The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-07-25

Her regular home is in Hartford, a
place endeared to her by the asscci-
atoms of girlhood. Her house is on
Forest street. 1t is of brick, with a
tastefully plain exterior, painted a
light buff, and is surrounded by pleas.
ant grounds. The three celebrated
authors who may be said to form a
Hartford literary trio are near neigh
bors, Mr.. Clemens MARX Twain
living next door. while Charles Dud'
ley Warmers home is not five min.
utes away. The interior of Mrs Stoves
house is very comfortable. There
are many souvenirs of travel and in
teresting associations, including por.
traits presented her by distinguished
foreign friends gained by her labors
for the cause of freedom. On the
walls are also many of her own flower
paintings, the clustered favOrites of
her beloved New England fields being
side by side with the gorgeous fora OF
Florida.
Mrs. Stowe and her family live III
an atmosphere Of perpetual summer.
their winters for the past sixteen wears
having been spent amid the or4ns &c
groves of Mandarin. her Florida Is
tate On the St. John river Her
picturesque cottage is shaded by tine
dense foliage of magnificent live oaks.
and from the point on which it stands
there is an uninterrupted view for
miles, both up and down the broad
and beautiful river. Notwithstanding
her abolition antecedents, she and her
family have received nothing but
kindness from her southern neighbors,
although the press. in some instances,
has been violent in its assaults. Of
the celebration of her SEVENTEEN birth
day Mrs. Stowe says that she feels q
little embar assed. since it will be the
FIRST birthday she has ever celebrated,
she having been brought up in the old
fashioned manner which made no &C.
count of birthdays or of few other senti-
mental occasions. She never could
succeed in remembering when the day
came around, and once, having made
a number of good resolutions for the
occasion, after the manner Of many
other people, she found that she had
made them on the wrong day.
Joan Of Arc.
1t is we'll known that William Tell
is historical fraud. A fellow who
was good shot travelled all over
Switzerland, giving exhibitions of his
ability to shoot apples of his sons
head, kind of Swiss DR.. Carver.
charging fifty cents admission; chill
dren and clergymen half price.
Whenever he made very good shot
the people would call out, do tell"
All the rest have been added by ly-
ing historians.
The case of Joan of Arc is now also
accounted for. For more than 5000
wears everybody who has read history
has shed silent tear over that hero
ic but otherwise respectable female
person. She was supposed to have
been burned at the stake by the
English after they had captuerd her.
Those who have wept OYER the sad
fate of the Maid of Orleans might as
we'll prepare at once to take back
their tears. We have sifted the mat
ter thoroughly, and find that such a
woman did really exist, but the fact is
the case has become distorted by sue
cessive generations of systematic liars.
Joan dare was q woman who was
married to an EngIishman named
John Dark, who was very particular
about his cooking. Mrs. John Dark
used to take . great deal Of interest in
politics, and while cooking breakfast,
she used to read the papers, and the
consequence was she burned the steak,
and her husband nearly killed her
for her carelessness several times. 1t
made a great deal Of talk, and finally
after few hundred years the legend
about Mrs. John Dark assumed the
form of Joan dare having been burn
ed at the stake by the English.
Curious Theatrical Case in Paris.
A curious case. about which there
has been good deal of litigation al
ready, came on for hearing lately be-
fore the civil tribunal of the Seine.
The plaintiffs are the duchess of Fitz-
James and the duke of Manner, who,
in virtue of the act signed and sealed
a century ago, claim the right to a
box at the Opera Comique. In 1871
the duke and duchess OF Choiseul un-
derto0k to build at their own expense
a theatre for the kings comedians,
which then went by the name of the
Coincide Italienne, and is now known