Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-07-07
NO. 5.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IL Is not Often That pig will let
pen holder.
Opium is said to kill 100000
Chinese annually.
In Germany 5000 miles of telegraph
wire are underground.
A beehive is the poorest thing in
the world to fall back OH.
1t costs Chicago $225,OO year to
light her 1852 street lamps.
Tobacco culture is being very sue
cessfully prosecuted now in British
India.
A woman forgives the audacity
which her beauty prompts us to be
guilty of.
Arkansas is crowed with men buying
up timber lands. Thousands of acres
are sold weekly.
A lady of Limerick, Me-, found in
fresh fish, the other day, an English
gold coin worth $3.50.
Jacob Tash, of North Carolina. died
few days ago at the age of 81, leav-
ing 1,OSl living descendants.
1t is said that in fresh air a distance
of two feet is sufficient to prevent
catching contagious diseases.
Arizona wants 10000 more women,
and offers low rates of fare and speedy
marriage among other inducements.
New parasol handles are in the form
OF sword-hilts or champagne corks. 1t
IS hard to tell which IS the worst taste.
A small reward will be given for the
production of young lady who has
eloped who is not beautiful and accom-
plished.
A .Steubenville, Ohio, pistol-ball
fired at maple tree sixty feet distant,
rebounded and hit the marksman in
the leg.
One New York cigar factory made
l,OS1 ,639 cigars one week, the largest
number ever made in single establish
ment i'll six days.
A man has written to millionaire
Mackey for $l00,000,000 to buy up all
the goats in the world and monopolize
the kid glove trade.
The appraisers of the estate of the late
Mark Hopkins, of the Central Pacific
railroad, have filled an account which
foots up $20,0O0,O00.
Alligator-skin boots and shoes have
become so popular that 25.000 hides
were consumed in their manufacture
last year in this country.
Lord Shaftesbury lately stated that
$lSO,OO0,000 have been spent on church
building in England in this century,
and yet there are unbelievers.
"You sing and I'll work the pedal,
said Church street father, Sunday
evening, and he lifted high-collared
young man from the front porch.
The mad dog that jumped over a six
foot fence to bite a mans leg must
have felt terribly mortified and disgust
ed when he found it was wooden.
AT Turin there is a little girl, only
nine years of age, who plays the man
doline SO wonderfully that she receives
10000 francs week for her perform.
anceS.
1t doesn't seem good policy for
church TO Shine up its collection plates
to such a degree of brilIiancy as to
turn their heads when it circulates i'm
their vicinity.
The sanguine secretary of the state
board of immigration estimates that
the number of emigrants who will set
tie in Minnesota this year Will not be
far from 60,0O0
A recently arrived Swis5-Frenchman.
undoubtedly crazy, created considerable
of a sensation in Green Bay, Wis, re-
Gently, by carrying carpet-sack with
some $4,000 in it.
A new industry, the extensive culti-
walton of flowers for perfumery purpo-
ses, is about to be started in California.
In Europe it is very remunerative;
good crop of lavender will yield 81 500.
A lady in New Brunswick, N. j.,
was so seriously hurt by running the
prongs of steel table-fOrk into her
thumb that she was finally compelled
to have her arm amputated above the
elbow.
A physician at Trenton, Ohio, has
cured himself of smallpox by eating
lemons, and looks upon the fruit as
specific of as much certainty and power
in smallpox as quinine is in intermit-
tent fever.
In the room of railroad depot i'm
Iowa is the following placard over the
clock behind the counter: "This is a
clock-it is running-it is right-it is
set every day at ten o'clock-now keep
your mouth shut"
Frogs legs, "a dozen on a skewer, are
now hawked about the streets of Paris.
The frogs are obtained by hunters
armed with small bows, the arrows of
which are attached to string, and thus
perform the Office of harpoon.
Mamma: "Whv, my dear Willie,
what in the world is the matter with
little Oscars head?" Willie: "Well,
we'er playing William Tell and some
how my arrow won't hit the apple, but
keeps pluggin' his eyes and nose"
| A young fellow once offered to kiss
a Quakeress. Friend" quoth she,
"you must not do it." "Oh, but, by
Jove, I must" said the youth. "Well
friend, as thee hast sworn, thee may
do it, but thee must not make prac-
tice of it."
II Princess Stephanie, who has hitherto
, borne such a simple and pretty title,
is now afflicted, in accordance with
ponderous Austrian court etiquette
, "Her Royal and Imperial Highness,
. the Most Serene Frau Princess, Arch
duchess Stephanie."
There was row i'm the gallery of a
Dublin theaetr, q scuffle, and one voice
shouted: "Turn him outT Another
"Throw him overf' "Ay," added a
third,-a very blOod-thirsty Milesian
land don't waste him, boys. Kill q
fiddler with him.
A diamond solitaire is no longer the
visible sign of an engagement. Three
Igypsy rings, which are hoops of dia
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