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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-23
ENGLISH ENGAGEMENTS.


Engagement Season.
English girls seldom marry before the
age of twenty-five or twenty-three.
Some marry well at the age of thirty.
A marriage in England is not arranged
in few days, or even in a few months.
A young man Of about twenty engages
himself to a young lady of, say, eighteen,
and the lovers remain engaged for three.
or even five, years. These are the wo-
mans good times. During the engage
ment she enjoys almost all the sweets
of married life without any of its
troubles, and she is free. Sometimes
she does her best TO make the engage
ment last as long as possible. She pre-
fers to murmur words of love to her be-
trothed to shutting herself up with hi IN
in some semi-detached cottage wherein
to bemoan the high price of bread and
butter and coal. On the day she is
married she Is settled, as they say in
England; that means she Is established.
would define this word settled more
correctly by saying that her business is
done for her. i do not wish at all 70
convey the idea that woman finds no
happiness In the English household;
nothing Is further from my mind. I
think. on the contrary, she can enter it
with more confidence than can her sis
ter across the channel, because she as
sumes much less responsibility and be-
cause her mother has invariably versed
her most thoroughly in domestic econo-
my. Women in England know nothing
at all about their husbands business,
no more than q clerk knows about the
private affairs of his employer; and it is
even difficult matter for her TO say
whether he is making fortune or on the
verge of bankruptcy. When her hus-
band dies an Englishwoman who has no
fortune may, become a governess, a
housekeeper, yor q nurse. That is SER
vitude. An Englishmsn gives his wife so
much a month for household expenses,
and so much for her wardrobe-her wages
as it were. She evinces no surprise
when she learns one fine morning that
her husband Is taking her to a sumptu-
Gus abode, nor when she learns that
they must move some evening in the
dark without making any noise. She
goes with the furniture-in q double
sense--N. r. Mail and Express.
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transportation, the vast Importance OF
the mining industries may be realized.
For example. the iron ore consumed dur
ing 1884 was valued at only twenty-five
and a half millions, but the iron and
steel made from il was worth, At the
furnaces. one hundred and seven mil
lions. These sre figures for very bad
wear. The value of mineral products
In the next year of good business will
probably exceed five hundred million
dollars. youths Companion.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-23
Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars
Are run by this line on Night Express
from
ST. LOUIS TO NEW YORK
DAILY
WITHOUT CHANGE IN 81 HOURS.

BEST ROUTE To JACKSONVILLE
And winter resorts in the Southeast.
The double daily lines of Parlor Cars and
Palace Sleeping Coaches by this road from
ST. LOUIS TO CINCINNATI AND
LOUISVILLE,
Making direct connections at both points
with morning and evening express trains,
having Palace Hotel and Sleeping Cars to
Chattanooga, Atlanta. Savannah and Jack
sonville without change. No ferries or
transfers BY this route.
For tickets, rates, or any particular In
formation. call on ticket agents OF connect
ing lines, west, northwest aud southwest,
or in st. Louis ut 101 and los Fourth st.
w. w. PEABODY,
Pres. and Gen'l Manager, Cincinnati, q.
w. b. SHATIUC,
Genl Pass'r Agent. Cincinnati, o.
s. ID. BACON
Cen1 West'n Pass Agt, ST. Lauis, Mo.
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POSITIVELY

Cures, no matter how long the case may
have been standing.
have testimonials from persons who
have been afflicted foS .wenty years, being
confined To bed two or three days at time
every two weeks, that have been perma-
nently cured by two bottles Of DIR. Leslie's
Special Prescription so that they bF re not
had an attack for five years.
Ii YOU are troubled with sick Headache
and wish To be
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-23

neavy dose or mari. whereas an Excess
sive dose of caustic lime may produce
lasting injury. The mari is ''mild"
and entirely wanting in the burning
Qualities Of caustic lime.-N y. World.
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NyANTBD-An active man, one out OF EN-.
wv plo ,ment, To begin on moderate salary and
work himself up, representing, in his own locsli.
~, an old established house References exchsng-
d. Am. Manufacturing house, Ia Barclay %. ". Y.
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"A platinum wire too tine to be seen
with the naked eve is said to have beer
made by III. I. Read, of Brooklyn. 1t
is to be used in telescopes as a substi-
tute for the spiders web usually en-
pleyed.-M. Y. San. ai .sd -
= Years ago figs were served on
sristocratic tables i'm Greece with salt.
pepper, vinegar and aromatics. 800
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CURED

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Thousands of cases OF
SICK

Headache are permanently cured every
wear as the hundreds If testimonials in
my possession will testify by the use OF
DR.. Leslie's Special Prescription. This
remedy stands to-day without rival, and
with scarcely competitor in the world.
Thousands Of physicians throughout the
country have acknowledged their inability
to cure it, and are now prescribing DIR.
Leslie's Special Prescription for ali cases
of sick
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HEADACHE

I'm either its nervous, bilious or congestlve
form, arising from obstruction, congestion
or torpidity of the liver. When i say that
DR.. Leslie's Special Prescription will cure
the most obstinate eases oil sick headache
mean jast what | say, and that rs, that
IL not meYplv relieves but
Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-14
REoEN'r PUBLICATIONS.


