The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-02-06
LETTER FROM GOTHAM.
A Game Gorging Gastronomer
-Pugilism Bobbing Up
Serenely.
Apartment Eouses Already at q
Discount in the Me-
tropolis.


Some great and gifted jackasses of ar
alleged sporting turn OF mind are deeply
interested in the question as to whether
q certain expert can or cannot get away
with q brace of qusils per day for thirty
days in succession. With solemn foolery
an influential daily paper deyotes third
OF a column every morning to the record
OF the supposed feat, and the betting is
getting grand in its dimensions while the
performer goes through all the necessary
motions Of a bogus invalid, nauseaied by
the mOnotony OF his diet, has q valet to
lean upon as he feebly tOtters along in the
last stages of his battle, worries down his
mOrsele with pepsin, gin, cider and other
queer mixtures and altogether makes q
"holy show" Of himself. Your Radix ISM,
in the hippodroming business, but has
eaten quail every day for three months
and is perfectly willing to do it sgain
If somebody else will foot the bills. The
toothsome little birds are more expensive
here than i'm India or Central America.
Other sporting characters are agog about
the well.heralded arrival of J.m Mace
and multitude Of imported and indigen-
Gus plug uglies, who are occupying con-
siderable space just now. The great and
good Joe Coburn is back from state prison,
where he sojourned for time to expiate
the killing Of n policeman, and bids fair
TO become wealthy. His friends have
rallied around him, ands he will, il is said,
start tony gin -mill, like the other MUIR
derer, who killed Jim Fisk.
Still other sports have gone to Canada to
see the Montreal ice palace, and indulge i'm
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generally, and then outfsnk Uncle Sam by
laying in a stock of cheap clothing. Our
taIlors are waglng dire war on each other
with no little literary and artistic skill in
elaborate advertising, but the tariff gives
the Canucks and smugelsrs a great pull
over them in moderation of prices. A
cross-Iegged and crooked hearted capitalist
of the writer's acquaintance, after any un-
successful bit Of nickei-plsted Jay Gould
ism, investing in bogus mines or some
thing of the sort, invariably hies himself
to Canada for consolation for day or two,
and comes back i'm Dew raiment, most
cheerful at lodging the customs. The GUS
tom seems likely to spread, and We NAV ex-
pect our northern neighbors will be over
run with vacation tourists, who will save
their expenses by replenishing their ward
robes where clothing is cheap.
The farmers of a scientific turn of mind
have been holding a convention here to
have a good time In general and discuss
the glOries Of ensilage i'm particular. This
system Of storing green fodder under heavy
pressure has met with great favor, and
seems To be pronounced success; but it is
by no means the novelty people are apt to
consider it. In 1864 "a violent tempest
wrecked the standing crops all over Aus
tralia. The ruin was apparently complete,
but some smart but unknown genius took
a notion TO save something from the gen
eral ruin and baled a lot of the green eats
and wheat, subjecting it to hydraulic pres
sure, inst like SO much cotton, and then
exported to India. The writer's father, a
colonel in the British army, bought the
first bale ever sold, and it was soOd morse
feed The government tried il afterward,
and ever since this ''oat-h.y" has been
staple article of export TO India from Aus
traIia. 1t is identical with ensilage fodder.
and has the advantage that il can be
pressed anywhere and stored in any barn,
thus doing away with the expense OF spe-
cially constructing barns.
Twelve dollars day is pretty good pay
for a mechanic. That il what the boss
Zimmerman gets at the Paterson iron
works. His little tool hits a 1000 pound
stroke, and while he could make horse
shoes with il, so skillfnl is he, ne is usually
engaged on more important work Just
now he has finished up a new rudder, forty
feet long. for the great ocean steamer. the
City Of Berlin, which lost her steering ap-
paratus in heavy gale recently, and is
now out Of the water for repairs, in the
great dry dock at the Erie basin. There is
such perpetual howl about the absolute
leadness OF our shipping interests, that it
IS somewhat OF surprise TO find we have
such admirable appliances in full working
order and Furnishing. 1t costs money to
-un dry docks, iron works, etc, and people |
lon't run them for the fun of the thing by |
, large majority.
The good people OF our city are getting !
more fickle-minded every year. 1t is not |
ong ago that suites in modern apartme ut |
houses were quite I'm demand; the result |
vas that speculative builders have filled |
he uptown avenues and streets With them. |
Now the average New Yorker is |
Getting tired Of living in fats. They are
lot private, nor exclusive. Thev are no |
onger considered the thing, especially |
ihce the ubiquitous janitor is becoming
luite despOtic. He is really the boss of |
fifteen or twenty'families, dictates who shall
upply the coal, who shall furnish the
milk, and who deliver the bread. 1t is |
penly whispered that the favorite dealers
nd traders pay him regular commission,
Thich, added to his salary, increases his
ncOme so that in many instances the
rawing room of Mrs. Jsnitress is superior
o that Of the madam on one of the upper
tories. The result of all this is that on
uarter day next week many apartment
enants will give notice TO the agents of
be landlords that they will quit these
Affiliations unless they are allowed to re-
isin at greatly reduced rates of rent. And
ct We have not sufficient supply of small
Ouses to accommodate this large class of
ur population. RADIx.