The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-07-07
THE MAN-ABOUT-TOWN
Current Gossip For Sunday Morn
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ing Digest.
Skirts took an upward tendency
yesterday-the wind did blow.
The hot wind doth blow,
And it will not tnow,
So what will the base ball crank do poor
thing?
He'll HE to the Park
Aud there he will bark"
And he'll cuss the umpire, BY jing, poor
thing.
MANY are the eulogiums passed
upon the late lamented Joe Emmett.
The famous actor was one of the
wealthiest men on the stage, and one
of his proudest boasts was, that he won
the hearts of the children and women
where ever he went-the best proof of
q sympathetic and tender nature.
Ifpersons are rewarded according to
the hearts they have made happy and
the roses they have thrown 10 the
pathway of the wesry, Flooding,
helpless poor Of earth, hey ond the
waters Of the mystic river, poor Joe
Emmet, God bless his nance will
never occupy back seat.
'tDid you ever notice absent
minded persons much" asked friend
of the MAN ABOUT TOWN
yesterday. MAT answered that he
had eeen . few cases.
"Well," said he "tbe other day 1
boarded Q street car. pretty soon q
distinguished individual entered and
dropped q quarter in the slot. He
was reminded of his mistake by the
driver when he asked, How much
am DUE" "A nickle, sir is the
fare" said that dignitary. Without
a word he put 10 another pickle and
took his seat. The man about town
remarked here that his waitress was
80 absent-minded that when told to
bring q potato she always brought q
biscuit, or vice versa. The crowd
yelled the cock crew and the band
hummed "McGinty is back" while
the man about town went in and
took his share of the tr.ar, q glass of
peanuts.
$50 Mrs. Hayes has changed the
name Of her son, said a prominent
Missourian to the NJ. A. T. yesterday.
swell, he confined, l am glad she
did it. The name of jefferson Davis
ought to be preserved. His hopes
and ambitit Ms went down with the
Confederacy, and like it never to rise
sgain, but, whatever his faults NAV
have been, it was always admitted
even by his enemies, that for far.
reaching and sagacious, keen, sensitive
intellect he stood without q peer"
Mrs. Hayes is the only child of the ex-
Confederate chieftain, and resides at
Colorado Springs. Colo and is one of
the most intelligent and winsome
ladies In the United States. She in
herits the sturdy ways of old Trough
and ready" Zach Taylor who was her
grandfather. The man-about-town
balls little Jefferson Davis, and may
he live long and be exceedingly pros.
porous.
The Man-About-Town hereby
tenders his sincere thanks to Mrs.
Lolly Belle Wyley. of Atlanta, Ga,
for a copy of Society, a neat, we'll.
edited spicy journal, which as its
name indicates is devo'ed to social
gossip. The Man-About-Town knows
Mrs. Wyley well, she is one of the
foremost writers Of the south, man
or womsn, and is withal a most
charming lady. Mrs. Wyley
is one of the few sensible
women, who has the grit
to condemn what ever is unworthy,
and eulogizs that which is worthy.
If there is snything the NJ. A. T.
despises more than another it is
manly woman or a womanly man.
See? Mrs. Lolly Belle Wyley is Ut
only a lady, but what is better and
boiler and dearer q woman and that
OF the highest, noblest of all Gods
creation. she's womanly woman.
A ary,sad, sleepy, forlorn looking
individual was seen at one of the city
hotels yesterday by the MAN ABOUT
TOWN. Wanting to lend a
helping hand to the un.
fortunate the NJ. A. T. wan
dered over to the Aforesaid individual
who seemed entirely lost in medita-
tion-'Anything troubling you, my
friend, queried the NJ. A. I. "Weli,
you just bet there is" said he. Last
night l travelled the live long night iu
. Pullman and I am all broke up-
Knocked out, diseuste and at war
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