The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-05-21
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great grandson
1t il worthy OF note that mos, OF
the gifts for the promotion of medical
education come from doctors who are
themselves eminent in the profession
Boston Traveller.
"A new rival TO coffee is ''Mussa-
enda," or wild orange. plant produc.
ing purple fruit. About $4,000 acres
of this plant are now being cultivated
in the island of Reunion.
Some one has discovered that
women never reckon time by calendar
years, but always say so many years
ago instead of in the year 1888, or
whatever year may be meant.
"A girl who had been troubled for
a long time With insomnia. vas ad-
vised by u Swedish woman 10 wet q
cloth with ice-cold water and lay il
across her eyes. She did so, and was
completely cured.
The ginseng OF China. a plant to
which the Chinese ascribe such re-
markable virtues as the renewing OF
youthful vigor, is said In be in such
demand that the root has sold for more
than two hundred dollars an ounce.
--Woodmeu say that thre.-fourths
of the moss on trees grows on the
northern side, that the heaviest
boughs on spruce trees are always on
the south side. and that the tOpmos!
twig of every hemlock tips naturally
to the east.
w. j. Doris. of New Haven,
Conn, has an African boa constructor
twenty-five years old. 1t is thirty
feet long and weighs 27S pounds. The
snakes appetite doesn't trouble it only
four times year. but at each meal it
is fed at least fifteen chickens or rab-
bits.
Mineral wax, which is found only
in Galicia Austria. and about 100
miles west OF Salt Lake, is acid proof
and the best insulator known. Its
color runs from light yellow TO dark
brown. 1t costs only One-third as
much as beeswaX, and is well adapted
to the use of doll and candle makers,
as well as electricians, by whom it will
be largely used.
A farmer in Kern County, Cal /,
who has been experimenting with
Japanese buckwheat, reports that in
all respects il is far superior 10 the
American buckwheat. 1t produces
twice the number of pounds TO the
acre, makes remarkably fine cakes,
can be sown at any time. and he thinks
will prove far NOR profitable than
wheat TO the farmers of California if
they can be induced TO make trial Of
it.
Down in Massachusetts, not far
from Sycamore. on the line OF the
Cape Cod ship canal. is the Upper
farm. The remarkable thing about
the farm is that it was purchased, or
secured. or pre-empted i'm 1924 by the
founder of the Upper line. Thomas
Upper. who settled on the land when
the place was an Indian village known
as Shaun. and that his will, still in
existence. has kept the farm in the
Upper family without break for nine
generations.
The IronwoOd (Mich.) Times re-
lates that the other day Il freight brake
man on the Lake Shore road was or
dered to get the number OF eight ore
cars in the train taken on at Wakefield.
He stood on the platform as the cars
passed by at moderate rate of speed
and read the numbers, all of which
were in the ten thousands. Without
writing them down he went TO the con-
ductor and reported the numbers. 1t
was afterward aScertained that all
were correct
One OF the attractions in a cheap
circus that showed at Albany, Ga, the
other day was a large baboon that
proved very interesting TO "A lot of lit
tie darkies. From admiring il they
fell to teasing the baboon and were
having great fun, when the big
monkey, worried beyond endurance.
grabbed brick and flung il at one par
ticularly aggravating negro boy. The
baboon's aim was good. his strength
great, and the brick, hitting the boy
behind the ear, knocked him sense
less. For "a long time il was thought
he was killed, but he got over it.
An old farmers daughter died and
the family pastor preached the SER
mon. In the course OF his remarks he
said: Our dear sister has gone to a
better land" This made the old man,
who was trying to sell out, highly in
dignant. "A crow never few over
better land than mine, he said.
"And, besides, just look al ii. / am
Offering it for fifty dollars an acre.
one-fourth down and the balance on
deferred payments. with good securi-