The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

tO man.
The Chinese claim TO have diScov-
cred the art of sneezing and To have
practiced it two thousand years before
any other nation caught on.
The Chamberlain Cd. T.. Democrat
says that beetS and carrots have grown
To such a size in Brule County this
year that farmers are compelled to Use
stump-puliers To pull them from tine
ground.
-Pat>cv Collins. while shOVeling
grain in the top of u big Niagara Falls
Touring mill. fell into the hopper, >Iid
for eighty feet through spout eight
by ten inches I'm size and shot ont. with
.iN tons of grain. into q car standing on
the track hclow.-BMFaio Courier.
"A Young medical student in Sacra-
mento tried the rarth-curc un sick
man AMI came within shave of hav-
Ing the lamp-po>t cure tried OH him.
He hadn't got the patient covered
higher than his hi ps when he gave up
the ghOsi.-SdH FrdnriSco Chronicle.
The Women'S Christian Temper
ance Union of Cambridge. Crawford
County. Pa, persuaded the store keep
rr> of the village To stop Keeping
cigarettes after the exhaustion of the
present supply. and then bought up the
supply and crcmatcd -PhiiadclJ.ha
Press
The life insurance agent had been
talking steadily for only an hour or so.
when the victim. pcrcciving a chance
To get a word in edgcwisc. remarked:
do YOU know YOU remind me of sud-
den DEATH" How SO?" Nobody
is safe from either of you. ''-TerGS
SitiiHgS
The first Massachusetts ship was
built in Medford in 1858. and was of
sixty tons burden. This WAS the be-
ginning of shipbuilding i'm New Eng
land. The same year water mill was
built at Dorchester, and another bv
Mr.. BANNER at Roxbury. These were
the Erst water mills i'm New England.
BOSTON B",igct.
A ST. Louis man going through
one of the poorly lighted streets felt
Tat up his trOu crs' leg, and pounded
the victim successfully with his cane.
When lie got the animal settled and
came tn light. hc drew out his fine
gold watch. which had Slipped down
his trousers LEG. 1t was sOmrthin.
worse for the pounding. Poor old
Missouri. - Chicago Inter ocean.
"A triple wedding occurred a few
days ago ut VerdigriS Valley, Neb. The
three and only children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Tomec were ut high noon united in
mao % 10 49,
i've hundred guests were present. The
grOOms and their best men wore
badges and bouquets of orange bios
SONS and the brides and their attend
ants wreathS of orange blossoms.
Thomas Caldwell. of West Troy,
y. Y, recently traded horses with
George Brewer, OF Smokey Tavern,
and shortly after the trade discovered
that the animal he hal traded for was
balky and wind-brOken. He then
traded with the father of Brewer for
colt, which he also dis
covered was of no usei Then he bor-
rowed rig from a farmer and went
home disguSted.-TrOy Times.
The use of morphia by physicians
20 suspend pain which they can not
cure is said TO have become an abuse.
4 Pittsburgh man has been found to
have one thousand and forty hypOder-
mic injection punctureS i'm his body.
Many are said TO take the injections
for the soothing effect when nothing i'm
particular ais them. and thus fall into
a habit worse than drinking. which is
the natural Pittsburgh |
chronicle.
Some one in Hudson. y. Y. has
written To the Toronto Globe as fol- |
lows: .'As j am a very rich man and
IAN easily afford it, | have decided to |
give the whole of North America to !
my wife, believing from my knowledge |
IT wOman's nature that she will !
govern YOU all wisely and well. As
am the legal husband of every woman |
in the world, this includes every woman I
Oh the Continent. Ezra, King of Eng !
land. North America. the World and |
The Church"
While the orchestra was PLAYING |
he prayer from ''Rienzi' in the LoniS-
vile Music Hall the other day vigor- |
ous baby struck i'm with Il lung solo /
right in one of the most delicate pas
'ageS. Conductor DamruSch stopped |
he orchestra and sat down. When the
little one had been guieted he re-
marked that while it was good thing
% give children Il musical education. |
there was such y thing a. beginning
90 early in life. Then ne resumed hi
baton and the PRAYER was resumed.
-''Speaking of insertions of GENT
me mechanical character. says an ex-
hang. 1.-The ordinary gas meter is
perhaps the most remarkable and most |
profitable device ever constructed. so !
Tery sensitive i it that the least re-
iuctiOn in the price of gas sets it into
much increased activity. anu the lower
he price. the greater the activity of
he meter; and il has been known.
when the family was away on a sum
ncr vacation, to remain at bone and
Keep iuduStriously at work all the
ime."
The first English SparrowS brought
q Atlanta were purchased by the City
ouncil and placed i'm the old CITY Hall |