The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-11-12
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Il ne Ffenc.j nave over Oh ways OF
cooking fowls, and ll3 methods OF
cooking eggs.
superintendent ireland says that
while some of the vicious dogs in the
Philadelphia Kennel Club shows were
ugly when men attempted to pat them.
the touch of wOman's hand was well
coined by the most savage brute.
A New York bootbIack of an en-
terprising turn of mind sends out his
business cards with the inscription:
'ShOes shined by week or month at
your residence daily, or other job
work done. Send for me by mail"
"A young man of Americas had
his picture taken recently, also one OF
his pointer dog. Then he called on a
young lady, presented the pictures and
asked her to take her choice. She Sc
leeted the picture of the dog and re-
marked that she would look at it and
think of him.
A coroner's jury in Cheshire. En-
gland. returned verdict of temporary
insanity in the case of shoemaker
who had hanged himself. The poor
man had married a widow with sixteen
children. and. as the coroner observed,
they wanted no better proof that he
had lost his senses.
One of the prairie schooners"
which rolled into Oklahoma had this
inscription painted in huge letters
upon its white canvas cover: ''Chinch-
Buged in Illinois, Cicloaned in Ne
braska, White capped in Indiana. Bald
knobbed in Missoury, Prohibited in
Kansas. Oklahomy or bust"
There are two idle superstitions
about cramps that come in the legs
and start man out of his bed quicker
than any thing else. One is to stick a
jackknife in the headboar.l of bed on
retiring for the night. and the other is
to arrange the slippers very carefully.
bottom up, at the foot of the bed.
"A Maine farmer, vowing death to
foxes. placed carcass near his barn
and then connected it by wire under
the snow with bell in his bedroom.
a fox could not do vigorous work on
that piece OF meat without ringing the
bell, whereat the schemer would wake
up and 60 forth to the slaughter. He
killed twenty-five foxes by that device
during the winter.
The Sandwich Island alphabet has
only l. letters; the Burmese, 10; the
Italian. 20; the Bengalese, 81; the
Hebrew. Syriac. Chaldee, Samaritan
and Latin. % each; the French, %;
the Greek. 81; the German and Dutch,
20 each; the STenish and Slavonic, "a
each; the Arabic has %; the Persian
and Coptic. 81; the Georgian, 80; the
Armenian, 81: the Russian, Al; the
Muscovite, 43; the Sanscrit and Japa-
nese. so; the Ethiopic and Tartaric,
POP.
THE hottest day that ever ex-
perienced," said Paul Mercier, was
during the summer of 1859. while
aboard ship at Key West, Fla. The
sun beamed down upon the deck of the
vessel. and seemed to be so close that
it would almost raise b!isters. The
fires had gone out in the kitchen, and.
as was hungry, / procured several
fresh eggs, and put them on the deck.
The deck was covered with pitch,
which was boiling with the heat from
the sun. In less than five minutes
my eggs were cooked hard. This
story may seem incredible, but it is
true"
1t is said that an astonishing feat
ure of the legal practice in Camden
County, Georgia, is the number of
hogs stolen and the excuses given by
those accused of the theft When
one of the colored inhabitants wants
to employ a lawyer to defend him the
conversation is generally something
like this: "Boss. kin / speak wild you
privately a minute?" Certainly
What can do for you?" ''Well, boss,
dey got me up in de big court"
What is the nature of the charge
against you?" ''Dey got me 'scused
of sumtin' bout hog, but it's all
through prejudice"
An amusing story comes from
Japan of a native doctor who had so
far assimilated his practice to Euro
pean methods that an English resi-
dent. being i'll, sent for him in the alb
sence OF the only European doctor of
the district. The Englishman having
deliberately described his symptoms,
the Jap doctor in his turn made a
long and very vague statement, from
which it was impossible to gather any
thing really definite. but come. doc
tor" exclaimed the patient at last.
naturally anxious to know the nature
of his complaint, ''you have not told
me what it is?" "Ah. you ask what
it is?" returned the native medico, in