The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-10-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

tSuT HOrlSt COuluH L opcli 0DOuqucI
and a high school professor went
wrong on ..frankincense."
| 1t has been found in experiment.
ing at Leipsic that skin grated from
white to n colOred person becomes
gradually black. and that black skin
grated upon a white person in time
turns white.
"A man was arrested in St. Louis
the other day who had one hundred
and ninety-four door mats stored away
! in his barn, every one of which he had
stolen and carried home. He said he
intended to start bench show of rugs
pretty soon.
! For forty-eight years there was
not 4 law case in the town of Meddy-
bemps, Me; neither was there law
yer. But a short time ago a lawyer
hung out his sign in this primitive
Paradise. and two citizens at once
went to law over n fence line.
Since the termination of the dyna-
mite patent in 1881. there has been
immense industry in the invention of
; high explosives. AMI there are now
more than 500 varieties. A dynamite
cartridge one foot in length takes only
la 900 of a second to explode.
An old man living at WeldspOrt.
n. Y. wanted to be buried i'm barrel
when he died. and although he had
the barrel in his house for nineteen
long years, his wife managed the fu-
neral TO suit herself. and he went into
a So coffin instead of the barrel.
-Corns are more prevalent in the
damp climates near the sea shore,
than in the interior of the country.
Boston and New York people who
come West say that complaints about
cOrns are not nearly so prevalent as
at home. Damp sea air seems to set
corns shoOting.-ShOe and Leather
Review.
The total expense of cultivating
an acre of grapes in California is Sl5.
{ The curing and packing of an acre OF
grapes, making a hundred boxes OF
raisins. is So. And as the average
price of raisins is $1.50 box, there is
a net profit of $50 per acre in the raj
sin business
A Lancaster. Pa. residence was
entered by thief who ate all the food
in the house and left a note reading:
Thanks for the slim lunch" The
tender misSive was written on a linen
collar. This was fastened on a stick,
the other end of which was thrust into
loaf of bread.
Mountain hunters OF Pennsylvania
are said to use indigo instead of
whisky 70 cure rattlesnake bites. An
incision is made in the wound and
piece of indigo. the size of pea. in
serted. a generous dose of sweet oil
is given as soon after as possible. The
result is said TO be entirely satisfac-
tory.
A pine tree on a mountain in Al
pine County, Cal, was struck by light
ming during thunderstorm. The
fluid followed the trunk into the
ground and Immediately there burst
forth "A brilliant fire. which has con-
tinued to burn ever since. 1t is be-
lieved the lightning ignited bed of
coal, which is now feeding the flame.
The goat of a liveryman at Ship
ahewanna. Ind, got hold of its own
er's vest lately and ate $40 in bills and
two promissory notes for $50 each.
The meal was fatal; after being killed
and dissected the animal poured out
fragments enough of the greenbacks
to justify hope of their redemption.
but the promissory notes were too far
gone to be + covered.
Speaking OF an elegant new rail-
road station in Cincinnati. an official
of the road says: IL fear it is too
splendid. You see some people may
think they will have TO pay more for
their tickets because the Office is so
fine. Fact. / assure you. Lots OF
grangers will be afraid they will have
to pay more for their tickets because
OF the style of the Office. IL the Office
were a dingy. black little hole they'd
think tickets would be sold there dirt
cheap"
Says the Cambridge Daily: 'In
every Presidential election the con-
tributions to great missionary enter
prises fall off. This Is very curious
thing. and there are several explana-
tons. The supporters of these char
tiles are many of them politicians. and
they subscribe so heavily to campaign
funds that they can not make their
usual contributions for religious work.
This accounts for part . the reduc-
ton in Presidential years. The re-
mainder of the decrease from this
cause is due tn the political excite
ment among the people. and the diff
Guilty of fixing the minds of the people
nm mara tbap ono thiup NJ a time