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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-29
BEn-BUtss, FLIES.

Flies, reaches, ants, bed bugs, rats mice,
gnpherS, chipnunks, cleared ont by
Rough on Rats" l5c.
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Buckeye wheat drills, ALP Ohio street
Bsst drill made. We will sell cheap tc
suit the times. S-25w6t.
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II you are feeling; broken, worn out and
nervous, use Wells Health Renewor.'
81. Druggists.
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County Court,

County court met again Monday morn
ing aud awarded The contract for furnish
ing The new court house to the Mitchell
Furniture and Manufacturing company. o
ST. Louis. The only other business trans
acted was the drawing OF the grand anC
petit Jurors for the November term of tn,
criminal court, which resulted as follows
GRAND JURORS.
w l. Powell, Spencer Hopkins,
George G'e9g, Peter Dump,
Adolphe Reiske, Wash etarke,
J,nes Ringer, Joseph q White.
NJ S Conner, john w Alien,
w + Bl4ck, b + PrigmOTe.
PETIT JURoRS-FIRST PANEL.
Henry Jones, Calvin Brubnett,
= Higgins, II Bond,
l. III st.phens, James Shackleit,
T. ID Shepherd, Milton Huffman,
Tn, mas Fowler, Leland RobinsOl,
G. II Powell, j w Brown,
VI Devoll, Thomas Newtsn,
E Balmer, ID McClurs,
C. II Elliot, Milton Cain,
Joseph ID sicher. ] III Looney,
+ Meyer, John Kaissr,
j A Llmy, Ed + Meyer.
SECOND PANEL.
VIM Reno, K y Lower,
James Sewa'l, Abe Hsnsbraugh,
Chug Garton, Joshua Gentry.
John 5 Banks, Henry Mousecs,
A Dewsese, ID A Bagby,
Robert Bard, w Clark,
Il + Elliott, Con Griffin,
August Imhsuser, w B MtCubbin,
John Baker, Morris Hart.r,
Henry Meuschke, Wm CurraO,
w. p Cousley, Joseph Kingsley,
George Galbreath. Al + Whipple.
Court sdjourned to next Monday.
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Subscribe for the SUNDAY BAsoo.
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Wslton is a shrewd, practical business
man, snd he bad no idea Of bribery when
he wrote the letter to Stone. He does not
do his business by such means. He is
a square, upright man, and his repu-
fation in Butler, and whenever known as
far as my observation and acquaintance
goes, is that bis integrity is unquestioned
and his intercourse as q business man with
The community is without q blem;sh.
JUDGE PARKINSON.
don't think Mr.. Walton is the kind Of
- msn 10 a't:mpt bribery.
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invite in your mcthar-in-law ard your
neighbor's mother, in-Isw let IT, ri C.
electric light burn on top OF The
court house at MONDAY, put a little
ginger in the cider, and in fact roll the
willapus wsllopus of peace over all
differences, and like brothers who have
betn long separated, chew the cud of fra
ternal aft ction and partake of the fatted
calf with renewed gasto.
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Artificial Stones,

