The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-04-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

N hiCnlRdn uenbisb SuNcfttScS
Latin Gas Ten cents o Ha Har-
Detroit Tribune.
If every inhabitant of the country
gets his share of the years grain crop
he will have TO consume or waste fifty
three bushels. Chicago Herald.
"A snow-melting machine which.
it is claimed. will melt snow as
fast as fifteen men can shovel IL in, was
tried in New York the other day.-N.
Y. Sun.
From tests made by DIR. Fisher. the
German chemist, il appears that in or
binary stoves not more than twenty
per cent. of the fuel consumed is
Utilized in warming the ROOMS.
1t may be remarked, for the COM
fort of honest poverty, that ayarice
reigns most in those who have but few
good qualities to recommend them.
This is a weed that will only grow in a
barren soil.-Hughes.
1t is when We come to rejoice in
duty, to take pleasure in sacrifice, to
follow justice, mercy and truth, not
only with the firm and steady step, but
with a loving and tender clasp, that
We realize the true vitality of
righteousness. N T. Ledger.
An English medical publication
says that turnips, beets, onions, carrots
and parsnips are so completely made
up of water and waste materials that
they can not BE- depended upon for
nourishment, but are valuable aids in
digesting the more concentrated foods.
A very sad affair is reported from
Ridgefield Park. N. j. A bridegroom
died of lockjsw within q fort
night after marriage. His death was
caused by slight wound from n nail.
and his funeral service was read in the
same room which few days ago was
gay with the bridal party.-N Y. TTib-
une.
On the first day of January, 1885.
q contribution box was placed in the
conversation room of the Working
Mems Institute, at Millville, n. j.,
the object being to raise six hundred
dollars TO place town clock In the bel
fry. The other day the box was opened,
and was found to contain fifteen cents.
-BuDdlo Express.
"A man who was sued in Charles
County, Md, last summer by q
neighbor for killing his dog, land paid a
penalty of ten dollars, has found the
dog alive and we'll, except having be-
come thin from exposure. Where the
dog has been is mystery. The dog is
a beagle, and some of the witnesses al
the trial valued il at fifty dollars
Baltimore Sun.
"A man from New Lisbon. n. T.,
mailed two letters at the Oneonto post
Office the other day. His strange man
ner in buying the stamps, and his
query as to what To do with the stamps
after he had bought them, excited curl
osity, and inquiry brought out the sim
gular fact that although fifty-five years
of age he had never before mailed alet-
ter.-Uticd Herald.
"A Polander employed at Chicopee,
n. Y, met with a curious accident re-
Gently. Beginning his days work about
six a m, when it was not very light,
he had TO cross q foot-bridge over the
canal to get to the mill. Arriving al
the bridge he saw the shadow of it on
the water and mistook is for the bridge
itself. SO he boldly stepped out on the
shadow, and but fo- the timely assist
ance of q couple of men would have
been drowned.
Peter Cummings drove the frs
boat that made the trip from Buffalo
over the Erie Canal in 1925. De Witt
Clinton stood at the bow of the boal
and gave the word 10 start The boat
was called the Young Lion of the West
and was drawn by nine horses gailJ
caparisoned. Cummings drove until ht
was seventy-five, when he was drowned
at Pendleton. He is buried at Tons
wanda, and Erie Canal bostmen an
now raising fund to erect monu
ment over his graye.-Bnfalo Courier
The friends of certain man il
this city, who occasionally fingers with
the wine-cup far too long for his owl
good or that Of bis family, are JUS
now having laugh at his expense
His SON, poor little innocent, chanceS
to hear some older people talking abou
sleep, and piped in his childest treble
3Il6r lQlS IdcuiOns ECbo 6Wku
sleepy sometimes; he came home the
other night and was so sleepy that h
couldn't get in the house, but just lait
down by the wood-pile right out o
doors. "-Portland Oreqontdn.
"A new incandescent electric ligh
has been invented by Frederick
Schaefer, young German of Boston
| Silk thread carbonised is employed II
! the globes. and it is found TO be IS en-
durable and flexible as platinum wire
The invention has been patented an.
! is in use. 1t is evident that there i
abundant field for new inventions il
electric lighting. The energy with which
American inventors have pursued thi
subject is quite remarkable. The oil
I world can learn much from the sue
cesses of American experimenters.-
Boston Journal.
-Esferchants of Western New Yorl
pFopose hereafter to sell uncollectabl
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