The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-04-30
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

"A Vermont minister has preached
121 funeral sermons. with net returns
of two barrels of apples and silver
dollar.
About the meanest gag that could
be devised was one which an Ohio
highwayman used. lie filled his vic
TINS mouth with sand.
Gold dollars are used for bangles
and trinkets to such an extent that
they have become scarce and command
premium oftwenty-five cents.
The lack of women's restaurants
down town in New York is made up in
some instances by the mattresses of
big Office buildings who serve warm
dinners to the pretty typewriters up
under the caves.
-Rattlesnakes have been unusually
numerous in Georgia during the last
year. and their increase is attributed
by the newspapers of the State to the
enforcement of the stock law. which
prohibits the hog, the rattler's great
est enemy from roaming at large.
A new disease has broken out
among the grapevines of the Santa
Ana and San Gabriel valleys of Cali
fornia- 1t is termed the sapsour, and
the cause of it no ole knows. The
vines begin to- wither and in a short
time die. The disease is infectious and
spreads very rapidly.
"A monument to the memory OF
DR.. Elisha Mitchell has recently been
erected on the summit of Mitchelrs
Peak, in North Carolina. The monu-
ment is of bronze, and is probably the
highest memorial shaft in the world.
the mountain having a greater alti-
tude than any east of the Rockies.
"A Boston liquor dealer was tried
for selling without a license. He
claimed that he only kept an ice cream
saloon; thereupon the judge asked the
witnesses had they ever seen any wom-
en- entering the place. They declared
they had not. That settles it." said
the Judge, 1.-The man is convicted. An
ice cream saloon without women is an
impossibility."
A writer in a Chinese paper as
serts as physiological fact that the
Chinese lack the full complement of
nerves that are possessed by Western.
people, or that their nerves are less
sensitive than those of other races,
and explains in this way the wonder
full endurance of the Chinese, their
impassiveness, and their ability to get
along without bodily exercise.
Japanese gongs melodiously sum-
mon guests to dinner, and are con-
sidered a great improvement upon the
dinner bell. OF all devices, however,
which have been invented to call peo-
pie to meals. including the bugle, the
gong, strings of bells suspended from
the portiere rod, and the soft-spoken
waiter, no arrangement sends such
thrill and awakes such an appetite as
the farmers horn.
The receiving ship Wabash while
lying off Boston some time ago had
several curious applications from men
who wanted to enlist. One man said
he would enlist if he could do work to
which he was accustomed. He was
not enlisted, for he was paper
hanger. Another wanted soenlist and
take care of the Captains horse. A
gardener would enlist If he could find
work, and another candidate wanted
TO be the ships roofer.
The Pail Nall Gazette publishes
novel suggestion in sanitary science:
4 French Colonel ascertained that he
could wash his men with tepid water
for n centime, or one-:enth of a penny
per head, soap included The man
undresses, steps into tray of tepid
water, soaps himself, when jet from
a two-handed pump plays upon him
tepid water. and he dries and dresses
himself in five minutes, against twen-
ty minutes in the bath, and with five