The ruby and sapphire have been
closely initiated by Frenzy and Fell, two
French chemists, and the chief interest
in this process is the fact that the arti-
fetal stones possess essentially the chcmi-
cal composition of the real ones. To
produce this, equal weights of alumina
and rcd lead are heated to a red heat in
an earthenwarc crucible. 4 vitreous
substance is formed, which consists of
silicate of lead and crystals of white
corundum. To convert this corundum
into the artificial ruby it is necessary to
fuse itwith about two per cent. OF blchro
mate of potassium, while, to obtain the
sapphire, a little oxide of cobalt and a
very small quantity of bichromatc Of
potassium must be employed. The
stones so produced possess at least very
nearly the hardness Of the real stones, as
they scratch both quartz and topaz. The
French "paste," which initiates the dia:
mond so closely, is q peculiar kind of
glass, the manufacture of which was
brought to a great degree of perfection
some fifty years ago by Donault-W ic'and,
of Paris. The finest quality of paste de:
mands extreme care in the choice of
materials and in melting, etc. The basis
of it, in the hands of the expert manufac'
turcr just named, was powdered rock
crystal or quartz. The proportions he
took were six ounces Of rock crystal,
nine ounces two drains of rcd lead, three
ounces three drains OF pure carbonate of
potash; three drains of horacic acid and
six grains of white arsenic. The product
thus manufactured was extremely beauti-
full, but rather expensive, compared with
the prices now charged for artificial
Jewels. 1t has never been surpassed in
brilIiancy, but of late years the greater
purity of the potash and lead oxide uscd'
and the improvements in the furnaces
and methods of heating them, have all
tended to reduce the price of the "dia-
monds" thus manufactured Mdmbers's
.T1HrDGl.
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REDUCED IN c0sT.from $685. 90 to $500, or COM
pairing contents fairly, from $40. 60 to $780, Tor Inc 0n my
Tho French RESOLUTION, only, and is continued to Ma.
poleon III. by MARTIN, and s4s.5o is the puolsneo
price of the two works. THIS ILLUSTRATED
LIBRARY EDITION covers from the earliest times to
1s4s, is written by NJ. GU1zor, Prime Minister OF France,
and completed from his notes by his daughter, Madame
Gu1zor DE WITT. It is published in 8 volumes, small
octave, printed from the type shown BY these lines, con- on
imported edition, is bound in tasteful Library STYLE
dark green cloth, beveled boards, gilt tops. Price OF Inc
set, only ST. o by express, or, sent prepaid Tor ss'6o.
There is only ONE DRAWBACK.. it seems more
like getting a present than making q purchase. Guzot
is the most brilliant Of French historians, as well as the most
to be relied upon. He is the Macaulay Of the history OF France
his style and treatment are philosophical, didactlc' rich IN
detail, dramatic in arrangement. His narrative IS 1ul OF
emotion, like a quick stream ; his characters rise before us as
in the flesh; they are men and women, not historic lay figures.
It is as charming asany romance, and the interests permanent
It is a work to keep and read and re:read for years. "-Oona'n'
ion Churchnan, Toronto, Canada.
"In ENGLISH, at least, original or translated, we have
NO YORK Of French history that GIN
IT. We can name no work that gives the oomplste history,
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The Power in the Snow.

Consider that the dc pth of snow has
relations not alone to fancy, but it is
also a worker. We send abroad to the
islands and the coast Of South America
to bring hither the stimulant that shall!
kindle new life in the wasted soils and
bring forth new harvest, and yet from
the unsullied mir snow brings down fer
tility. In the. endless wastes that are
going on, exhaled gases, and from towns
and cities multiplied forms that arc
phantoms wandering in the sky, get
caught in the meshes of the snow, am
moniacal gases, and various others orc
brought down by it and laid upon the
soil. And it has become q proverb that
the snow, fresh and new-fallen, is the
Door mans manure. 1t gathers again
then the waste material of the earth,
whose levity carries it above and RAIN
with equal distribution over ell the lands
that which brings back to them their
needed fertility. When the snow has
covered the garden and hedge, is it q
pail. is it a shroud or is it not swaddling
clothcs2 The old, abandoned stalk, the
brown and withercd grass, no longer
comcly, it puts them to rest and is in
deed a shroud. But underneath this is
going on those processes that ere long
Shall bring forth all buds and all comely
bloom and all ripcning things. Under
meath its twilight spring is preparing Its
work, without sound. of wheel, without
stroke of hammer; more is going on I'M
der the silent snow today and in the
coming weeks than in oil the smithies,
than in all the factories, than in all the
dwellings or shops upon the earth. And
all the forces of nature, spring, winter,
summer, the thousands of forces whose
energy is irresistible, they all are hidden;
The powers of God in the earth are al
silent wonderworkers.- Henry Wara
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Italian Barber Shops.

