Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-13
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udy VI UdGll0. :, q.
The standing army of Europe nun.
bers over 100000 men. -.
| ]. G. Brown, a book fancier owns
11,OO0 volumes, worth 100000.
A frog was caught at Fort Worth
the other day that measured two feet
in length.
Over forty persons have patronized
the public baths at New Haven during
the season.
The last company of emigrants from
Liverpool for Utah, this year, will
leave Oct. %.
A careful estimate of the loss by the
two last bad harvests in England -
$800,0OO0OO.
New Zealand has $50 poll tax ON
Chinese, and New South Wales is going
to initiate her.
Four barrels of water of the Great
Salt lake will leave, after evaporation,
nearly barrel of salt.
The enrolment of voters in Boston.
Mass, is this year A, 4,920, an increase
OF I, ,4OS over LAST lear.
Eleven persons have been killed by
railroad accidents during the week in
and about Elmira, N. Y.
The annual production of the United
States for several years past has been
about 1000, 100000 pins.
Ortolans are cheap in Virginia At
Petersburg the other day country
man sold 400 at Is cents per dozen.
The dried-fruit crop of east Tennes-
see is simply enormous, and will mole
than make up the deficiency in other
crops.
The end of the track of the Interna-
tional and Great Northern railway is
now LOG miles beyond the city of San
Antonia.
A bill now before the Georgia legis.
lature will impose tax of 81 on every
pistol, dirk, bowie-knife or sword-cane
sold in the state.
A San Antonia dealer has manufact-
ured 1000 gallons of wine made from
the mustang grape that is pronounced
equal to the beet claret made.
Two mills are being erected in Mont
gomery county, Pennsylvania, for the
purpose of pulverizing limestone for
fertilizing uses, instead of burnt lime.
The proposed revision of the educa-
ton code in England provides that
sewing shall be compulsory for all
girls, and for boys under seven years of
age.
A revision of the Irish version of
the New Testament is going on. Ar
rangementS have also been made to
prepare revision of the Welsh YER
sion.
Ordinarily we know from what coun-
try people come, from the language
they use; but in the case of the swear
er it is different. He uses the language
of the country to which he is going.
Tombstone, Arizona, is to have
supply of water from the Huachuca
mountains, distance of twenty-five
miles, to be carried there through a
| seven-inch main, and expects to have
it completed by January, 1882.
1t is estimated that up to the present
time losses by forest fires to wood
| lands alone, in Jefferson and Lewis
counties, New York, will amount to
between 100000 and 100000, on
which the insurance is trihing.
The Duke of Sutherland is at the
head of company of Englishmen with
e2,500O00, who have bought sixty
square miles on the st. Paul and Oma-
ha railroad, sixty miles east of Sioux
City, for colony; price $163,0O0.
1t is said that Jay Gould controls
5000 miles of railroads, two papers
(both daily,) and one supreme judge,
and is in fair way of owning several
legislatures. He is a self-made man,
having begun life with patent mouse
trap.
A young man of Cleveland who had
an ulcer form on his eye, a year ago,
and submitted to an operation which
left scar and obscured the sight,
had the use of the organ restored, un-
expectedly, by a locomotive-cinder,
the rough edges of which removed the
scar.
A white girl was once captured by
the Indians, and she became the squaw
of brave. Afterward she refused to
leave them, although by 80 doing she
might have become rich. She said:
"White people may become Indians,
but Indians can never become white
people"
An insect is destroying spruce trees
in northern Maine and the provinces.
The female lays an egg in the bark and
the grub which matches bores into the
tree. The female is deep blue-black,
has a white spot behind each ear and a
long horn with a lance-shaped head ON
her tail.
| Sparrows have become such intoler-
able nuisances in Australia that the
government has been requested to au.
thorize the destruction Of the birds by
law, and pending the passage Of an act
to appoint an honorary sparrow board,
to prepare and distribute poisoned
wheat, and give advice.
A snow-capped mountain little
northwest Of Strawberry valley, Cali
fornia, is the fountain head Of four
streams originating in Siskiyou county,
known as the Sacramento, Shasta,
J Trinity and Scott rivers, the three lat
} ter emptying into the Klamath, and
the former the main fork of the upper
Sacramento river.
A most remarkable discovery has
!, Just been made in the Sweetwater
country in Wyoming territory. 1t is q
deposit of sulphuric acid in natural
state. The odor, chemical action, and
general appearance of the stuff demon
strates it to be pure quality of sui
phuric acid. The ground is impreg-
mated over large area-one hundred
acres or more-and parties have filed
claims upon it.
A rather unusual case of nicotine
poisoning occurred recently in the town
of Rochester, Mass. The victim, a
xaax, In, Tho x,,-iuna of lifo had l,ooz,