The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-25

ported to have been captured at
I Orlando, Fla, during recent heavy
rain.
DIR. lie Baron, an eminent physi.
clan of France, says that such a thing
as person having a snake orlizard in
his stomach was never known and
never will be. All such cases have
been imaginary.
The sale of eyestOnes is brisker in
March than in any other month. The
"stones" are the mOuthpiece of a
certain species of shell which is
gathered in great quantities on the
Venezuela coast.
Lake Superior is said to be the
most ancient OF the great lakes, dating
back to Cambrian. and. it may be,
earlier times. and that it formed in
other ages one of the sources of
great river system, terminating on the
Atlantic seaboard.
"A teacher in public school not
hundred miles from Philadelphia re-
ceived the following excuse from an
overgrown boy, who had been absent
a day: "Miss-Pleas EXCUSE Frank
Tor bean absent yesterday as he had
to help his father kill the other hog
His Mother"
An Englishman has produced a
piece of mechanism containing four
hundred figures representing horses.
cannon, artillery, infantry. and band
OF fifty-two men. each with an instru-
ment- A tiny windmill turned by the
current from burning candles furnishes
the power to move all the figures
automatically. %,-e,
Miss A. A. Crisp, famous pro-
fessional nurse, who had received the
decoration of the royal red cross from
Queen Victoria. recently married one
of the physicians of the New Zealand
hospital, of which she had charge.
Her wedding gown was the costume Of
her profession, and the bridemaids
were nineteen nurses, all in uniform.
AS the nOrth-bound express train
pulled out of the station at Norman, /.
T.. recently the passengers were
treated to the sight of a lynching by
the citizens of that town. The people
had captured horse thief and taken
him to telegraph pole near the rail-
road to hang him. 1t was daylight, and
none Of the lynchers were disguised.
Just as the train started the man was
strung up.
The average Russian is said to
drink from ten to twelve glasses of tea
4 day. Every Russian merchant has
4 tea-urn in his counting-room. and
the lawyer or mechanic goes out to his
cafe for tea as often as the German
for beer or the Frenchman for wine.
At the cafes at all hours of the day
and night one can see great crowds Of
people slipping tea
The Surrogate of Suffolk County,
New York, lately admitted to probate
1 rather novel will. that of Richard l.
Peters, of Southold, L. L 1t directs
he investment of q sum of money, the
income of which shall be used in keep
ng his grave covered with growing
lowers. Another request is that q
um be invested at compound interest
or one hundred years. The principal
nd interest ut the expiration of the
ime are to be used to erect a monu-
nent and celebrate the centennial O.
lis death.
in Egypt ladies used to carry their
eviction for their feline pets so far a.
o 60 into mourning for them when
hey died by shaving off their eye
rows! Favorite cats used to be en-
aimed. too, and know of no quainter
r more grotesque objects than tho
1ummified cats which may be seen at
be British Museum. Even now cats
re- held in high esteem in Egypt, and
q at least one of the Khedive's palaces
{ Cairo there is free ration distrib-
ted every day to any cats that may
are to apply.
The British General
eports that last year 391.662 persons
! this country sent money by postal
rider to relatives in Great Britain and
-eland. the total sum amounting to
5, 25O. 600. while 7S.340 persons in Cam
da sent over $1,000 900 in the same
'ay, and the total sum sent in that
ay from Australia, the United States
nd South Africa in the year was over
!, 900, 900. or an average of over $780,.
DO a day, coming from 635, 256 per.
,ns. A writer thinks this shows
hat filial regard the British race has
n the parents left behind.
-"Notes and Queries" tells that
ards, which were invented at the close
the fourteenth century, were orig.