Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-02-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Passing around the hat is one way
of getting the cents of the meeting.
| Shipwrecked sailors never need
starve while there is blight of rope
left.
About one-fourth of the population
of Wisconsin 81, 800--are Roman
Catholics.
An old bachelor editor says: Low
ers, like armies, get along well enough
till engaged
The old home of President Lincoln
in Springfield, Illinois, is now cheap
lodging house.
During Gen. Garfield's presidential
term Mrs. Garfield's brothers will take
charge of the Mentor farm.
A sister of the king of Sweden is a
missionary in Lapland, and has sold
ne4 yr@els 10 aid her in her work.
tits reported that Bjornstern Biornes.
the Norwegian poet, is going to marry
Mrs. Ole Bull, who is said to be young
and handsome.
A tramp who was found dead near
Schenectady, n. Y, recently. had
about him more than $4,000 worth of
bonds and other securities.
Ladies are said to be working their
way into the watch business, because
they produce handsomer faces and
more delicate hands than men.
A profane Philadelphia newspaper
suggests, that now that the army is
fitted out with cork helmets, it will be
necessary to furnish the Indians with
corkscrews instead Of guns.
When an Ohio man told his wife
that he had just traded for new
spring wagon she replied: "You
Ounce, you! why did you get a spring
wagon in the fall of the year?''
Notwithstanding the fact land perhaps
in consequence of it, that the clergy
and justices of the peace are so busy
all the time making two people one, the
population continues to increase.
A hobby young man travelling in
Texas went into a store and asked the
proprietor if he had black kids. The
young man doesn't see why the store
keeper came over the counter and
broke up all the furniture with him.
A Bridgeport carpenter, while in a
fit of anger, threw a hammer at fell
low workman, and swallowed a screw
he had in his mouth. 1t was an un-
fortunate affair, but it was better than
throwing the screw and swallowing
the hammer.
A little girl twelve years of age, the
daughter of clergyman, was asked
Sadie, does your papa preach the same
sermon twice?' After thinking q
moment Sadie replied: "Yes, think
he does; but think he hollers in diff
ferent places"
Mamma, 1 don't think the people
who make dolls are very pious people"
said a little girl to her mother one day.
"Why not, my ,child?" Because you
can never make them Kneel. 1 always
have to lay my doll down on her stom-
ach to say her prayers"
mo, as l understand it, these cold
waves come from the vast deserts of
snow in the Siberian plains,a and radiate
thence over the globe, but principally
in this direction" "Well, why the
dickens don't they stay there?' "Why,
it's too cold, you idiot"
Foote was talking away one evening
at dinner-table of a man of rank,
when. at the point of one Of his best
stories, one of the party interrupted
him suddenly, with an air of most con-
siderate apology: 81 beg your pardon.
Mr.. Foote, but your handkerchief is
half out of your pocket" "Thank you,
sir" said Fcote, replacing it; you
know the company better than / do"
and finished his joke.
The following incident, related by
member from the Black Hills, as hav
ing occurred at q Yankton church, may
be true, but lacks confirmation: "But
pass" said the minister in dismissing
one theme of the subject to take up
another. "Then l make it spadesw
yelled a member of the committee on
charitable and penal institutions from
northern Dakota, who was dreamily
engaged in an imaginary game of
euchre. He went out ON the Eext deal,
assisted by bald-headed deacon with
a full hand of clubs.
Rev. Robert Collyer, in visiting his
old church at Chicago, to install his
successor, advised the people not to
find fault with their new minister, on
Monday, for then he was blue; nor on
Tuesday, for then be was pulling out;
nor on Wednesday, for then he was get
ting ready for his sermon; nor on
Thursday, for then he was writing it;
nor on Friday, for he was finishing it !;
nor on Saturday, for he was getting
ready for Sunday. And if they didn't
tell him before Saturday night, they
wouldn't tell him at all. There is a
whole sermon in this paragraph.
"She hath done what she could" ex-
presses the fulfllment of every Obliga-
ton, the perfection of duty. Reader,
how stands the matter with you? Have
you done what you could? Possibly
you have not possessed great worldly
means that you might give to the poor.
If not, God does not require TINS or
you. But the question comes home to
you: Have you, with your means and
talents, done what you could toward
bringing good cheer into the hearts and
homes of the weary ones around your
If you have not, now is fitting time
to commence. Do not wait till another
day or another year, but commence
now, and in making others happy your
soul will be filled with unspeakable
joys.
from Charleston, S. c., across the gulf
stream, Commander Bartlett of the
United States coast survey was sur
prised to find the depths much less
than was expected. This induced him,
although the trip was one primarily for
dredging, to extend the work of sound
ing, and he accordingly ran line of
soundings nearly along the warmest
band of the gulf stream, commonly
called fine axis of the stream. for a dis