen for years.
Rep. Then Why don't Won run for Al
lermsn.
l.. M.-Oh, ! wouldn't have 1.-THE Office
q a nuisance to . business mar.
Rep.-Did you 60 to the circus.
L. M--You bet I did. Ii vac fraud,
hough. When ! vas hoy in Pennsvlva-
ria l saw = circus i've miie- long, and
.lsphants ~ big o. two story house, and
Rep.-Whst ~ in that pitcher in the
hsde there.
L. Nice water. Have some,
Rep.-Hes.
Reporter tastes very slowly but with the
ongest pulls toward the last.
L. M.-Gnot ice water, aint it,
Replies. Are you going to church.
L. Mo. this amt one Of NJ. church
lays, and the churches are too small. Now
he church used to 20 to in Pennsylvania
covered FIVE acres, and"
The reporter jumped the fence for fear Of
'un stroke, and left that Wicked Little
Lean Man with his ice water.
1t evidently being too hot Z" tell the
ruth, farther operations we're suspended.
How can I have q clear and brilliant
Simply by using DR.. Bulls
Blood Mixture and observing the rules Of
health.
Bad Pay.
We are IN receipt Of reliable information,
which, added to our o~n personal knowl-
edge, reveals the fact that Mr.. Dunlap left
Warrensburg in . very impecunious condi.
ton. He had been laboring here for some
days and had to leave his petty bills in an
unsettled state. He has written 70 4 mum.