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


A witness in court, being interro-
gated as 10 his knowledge of the de-
PENDANT in the case, said he knew
him intimately well: He had supped
with him, sailed with him, and horse
whipped him.
The largest horse farm in the
world lies thirteen miles northeast of
Cheyenne, W. T.. where the stock
holders of the Post Percheron horse
ranch have invested some 81, 225, 600
in l20, 900 acres of land and the i'm
prOvements and stock thereon.
The county court house at Pitts
burgh, Pa, cost nearly %. 900. 600.
The tower rises TO a height of i20 feet.
1t has a bridge over which the prison
ers pass between the court rooms and
the Jail, which il modelled after the
famous Bridge of Signs" in Venice
A very careful and saving Chicago
policeman picks up all the old horse
shoes he finds in the street and sus-
ponds them from the lamp posts on the
corners. Every fortnight or so a
second hand iron merchant calls around
md collects the accumulated wealth OF
''c;I>t-Off" shoes.
A Rhode Island young man, forty
me summers since, proposed to a
young girl. He has kept on proposing
ever since, and the other day, when he
had attained the ripe and mature age
OF seventy-twO, she accepted him
There are not many girls who can keep
4 lover forty-One years.-HOtcI .HaH.
Here Is "a nut for vegetarians to
crack. An Indian runner lives almost
entirely OH dried meat, and he can
stand more fatigue than any other man
in the world. The BlackfoOt runners
do three hundred miles over the rough
est country in four days, and in the
race Il horse stands no show against
them.
dealers recognize four notes in
:bc song of Il canary. and they can tell
by listening to it for few minutes
whether the bird is German or Amer
lean. 1t is said that American birds
fail IL hold the rolling note. which is a
continuous melody, rising and falling
only To rise again, while the German
birds do.
An old writer says: "A long chin
declarcth n man To be pcaceable yet a
babblcr. They that have little chins
arc much 10 be avoided and take heed
of. for they are full of impiety and
wickedness, and are spies like unto
serpents. IL the end Of the chin be
round, it is the sign of nice manners;
but the chin OF a real man is square. $"
A Southern paper contains the
following melancholy item OF local
news: The extreme heat has melted
Tie clapper out of the BOOz Hotel
breakfast bell, and now n slate-colOred
darkey, with Il linen buster and huge
palmetto fan in each hand, walks out
into the piazza and in sonOrOus tones
cries: "Ah, there! Breckas, sab,
breckas, come on 10 breckas," and the
drummers reluctantly respond.
The Atheneum Library, Bury St.
Edmunds, has a biography of man
named Corder which is bound in n
piece of human skin. Corder murdered
his sweetheart and married some one
more to his liking. Having been de-
tected and hanged, the doctor who OBJ
tanned his corpse sent piece of his
skin, properly cured. to the publisher.
and copy of the dead mans life was
accordingly bound up in his skin.
The scheme OF some Jacksonville
(Ky.) landlords for compelling delin-
qucnt boardcrs to pay up would be
an admirable one were it not that its
operation is violation Of law. When
aJeiTcrsonville boarder finds himself
50 much in arrears that ii seems best
to him To retire privately and expedi-
tiously from the mansion of his credit
or. the landlady publishes his name,
and be can not get board anywhere
else in town until the bill is paid.
A mans name is most important
part of him, but he has nothing to do
in selecting it. And parents in NAM
ing their children often reveal lack
of common sense that l. most cruel To
the victims =: their folly. We recall
one splendid fellow whose initials were
L. G. :. A. He never wrote his full
name. Asked one day to tell what his
name was he with many bushes re-
GREETED that his father had had him
bantized ''Thaddeus Constantine So
bieski -Aurelius." Now what worse af-
Fiction could have been put upon a
person than to compel him to carry
that name through life?- BufaiO Com
mcrcidi.
"A Dakota man essayed the peril
Gus task of assisting his wife on wash
day. He was assigned tn hanging the
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