Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-27
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The Chestnut crop of East Tennessee
will be very large this season.
Last year the United States pro-
duced 10000, 900 tons of coal.
The vatican library at Rome con-
tains 100000 volumes and 40, 900 Mss.
The Japanese sent 1872, ,756 tele-
grams over their own wires last year.
There are 100000 males and 49,
100000 females in the United King
dom.
Thirty years ago it cost Massachu-
setts $4.81 to educate each child; now
its costs $13.55.
Many farmers about Sand mountain,
Alabama, say their crops are far above
their anticipations.
The mountains of eastern Kentucky
are fall of spectators in search of coal
mines and fine timber.
The pearl excitement has died out
at MurfreesbOro, Tenn, but dealers are
yet buying all that are being offered.
Los Angeles farmers are making
more money this season, at present
prices, than at any time for years past.
The heroes of Homers time used
after meal to wipe their hands on q
piece of bread and throw 1t to the dogs.
There is being erected in New York
a home for the aged and infirm
Hebrews. The cost is to be $780,
600.
The autograph of Martin Luther was
recently sold for $50; that Of Malanc-
thon for $50, and that of Voltaire for
$2,250.
Some of the timber fires in the Sier-
ras are said to be five or six miles in
length A large amount of good timber
is being destroyed in some places.
Capt. Paul Boyton has started for
the head waters on the Yellowstone
with the purpose of padding himself
to st. Louis, a distance of $500
miles.
Pennsylvania has advanced from be-
ing the twelfth in rank, Of the tObac-
co raising states in 1870, to the third
in 1880, Kentucky and Virginia alone
SURPRISING her.
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the bonanza
millionaire, now in Paris, has travel
ing carriage that cost $30,000, and re-
quires an annual outlay of $4,000 to
keep it in order.
The Durango Record says that there
is squash on exhibition in that town
which is six feet and seven inches In
circumference, and which has material
enough to make ten acre, of pumpkin
pies.
All the boats on Canandaigua lake
are now loaded with grapes and peach
es, which are not wholly exhausted In
that region. One day last week boat
landed 1000 pounds of grapes at
Canandaigua.
Captain Jim and his braves have
been putting their talents to good use
in Lane county, Oregon, recently, by
picking hops. About thirty-five Indi-
ans were thus engaged, and they picked
5000 pounds on one farm.
Some of the Leechburg, Pa, people
have calves bred from Alderney cows
and the sacred bull bought from Boyd &
Peters circus, which went to pieces at
that place some months ago. The semi
sacred semi-Alderney calves attract
much attention.
The annual product of gold is now
less than $1OO,000,000, and its foreign
coinage is practically suspended. In
the United States the production has
gradually diminished. In 1878 it was
$47 ,266, ,lO7; in 1879 it was $4,000.
900; in 1880, $50, 100000.
In order to have a perfectly clear
title recorded for the West Shore road
to a piece of land at New Windsor, on
the Hudson, it was necessary that
Robert Ellison should procure the let
tiers patent in which George II. of
England granted the land to his grand,
father, Robert Ellison, Dec. /, 1853.
The New York fire department has
discovered that more alarms occur ON
Thursday than any other day In the
week; that July is the unluckiest
month, and the fourth days of the
months average the hottest for under
writers. These phenomena are based
on the record of sixteen years expert
ence.
Seventy-five thousand acres of land
in Aroostook county, Me-, whose state
valuation has been 83 $40 cents, sold
at auction in Bangor a few days ago
for an average price of 73 41O cents
per acre. A lot of 5000 acres in
,, Somerset county, sold at 81 cents per
acre, the state valuation being 36 cents
per acre.
,, Bodie Free Press: In one OF the
: canons leading up to the extinct volca-
| noes south of Mono lake, there is a
spring of lemonade water-at least the
! fluid that Oozes from the rocks has
!, favor that strongly resembles lemon.
, ade. It is clear, and has such a strong
q acid taste that with the aid of "A little
3 sugar it could be sold for the genuine
. article.
The New York Trust Company. oi
q New Y ork has registered at the treasury
n department $275, 900 in four Per cen'
r bonds in the name of the company, a
!. "trustees for Mrs. Lucretia r. Garfielt
% and the surviving children of jaime
70 A. Garfield, deceased" being th
70 amount purchased with the proceed
NJ of subscriptions to the Garfield fund
=. These bonds will yield an annual In
n come Of S11 900. and cannot be paid Of
" by the government until the yea
~ 1907.
Id Now that the canning season is at II
r height, housewives should bear in min
av that "celatine" is absolutely destitute o
"a nutritious qualities, and is marie fror
Of hoofs, horns and other slaughter hous
Is refuse. Many Of the cheap jellies sol
ne in stores and served in hotels and re-
~ taurants are made from gelatine (dis
te guised by fiavors, which themselves ar
loften artidciaD, and are not fit to pu
in the stomach. Nothing like the old
he fashioned, homemade jelly.