The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The Government loses one million
dollars a year in the smuggling of
opium.
"A merchant at Wsllingford, VT,
recently reduced to ashes book that
had ten thousand dollars of bad ac-
counts on its pages.
I'm 1850. it is asserted by court
prophets, the entire House of Lords
will be bossed by American heiresses,
provided it lives as Washington
HdtcLbet.
No jury will ever convict man Of
stealing an umbrella. Every juror has
once or twice in his life been caught
out in the rain and-but this is getting
Philadelphia Cal.
Lady philosophers are printing up
for Concord. Question for solid dis
cussion: ''Are caramels wherewithals
of the wherefore. or whereOfs of the
whereabouts?"- y Journal
London engineers say that, as q
matter of theory, it is possible to make
steamers to run forty knots an hour
and cross the Atlantic in three DAYS.
But the vessel could only carry passen-
gers.
Very little of the New Orleans mo-
lasses finds its way into Utah, and for
that matter into any part of the great
West and Northwest. The sirups
mostly consumed in that locality are
made in San Francisco Chicago Times.
AT Philadelphia recently the United
States attorney brought suit against
William Brown, manager of a concert
park, to recover one thousand dollars
penalty for the importation of foreign
musical talent into this country under
| contract, which is a violation of the
law.
The Indian agent at the Rosebud
| Agency refused to give the Indians
their agricultural implements unless
they used them where he designated.
Whereupon, says the Nebraska State
Journal, the Indians organized strike,
which was so successful that the agent
not only turned over the implements,
but ''set up" three barrels of sugar and
a lot of fancy groceries.
OF the thousand or more prisoners
discharged from Sing Sing Prison dur
ing the last year and a half there was
not one who was not able to sign his
name. Many had learned this while at
| penal service. More than one who has
entered the prison ignorant has been
able on coming out to make a new
start in life with the education he OBJ
tanned within prison walls.-Tros IN
~ Times.
| Tho Carp,ap arp,y - arranr;no a
| celebration IN honor of the fOrthcom-
ing ninetieth birthday of the En-.
peror, which is intended TO be fully
worthy of the occasion. 1t is proposed
then to form a union of the officers
of the entire army corps and found a
philanthropic military institution in
honor of the Emperor. The Emperor
will be ninety years old if he lives
till March %, 1887.
"A man appeared at the police sta
ton in Meriden, Conn, recently and
asked to be taken in. The jailer in
guired for reason for putting him in
the cell, aud the man replied: You
see. nv wife is on the war-path again.
and there is always the devil to pay at
home on occasions of this kind. You
had better take me in now, for you will
surely have to do so before morning"
l-HarJord CoUraHt.
"A quarrel recently arose between
Joe Shearer and John Bird at Forrest
City, Ark, over the ownership of ten
cents. The lie was given and returned,
and both seized their guns. Joe Sc
cured his first, but instead of using il
on his adversary shot and killed the
latter's son, an eighteen-year-Old lad,
who was standing near. but had taken
no hand in the trouble. Shearer was
in Jail awaiting trial.
! 1t is estimated that the annual
revenue from the two-cent tax on oleo-
margarine will amount to one million
dollars. This is on the basis of home
consumption of fifty million pounds.
and is low estimate. The exports OF
oleomargarine last year amounted to
nearly thirty-eight million pounds.
The total production of butter in the
United States in 1880 was IA, 250, 5S7
pounds. Washington Post.
1t is among the curiosities of Nor.
monism that its protector, Smith, was
born in Vermont; that the second spir-
itual and worldly high priest of the
system. Brigham Young, was originally
from Vermont; that Edmunds, the
Trainer of the Edmunds law, was and is
Vermont Senator, and that the Re-
publican commissioner selected from
Iowa was born i'm the same Green
Mountain state.-Chicdgo Herald.
Miss Woodford, the famous stake.
winner, is one of the pets of Long
Branch. Her owners pay the strictest
attention TO her needs, and see that she
is provided with the best of wardrobes.
Her raiment when in public consists OF
a pannier worn with broad girth, q
narrow band under her chin and g
silvered front piece to hold her bangs
in place. She is invariably accompa.
MED by little man in knee breeches
and parti-colored cap.-N y. Maj.