Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

600 of Jews in the world.
Iowa has 400 creameries, whose ma.
chinery is valued at $1,000,000.
Omaha spends about $4,000 a year
in instructing her 5000 children.
Louisiana has a school population of
290,O36. OF this number lS9,657 are
colored.
A butterfly fish. weighing 200
pounds, jumped into sail-boat near
Pascagoula, and created quite a COM
motion foundering about. 1t was
finally dubbed to death.
Over 700 wild turkeys are ON Santa
Cruz island, just across the channel
from Santa Barbara, Cal. The first of
these birds was placed there by Judge
Cation, of Ottawa, ILL.,, about FIVE years
ago.
The grave of General Braddock, de
feated near Pittsburg, in 1855, is a fe,
miles east of Uniontown, Fayett
county, Pa, on the old national pike.
There is no monument or stone to
mark it.
A great cavern has been found in
lava beds, near Ell Rita, Arizona. It
abounds in picturesque passages and
springs of ice-cold water, has many
chambers and halls, and is likely to at
tract crowds of visitors.
The hot earth in the vicinity of
Linkville, Oregon, is great curiosity.
Through this earth is constantly as
cending hot vapor, and both earth
and vapor are strongly impregnated
with remarkable curative properties.
Cologne cathedral having been fin
ished, the restoration of that of Aix-la-
Chapelle is proposed in preference to
IStrasburg Minister That at AK,
beautiful basilica, dates back to Charlie
magne, and is far richer than Cologne
IN its archaeology and associations.
Prof. George II. Cook. state geologist
of New Jersey has come to the conclu-
sion that Cape May and Cumberland
counties are slowly, but surely. set
tling into the sea. From facts in his
possession, he estimates that the sur
ace has sunk about eight feet during
/ he last one hundred years.
I Young ladies at West Point who
have cadet fever supply their military
idols with cigarettes on the sly, which
no doubt the cadets, by reason of cir
cumstances, consume on the sly. A
friend in need is friend indeed, es-
pecially about the time smoking is in
order.
To guard against another capture,
Paris has, during the last few years,
been greatly fortified. Saint Denis,
| Versailles, SevreS, and st. Cloud are
also now fully protected. An invest
ing army, to succeed, would now have
to be three times greater than the
Prussian army in 1870.
President GarGeld's children are
five in number. Henry A. and James,
the elder two, are well along in their
"teens;" Mollie, who is next, is about
IA, and after her comes Irwin Mellow
ell, with Abram following, the young
est of the five. Two other children
have been born to him, but both are
dead.
A child, or monster, was born lately
in town of south Italy. 1t Tor he)
was of the masculine sex, and had two
heads, two arms in the usual place,
with one hand each, third arm rising
out of the back. and furnished with
two hands, one body and two feet.
The creature did not live.
An unusually large number of peO-
pie well known in New York have
died this season at the summer resort
and watering-place hotels, and the fire.
quency of these deaths has created
considerable comment. Some of the
proprietOrs of the hotels in which the
deaths occurred feel very melancholy
about it, and have endeavored to sup
press the facts.
Stanley Rigsby killed bird on the
Humboldt, Nevada, the classification
of which puzzles the heads of Elko's
wisest naturalists. The biped resem-
bles "fy-up-the-creek," but is much
larger, measuring from tip to tip five
and half feet. The most remarkable
feature, however, is the bill, which is
nearly foot long, perfectly round, and
when closed is so true that it is difficult
to find the line of division.
Galveston News: Southern women
are working personally to improve the
condition of colored females by in
structing, advising and encouraging
them, and in circulating reading
matter among them. While out.
siders are discussing the incidence of
southern women, they are moving on
in the even tenor of their way, quietly
doing the duty nearest them, and pre-
serving the most admirable character
istics of the race.
The sale of 100000 acres of land in
the Santa Rosa district of Caohulla,
Mexico, has been made to David Mack
eller, of Australia, who a few months
ago, with party of friends, went and
personally inspected the ground. He
intends making sheep ranch of 1t.
4 We will stock it with 1000 of sheep.
4 This is one of the largest enterprises
I of the kind that has ever been inaug-
!. urated.
At dance the other evening, he
was introduced to very becoming
, miss, and so, of course, was doing his
J, best to merit his good luck. Feeling q
! sudden indisposition, he excused him.
/ self for a moment, and Oh returning
4 was in the act of removing few ker'
!, : nels of coffee from his vest pocket
u when the damsel astonished him by
. saying: "Don't chew that, ! had rather
. sell the new rum" He didn't apOl
gize.
At recent examination at girls
= school the question was put to class
! of little ones: "Who makes the laws {.
: our governments" Congress-" wa
the reply. allow is congress divided,
! was the next question. A little gir
!. in the class raised her hand. "Well,
: said the examiner. Miss Sallie, wha
!. do you say the answer is?" Instantly