Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-09-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I'VE OVernOWlng arCeSlan WouS.
The silkworms of Italy have yielded
a very large crop of cocoons this sea-
son.
Fifty cents bushel is what the
Augusta (Ga.) boys gss for peach
kernels.
The peach crop in Massachusetts, the
present season will be larger than for
many years past.
Disastrous cloud-bursts appear to bs
frequent in the southwestern part of
Arizona territory.
The scuppernong crop of Talbot
county, Georgia, is immense, and much
wine will be made.
Sharks are numerous in Red river.
Louisiana One recently shot meas.
ured twelve feet in length.
One hundred and fifty thousand
cocOanuts have been planted in Mon
roe county, Florida, this season.
-Four members of one family, two sons
and two daughters. were married at
the same time in Montreal the other
day.
Twenty or thirty alligators in a
drove went up the Cumberland as far
as Nashville lately-an unheard of in
cident.
Bogus silver dollars are in circula-
ton in San Francisco. They are of q
darker color than the genuine, and
somewhat less in weight.
A census agent estimates that 7,OOO,-
600 people are interested in the United
States fisheries, and that the annual
product is worth about 800, 0,OOO,O00
The vineyards in Gabriel valley,
Los Angeles county, California, some
of the vines of which are nearly 100
years old, are yet very prolific bear.
ers.
On the Colorado desert species f
tortoise grows to weight of twenty.
five pounds, and the meat of this is
considered great delicacy among the
Indians.
| A water monster is said to inhabit
the Mokelumne river above jackson,
Cal. The Chinese are in mortal terror
over it, and say that the creature has
killed one of their number.
A $4,000 fountain has been pre-
sented by Z. L. Barnum to the town
of Bethel, Conn, his native place. 1t
stands fifteen feet high, is of bronze,
and was executed in Germany.
Recently number of the beautiful
little shell fish called Portuguese men,
of-war" ar"-nautilus-have been blown
ashore OIL the Ventura beach, Califor-
mia, to the great delight of amateur
collectors.
There was Il heavy frost at LiwistOn
Trinity county, California, lately, the
thermometer standing at AZ degrees
early in the morning. At Weaver
vile it stood so and 81 degrees in the
morning, and 60 and 62 in the after
noon.
The last few days have witnessed
great exodus from Saratoga, but still
the large hotels by no means have a
deserted appearances. It'll the excep-
ton of the Grand Union, all the car
avansaries will remain open until
October.1.
Arizona has waterfall. 1t is at Box
Canon, about fifteen miles from
Florence. The wall on one side of the
canon is of solid rock, perpendicular
to height of 800 feet. Over the top
; of this wall peurs a sheet of water at
least sixty feet wide.
In Nevada the cattle owners nearly
kill their critters by numerous brands,
and the loss in the value of hides by so
much branding, is estimated at $780,
600 a year. An old brand spOils a
hide four-bits' worth, and new one
81. Some bands of cattle are SO much
marked and branded as to make their
hides worthless.
The marble quarries of Vermont
have become enormous excavations.
several being $50 feet deep, and the
, opening are only slightly protected, IL
, sides of the shat afford the only
means Of descent, yet there is hardly
ever an accident, and it is several
years since a fatal fall has taken
place.
J, The law of Alabama in regard to
: the collection of vital statistics, passed
t by the last legislature, has a peculiar
j effect upon the negro female population.
They believe that the mother of every
s illegitimate child will be taken up and
s sent to the coal mines, and infanticides
e which have occurred in north Alabama
are believed TO have been caused by
e this belief.
Andrew Miner, of Salem, Conn,
: raises many potatoes, and the obliging
o skunks dig them. In one large field,
Mr.. Miner says, every hill has been
E opened. The skunks do not eat the
s. potatoes. They look for worms, mice
Il and moles which they find in the hills
90 and throw out the potatoes when they
y come across them. The owner goe'
Is over the lot each morning and picks W
, the tubers tossed out on the preceding
Y. night.
=. A New York woman at the Unite(
States hotel at Saratoga is credite(
with having brought three hundre(
e. dresses with her, and six maids to tak'
10 care of them. She wears three differ
ID ent dresses every day, and never Will
c. at the place is seen to wear the sam,
II one twice. Her diamonds are numer
n. GUS and gorgeous, and she keeps
: woman constantly employed embroid
ering her stockings, as well as dresse
and parasols.
Little Rock Gazette: "a ridiculou
story has been going the rounds Of tn
ne press to the effect that a Hot Spring
ne physician recently attached the corps
IL of one of his patients, to compel tn
70 payment of his bill. 1t originated, pei
lis haps, from the statement your CORES
a pondent made, upon information re
f ceived from the gentleman who ad
st vanced the money to pay the phys
re clans bill, that an attachment was Il
le- sued against the casket,' not th
re, cornse.