The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-16
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

/ IN. L. farmer, MA nVe hundred doll
lars under his potato bin and the rats
carried off all but ten dollars.
Until the death of Lord Mayor Not
tage recently, no Lord Mayor of London
has died in the Mansion House for one
hundred and thirty-four years.
1t is said that in the works OF
Shakespeare there are more than five
hundred and fifty quotations. illusions,
references and sentiments derived from
The Scriptures.
If you desire to buy a monkey or q
tame bear or Guinea-pig cheaply, do
not 90 to an animal store, but repair
to some family that has had one OF
these creatures for thirty days.-Car.
rent.
| Sir Justin Aylmer, the heir to an
ancient English baroDetcy, having a
rent-rOll of thirty-five thousand dollars
a year, young. handsome and en-
gagged, fell from q bicycle the other
day and broke his neck.
Among the best dances of to
day are many of the delights OF
the ballroom of one hundred years
ago: "BOston's Delight" pea
Straw" STONY Point" ..Havmak-
ing" Innocent Maid and III Be
Married in My Old Clothes. boston
| Journal.
A London journal tells this story
of Mr.. SpurgeOn, who lately visited
San Reno. On one occasion, when he
was crossing the Italian frontier, the
] redoubtable preacher was ordered by
the dOUdRierS to give up to them GER
tain fruit which he was CARRYING.
ThereupOn he retired three PAGES into
the French territory and ate it.
-Thirty-two per cent. of the con-
scripts enrolled in the Russian army
during the past six years were married.
showing that large portion of Rus
sian marriages are early ones. The
husbands are compelled to spend five
years in the army, during which time
their wives and children not infre-
3uently become burdens upon the state.
The census of 1880 gave Texas, a
population of one million five hundred
and ninety-seyen thousand six hundred
and eighteen. Governor Ireland, of
that state, now places it at two million
seven hundred and fifty thousand. III
correct, this would indicate an increase
of about seventy-five per cent. in four
years. an increase unequaled by any Of
the old States.
An adjustable mirror has been
patented by an inhabitant of Charles
town, Mass. This invention covers the
use of a specially contrived frame for
holding the mirror. and in which the
mirror can be readily adjusted and
held in anv desired position, for use of
either tall or short people, or for chill
dren sitting on the floor. so that mir
rors of medium size may be made more
useful than large mirrors as ordinarily
hung. Boston Post.
Italian antiquarians have dis
covered false teeth in a skull which has
been eXcavated in an ancient Etruscan
Cemetery, with many other curiosities,
at present safely slowed away at the
Museum of Antiquities at Corneto, in
Tuscany. The sepulchre out of which
the skull was taken dates, according to
experts, from the fifth or sixth century
3. c., and the false teeth are nothing
but animal teeth attached to the human
teeth by means of small gold plates.
1t is said that the transposition OF
one word vas the foundation of Daniel
Clark's great fortune. He had bought
800 square tOiSes of land in that part
of New Orleans that afterward became
its commercial center. In the engross-
ing of the deed the al. 920 square toises;
was careleSsly made to read 1925
toises square," and increased the value
of $4,000 to S20.00O.0O0. Mr.. Clark
took advantage of the error, and the
law of New Orleans was powerless &c
prevent him. y Tribune.
"A complete collection of the native
woods of the United States is beng
prepared for the New York Museum OF
Natural History. 1t will comprise
thirty-six varieties of oak, thirtv-four
of pine. nine of fir. five of spruce, four
of hemlock, twelve of ash, three of
hickory, eighteen of willow, three of
cherry, nine of poplar. four of maple.
two of persimmon and three of cedar.
Each specimen will display both longi-
tudinal and transverse grainings of the
wood, as well as the log in its natural
condition, with the bark attached.-N.
Y. Maui.
See here" said citizen of st.
Louis to the proprietor of book store,
"you II have to take the book back. I
asked you to give me a volume of
poetry to put on the parlor table. but
every burned word in this book is
straight prose-" "Why. man alive.
that was written by Shakespeare. ~
don't care who writ it, lis prose; I've
looked it sll through. For instance
here's specimen:
"How silver sweet sound lovers tongues BY
night.
like softest music TO attendin' ears"
'.Do you call that poetry, rhymin'
ears with nightp You can take it back.
I don't want tn y Times.
When the late Chief Justice Chase
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