 "rhs Thankless Muse" Is the title of n book containing poems by Professor Henry A. Beers, of Yale college. It includes, with n number of new poems, n selection from n book of verses published in 1878 and enti' tied "Odds and Ends" The poems are in teresting, and especially the "College Rimes' will attract attention. Houghton, Miffiin X Co.,, publishers, Boston For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "rhe Knave of Hearts" Is fairy story by Robert Grant, author of "The Confessions of Frivolous Girl" "An Average Man, , "The Little Tin Gods on Wheels" etc. The author is among the keenest of social critics. He writes with strong purpose and vigor- ous style. The new work is amusing, whole some and entirely original. Ticknor x Co.,, publishers Boston. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "The Child's Voice" is new work upon the treatment of the voice with regard to af- ter development. It contains the experience in abstract and detail of over two hundred teachers and six hundred students, written and arranged by Emil Behnke, lecturer on vocal physiology and teacher of voice pro- duction, and Lennox Browne, F. R. c. $. The practical value of this treatise will rec ommend it to every parent and to every in structor of the vocal art. A. N. Marquis & Co.,, publishers, Chicago. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
 "The Women Friends of Jesus;" a course of popular lectures based upon the lives and characters of the holy women of gospel his tory, by Rev. Henry c. McCook, D. D., of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, Phils- delphia, has just been received. Dr. Nc Cook, aside from his labors as preacher and pastor of large city parish, has gained world wide esteem as an investigator in the ninutest fields of natural history, and those faculties which won him success in the fields of reverential research have given peculiar vitality and interest to this book. The se- ries of lectures deals in succession with each of the women mentioned in the New Testa- ment as the friends and associates of Jesus. The lessons drawn from these histories are striking and effective. There is scarcely 8 question of woman's mission to-day that is not illumined by examples or warnings from the lives of the women friends of Jesus. Woman's duty in the home, her responsi- bility as a wife and mother, her capabil- ity as a leader in the worlds progress CT as comforter in afdiction, and her oppor- tunities in many another field of private thought and action, are all discussed with intelligence and reverence. The work is thus emphatically book for women. Je- sus is the inspiration, his women friends the .asts, and wonnan's experience s.sal. duty the helpful theme. Fords, Howard & Hubert, publishers, New York. For sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.
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COMMUNICATIONS.
DOSnlatfBm,

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 While we acknowledge the ability and candor of your correspondent, "D," We think he is incline to be "dogmatic." If there is any comfort or consolation in keep ing a dog the license ought not to be so high as to make it impossible. ''The rich have many friends,' but sometimes the poor mans oily friend is his dog. ''He is gentle, he is kind, and you'll never find better friend than old dog tray" Whatever draws out kindness and affection must be beneficial to the individual and society
 That Nervous, sensitive people are a little uneasy may be true, but such people give way to many unnecessary forebodings and misgivings, dogs, or no dogs. "A." says that the food given to dogs would supply many poor families. So it would, but if it were not given to the dogs, would it go to the familiess If so, why do not the money and food squandersd in other iliesa t'Dogs alarm and annoy the sick" So do cats and their midnight sere nades are far more discordant.
 If dogs sometimes destroy human life they also frequently save it. A dog that is good for anything will usually guard an infanG and make 50 much noise that burglars take the hint that it is time to leave. Not only the great Newton but other men, rich and poor, are fond of dogs for their utility, their docil- ity and their fidelity If ''D." means that worthless CUTS that nobody cares for ought to be externinated then we agree with him.
 D. Mo- 2
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For Every Reader of this Paper.
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T11e 5n11rnal and Gunrier.
Thursday, January IA, 1886.
PLAN FOR IRELAND,

