The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-07-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

1t took fifty years to bring the
King James translation of the Bible
into general use.
-'Pickpocket" is the only English
word adopted into the French Ian
guage which the French write and
pronounce cOrrectly.-N. y Sun.
"A bridge in Cecil County, Mary
land, bears the following sign: No
It's. If YOU 90 over this bridge Faster
than a Walk VOW VII bee find tiv
dOlers."
A Russian traveller predicts that
Thibvt wih Prove To be second Cali
fornia. rs, during a recent visit there,
he found the natives gold-Yashing in
the crudest way, but with the richest
results.
Down in Biddeford. Me-, people
are so heightened that instead of bath
rooms they speak of an evolutionary
studio;" ut least so reads an advertise
ment in the Biddeford Times.
China offers as attractive q field
for the work of professional explorers
as any other country on the globe. Ii
has recently been ascertained that the
Chinese coal fields occupy an area OF
four hundred thousand square miles.
A correspondent of the Scientific
| -fmertcdn states that he knows from
personal observation of the seventeen
year locust having appeared in tie
southern part of Massachusetts in 1918,
/ 1855, 1852 and 1869. In 1918 they
were very numerous: in 1885 they were
less so; in 1852 stih less, and in 1869
they were quite scattering in compare
| son with 1918.
Under the proposed system Of
pneumatic transmission between Paris
and London-two tubes employed, one
| for sending and the other for receiv-
ing-not only is it intended to send
letters and kilograms, but parcels
weighing as much rs twelve pounds.
1t is believed the time taken in trans
mission would be only one hour
Chicago Current
| The RUSski InrGlid gives the sta
tistics of insubordination and desertion
in the Russian army. In these the
number Of offenses committed during
the five years from 1879 to 1888 are
said TO have amounted TO sixty-six
thousand, of which ten thousand were
cases of insubOrdination; there were
| twelve thousand cases of de5ertion and
twenty-four thousand of robbery.
The latest idea of public buildings
is that of having Them made on the
telescope plan-the stories being showed
up by the hydrostatic pressure. In
case of fire in the twelfth story or
the sixth. the building is let down I'M
til it is on the ground, where the fire
men can easily flood it. 1t is to be
built of boiler iron. The furniture is
all to be made like an opera hat.-Chi-
cago Herald.
-Odlum's fate demon Strated what
needed no demonstration. The public
1 were prepared to believe that men
could not Jump from the Brooklyn
Bridge to the river and live. The yio-
lence of the shock ruptured the base
of his left lung, his spleen, kidneys ana
liver. and broke his first, second, third,
fourth and fifth ribs-juSt as though he
had struck upon stone flOor.-N i.
independent.
Mr. \. A. Brewster lives in Ran
dolph County. Ala. Recently he stood
in Randolph County, shot across Cal
houn County, in the same State, and
killed a deer in Carroll County, Ga.
The same gentleman goes through
| Cherokee and Cleburne Counties, Ala,
and thence into Polk County, Ga,
when he goes to his Post-oflice. The
distance traversed in the latter instance
Is only one and quarter miles
Louisville COUrier-,IOUrHGi.
Among other forms of animal life
which have disappeared from the earth
Is the sea cow. This great animal,
which has been variously clasSed with
the whales, with walruSes and seals,
and with elephants. was 4 toothlesS
vegetable feeder, living along the shore
in shallow water, and often weighing
three or four tons. 1t was seen alive
and described in 174l, but in 1880 it
appeared TO have BECOME entirely ex-
tinct.-Psilddeiphid Press.
At present the RothSchild family
control the quicksilver supply of the
| world. but n new mine has been found
at Schuppiastena near Belgrade. There
are only a few quicksilver mines
known. the two largest being in Spain
and California. Both are owned by
the house of Rothschild, who only per-
NIT 4 supply. but never a glut of the
ma set to- issue from their mines. and
thu they control an immense and very
pre- table monopoly. The yearly con-
sur tion of quicksilver is cut down to
ons hundred thousand bottles, the
lar part of which comes from Cali
fol while Spain furnishes about
! ter Ousand bottles.
- ie Abyssinian alphabet consists
of hundred and eight characters,
ca which is written distinctly and