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Show IN THE WILDS OF MISSOURI. There has not been a saloon in Shel-byville Shel-byville in fifteen years. The population popula-tion has increased 40 per cent and the commerce doubled. Drunkenness is uuknown. Wife-beating and desertion are never heard of. Divorces are never asked for, and social scandals aro so few that the town is very dull for Mrs. Grundy. ------ Two hundred and forty couples were married in Boone county during the year IH',10. In thirty-one Instances the bride was under 18 years of age; in eleven cases the groom had not attained at-tained his majority, while in eight instances in-stances both bride and groom were under age. A peculiar feature of the record is that two persons were granted license to marry the same girl. The fellow who secured the last license got her. The first liceuse was returned unsatisfied, but the disappointed young man could not get his doilar back, -t- -4- h- Tho Sedalia Bazoo says rabbits are so thick in Pettis county and their living so devilish poor since the snow came that they hobble right up to a hunter and ask to be shot. David Moss, a Jasper county farmer, aged 05 years, the father of twenty-two children, eloped with Bertha Williams, aged only 15 years, last weok, and tho two were married in the Indian territory. terri-tory. Moss is worth $25,000, and has buried two wives. Ing-alla aad the Mayflower. New YorU Star. The paragraph in "The Man About Town" the other day in reference to Senator Ingalls of Kansas recalled ex-Congressman John J. Adams of this city a story which he once heard of the keen-tongued Kansan. It runs this way: During the Cleveland administration adminis-tration Secretary of War Eudicott was one of the best entertainers at the na. tional capital. At oue of his famous dinner parties Senator Ingalls found himself placed by the side of Mrs. Endi-cott. Endi-cott. In the conversation which ensued en-sued the lady dropped some remarks about the Endicott family which bad done so much for New England in the earliest days of its settlement. "Oh, yes," remarked the senator, "I know all about the Endicotts. My own ancestors came over with them from England in 1028." "Indeed," said Mrs. Endicott. evidently evi-dently wondering, "and yet I cannot recall the name of Ingalls, though I am almost certain that I have in my memory mem-ory all the names of those on the Mayflower May-flower that needed to be recorded." Aud then the blue-blooded woman looked puzzlingly and questioningly at the western senator. "It is hardly surprising," said Mr. Ingalls, in reply, "indeed, I should be astonished if you could recall their names, for," and his voice was strong enough to be heard far down the table, "my ancestors who came over in the Mayflower were shoemakers, and I understand they made good shoes." Mrs. Endicott smiled, and ever since the blue-blooded Massachusetts woman and the bright senator from Kansas have been the kindliest of friends. |