Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-07-28
ITEMS OF IMrERrsT.
The Salem witchcraft excitemenI

The Salem witchcraft excitemenS
occurred in 1892.
A hospital for sick beasts has been
established at Paris.
Corporal punishment in schools has
been forbidden in France.
William Penn received the charter
for settling Pennsylvania in 1880.
In the desert mountain ranges Of
California and Arizona no rain falls.
The New York assay office has on
hand bullion of the value of $50, ,0OO,-
600.
There ~ thirty-One millions worth
of gold and silver in the Philadelphia
mint.
A young lady in Georgia has sued
her uncle for $4,000 for breach of
promise.
The great bell of Rouen, the largest
in the world, was converted into a can
non in 1898.
The board of agriculture of the state
of Ohio estimates the wheat crop this
year at 44,000,0oa bushels
/ The first directory 81 New York.
which was recently rescued from some
waste paper, was sold for 800.
There is woman at Watervliet
New York. who has this season made
$1,000 from five acres of strawberries.
During the last four years 479 color
blind persons have been discovered
among 1895 railway servants in Eng
land.
The Italian government is about TO
issue loan of $l20,O0,0O0 to redeem
its paper money and resume specie pay
ments.
Levi Robbins, of Copenhagen, New
York, is 100 years old, and has just
signed the temperance pledge for the
FIRST time in his life.
The operation of extending the pub
lie debt from 5 and to 81 per cent.
cost only $4,000, while the saving in in
terest will be SIS, 100000 annually.
William III. Vanderbilt is the largest
individual holder of registered per
cent. bonds, his share of them being
worth at current prices nearly $6O, O,OO0,-
600.
A man has been arrested in the state
of Puebla, Mexico, for representing
himself to be st. Michael, the archan-
gel, and receiving the alteration Of the
Indians.
A new French appliance Is an elec-
trio brake, which is made to operate ON
the wheel-brake by means of electricity
generated during the motion of the
train. and applied at pleasure.
According to accounts from the Fiji
Islands, French vessel, the Aurora,
has been pursuing the course of sys-
tematic SLAYER and pirate, kidnapping
the natives and committing numerous
Outrages.
The new railroad to San Francisco
through Arizona runs sixty miles along
basin that is $50 feet below the level
of the ocean. This region has two to
four feet of salt and alkali covering ITS
surface. The ground is perfectly
white
The rare phenomena Of an inverted
rainbow has been observed at Prus-
sian town. The ends of the semi-circle,
the center of which was the sun, rose
and moved westward with the latter
for some thirty minutes; when the ap-
pearance vanished.
There are 1,S40 postoflices in the
several states and territories subject to
presidential appointment. Of these,
eighty-three paid $4,000 per annum
and upwards; 404 paid from $1,000 to
So, 1872, and 1853 from 81 900 to 81, ,999.
The remaining army of postmasters are
appointed by the postmaster-general.
The new school of political science
in the University of Michigan is to be
gin its work of instruction Sept. 70,
the opening of the new collegiate year.
Students in it will be permitted to take
such studies in the academic depart
ment as they may desire, provided 1t
does not interfere with the regular
work.
The awful and wonderful amount Of
leg exhibited by young ladies up to IA
is being severely animadverted on in
London. The French call the fashion
mode q la cdlet de pied, because lack
eys alone display the shape OF their leg
to the knee. The young princessess OF
Wales do not adopt the prevailing
mode. Their dresses reach just above
! the ankle.
William Wilson engaged himself to
marry Susan Southwell at Ogden, Utah,
and among his gifts were sewing
,, machine and a cabinet organ. Her pa
rents forbid the union, and told him to
take away the presents; but he delayed
! doing so until he was married to an
: other girl, and then, when he called
Z ! Susan gave him such thrashing thai
! recovery is doubtful.
e A report comes from the west coast
of Africa that seven men have beer
:, sentenced to death at Old Calabar fOl
% murders committed ander most afro
"a cious circumstances. The men II
,s question, who were natives of the place
" dressed themselves in tigers skins ant
# lay in wait for their victims, WHOM
n they XII, with great brutality. Thi
system of murder has been going Of
for some time, and the perpetrators ar
called "men tigers"
Miss Jean Burnside Carr, the &C
10 tress. is mentioned as one of the fe,
~ heirs of the estate of 100000 Of tn
o. late John Burnside, of New Oriean.
~ who is believed to have left no vii
,s Mr.. Burnside was an eccentric old bacf
1f elor, who was thought to be misery b
ID some of his fellow-citizens, because b
m didn't contribute to every charitabl
=. project mentioned to him. He ono
o. gave, however. 100000 to the state {
he Louisiana, to be devoted to charitabl
e. purposes.
De Honored and Blest.
er When board of eminent physicians an
n chemists announced the discovery that B
ne combining some well known valuable reT
40 edies, the most wonderful medicine WI
:; - produced, which would cure such wit