One of those curious sights, and few
there are remaining in this undermining
time, that still remind tic foreign visitor
that Rome, if the capital OF a new king
dom, still retains some few touches of the
native life of medieval Italy, may be
seen on Sunday outside the Porta Angel
lea. There by the roadside on the
mound that rises above the town ditch a
peripathctic barber sets up his establish
ment and waits for his customers. That
establishment is Of the simplest charac.
ter. Half a dozen chairs, a couple OF
assistants with their razors, straps,
! brushes. soap and basins, one little look,
i~ng-glass about six inches square and the
needful umbrellas in case of rain. The
customers are all 'coatalini-countrymen
who cnmc in from the wild Campagna to
buy their weekly supply Of groceries, tc
hear the news and to spend what surplu,
their small wages car afford. Shaving
is to them a rare JOY, and they set about
it with a deliberation worthy of the
event. The coat is carefully taken oil
and folded. The customer then has f
EOod look IN INC glass III LIS sluopy i"-e
and then submits himself to the razor,
The barber performs with that skill and
rapidity born of long practice which one
admircs in the dentist at the fair who
draws teeth wholesale at n shilling each,
with q reduction on a quantity. With a
pleasant smile the countryman rises from
his chair, compares his smooth, clear
chin with its former state, drops his
penny into the cash box and goes on hi:
way rejoicing.
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Strange Results of DuelS.

One of the'most singular feats of duel
ing is the fact that the lives of the com
batants having not unfrequentiy been
saved by articles carried on the person.
The life of Broderick, of California, was
once save by the ball of his antagonist
striking his watch, while we have the
oratorics of Handel because the sword OF
his antagonist broke on Il coat button.
The fighting Irishmcn, McNally and
Darlington, once fought, and the bullet
of one was turned aside by the susrendcr
buckle of the other, while the second
bullet'lodged in a paper of gingernuts in
the pocket of the first MAN. Another
Irishmcn fighting with Darlington had
his life preserved by a brooch which he
wore, in which the ball lodged, while
Rochcfort was spared for years to abuse
his political enemies by the accident of
having a tive-franc piece in his vest
pocket. But perhaps the most singular
result ever known in a duel was that
achieved by two French gentlemen
named Picrrot and Arlequin, who at the
word fired together, and each succeeded
in killing the others second. "What an
escapc!r cried a spectator, though the
seconds had both fallen dead. But it
may be safely affirmed that the friends Of
the seconds did not look on the matter
in this accommodating way, and much
trouble ensued. though finally the whole
affair was dropped and 10 further fight
ing resulted from so unlucky a duel.
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A Mans Frame Reduced to Soil
Bone.

\ peculiar case, and one of great in
terest to the medical profession, is dc.
sdribed herewith. 1t is that of Jona-
than Bass, of Lewiston, about fifty years
old, who has been afflicted with anchy-
losis for thirty-siX years, and whose
Joints are now all immovablc and his
frame reduced to solid bone. For twenty
seven years he has rcclincd upon an in
valid's bed, without the ability to move,
and has been blind since 1869 from con-
slant use of his eyes to read during his
enforced confinement. His disease
started in 1913, when he was q young
lad eighteen years Of age. living in Lock-
port. lie did more or less work until
1851, constantly growing worse, until
that year he was placed upon an inva
lids bed, where he now lies, and,
in fact, which he has never
left since that time. He fed himself,
however, until 1865, when his jaws like
his other Joints, became set and immov.
able, and he has since been fed with a
spoon. lie has a very hearty appetite,
eats almost everything, and has a good
digestion. He also convcrses easily and
intclligently upon all subjects with which
he is acquainted.
Every point is now perfectly anchy-
loscd, or grown into solid bone, and his
backbone is rigidIy fixed, his arms arc
set at his side, and only five inches
round at their largest part, while his
legs are solid bone, eight and one
half inches round at the thigh. The
bones of his fingers and toes have be-
come absorbed, however, and have dis
appeared, leaving the flesh soft and plas.
tic. lie only weighs seventy pounds:
His vital organs are in good order, and
he may "live'for several years to come.
Doctors say this is a case without com
parison in this or any other couptry.-
Locky0rt az. " Journal.
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Diamond Cutting.

