The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-08-04
FLEA BITES.

The @devil" OF the Walker Herald
Office, broke his thumb one day last week
while playing base ball.-Er
The loss of a thumb won't hurt the devil,
he still hiss his hoofs.
Bob Rurdetts says the Lord wasted
mud, when he made the man who will take
b county p iper for five or six years and
never pay q cent, and then order the post
master to seud it back refused "-EI
He did; and the man who will do that,
ought to be buried fsthoms deep in the
mud.
"A baby can make itself look like q
hend just at the moment whea mamma
wants to show "what pretty boy baby she
hss."-EE.
1t can, and it's mamma can look like a
6end when the "show" people have de-
parted.
-"Imsgine for moment, il you can,
poor widow with five hungry children and
not even stove TO cook it on, right 10 our
midst. "-Dcmocrat
A cooked Imagination" might be better
eating for poor widow with five hungry
children than a raw one, and in the abb
sence of the stove, she might, in these days,
lay it out in the sun. Anyway to feed the
hungry.
A poet SAYS, "There is always sunrise
| somewhere. "-E.
This is a comfort to the man who is just
goirg to bed, for he II inks it won't be long
until his wife will have to get up and get
breakfast.
1t would seem from the way the mat
ter is being discussed IN the pagers OF that
city, that the Fl. Scott butchers have
formed combination, aud ale furnishing
the people very poor quality of m.at at
extortiOnaIe price s.-Rieh Hill Herald.
This is very common combination,
and in most cities il has existed for the
past tw, nty years.
IA FEW boarders taken In for the sum-
mer," is SigE oft n seen, but very few
seem To realize how much truth there is In
it-Er.
the summer boarder realizes il.
"A tough ste,x i, something like an
lnco'rigible boy. Both may be improved
by pounding. -Er.
Yes, and one might be used to good ad-
vantage ON the other.
The supreme court of Oregon, recently
decided that women should not be admitted
to the practice OF law in the state.-Er.
OF course they shouldn't, the practice of
Jaw" IS enough for women.
Breakfast should no. be heavy meal,
and hot fool should be usei in moderation.
-Er
Tramps will please make note Of this
The sulhor of "Silver Threads Among
the Colo, !" has been appointed postmaster
in Wisconsin, with salary OF S242.
Post offices are more profitable than poet.
~. any ~ in the week.
This climate is perfectly satisfactory
to one class of New Yorkers-the proprie-
tors OF excursion lines AID seaside resorts.
-Ex.
That is during the month of July. They
kicked nightly about month ego.
-Pla, iaris;s ere a species OF purloiners
who Fl ca the iIuit that others have gath
er, d. and then throw away or attempt TO
DIES roy the bask t.-Er.
"1h,y are, but who cares for the blsket
after the fruit is gone?
New York fashionable ladies are now
escorted to and from the theatres by mes
senger boys. One thing the ladies like
about this arrangement is that they don't
have to hurry.-EE.
They don't want TO hurry provided the
boys are we'll grown.
Ny soul confront thee; on thy brow and
hair
1t lays It's gentleness like palms of power !;
/ touches sacredly those lips OF thine
And SPOONS across thy spiri', lady mine,
The while thou lingsrst there.
james Whitcomb Riley.
The sole that ought to have confronted
the poet just at this writing, was a good
thick one, m ,de of horse hide and welded
by q vigorous old gentleman.
"A young gentleman wishes to know
which is proper TO say on lesying young
lady friend sitter late call-good night, or
good evening.-Er'
The average young man should, if he
told the truth, say good morning"
nACurON