The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-07
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Parrots are coming IN as fI>hlOna-
bic pets.-N. J. Mil.
Three boys ranging in age from
eleven TO fourteen years are serving i
term of two wears each in the California
penitentiary for burglary at San Jose.
1t i said that ''mule can not
bray if brick be- tied to- his tail. ="
The Burlington Free Press raises the
question. What becomes of the fellow
who adjusts the brick?'
-''Mix Chicago with Pittsburgh and
salt the whole with smoky sandstone.
writes Carp. land YOU have the great
Scotch city of Glasgow. Ii Il larger
than Chicago. and better built than
either Chicago or Pittsburgh.
"A good MANY of the coiOrcd people
are satisfied that If the arte>ian wells
had not been bored there would have
been no earthquake. They are just as
well satisfied with their theory - many
of the scientists are with theirs.-SG-
CdRRdh NeWS.
The Grand Army of California con-
;ains representatives from every MasSa-
chuSetts regiment AMI organization
that served III the war except the tenth,
fifty-fourth and iifty-fiftb infantry. the
two latter being cOlorcd regiments
San FrmcjScO CdH.
The deepest Sea-sounding vet IF,
fected was made of the coast of New
Guinea with Il four hundred weight
lead sent down from the English ship
Challenger, which struck bottom ut
the enormous depth of twenty-six thou
sand seven hundred feet.
Eggs transported long distance
in railway cars are said to become in
famed To such an extent as to- be un-
safe as an article of food. Probably il
packed in such way as To- secure
them against jolting this result might
be prevented Boston Globe.
In the rotunda of the Richmond
(Va-) capitol there is an old stove
made of iron which is said to be one oi
the oldest stoves in existence. 1t was
made a present to the colony of Viz
ginia in ITO, and was spoken of at that
time as warming-machine. 1t is
seven feet high, and has as much orna-
nentation as a Queen Anne house.
Reports of peculiar case of blood
poisoning come from Culiacan. Mex.
Some time ago lady was pecked on
her arm by hen, and shortly after she
began to feel a pricking sensation
about the spot. Then her arm became
infamed and swelled rapidly, and the
next day she died, the physicians be-
ing ignorant of any means of affOrding
her relief.
A convict i'm the Jail at Athens.
Ga, stripped the iron hoops from his
cell tub, made them into saw blades,
sawed through an iron bar an inch
square. making a hole in the window
fourteen inches square, sOaped his
naked body and thus slipped through
it, and was then detected by the sheriff.
He said that he had TO get out of his
dark cell.
MIR. Horace Andrews. an American
gentleman now i'm London. has written
To- Il friend i'm Boston that hc has
learned that there is in possession of
a French family. near Paris. portrait
(life-SiZe bu>t) of Franklin. by the IA
NOUS portrait painter. GrcuZc. Ii was
purchased from royal palace during
the French revolution an 1870. Mr.. An
drews says. He suggests that. though
l. would cost large sum, it ought 10
be procured for some public building
in Boston. - B0S OU .iOHrUdi.
What bolhcrs society ladies more
than any thing else is to- keep up with
the fashions in walking" SAYS the
Atlanta Constitution. Zone season a
lady will be expected to adopt a win
ming gait. At another time swinging
strides will be the style. The slow
walk and the rapid pace alternate i'm
popularity. Nothing lasts long. If
fashion DEGREES that a woman must
make herself perambulatIng cOnvul-
sion of millinery and dry goods, it is
all right The style must have its
run
There Is 4 village just outside oil
New Haven that knocks EnOch Arden
out. The soprano of the church choir
is a good-lOoking Young woman of
thirty summers. Her second husband
plays the organ, and No. l, who was
divorced. works the organ pump for
the good of the church. And the mus
zeal couplct of husbands are good
friends. The divorce law has been got
down To such Il lime point i'm Connccti-
cut that it isn't any longer considered
good form for the principals to get out
of humor with one anOther.-N J..
Times.
Among the old papers in the cOun-
" clerks Office at Freehold, y. j., is
the death sentence of a negro named
Caesar. 1t reads: Therefore the court
doth judge that thou. the said Cesar,
shall return TO the place from whence
thou earnest. and from thence to- the
place of execution. when thy right
hand shall be- cut Off and burned be-
fore thine eyes. Then thou shalt be
hanged by the neck till thou art dead.
dead, dead; then thy body shall be cut
down and burned To ashes in a fire,
apI tn 4 h,x-.