Mir. Henry Labouchere, the brilliant editor of London Truth, and leading radical, has plan for giving Ireland home rule. It is certainly well constructed one.
 MT. Labouehere's plan proposes to retain Irish representatives in the imperial house of commons, but to limit their action to busi- ness of strictly imperial kind. Ireland would be given for it's governing machine | vieeroy, apriyy council and representa- tive chamber with responsible ministry. The vieerey MT. Labouehare would take from among the members of the royal family. The privy council or senate he would have consist of one hundred members nominated by the crown from among Irish residents of high character and acknowledged ability. The representatives he proposes to have chosen by popular vote and from districts uniform in population. He hints that, by way of compromise, considerable number of these representatives might be named, at the outset, by the crown, in order that their new responsibilities might fall upon the Irish people by degrees. The ministry would, of course, be selected from the popular cham ber, and be responsible to 1t, the viceroy act ing in the place of the sovereign in summon ing leaders of the majority party to form cab inets, and in deciding when Parliament should be dissolved. Coming to the ques- tion of the location of the veto power, Mr. Labouchere proposes to vest it in the vice. roy, to be used only on the advice, not of the ministry, but of the privy council.
 Concerning the important matter of the tariff laws MT. Labouchere says: "The commercial and political relations with for eign nations would be regarded as imperial natters, and probably there would be no in- superable dificulty-if it were deemed ex pedient-in arranging a customs union, such As that of the German Zollverein before the German empire came into existence, leaving it to the Irish to foster their industries, if they please, by means of bounties." He fur ther says: No contract existing or entered into could be set aside by IT sh legislation. In the event of anyone feeling himself az grieved in this matter he might appeal to the judicial committee of the house of lords. Any landlord would have the right to insist upon his land being bought by the Irish state on an estimate of it's value by the land judges, due consideration being taken of tenants improvements. The army in Ire land and the fortresses would be under the orders of the imperial ministry, much is the case in the United States.
 This is ingenious. MT. Labouchere pro- fesses confidence that the home rulers would be pleased with his plan.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-14
The Peasant in the South of France.
 From the National Revew.l

Judging from the outward aspect of the well-to-do peasant proprietor, and from his mode of life, no casual observer would credit him with possessing surplus pence, and cer- tainly would never dream of his keeping a
 banking account. His daily fare is of the most meagre description. For breakfast he and his family usually partake of bread, with the magnetic, preparation of small salt fish, such ss anchovies, etc, sometimes varied with g species of baked batter, made of oil
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NO. 12.

and flour, called Ia castagnaoe. For dinner he often has stockfsh Ca staple article of food) or vegetable soup and salad; and for supper preparation of lentils, beans, or other vegetables which latter, in summer are frequently eaten raw During tue hot months dry bread and some raw tomatoes often form the entire meal of many family Meearoni and other Italian paste, though much appreciated, fig seldom partaken of ex eept RE 4 treat. But onions and garlic sup ply all deficiencies in the peasants menu, and he and his dwelling literally reek with the powerful odof of the last named esenlent. Coffee ia too expensive to be used except most sppringly. The good wife roaHts aa well as grinds the coffee beans herself, and the sieaming cup ia not infrequsntly made per feet ioi his palate by the insertion of A e1oya of garlic, His drink, when t iH not water, Ia ail excessively thin sour wine hut 1t must not be supposed that such luxury Is in dulged in every day. When he comes down into the town he will permit himself to be eonviVial with friend to the extent of un onnon sur To comptoir, which Is Il glass of wine costing one sou Rabbits are most ex- tenaively kept and during the summer Ga period of comparative leisure for the farmer in this part of the world) visits are exchanged among the pensentry on their oatupagnes, as their holidays are termed Then are inaugurated the tetes uu lapin At these dinner parties one rabbit is slaughtered by the host and serves to flavor the nacaroni and vegetable stew with which the company ts regnled. These entertainments are usual ly paid for by the richer guests from town, or, If not there is sure to be formal return Meat, such as beef and mutton, is rarely eaten, and it may be doubted whether it be tasted, upon an average, once a month by each member of the community. Pigs are kept, but not commonly. Bacon and pork, which Is of an inferior quality and not we'll cured, is not eaten to any appreciabe sx- tent. The average expenditure of the peas ant freeholder upon his food has been accu- rately computed. It amounts to the aston ishingly small sum of only four sous two- pence) per diem. This sum must be under stood to refer to a family say, of four or five, and where the children are under the age of r or IS years.
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BALD.

