Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-11-17
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1t costs Georgia farmers $8O0,OO0 to
have their cotton weighed, at 10 cents
per bale.
The average English jail-bird gets
260 ounces of food, the average pauper
166 ounces.
There is now in store in the different
warehouses of Chicago 100000 BUSH
els of corn alone.
Holiness conventions" are becoming
quite common in the English Primitive
Methodist church.
More than two thousand Mormon
converts have left Liverpool for Utah
during the past summer.
1t is proposed to add twenty feet to
the height of the Washington monu-
ment before the building season closes.
The English Presbyterian Missionary
society sent out five new missionaries
to China during the month of October.
st. Bernard Catholic school, Akorn,
O., is temporarily closed on account of
malarial fever. Nearly one hundred
pupils arc suffering.
The product of the gold, silver and
copper mines of the southern states for
this year promises to be above the
startling figures of $20,000,000.
Coal-dealers along the Delaware and
Hudson canal are greatly troubled ON
account of the low water in the canal.
1t is impossible to obtain coal enough
to supply.
A Brevard county, Florida, man has
been growing pineapples for market
for the past ten years, and claims to
realize from SOD to $1,000 per acre
therefrom.
The Methodist Episcopal church will
establish a magnificent university in
Chattanooga, provided that city will
give the ground for the structure that
is to be built.
The canal around the Muscle shoals,
Tennessee, will be completed within
two years, when the Tennessee will be
navigable from Paducah to Knoxville,
some $50 miles.
Spiders and their webs form the de
signs embroidered on the f1ounces and
waistcoats of some Paris gowns. Gold
thread is the material usually employed
for this work. but sometimes silk is
used.
The California MethOdists have be-
gun to raise Haven memorial fund"
Of SIC, 900 in memory of the late Bishop
Haven, who died in Oregon, for perfect
ing the library, cabinets, etc, of the
University of the Pacific.
The Southern Baptist home mission
board has engaged to feed, clothe, doc
tor, and educate fifty boys and fifty
girls at the Levering manual labor
school, Indian Territory, and the Creek
nation has engaged to help the Board
with $1,000 year.
Adam Boyle, of Battleford, Canada
has hit ON a new way of raising pota-
toes. Being pressed for time in the
spring he dug holes in the sod and
dropped in the cuttings, GOVERN them
lightly with earth. This was all the
attention they received, and new he is
taking up heavy crop OF ja:ge and
fne-looking potatoes.
The "Punch Bowl of Hamden
Plains, Conn.,, in the center of which
grew large tree, and which has been
:, thing of geological interest 10 tour
lists, has been filled up by the change
in the layout of the track of the canal
road. The punch-bowl measured $50
feet across. and was 100 feet deep.
There is less oil and sugar in South
ern than in Northern corn. Each is
adapted to the wants IF the people
where it is grown, Heat-prodncing
elements are not required in Southern
climes, but nitrogen is. The Northern
climes heat-producipg elements are re-
quired as we'll as those which produce
flesh.
A New York man has bee farm OH
the top of his house. within few rods
of the postofIice. The bees have to fly
to Central Park to get at the blossoms
to collect their honey. They come
straight home to their hives, and know
the spot where they are placed. 1t is
said that the bees being so much above
the streets are not disturbed by the
noises of the city.
Isaac NJ. Phybe, an old resident of
New York, died in Brooklyn a few
days ago. He remembered going hunt
ing near Canal street, and seeing a
whipping-post in City hall park. He
enjoyed the honor of seeing every
president from Washington TO Grant,
and he was also one of the pall-bearers
at the funeral Of Henry Clay. He was
a captain in the war of 1912.
A letter from Niagara Falls says:
"The Oneida community are moving
their works here from Wallingford,
Conn.,, the water-power there not being
sufficient. They are going to manu-
facture spoons of all kinds, and every
kind of chain from the finest gold
watch chain to the heaviest OK chain
They will employ about two hundred
men. They have already received 1885,
!, 600 worth of orders"
1 A Boston lady, recently from the So
I ciety islands, took trip into the Sutro
;. tunnel, Nevada, a few days since. She
). was by no means discouraged or ex
: hausted when she had examined th'
g main tunnel, but insisted upon goint
q through the south branch also. Sh'
: went through to the face of the soutl
Il drift. and seemed to be little discom
II moded by the heat. She said it was M
IT hotter than the country she had oeel
D. living in.
re A remarkable stampede is in prt
d gress toward the Benz river in Bolivis
t. unexplored until last winter, when D.
If E. r. Heath ascended it, and disco,
1t cred vast forests of chincona an
1t caoutchouc. Fully 10000 men hav
E. since gone there, and the export of rub
1t ber alone has risen from $4,000 pound
4 to $4,000, with promises of 100000
s. aext year. DIR. Heath is sanguine Q
p. inding rich deposits of precious metal
a. and medicinal plants along the Madr
ot de Dios.