The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-12-23
CURIOUS CHRONICLES.
AN EXTRAvAGANT YOUTH.

AN EAIhANAUAN1 1OOIh'
Thirty thousand dollars a year
would be considered fairly liberal
allowance, even by the most exigeans
of school boys. But the guardian of
the Marquis of Camden, aged II,
thinks the amount insufficient and
wants it raised to $4,000. The
Judge of Probate, before whom the
application came, refused to grant
il, He intimated that as the total
income of the youthful Marquis did
not exceed 500, 900 a year, it would
be better at present for him to get
along by exercising a strict economy
with the $50, 900, adding that hopes
might be cherished of an increase of
the allowance when his lordship should
be sent to Eton or to university.
RUSSIAN SIBERIA.
Troy Times: The territory of
Russian Siberia, ore and half times
as large as the United S ates, has
belonged to Russia three centuries,
yet of tie 1000, 900 inhabitants near
ly one-half are still pagans. Pagan
ism is fostered by the home Govern
ment. The pagan priests are allowed
to collect and burn the copies OF the
Bible with which the missionaries
supply the converts, and no mission
airy may baptize without the authority
of the pagan civil authorities, who
are allowed to do almost anything to
drive Christianity from the country.
FAMOUS ROPE WALKER.
Cleveland Leader: Bloudin's real
name is Gravele, but his first manager
insisted that this could not be billed,
and he got his now universally-hnOwn
name from the color of his hair. He
declares that a roIe-walker is born,
not made. He is the son ola gymnast.
and was ropewalker at 4 years old.
He has never felt fear, even when he
was crossing Niagara for the first
time. He still performs every year.
generally charges 9lO0 a night. and
prefers to display abroad, as has not
to use netting, which he hates. He
is always well in spite of his 60 years,
except that he gets occasional
witches of lumbago when he is idle.
CORN GRASS.
Alta Canada, 10 Los Angeles
County, Cal. what is known as corn
grass" a wild kind of pampas, is very
abundant, During the spring and
summer it is green, fresh, and abund-
ant, growing to a straight height of
from nine to ten and half feet. Yet
the stalks are small, also the roots, but
they are so solid that a wind could
not blow them an iota from the
perpendicular. Blu; in the fall and
winter this growth becomes stiff, with
strong fiber, and, with proper appli-
cation-there are many acres of it
would make better paper than straw
or cactus.
A SLIGHT INCONSISTENCY.
Troy Times: A Nevada editor
says that the silver dug out of the
comstock mine would load a wagon
train 547 miles in length. Aud he
concludes BY exclaiming. "With
this Cresus like wealth we can defy
the world" After reading this it is
somewhat startling to find in another
column the statement that unless the
delinquent subscribers of the paper
pay up promptly the editor won't be
able to get out the paper any longer.
For" he adds, "we are nearly
busted now"
PLENTY OF FOOD.
New York raises annually five
bushels of Indian corn for each of her
inhabitants, six and a half bushels
of potatoes, over two bushels of
wheat, a half bushel of rye, seven and
half bushels of oats and a ton of
hay. She supplies each person with
nearly two pounds of cheese and
twenty-five pounds of butter annually,
and pint of milk every day in the
year from her dairy herds.
THE LACQUER INDUSTRY.
According to the Drugman, the
japanese are threatened with severe
l. sses on account of the extinction OF
the lacquer industry. The tree from
which the vsrnish is made is disap-
pearing. An old law compelled the
people to rear lacquer trees. but it is
not now In force. Another law COM
PEELED every person who cut down
any kind of tree to plant two in its
place. This, also, has become dead
letter, and the native newspapers fear
the deforestation of Japan-