The form into which q diamond is cut
has great influence on its beauty and fire.
The two most common are what are
called the brilliant" and the ''rose, OF
''rosette." The latter, so named from its
similarity to an unopened rosebud, was
one of the earliest forms in use, and is
applied generally to the cheaper kinds OF
stones.
1t is a sort of pyramid, with a fiat base,
and inclined facets, terminating upward
in Il pointed apex. Tho fiat base is en-
bedded in the setting; and therefore in
the rose diamond the whole of the stone
appears projecting above.
The brilliant is the most valuable form.
It NAV be considered as formed Of two
pyramids, connected together at their
bases, with the apex of each truncated or
cut oil, and the sides worked into facets,
as in the case Of the rose. The stone is
held in the setting at the broadcast part,
or junction of the pyramid; one pyramid
projects upward in sight, the other is
hidden below, sothat only half the stone,
or somewhat less, appears; but the hid
den part is more powerfully effective in
adding to the b%rilliancy.
The diamond cutter has to perform a
most difficult Undertaking, namely: to
give about sixty symmetrical md regular
faces to stones sometimes only IN eighth
of on inch diameter, without any mcchan,
ical aids whatever to his Judgment; and
yet producing, without q particle of IN.
necessary waste, the very largest stone
economically possible, out of the rough
body. This, of course. can only be the
result of great skill and long experience.
Having made one facet, he judges by
his eye the exact angle at which the stone
must he placed to cut the new one, ana
the exact depth to which the grinding
for the latter must bc carried; and sc
accurately is this done that it is yer,
seldom a good workman ever has to re-
vert to Il facet for correction, after he
has once passed it over.
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Stawart,s Maryelous Memory.

Stewart was the typical tradesman o
modern times. He was the trades
man everywhere, at church, at his club
ct home. He never forgot the mos
trihing details of his business; he knew
and remembered the pattern of ever,
piece of goods that had ever been on hi
shelves.
Stewart belonged to the Century club
although he rarely visited its rooms. Th'
club once bought q carpet of his people
and when it had been down for severa
months Stewart happened to come in
He seemed to be greatly interested in to-
carpet, studying it attentively.
';Where did you buy that :" ne de
manded ut last of one of the house com
mittee.
cat your place, I believe"
sImpossible |" rejoined the millionaire
eve never had the pattern in stock
We have had a pattern exactly similar
except that those little violet flower
were white"
The committeeman took the trouble tt
hunt through his vouchers, and produced
a receipted bill of A. T. Stewart & Co
Mr.. Stewart shook his head.
"There is some mistake" he said
''the little flowers on your carpet wer'
white.
1t was found on investigation that tn
little flowers had been white so often
sively white and spotty to the eyes o.
some of the aesthetic members of tn
club that LouisL ang had carefully gone
over them with q stiff brush dipped II
violet ink.
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SELECT SETTINGS.

Humility and children 60 together in
Germany. The usual formula for adver-
Using births in the papers is as follows:
We most humbly announce the birth of a
hardy boy. We most humbly announce
the birth of a fine boy and a lively girl.
The latest decorative stone is petrifed
wood, of which q large deposit has re-
centlo been discovered in Mexico. The
trees arc cut in layers like veneering. all
highly polished, and make marble tops
which are as useful as they are ornamen-
tai.
Boys on the edge of the Maine wilder
ness earn pocket money by collecting
spruce gum. The business is so extern
sive that agents are sent through the vii
lagos to buy it. The first class article
sometimes brings the boys as much as 81
q pound.
AT an egg eating match at Petersbor-
ough, Canada, q short time since, one
man ate forty.onc eggs and the other
forty. The eggs were raw and AIKEN
from q basket in a grocery store. The
basket was emptied, and the winner said
he could eat q dozen more.
Of the 81, 900 newspapers Of the world
nearly 81. 900 are published in Europe
and North America, leaving a little over
1000 for all the rest of the world. South
America only issues sufficient to allow
each of its inhabitants three newspapers
O year-exhibiting the curious contrast
in this, as in all else, between the great
Northern and Southern continents.
In 1888 the captain of a vessel in
Boston seized three colored persons, took
them to the West Indies and sold them
there for slaves. The event caused the
legislature of Massachusetts to pass a
law TO prevent the slave trade in that
State, and for granting relief to the faml,
lies of such persons as may be kidnapped
or decoyed from the Commonwealth.
Swimming birds, which constitute
one-fourteenth of the entire class, form
one half the whole number in Greenland.
AS we approach the tropics the variety
and number of land birds increase. Those
of the torrid zone are noted for their
brilliant plumagc, and the temperate
zones for their more sober hues but
swceter voices. India and South Ameri'
ca are the richest regions. Hammers,
tanagers and orioles are restricted to the
New World. Parrots are found in every
| continent except Europe, and w%oodpeck'
crs occur everywhere, save in Australia.
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ROYAL Fruit of the Li.Chi Tree.

