The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-08-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Bervatory." while her mother grestles
J with the weeks washing unaidsd.
The life Of locomotive crank-pin
which is almost the fret thing about a
engine to wear out is 60, 600 miles, ant
the life of S3-inch wheel is 60. rs.
miles
During her voyage Of l25 days from
Calcutta to New York the Timandra rar
through four hurricanes Oil bags huns
over the bows, sides and stern saved the
ship, as Captain Mowatt verify believes
Sixty years ago railroads we're un.
known in the United States, and the
population consisted of IL, OOO, 900 PEG.
pie; to-day there are upward of 165, O0O
miles of railroad, and the population
has increased to 65, 600. O0O
| Iron Mountain, NJ CHI, has a COW
club. On joining each COW owner pays
into the treasury as cents for each COW
in his possession. and when a members
COW dies an assessment is made and $40
is paid 10 the loser. After the initiation
fee the assessments are all the memb ers
| pay into the club.
| The ostrich farm at Oceanside was
raised recently by California lion. He
got into the pen where sixteen ostriches
were kept and scattered them right and
left The men in charge secured the
country and secured all but one, which
is still at large. The ostriches were
valued at 81, 900 each.
Some OF the bar-tenders in Derby,
Conn, have live snakes within easy
reach. When a man has imbibed too
freely. and desires more liquor. the bar
tender puts . small live snake on a
plate and quietly places 1t before him.
Tho patron thinks 1t a snake of the
imagination--a premonition Of . vio-
lent attack OF the jim-jams-and sud-
denly decides that he is not very thirsty.
Did you ever think of how much
space the people who die every year re-
quire for decent burial? II one could
be content with q grave two by six feet,
$3.50 bodies could be inferred in one
acre Of ground, allowing nothing for
walks monuments, roads, etc. On this
crowded plan London's annual dead,
numbering about $1,000. would fill a
cemetery Of about twenty-three acres
An utterly unprecedented accident
was caused by freak Of the wind in
Paxton. Ill During heavy W ndstorm
the spire Of the Congregational Church
was raised on the wings of the wind,
elevated to considerable height and
then plunged point foremost through
the roof The novel sight drew vast
crowds OF spectators. who were anxious
to behold church stecple wrong end
upward.
"A preventive of hydrophobia has
been discovered by Colonel W. G. Hill,
OF Georgia Some time since his dog. |
with several others, was bitten by a |
rabiG canine, and remembering a rem.
edy which he had often SUCCESSFULLY |
used for rattlesnake bites. ne drenched |
the dog with alum water. All the other
dogs bitten developed hydropl.ob.a,
while his has never shown the slightest
symptom of rabies.
The latest fad in medicine is known
Is ''orifcial surgery" The disciples OF
his new cult look chiefly to the OPEN
ngs'in the human form, believing. with
he great bard, that all men have their
Exits and their entrances, and that il |
-hese are preserved in a normal condi-
.ion the internal reg ons wi take care
d themselves The New York Medical
Record styles the practitioners of this
Irt ''oriphysicians."
If We reckon the population of the
lobe at I, 400, 600, 600 of human beings.
here would be room for them all on
he frozen surface of the lake of Con-
tance tSwitzerlandI, and the crush
would not be so very great either, as
here would be space. of four square
eet Tor each person; if the ice were to ,
reak and the whole human race were
hus to sink into a watery grave. the
evel OF the lake would only beraised
tx inches ..t
"A modern Darius Green is Mr. Pat
lex Peters, of Prince Edwards Island, q,
Tho has modelled flying machine after !
be wings and motion of bird. and con- 4
IDENTIFY expects to solve with il the [,
roblem OF aerial navigation. The 4
bird, as he calls it, weighs thirty ,
ight pounds. is very easily managed. /,
nd claims interest from the rumor that |,
has carried Mr. Peters two miles in !,
,ur minutes 1t is soon to be exhibited
/ the States I,
AN example of blind and unthink- /,
,S mimicry, such as most folks suppose q
he Chinese alone are given to. is seen .,
! the little tool which fish dealers use
'r scraping the scales of fish. The q,
an who invented this scraper, a Few y
Ears ago made it by tearing ap.rt a n
orse comb and attaching one smooth q
ade to the handle in place OF the row =,
toothed blades which had formed the n
NIB Other fish dealers saw him using =,
IS invention. and borrowed it to have "a
hers made like it The copies were HI
ade with the useless earmarks Of the
'rse comb, like the original. Now the to
ticle is q staple. and thousands are "a
rned out but the purposeiess relics of b,
% comb are reproduced In every ONE "a