The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-01-19
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Other things being equal, those
who are most careful in their eating
habits will have the least rheumstism
Golden Rule.
The skeleton of q man was recent.
ly found in the Dead River region, Or.
egOn, caught in bear trap. The APP
pearanee of the skeleton indicated that
he had devoured his own flesh.
1t takes four things to be a gentle.
man: You must be gentleman in
principles, gentleman in your tastes.
gentleman in Your manners, and a
gentleman IN your ersOn.- Occtdent.
A Kansas man points with pride to
the phenomenal fact that his wife has
worn one bonnet twenty-five years.
She must be blind. or else she never
goes out of the hOuse.-N. Y Journal.
Easy come, easy 60" An Indiana
man recently inherited farm which
be traded for a city lot. Next month
he traded il for q race-hOrse, and in
side of u month the horse died.--N y.
Graphic.
The Bad Lands Cotc5oy says that
all the Black Hills wants is a railroad
and q new moral character for its BUSH
mess men. The Black Hills is not the
only place suffering for want of these
Chicago Inter Ocean.
-Telepherage is new and cheap
method of transportation which was
successfully tried in England, and is
defined As the transportation of goods
and passengers by means of electricity
without engineer, brakeman or train
attendants.
"A German proyerb says: 1.-THE
beauty of women, of the forest and OF
the rainbow lasts but a moment" Fe-
male beauty may be very evaneseent in
Germany, but in this country il doesn't
fly so quickly. For City years q woman
here is advertised as "the beautiful
actress, Miss So and So. "-NorrtStoIcd
Herald.
"A weli-known author in a street
ear, rising and giving his seat to a
stout woman, who does not acknOwl-
edge the ciyility: I'm obliged TO you,
madam" Stout woman. flushing an
grily: For what, sir?" Gentleman,
courteOusly: ''For taking my seat"
Hilarity among the other passengers
Boston Bedc0R-
One of the Farce Islands has been
swallowed up by the sea- For some
time past strong currents have been
undermining the base of the monk"
a vast mass of rock, and now the whole
island has disappeared. The Monk
was of considerable Importance to nav
igation, serving rs warning of these
dangerous currents, but was uninhab-
tied
Jerry Miller. an old Sullivan
County pa hunter, came of victori-
Gus in lively tussle with big bear.
Bruin closed in on Jerry. ysnked his
coat off, tore his shirt to shreds. and
lacerated his body terribly. AT last
the plucky old hunter got his eighteen
inch knife out and plunged it to the
hilt into the bears heart. killing the
animal instantly.--Pftsbnrgh Post
The Governors of Ohio and Michi-
gan attended the recent musical festi-
val in Cleveland. They sat through
one performance, three hours and
half long, and as they wandered dryly
down the dusty stairway leading TO she
marked 10 the Governor of Ohio-but
his remark was lost in the confusion OF
the dispensing audience. Brooklyn
Eagle.
Mrs. Burke, of Portland, Ne.
eighty-six years old, the only surviving
child of David Eaton, of New Hamp-
shire, who, when \ young man. served
under General Washington as messen-
ger, has basket i'm which he carried
messages and which General Washing
ton presented To him. Mrs. Burke
has kept the basket with tender care,
and during the FIRE of 1866 carried il
night and day under her apron.
William Tooker, of New London,
went claiming recently. and as the
tide was low and he dug with energy
he had great success. But besides the
big fat clans he rolled out he found a
gold watch. Subsequently ii was
identified as the one lost at the same
place fifteen years ago by Burrill So
cum. A New London paper notes thai
the watch had stopped and that the
works were damaged.-Hartford Cenr
ant.
The Smithsonian Institution con,
tsins the small nagget of gold, a little
larger than a pea, that first met she
eyes of James Marshall in the saw mill
wall at Sacramento, and was the begin
ming of those discoveries in California
that have added nearly one thousand
five hundred million dollars to the
worlds stock of precious metals. The
nugget is kept in glass case, and is an
object of curiosity TO all visitors
Chicago Herald.
The old-time trOtting celebrity,
Oecident, died recently at Sacramento,
after q couple Of hours illness. He
had the fastest record to his credit in
lS73-2:16i-and raised an excitement
over the whole country. He was
twenty-five years old, and appeared
hale and hearty TO the last. He was
the property of Governor Stanford.
who purchased him from butcher in