Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-09-01
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Twenty-four white women hay,
married negroes in Boston in one year
General Butler is cruising in thu
neighborhood of Cape Breton in his
yacht.
Senator Plumb has, in the past two
years, cleared $4,000, 900 in mining Cd.
perations.
Mississippi produced more cotton in
1880 than any other state, the number
of bales being 995,80S.
The directors of the northern Indiana
state prison relet the labor of 125 con-
victs at sixty-three cents per day.
A brand-new baby in North Caro-
lima rejoices in the devoted supervision
of three great-grandfathers, and two
great-grandmothers.
A farmer near Bellefontaine, O., has
a pig ten months old, weighing $50
pounds that was born with but two
legs, and 1t walks around on them.
The number of horses, cattle, mules,
sheep. and hogs in Ohio by the returns
of 1881 is as follows: Horses, 7O7 OBS
cattle, 1888, ,462; mules, 23,078; sheep,
4, 1928, LA, and hogs, 1,795, ,770.
Two donations towards the erection
of the new law school building and
the physical labratory of Harvard Uni
versity aggregate $35O,OOO. One do
nor gave 800, 900 and the other $780,
600.
The destructive effects of the use of
gas near the pictures of Baudry in the
new Opera house, Paris, have become
so obvious that The authorities decide
to illuminate that part of the theatre
by electricity.
An ant town in the Allegheny
mountains consists of 1,600 or LOO
nests, which rise in cones to height of
from two to five feet. The ground is
riddled in every direction with subter-
ranean passages.
America cannot equal England in
her missionary gifts. America gives,
on an average of few years, $1,5O0,-
600 annually. England, $3,50O,OO0,
Germany, $500,000. Where is our
boasted Christian liberalityp
= Natural Bridge tract in Virgin
ia has recently been purchased as a
part of a scheme, which is not yet fully
developed, but which contemplates the
laying out of an extensive park, and
possibly the establishment of a school
of forestry.
A resident of San Jose, California,
sent to New York for three pairs of
blankets, the lnest to be had for mon
ey, and now California newspapers are
jubilant over the fact that, when they
arrived, one pair was found to bear the
brand of a San Jose woolen mill.
A company has been formed in
Edinburgh, Scotland, by capitalists in
that city, and Dundee and Montreal,
for the purpose of promoting immi-
grafton to Manit ba where they have
bought four hundred thousand acres
of land from the Paclte railway
company.
The biggest white perch ever caught
in the Ohio river was taken at Cincin-
natl one day last week. 1t weighed
thirty-one pounds, and the "lucky
stones" over the eyes were about the
size of silver twenty-five cent piece,
pearl-like in appearance, and distinctly
marked with a ''2."
Captain Isaac Bassett, the veteran
doorkeeper of the United States senate,
who will complete his half century of
service in the senate chamber in De-
cember next, is engaged in preparing
his forthcoming volume, entitled:
Sketches and "reminiscences of the
United States Senate-1831-1881."
Alexander Outlaw, residing in Dale
county, Alabama, and now over 80
years of age, is developing new strength
and preparing to enter upon a new
life. He lost all of his teeth years
ago, and now, out of the order of ma
ture, he is being favored with another
supply. Two new jaw teeth have ap-
peared each week during the past four
weeks.
A large soda ash manufactory is to
be located in Geddes, N. Y. 1t will be
the only one of the kind in the United
States. and when completed will con-
sumo 400 tons of coal daily. A build
ing will be erected this fall, 300 feet in
length, which will furnish employment
to about 800 men. When all the build
ings proposed are erected, 1000 men
will be employed.
Two bald eagles were engaged in a
furious fight on the road to Bay Hun
dred, near Easton, Nd, and refused to
move when a carriage came along.
Mr.. Molyneaux, who was driving, got
out of the vehicle and captured one Of
the birds, who was so battered in the
conflict as to be unable to fly. The
eagle was over seven feet from one
wing to the other.
Experiments that have been made
by DR.. Hiram A. Cutting. of Yer
mont, on the capacity of gran
ite, sandstone and marble to re-
si,t heat, show that marbles have
the greater capacity, and after
that, in their order, follow massive
limestones, sandstones, and granite.
Granite becomes worthless before it is
heated to 1,UOO degrees.
Norway exported in 1880 an aggre-
gate quantity of 894,816 register tons
of lumber. England took 81 per cent.
of it, and France ii per cent. BY
comparing the foregoing figures with
those of the current export lists in pre-
vious years, we observe that Norway
has only in the favorable years, 1871
UP to 1876, excepting 1875, exported
larger quantities thanin 1880.
According to Design and Work"
smooth, strong and reliable parchment
can be manufactured from the pal
mettoof Floida and other southern
states. The parchment can be washed
rubbed, and handled just like cloth,
and the writing will not be effaced. II
can be cheaply Manufactured, and is
likely to come into general use for le-
gal documents, etc. AS much as sixty
per cent. of the weight of the palmetto,
it is said, can be utilized in the pro-
cess.