The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-11-09
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.


John A. Logan, Jr., has become 4
partner in real estate firm in Wash
ington.
William M. Singerly. of the Phila-
delphia Record, has Sixty-siN dwelling
/ houses in course of erection in that
city.
| Nathan Ii. Moore, Maine hunter,
aged sixty-eight, has killed two hun
dred and seventy-fiye moose since his
youth.
The first female clerk employed by
the Government was Miss Jennie Doug
lass, appointed to the Treasury Depart
ment by Secretary Spinner. in 1862
". y. independent.
Captain David Buskirk, the larg-
est man in Indiana, died at his home
near Bloomington recently. He was
seven feet tall i'm his stockings, and
! weighed four hundred poundS.-ITI-
didnap0iiS Journal.
p. T. Barnum is reported to have
remarked in moment of confidence
that il he lived much longer and re-
tanned his present activity he would
exhibit himself in a side tent rs zone
of the greatest curiOSities Barnum ever
handled"
"A. G.. Nye, of Weymouth. Mass,
claims to- be the first inventor of the
Morse Geographic instrument. II it
was Bill Nye who made such a claim
people would understand it, for Bill is
a great inventor, but it is little late
i'm the day for A. G.-DetTOH Free
Press.
A Harvard professor and his wife
were guests ut Il reception in London,
which had been given IN their honor.
4 hundred men and women had been
invited by the hostess To- meet them.
But there were no introductiOns, and
the Harvard professor amused himself
during the evening by talking to his
wife.-Hdrper'S Weekly.
Mr.. Moody has received from Will
liam MackinnOn. a Scotch ship builder,
q model of SOlOmon's Temple, made of
cedar OVERLAND with gold. with many of
the smaller articles of solid gold. Ii is
one-iifty-fifth the size of the original.
having the court. tabernacle, altar,
laver. ark. holy of HOLES, mercy seat,
and cherubim in proportion and rela-
ton TO each other.
Alexander Stewart, of StauntOn,
Va, aged ninety-One years, recently
attended the funeral of ). G.. Wayland,
aged eighty-onc years, who had been
his best friend for half century. The
next day while Mr.. Stewart was re-
calling to a party of visitors scenes
and incidents in which he and his
friend Wayland had participated, he
fell over on the ground and died in a
few minutes Washington Post.
Tom Scott, of Waco, Tex, had a
rather unusual experience recently.
He went TO see his mother, who is
sixty years old and resides in a neigh
boring town. On arriving at his home
he found that the old Lady had eloped
with a man half her age. When Mr..
Scott returned to his own home he was
paralvzed by the information that his
wife had gone with handSomer man.
Then there was music in the air
Tenas Siftings.
The Rochester Post-EEpTeSS says:
A life insurance agent states that he has
just concluded an insurance upon the
life of q man aged l02 years. The
centenarian enjoys good health and ap-
pears to be in the possession of his fac
ulties He states that his father lived
to the age of 10. and met his death by
an injury due to the breaking of mill
stone. His grandfather was, he asserts.
accidentally killed in his mill at the
age of l26. His great-grandfather
lived to the age of l33.