Its history dates from 40 B. c., when
the Emperor Watt cndcayorcd to intro
ducc it from Anam, its native habitat,
into his garden at Chang-an. Hundreds
of plants were broughtto China for many
successive years, but they all failed to &C.
clamatize, and it was found useless to
make any further efforts. This fact.
however, only increased the value OF
li.chi, which in 200 B. G. was sent as a
tribute from Anam to the Emperor-Kao'
tsu at a frightful cost of human life. As
the fruit only keeps fresh for ten days at
the most, and it was necessary that it
reached Chang-an in good condition, re-
lays of men were required to run at full
speed, bearing q load of li-chi, and in
this forced travel the majority of them
broke down through sunstroke' by
day and the attacks of scrpcnts, and
wild beasts by night. In the middle
of the eighth century the Prin-
cess Wang, whose appetite for li-chi was
unappeasable, established a pony express
and this also was carried out at u great
sacrifice of horseAesR The Princess
Wang was not peculiar in her liking for
li-chi, for although the medical men of
the time considered them as heating,
persons have been known to eat a thou
sand a day. The poet Su Tung-po, who
was in exile q; Canton, allowed himself
the moderate quantity of 800 per diem,
and wrote q poem in their favor, declar-
ing that they were delicious enough to
reconcile q man to eternal punishment
moreover, it is stated in the ''Genii Re-
cords" that there was individuals who
from having attained immortality by us.
ing it's flowers and fruits. are called Ii
chi gcnii. kohung, o great authority
among tine Taoist philosophers, praised
it increasingly as a marrow tonic" but,
Notwithstanding his constant use of it,
he died at eli ;hty-one under some I'm
certainty, as to whether he had
become IL li-chi genus or not. Perhaps
some of these attributes may be accounted
for by the fact that the li-chi tree does
not come to maturity until it is fifty years
old, but, once begun, it will continue to
bear fruit for 500 years, while its timber
keeps sufficiently sound for use for nearly
1000 years. With such virtues, one
ought scarcely to speak of its minor good
qualities, which are of value in hasten
ing smallpox pustulcs, and as q tropical
application for boils, swellings and tooth.
ache. 1t is singular in its habits of
growth, being found in China growing
on the hills in Kwangsi and in the plains
in Kwang-tung, but in all cases at a dis
lance from water. For the first five years
it requires to be protected from cold;
being remarkably sensitive to frost and
electricity, which is very prcjudicial to
it, so much so that a thunder. storm will
cause the flowers and fruit to be small.
1t is singular thai when the fruit is cut it
should at once be taken from the tree,
otherwise the birds and ba:s will make a
clean sweep Of it, although they will not
touch it as long as it remains upon the
tree uncut.-NorM China Herald.
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RULES FOR APP LIFE.

| Wouldst thou be a happy liver,
Happy and studious to enhance
The glory Of the great Life-Giver,
Launch not thy boat to drift at chance
Where strong floods roll and wild waves
dance
On life's broad-rushing river.
| Live as q man and count 1t treason
To man to live divorced from reason;
Prove your ground and know your game,
and ply your task with stout e%ndeavor,
Nor counting praise, nor fearing blame.
Know your own worth and know not less
Your neighbours weight and worthiness;
And where he works well let him do
The work that might be spoiled by you.
Make a good friend where'er you can;
Not wise is he who hath no eyes
To know how fools may help the wise;
With loving deeds bind mar to man,
But never shrink with blinking eyes
From what they only learn who try;
And though you stand alone, in sight
OF God be bold to hold the right.
March bravely on and If you stumble
Never groan and never grumble;
Rise again with wise forgetting;
Wounds were never salved by frettings
Watch your chance and know your hour
And let the moment feel your power;
Shape your path and keep your rules
| With deaf ear turned to meddling fools
| 'Tis dull to wait and hard to stand,
But Gods time comes with high command,
That claims the service Of your hand
Let the wise farmer teach you knowledge,
Oft sought for at school and college;
| Split the rock and turn the sod,
With busy hands cast honest seed,
Stoutly uproot each harmful weed
| And let the seasons wait on God!
John Stewart BIackis, in Leisure Hour