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

girls rather like him.-Hiiadeiphia
Call.
"A peach tree IN the orchard of ID.
s. Blackwell, of Cobb County. s. c.,
is forty years old. and this year bore
two crops of peaches.
An Iowa insurance company offers
a reward for the best practical plan for
a tornado cave combining security and
Chicago Journal.
II once saw person 60 into the
water with his nose embraced by a
clothes-pin," says a scientific writer,
sand the greater number of bathers
now protect the ears with wool.
-Tramps are so numerous and
troublesome around Santa Clara, Cal.
that vigilance committee has been
formed for the purpose of driving them
out of the cOuntry.-Sdn Francisco
Call.
The Pennsylvania railroad is owned
by 1880 shareholders in lots of from
one fifty-dollar share up. The New
York Central railroad is owned by
one-third are women or executors of
estates.
The society men of Chicago are
making strong effort to popularize
knee breeches, but it is an uphill job.
The average man i'm Chicago society il
SO bow-legged that when he gets into a
pair of knee brooches and goes upon
the street he is always afraid of being
mistaken for a pair of runaway ice
tongs. Philadelphia Press.
Paris has a new institution that is
popular. 1t is an establishment on a
main boulevard where, 10y paying haif
n franc (ten cents), one can wash his
hands. have his boots blacked, his coat
brushed write letters, read all the
leading Continental and English news
papers, consult a reference library,
and use a telephone. New York :
many hotels render such an establish
ment unnecessary here.-N T. Sun.
"A deposit of precious stones sf
the rare kind known as golden beryl.
has recently been found in the Bcrk-
shire hills" says the Boston Tran
script. Specimens of this gem are
occasionally met with i'm the hands of
collectors, but it has never before been
found i'm sufficient quantity TO become
an article of trade. When cut. the
stones are of a beautiful golden color,
exceedingly hard and of great bril-
liancy."
"A telegraph Office i'm London was
lately put i'm direct communication
with Teheran. Persia, three thousand
eight hundred miles distant. Then
Kurrachee, i'm Northwest India, was
added; then Agra, and at last Calcutt;
was switched on, with which direct
conversation was held through seven
| thousand miles of wire at twelve or
fourteen words a minute. The Cal
cutta operator could hardly De- con-
WINGED that he was talking with Lon
don.
-Numa l.. Seely lived with his par
ents in Cincinnati until his mother
died and his father abandoned him.
Then he went to work for a farmer in
Indiana, and while there stole few
dollars and bought coat. He WAS
sent TO the penitentiary for three years.
Now Governor Gray, of Indiana. has
pardOned him because influential citi-
ZenS of Cincinnati have asked him To
and because the boy is heir 10 a fine
property in that city.-CiereiaId
Ledder.
A Bridgeport Comm paper SAYS
! that detective of that city recently
received the following letter: ..Wiii
you Oblige me 10y going 10 some picture
gallery and set for my pictures | will
paw YOU. MY children and relations
are bothering me TO have one took as
am CROWN old, and ~ am buZZy git
| tim in crops can't Spair time TO come
| down. | hear YOU have dis%iZes SD
YOU can do as well AZ me. Have on
red side whi>kers and good clothes.
Make the picture good lookin' and
when YOU laif show Your teeth as
have a bran new set of false ones.
am fOrty-cight years old and wild
| over.
The entire hop crop of New York
State Is Il complete failure. The loss
amounts To millions of dollars. The
crop uf 1885 i stated. in round figures.
| To have amounted To 1919. 900 bales: this
| Year :. i'm favored sections of counties
viii not amount To l0.Wn bales. of
| which two-thir,l> are unfit for market
Dealers give the following comparative
| list of the WELD in hops bv counties:
| Schoharie. 1881. 81. o1n bales: lSS6. .5UJl
bales. Ot>cgn. ls>j. 4ouEi bales: 1856.
1000 bales. Oneida and Madison, 1885,
| 10000 bales: lSS6. 800 bales Lewis.
1885. 1000 bales: lSS6, jtm bales.
Franklin. ISSJ. ~. 600 bales: 1856. Loo
bales. Montgomery, 1885,, 2o,nGh
bales: 1856. nothing. Bales vary i'm
weight from ISL 10 POO pounds. ". J..
| Hcrdld.
There recently arrived at Atlanta,
| Ga.. To DE used un the Atlanta n Char
| lotte railro@d. two of the largest
engines in the world. The cylinders
are 20X24 and the drivers are ~ inches.
There are only three more engines on
| this continent like these one in Cali
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