The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-10-26
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

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. large number of sheep to South
American ports.
The London Truth advises those
who are slandered not to mind; it will
all come off when it is dry.
An Amador County (Cal..) man
1as applied for a patent on a process
ior making butter by boiling the cream.
"A large amount of fencing and
many growing crops belonging to the
Indians about Umatilla, Ore, were re-
Gently destroyed by prairie fire.
Climbing the Catskills, the Boston
girl will say, "the exertion essential to
ascent causes me TO excessive fatigue"
whereas the Chicago girl exclaims,
.'Great Scott! I'm done up!'-ROcheS-
ter Democrat.
According TO the creed of Theo-
sophy, each man sis his own absolute
law-giver, the dispenser of glory or
gloom to himself, the DEGREES of his
life, his reward, his punishment
Chicago Herald.
1t isn't often that q melon seed
thrown In the street begins to send out
shoots, but one did so in New York the
other day from between two paving
stones. The curiosity was plucked,
however, and its growth interrupted
n. 7. Sun.
An automatic attachment for loco
motives supplies a novel construction
whereby certain devices upon the loco
motive may be operated by person
on the track or at q station to signal
the engineer or stop the locomotive
Chicago Times.
The Fortnightly ReUiea0 says brain
work should be forbidden after dinner,
and the interval between it and bed
time devoted to recreation and amuse
ments. Them's our sentiments, only
we want the dinner hour fixed at noon.
sharp.-Free Press.
The annual consumption of coffee
in this country fell off from 572, 222, S41
pounds last year to 5s7, 602, 262 pounds
in 1856. Our consumption is about
ten pounds per capita, at a cost Of
more than forty million dollars per al
num.-N Y. Herald.
Most metals and alloys shrink or
contract ON cooling. But an alloy
which will expand on cooling may be
made of lead nine parts, anthony two
parts, bismuth one part. This alloy
can be advantageously used to fillsmall
holes and defects in iron castings
Boston Budget.
"A farmer had taken off his coat
one warm spring morning and thrown
il across the crotch of low cedar tree.
when noontime came an industrious
pair of robins had collected in the eN-
posed armhole the foundation of their
nest. The coat was an old one and the
farmer tender hearted. so the birds
were not disturbed. Chicago Mail.
"A stray cur recently walked into 8
Tombstone a. L. doctors office and
by signs made it known that something
was ailing with one of his feet. The
doctor examined it and found a large
splinter, which he extracted. Since
that time the dog has constantly fol-
lowed the doctor on the street and
camped on his doorstep when at home.
Florence Schuster and Frank
Hooper live in st. Joseph, Mo-, and are
both popular! Florence went visiting
in Leayenworth, and Frank went over
to see her. He asked her to take
walk and before they returned the two
were married. The next day they vert
home, and, as the account says, ''were
warmly welcomed by hosts of admiring
friends. Chicago Herald.
Major ID. MacRay, who points
with pride" to himself as a lead
ing physician of Portland, Me-,
announces that he has located the
Captain Kidd treasure, and proposes
shortly to unearth S7,000,000 of it.
The value of his discovery is somewhat
damaged, however, by the fact, as he
asserts, that whenever he begins TO dig
for it the treasure is surreptitiOusly
shifted by the malign influence of the
spirit of the defunct pirate.-Boston
Journal.
Even the horse jockeys in Boston
are epigrammatic. 1t is related that a
gentleman who was trying horse in
company with a jockey noticed, after
having driven him mile or two, that
he pulled pretty hard, requiring con-
slant watching and steady rein, and
inquired: "Do you think it is just the
horse for a lady to driver "Well.
sir" answered the jockey, Il must say
l shouldn't wantto marry the woman
who could drive that horse. San
Francisco Ar0O1adut.
"A bricklayer, who had come to his
death by being hit on the head with
brick, was the subject of eulogy by the
members of q fraternal society. The
desire of the orator to be solemn and
impressive was greater than his ability
to impress the few ideas that he had.
MY friends" he said, 81 looked out
once on the beauties of nature, and all
was c-a-a-l-m. Our deceased friend here
was layin' q brick. / looked once
more; still all was c-a-a-l-m, but our de-
ceased friend was no more. He was
layin' a cawpse. Toledo Blade.
About eighty miles off the island of
Monte CristO. and thirty from Eliza.