The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-09-03
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

| Inc consumption OF peanuts Is
8. 200. 900 bushels season.
The wealthiest colored man in the
South is New Orleans sugar planter
named Marie. He has an income of
$40. 600. and is cultivated gentleman.
The once fighting Modoc Indians
have become Industrious farmers in the
past twelve years and half of them
have professed Christianity.
"A Wisconsin lover wrote to his
sweetheart: There is not a globuIe
of blood in my heart that does not bear
your photograph"
"A colored man. on trial for rob-
berry in Washington. instructed his at
torney to challenge every negro on
the jury. He said he preferred to en-
trust his case 70 wt..e mon.
A farmer - Huntingdon County.
Pa, caught an owl and put it in
his barn TO fight his rooster. The
owl fought. and the rooster did the
best he could. but when the battle was
over the rooster was dead
A Kingston (N. y minister mar
ried a couple one night recently, and
when signatures were asked to the
certificate it was found that neither
the bride, groom, best man nor brides
maid could write their names. They
all signed by making marks.
"A Georgia colored man is very
fond of alligators as food product.
He captures the saurians, and. after
duly preparing them, cures them as he
does his hams. In his smOkehOuse at
present five or six of these reptiles are
hung up undergoing the smoking pro-
cess.
The crowd of immigrants that
may be seen in Castle Garden any day
at present are subjected to a more
rigorous examination than the immi-
grants of former years were. A good
many are sent back to the countries
from which they came, on the ground
that they belong to the excluded
classes.
At one of the crossroads in Brazil,
an idol carved from the wood of an
orange tree was placed for the Indians
to worship. On one occasion it was
noticed that an old red man omitted to
perform his act of obeisance. On be-
ing commanded to kneel he stubbornly
replied: mo; knew him when he
was an orange tree"
"A Washington woman. prosecutor
in a late assault and battery case. who
called the courts attention to the
marks on her face, the result, she said,
of the beating she had received, almost
tainted when the Judge ordered an Off
Ger to closely examine the injuries.
He rubbed a handkerchief over her
face, when the marks instantly disap-
peared. having been made with paint.
The case was then dismissed.
"A trader at Americas, Ga, boasts
of having a remarkably smart wife,
Although he has been married ten
years, she has never asked him for
dollar and he has never given her any
money. He generally bOrrows from
her. and she makes more than he does.
She sells ali home products, such as
meat, lard. chickens. wood. hay, etc,
and beats his store. He does not buy
any thing but sugar, coffee and lit
tie rice, as he has every thing else to
sell off his place.
On the evening of May 20. 1866,
The citizens of Boston celebrated the
repeal of the Stamp act by hanging
one hundred and eight lanterns in the
Old Liberty Tree on Essex street
One of the lanterns, which, according
to its inscription, was hung on 1.-The
west bough. opposite Frog lane" has
been in the Zimmerman family ever
since. and was recently presented to
the Bostonian Society by the widow
and children of the late Joseph III.
Zimmerman. of Roxbury.
"A San Francisco spinster of uncer-
tain age. possessed of much wealth
and little beauty, agreed to give a
marriage bureau 800 to secure her a
husband. Forty dollars was paid down.
A marriage resulted. but the remain
ing 500 was not paid. whereupOn Mrs.
Meyer, proprietress of the bureau,
sued for $1S5 for services rendered.
This included the unpaid $50, 500 for
board and lodging and $50 for we'd
ding breakfast. The bride. to avoid
notoriety, compromised by paying
$50
AT a recent fashionable wedding
in New York the father of the bride
wore a broad grin as he walked up
the church aisle with his daughter.
During the ceremony he chuckled sew
eral times. and at its close he broke
into an unmistakable laugh AS he is
a prominent citizen of unimpeachable
sdbriety. and is known to have the
tenderest regard for his family and