The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-11-02
PERSONAL AND

There are fifteen men under the
age of thirty years in Portland, Ore,
who are worth over . million dollars
each.
Samuel Horner. of Pontiac County,
province of Quebec, is seventy-fOur
years old, yet he recently met four
bears and killed three of them in as
many shots.
An editor with nine unmarried
daughters was recently made justly
indignant by the miscOnstructiOn his
contemporaries put upon his able leader
on The Demand for More Men"
The Misses Beard, four sisters, run
a farm in Clay County, Ind, and run
it well. They manage every thing,
and tolerate no other boards upon the
place save those growing on their
wheat.
The widow of Hon. Alexander II.
Tilton, of Tilton. n. H., bequeathed
five thousand dollars cash and house
for a rectory to Trinity Episcopal
Church in that town. She also left
quite large sum in trust, the income
to be used for the benefit of the poor in
Tilton.
Samuel jefferson, of Tamauqua,
Pa, died Thursday night at the age of
one hundred and four years. Jefferson
was a colored barber, and claimed to
have heard Wilkes Booth planning the
assassination of President Lincoln
while he, Jefferson, was shaving
Booth.
"A young colored man of Buffalo is
making money by giving most remark
able musical performances. He holds
his mouth open, taps his skull with a
beer mallet and thus plays tunes in
tones not unlike those of the NylophOne.
He seems not only TO have a wooden
head, but an empty one also.
Albert Wampler, of indianapolis.
thinks that he has been made whole by
the PRAYER cure. He claims that he
has for five wears suffered with rheuma-
tism. which bent him double and other
wise deformed him, and that in answer
to special prayers he laid aside his
crutches and stood erect well man.
One of the oldest shOemakers in
the country, if not the oldest, Is Will
liam Congdon. a Baltimore colOred
man. ninety years old, who still pegs
away. He says that fifty years ago he
was head steward on Commodore Van
derbilt's steamboat Lexington, and
that he used TO make Thurlow Weeds
shoes.
Harrison II. Oliver, of Bolton.
Tex, is noted for having one hundred
and one bullet wounds on his body.
When he was a boy friend thought he
was deer. and fired thirty-seven
buckshot into him; he was shot all to
pieces in the war; and in 1873 Bolton
dentist took him for An enemy and put
fifty-one duck-shot into his back, per-
forating his liver and kidneys. Sixty
bullets, ranging in size from a duck
shot TO an ounce ball, now remain in his
body.
An old Saratoga bean saws that to
be attractive to the male sex girl
should dress '.in the neatest and sweet
est light dresses. Her hair should be
bathed so as 10 look airy and aeecy like
a mermaid tresses. No man will ever
fall in love with q woman who does
not To him look sweet enough To kiss.
A man don't fall in love with dress.
A sweet muslin dress will attract him,
somber three hundred dollar Worth
satin will drive him away. Men don't
marry dresses. they marry women"
Forty years ago Willard Pierce. of
Tyngsboro. Mass, a bright young
teacher. recently graduated from col
lege, was jihed by the girl who had
promised to marry him. The shock
unsettled his mind, and he was placed
in the Tyngssoro almshouse, where he
remained until the other day, when he
died. Up to his last illness he kept in
mind his old sweetheart, and called for
Lucy" and begged her to return to
him. 1t is said that the woman now
lives in this city, and is prominent in
charitable work.