The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-01-12

five in the thousand.
The Great Eastern is to be moored
at Gibraltar as a coal hulk.
1t is illegal in Paris for . news
dealer to lend out newspaper 10 any
one for reading purposes.
"A silver box, smut ar a wedding in
Hartford, Conn. the other day, is to
be kept under seal, like that of PAN
dora, till the time for the silver ami
sersary, twenty-five years hence.
"A horseshoe has been invented that
comes on and off like a mans shoe. A
rim at the bottom and a buckle at the
back hold it in place. A pad protects
the bottom of the hOOf.-Troy Times.
Three hundred and fifty eight erim-
inals, who have escaped from Georgia
in the last few years, are wanted in that
State. The rewards offered for them
aggregate one hundred thousand dol
lars.
1T has been discovered az Austin,
Tex, that one-half the thirty million
acres of school and university lands
have been free-grazed for years, the
State deriving no income from the cat
tlemen.
1t is reported from Dakota that
prairie fires will not cross fields Of
Glover or timothy, as there is q green
.sprig at the bottom which cheeks il. It
is the dry buffalo grass that the flames
run in. As the land is improved and
tame grasses are sown this scOurge will
be checked.-Ch Chicago Tribune.
Blue Ribbon beer, manufactured
in Toronto, and claimed to be a tenn
peranee beverage. was tested a few
days ago on two men, each of whom
drank seven glasses in An hour and a
half and then became drunk. The
court thereupon decided that the stuff
was intoxicating Chicago Herald.
(: The advantage Of fresh air from
the open windows in a sleeping room
has received strong proof from an incl
dent of the cholera in Spain. In the
house of rich merchant the cholera
attacked, first of all, the one person
who slept i'm the only room of the
dwelling which was without q window.
Tossing as high in air as possible
the dryest of the long seed pods under
the maple trees. is suggested by the
Lawrence Mass american A. u new
diversion of school children for recess.
THE peculiar motion while falling may
surprise those who have never tried il.
1t might be called the game Of butter
fy."
If 8 wife's feelings are injured one
hundred thousand dollars worth by the
killing of her husband in Texas, where
men are plenty, what must be the ex-
tent of damage inflicted upon her affec-
tons in parallel case in Massachusetts,.
where the reserve supply is about sew
enty thousand short?-C Charleston rs.
c. Netrs.
Mining was prospected within a
few miles of Nogales. Cal, three hun
drcd and three years ago, says the Mug
get. ages before the ground was dis
turbed by the miners pick in any of
the so-called older States or Territories,
and the present indications are that ere
long the most important mining field
of that remote period of antiquity will
become the most important of modern
times.
There was a lady i'm the White
House the other day who always goes
to call on the President when she
makes wedding trip, and she has en-
joyed three of these interesting excur-
siOnS since Grant came in. BY strange
i'll luck, the husband, in every case but
the last, has sickened and died soon
after the visit to the President. The
lady is from Massachusetts,, and she in
tends to persevere in her custom. She
announced to one of the dOorkeepers
that she would be more careful with
her present husband than with those
who preceded him. Washington Post.
From Greenland comes the story
that little hamlets occupied by the de-
scendants of the Norsemen are IN exist
ence. and that they contain a happy and
contented population, uninfluenced by
the events passing in the outside world,
and unruffied by politics or base ball.
Centuries ago the coast of Greenland
was the Danish fishing ground, and
the country. which then boosted less
rigorous climate than that which it is
credited now, was not deemed unfit for
settlement. 1t is something to know
that other than Esquinaux humanity
is negotiating there. = Philadelphia Press.
The territory of the United States
where hops are successfully grown is
very limited. A radius of forty miles.
with Cooperstown, Otsego County, as
its center, forms more than half of
such territory east of the Rockies, the
only other places being three of the
northwestern counties of New York,
small portions of Vermont and Mich
igan, and parts of Wisconsin. On the
Pacific Coast the production of hops
has increased from fifteen thousand
bales in 1880 to seventy thousand in
1884, there being about one hundred
and seventy-eight pounds to the bale.
Troy Times.
in quiet and altogether unobtru-
sive fashion the veteran pedestrian
Spencer has completed the herculean
task of walking six thousand miles in
npa h,,pHraA anH tom DAYS thnc ap-