The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-05-19

Scientists hold seventeen disinS
theories as to the cause of earthquakes
Recent statistics show that therl
are nearly a million more females thAI
males in Great Britain.
The youngest member of the New
York Cotton Exchange is lad aged
fifteen and the oldest q veteran q
eighty-two years. The two are gre1l
friends.-M Y Sam. 81
-Aparty of Savannah capitalists haA
purchased Tybee Island and decla3
they will make 1t the Long Branch
the South" A big hotel and an op(
house are among the things promiseO
Mobile (ALa.) Register.
-Protracted drought and EXTENSIVE
irrigation in the neighborhood have I'd
duced Tulare Lake, in California, from
length of forty-two miles and breadtt
of twenty-five miles to length
twenty-five miles and width of four
teen miles.-Sdn Francisco Cali.
The popularity of worker in Get
man-silyer spoons at WallingforC
Conn, is the color of his hair. Year
of labor in the trimming or bufin
room of spoon factory dyes the haI
of the operative pale green. which,
takes years to change.-Hartford
The Cuban cigarmakers in n
York employ reader" usually ca
ban patriot and refugee, who visits Cd
shops every day and spends from thrd
to four hours translating from Ame1
can papers. The men paw twenty-6J
cents a week each to support him.
Y. Times.
The Pacific Medical Journal, refe
ring to q recent writer who asserts tn
Maine lumbermen are free from DIV
pepia because they are in the habit
using chewing gum, says that IF
would add to his suggestion of chewiI
gum that of becoming a lumbermd
the remedy would be very effective. {"
In an article on ''Inebriety Amor
Railroad Engineer" in the Philadd
phia EedjcGt and Surgical Reporter
is stated that these men are exceptik
ally temperate. The nerve and b
exhaustion attendant upon their-d
patton is so great, however, that n
briefly among them is very precipits
and fatal"
Since Mrs. Partingtop mistook
brakeman's call of ''Mattapoisett" a;
reflection upon the inhabitants as
mity-poOr set, the name of the town
been spelled thirty-one different ways
mail matter set thither, some of
methods showing great deal of
geniOusness in misspeling.-0Ld @
0ny Memorial.
A French statistician has disco
cred that up TO the present, 2,540 E
perors and Kings have governed 81
tons. Out of this number 500 Id
been driven from their thrones, GA hd
abdicated, "a have committed suici|
y have become insane, 100 fell in b
tie, 123 were captured, % died maf1
Isl have been assassnated and 103y
been condemned to death and execu
according to law.
"A solution of eighty grammes
chloride of lime, eighty of bicarbon}
of soda and twenty of common salt
three iters of distilled water is exd
lent for cleaning dull gold. The so
ton must be kept in well-closed bottI
The article to be cleaned is allowed
remain a short time in the sOluti
which should be heated only when
dirt is very obstinate. 1t is then tai
out and washed thoroughly and fina
dried In sawduSt. Chicago Journal.
Manufacturers of good mosaic
sert that they have found by exp
,ments that hard maple on end is fr
four to five times as durable as ms
and equally as durable as the ha
baked tile. It is reported that two
wood floors were laid In the elevators
public building in Chicago about lift
months ago, and that the floors are
as good condition as when first ID
although each elevator carries fr
one thousand to thousand people da
-Cicago Herald
"A love-letter two hundred
fifty years old, written by jan
Chalmer Zone of the Charles /. judd
to Lady Ursula Fairfax, whom he al
ward married, is in possession
William p. Hopkins, of LawreI
Mass. The letter, of whose auth
ITCHY no doubt can, it is stated,
raised, is still in perfect condition.
is dated "Lon.. Is Nov, 1885," IN
addressed: ITO his entirely lovad
highly honored Mistresse mistres "
Fairfaq. "-PailadelphiG Ledger.
1t is said that the transpositi
one word was the foundation ef4
lei Clark's great fortune. He
bought 1920 square toises of Ian,
that part of New Orleans that al
ward became its commercial cen
In the engrossing of the deed the
go square toises" was carelessly q
to read 81, 900 toises square," and
creased the value of $4,000 TO
600, 900. Mr.. Clark took advantage
the error, and the law of New Orb
was powerless to prevent him.-H
MGl.
The divorce business is lea
one in Dakota courts. At Judge
sons court, in Ransom County,