Mamma, why is papa balda' stI am his
 fourth wife, darling. ."-New York Ledger. 1 Belva Lockwood has not failed as a lectur- 1 er It is simply the public that fails to go l to hear her.-New Orleans Picayune. Nurse (to young husband) )--'T am glad to | announce, sir, that you have beautiful bouncing son."
 Young husband (excited)-"Er-boy or g-girls"-Dife.
 "Veracity in Journalism is the heading l of long article in the Picayune. We have not read the article, because it makes us l blush to be singled out and praised before l the whole world.-Macon Telegraph. Statistician Dodge of the Department of Agriculture says there are about eighty swine to every one hundred of our popula-
 tion We hadn't supposed there were so | many hogs among people as that.-Lowen Courier.
 A young lady out West gave her lover the mitten because he was very small man. He showed his resentment by burning her fathers house. Said he would let lem know | that 'little spark" could kindle big fire. Lynn Item.
 There ought to be reformatory prison for boys under sixteen and widowers over sixty. An old widower will put crape on his hat
 and dye on his beard and seart out on a
 matrimonial skirmish in two or three months
 after the funeral.-Berlin (Ont.) News. The march of newspaper enterprise ''My
 dear sir, please give me your name and ad-
 dress' ''What for, strangers" 'I am the
 hotel reporter of The Daily Spotter, and l
 want to mention you among the Prominent
 Arrivals Two dollars and half will cover
 the entire expense. Pluck.
 It was on the eve of the twenty-ffth ami
 versary of their marriage. She said-"I do hope if anybody is going to give us any thing it will be in money. When we were married we were ignorant, and we didn't find out immediately that seven sugar spoons and thirteen ice pitchers were not essential to marital bliss; but think we've been mar ried long enough by this time to know how to pick out our own presents. ."-Boston Transcript.
 Said the edtor-in-chief of Minneapolis paper to one of his sub-editors: ''I see you commence like this-'Last evening, suddenly and with no note of warning, came the intel ligence of the death of William Vanderbilt" :" "Yes." "It is wrong. Our style is entirely different. Always begin like-'As foreshad- owed exclusively in these columns some weeks since, the news came last evening of the death of William Vanderbilt Always work in the tforeshadowing' business and you're all right."-The Bell.
 When the Prince of Wales visited Ireland a Land leaguer shouted out in the hearing of his royal highness: stDown with himp'
 'Whist," exclaimed his companion. "Ye disremember MT. Parnell towld us to pre- serve an indignant brutality" There is an- ether story related of irishman giving vent to his feelings by calling for 'Three cheers for ould Ireland" 'sThree cheers for hell, :" growled out non-sympathizer. "Oh every man for the country he loves best" was the ready retort. t.-Philadelphia Press.
Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Those who have been busy predicting a mild winter have now an opportunity to ex- plain.
 The Republican congressman from Ohio are reported as saying that they expect the State house of representatives to investigate the published charges of bribery and corrup- tion which preceded Senator Paynes elec- tion. They say they have evidence to prove that money was paid to members of the leg islsture. If this State investigation is suc- cessful the plan is to petition the senate to unseat MT. Payne. For this procedure an exact parallel is furnished in the case of Pomeroy and Caldwell, senators from Kan sas
 An eminent French physician who has made the study of intemperance speciality reports that the cases of alcoholism in the public hospitals come principally from de partments where wi is not produced, and are generally the result of the consumption of impure connections. He holds that gov ernment in dealing with the question should provide absolute liberty in the sale of cider, beer and wine on the condition that they are of good quality and unadulterated; official supervision of the manufacture of spirits, the imposition of high taxes on spirits, and insistence upon good moral character and a severe license in the case of dealers, and finally, the punishment in exemplary way of those found in state of intoxication.
 Ex-Governor J. Sterling Morton, the father of Arbor Day, says in the last number of Outing: One hundred and twenty six thousand miles of railroad are now resonant with commerce in the United States. Each mile contains three thousand wooden ties. The average life of tie is ten years. Each year ten per cent. of the ties is renewed. At sixty cents apiece the annual cost is more than $20, ,000, ,000, and ten years from date every tie now in use will have been renewed Think of the forests thus destroyed, and of the other means of consumption of timber products, in bridges, cars, warehouses, depots, and fuel, which the voracious and unsuitable railroads also employ; and do they replace any treess Not as yet. But the courts have declared the rights of the States to regulate railroads in many ways, and why not as to their utilization for ree-planting along their lines on their one hundred feet of right of way?
Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-14
Tale of . Dog.
BY JOHN O. BAKE.


 "Curss on all cursl'' heard cynic cry; A wider malediction than he thought For what's cync7 Had he cast his eye Within his dictionary he had caught This much of learning-the ilntutored elf That he, unwittingly, had cursed himself. "Bewars of dogs the great apostle wrtes A rather brief and sharp philippio sent To the Philippians. The paragraph invites Some little question as to its intent Among the best eHpositorsi but then I find they all agree that "dogs" meant men. Beware of men a moralist might say. And women tool twere but q prudent hint Well worth observing fin a general way, Hut having sursly no conclusion int As sauey Hatirista are wont Co raiil All men are fathiess and all women fraii, Without discrimination or degree, For one may see with half q pair of eyes That they have characters aa well as we, hate the rascal who can walk the street Gaming all dogs he may chance to meet, l had dog that was not all dog, For in his nature there was something human; Wiseli he looked as any pedagogue. Loved funerals and weddings, like n woman; With this tstill human) weakness, confess. Of always judging people by their dress. He hated beggars, 1t was very clear And oft was seen to drive them from the door; Hut that was education; for year He lived with philanthropist and caught His praoticesi tN" precepts he forgot. Which was pity; yet the dog, grant, To % teach @ sHs yoa % industry, Go te to the ant: | mean the Insect, not your uncle's wfei But though tho counsel sounds little rude Go to the dogs for love and gratitude.