The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-02


AT least four incorporated towns in
Colorado are at an altitude OF over nine
thousand feet above the sea-
PROF. Landmark, Chief Director
Of the Norwegian Fisheries, asserts
that salmon sometimes jump perpen-
dicularly sixteen feet.
Scorpions, spiders and various in
sects have been observed TO remain
motionless If any person blows strongly
upon them in vertical direction.
Canon Farrar came to this country
for . rest and took away twenty-five
thousand dollars. He will take the
rest on his next visit--PkiLadelpk Sa
CoQ.
"A burglar in Weld, Me-, was de-
tected by q SNOWFALL from the heel Of
his boot, which corresponded precisely
with similar SNOWFALL found in the
store after the robbery.
The New Orleans creoles make q
sleeping draught of lettuce leaves
boiled to form q tea The lettuce-leaf
tea is administered in large quantities
before going to bed to cure sleepless-
ness.-M =. Times.
"A New York negro pleaded not
guilty to Q charge of highway robbery
with such fervor that he might have
escaped had he not pulled out the COM
plainant's handkerchief TO mop his
perspiring brown =. Herald.
To stop Q runaway horse the Rus.
slams have light cord with slip
moose in it about the horses throat,
with the cord running through the sad.
die ring and over the dasher. at hand
for the driver to pull ups at the horses
first attempt to run. A little choking
stops him.
"A miner on the head waters of the
Columbia River, in British Columbia,
has found, SO he alleges, q deserted
mining town, where the billiard tables
still stand in the saloons and letters are
lying in the post-office bearing date of
1856, Not q soul has been near the
place for years. Chicago Times.
Some twenty colonies have been
established in the Santa Fe district OF
the Argentine Republic. Their terri
tory occupies ninety-five square leas ues,
and the settlers number 1859 families.
During the last thirty years the district
has grown through colonization until
it has population of 10000 souls.
AT Trieste, on the Adriatic, they
say the wind is so stable and enduring
that you might accept a bill on it, and
George Augustus Sala says the breezes
of Wellington, New South Wales, have
such steady habits and are so strong
that he frequently uses them as a desk
on which to draw a draft on London.
Massachusetts registered over six
thousand insane persons in her asylums
and hospitals during 18S5-an increase
of two hundred over the previous year
The annual cost TO the State of this
form Of relief exceeds $1,000. 900, moi
reckoning the $3.50, 600 of interest on
the value of buildings, etc.-Boston
Herald
The telegraph system of the Brit
ish Islands, under control of the post
Office, now amounts TO one hundred
and fifty-six thousand miles, and en-
ploys seventeen thousand instruments
The standard rate is twelve words for
q sixpence. address included. Press
messages alone now average one mil
lion words day.
Sir" said the wanderer, as be
entered the sanctum, 81 come to ask
your assistance. have lost nv right
leg" Advertise for it." said the
busy editor, without looking up from
the paper. Special rates in lost and
wanted column, and half money re-
funded if article advertised for is not
recovered.-N Y Star.
The blind Mr.. Fawcett, late Post
master-Geperal of Great Britain, was
an enthusiastic angler. He performed
if anything better than the seeing"
says his biographer, whether because
he waited more patiently to strike until
he felt his fish, or because be was more
docile in following the directions of
his skilled companions. He had great
success in catching salmon and trout,
and in trolling for pike in the winter"
One of his trophies was twenty-pound
salmon.
"A great deal is being said about
hydrophobia that would be better I'M
said, and the dog will be charged with
the killing much oftener than he
should be. The work of old rusty
nails, whose wounds have healed |
months ago, and the many other pro-
ducers of tetanus will all be laid at the |
kennel door of innocent .old dog
Tray" In all the United States, with |
its fifty-two millions of people, there
have not been in the entire year over |
twenty-five deaths from hydrophobia |
by the agency of three million dogs
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