The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-04-28
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

The aggregate wealth of all the
rieh men of half dozen American
cities is not equal to the sum possessed
by New York's richest citizen.
-Signor Giordano Succi's fasting rec
ord is as follows: Thirty days in Milan.
thirty in Lisbon. thirty-fve in Brussels,
and forty in London. He now proposes
to treat New York to forty-fve-day
fast.
Leopold IL, King of the Belgians, is
tall, slim and remarkable handsome
man. He has broad forehead, delicate
features and fine. full beard that has
begun to turn gray. He is ffty-six
years old.
The heir apparent of the japanese
empire became of legal age eleven
years. on November 8, 1889. He was
appointed to some honorary Office and
given a sword that has been kept in the
imperial family since 7Ol.
Ecclesiastical nomenclature has
fioored many an ambitious reporter.
The other day Western paper in a small
town announced that the rector of the
Episcopal church was about to resign
from the rubric and become an honorary
chasuble.
y Two eminent clersymen have re-
Gently preached in Hartford, Conn,
\ church, and their sermons were so near
ly alike that people began to whisper
the awful word plagiarism. BUTT turned
out that they both used the same book
of sermon skeletons Unless carefully
used, a sermon skeleton is dangerous
weapon.
"A modest epitaph that may be read
on a tomb in a cemetery at Madrid:
t'Hic facet Juan Pinto, the Spanish
Orpheus- When he arrived in Heaven
he joined his voice to those of the arch
angels. Scarcely had He heard it than
the Almighty exclaimed: BE silent
all, and allow the illustrious tenor, Juan
Pinto to sing alone"
The venerable Henry w. Paine, of
Cambridge, Mass, who has practiced
law ever since 1914, still visits his Office
daily. 1t was he, the Boston Herald
says, who originated the famous re-
| mark, ut was law until your honor
spoke" the same having been addressed
to the Chief Justice of Massachusetts,
who interrupted his argument by saying,
'tMr. Paine, you know that is not law"
General Sheridan was troubled all
his life by an affection Of the chest
General Williams says that Sheridan
nearly died in the Yellowstone Park
while making the trip with President
Arthur His pulse was over 100
minute and alarmed the physician,
who was told by the General and his
brother mike" that the normal condi-
ton of General Sheridan was always
over 100
John Brown, son of John Brown, of
Harper's Ferry fame, lives quietly at
Put-in-Bay, O., where he cultivates a
small vineyard and fruit farm. He is
an old man now, having been one of
the prominent persons in the stirring
period in which his father figured. He
is much annoyed by tourists, who insist
upon hunting him up and discussing the
exciting events around Harper's Ferry
just prior to the war
The Duke of Clarence and Avondale
has presented to the Geological Gardens
the two lions which have been sent 20
him from the Kallywar district in India.
The members of the Geological Society
are glad enough to receive the present
but the Princes friends and attendants
are good deal more glad that the pres
emit should be made. The Prince had
fancy for keeping the monsters himself,
la Bernhardt but feared ridicule.