The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-06-23

through pair of field glasses, at the
movements of the enemy, only a short
distance away. Some Federal sharp
shooters were posted 80 as to command
the point where General Green was
making his observations. A shot
from one of them did its deadly work.
The bullet might have missed its mark
had it not struck the limb Of a tree
and been DETECTED, piercing the eide
of the generals head and pro 1ucirg
instant DEATH"
Martin Green, who was q brother
of the brilliant United States Senator
James s. Green, of Missouri, was
greatly beloved BY his troops from
this state, and the presence of his
brother, w. r. Green, at the encamp-
ment, will prove an interesting
incident.
That men don't marry because of
the extravaganza of women is-con-
centrated bosh It is because OF
their own extravaganza, or cultivs-
ton, or vanity, or whatever it is that
makes silk underwear, 81 k hats, top
coats, theater boxes, giving dinners
and flowers, and keeping or hiring
horses and carriages and goodness
knows what not, positive necessity
instead of luxury. Where can you
find man of to-day-whose years
have gone beyond first youth-with
ideas of q home, harpness and q
wife based on love instead of comfort?
And to-day does not mean
what it did when our fathers
and mothers aud the country itself
we're young. In those days it was the
highest degree of cheer and inspira-
ton to get buttons sewed on and
stockings mended and someone even
to adjust your collar and tie your
necktie and brush the lint from your
clothing and a thousand other little
things that an interested wife consid.
cred to be her personal duty. These
things, interspersed with the never.
failing one of love, which was never
forced into stumbling through any
discussion Of doubt, constituted the
sum and substance of comfort. Lux
uries were well enough then as now,
but If one could 60 without them.
surely the other could.
The following are sample questions
used by Superintendent Wolfe in ex.
aiming county teachers for State Ger.
tificates
Rhetoric Il. Behring Seal Fish.
cries; Baccarat Scandal; Canada e
Late Premier; Free Tours to Bible
Lands; the Lake Poets; The World's
Fair; Edgar Allan Poe.
With the above thong hts for mate
rial, compose . loose, q periodic, Q
balanced and q ford sentence.
| 2. With the above thoughts for
material, construct . metaphor and a
climax.
3. Define the figures and kind Of
sentences used in questions one and
1.-TWO.
| In Algebra The area of 9
square may be doubled by increasing
its length by six inches and its breadth
bv four inches. Determine its side
2. There are two numbers whose
difference is 9, and whose sum multi
piled by the greater is 266. What ART
those numbers?
8. A square court yard has grave
walk around it. The side of the cour,
wants 2 yards of being 6 times thu
breadth Of the gravel walk, and thu
number of square yards in the court
exceeds the number of yards in the
perimeter of the court by 1874 yards
Required the area of the court.
: 4. A man purchased . farm in the
form of a rectangle, whose length wa:
four times its breadth. 1t cost I q,
many dollars per acre as the field was
rods in length, and the number oil
dollars paid for the farm was -four
times the number of rods round it.
Required the price of the farm and its
length and breadth.
| 5. A banker has two kinds oil
money; it takes "a" pieces of the
first to make dollar, and "b" pieces
of the second to make the same sum.
If he is offered dollar for sc" pieces,
how many of each kind must be
give?
i 6. Distinguish between algebra and
arithmetic, and define quadratie
equation, radical equation and surd.
|, Col. c. C. Carpenter was in tn,
, city yesterday. By seeing him tn,
Gossiper was reminded of how, in tn,
. early spring of 1876. Carpenter, to
) gether with young lawyer named
| TEom, QUILTED an expedition to tn,