Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The Western cyclone blowse very
thing from the farm except the mort
gage.
Some unknown person has been poi
soning the fish of Blue Lake, La, by
the wholesale, with India berries.
An extensive vein of coal has been
discovered in Scott county, Tennessee,
about eighteen miles from Rugby.
The site of Petroleum Center has
been sold for $4,000. Fourteen years
ago it was worth many millions of
dollars.
I 1t takes five acres of land in Florida
to make bale of cotton. Louisiana
makes fifty-eight one hundredths of
bale to the acre.
A man in Accomac county, Virginia,
is the father of nineteen children
"eight pairs and three aces" as the
local paper expresses it.
Three children in Louisville, Ky, all
less than ten years of age, have sued,
through their guardian, the murderer
of their father for $4,000 damages.
A sea turtle killed at Molehead City,
n. c., recently, contained 432 well.
formed eggs. 1t was one of the largest
turtles ever caught on the North Caro-
lima coast.
il is said that kerosene will remove
stains from furniture. 1t has also
been known to remove the furniture,
stains and all, with the stove and
red-headed servant girl thrown in oft
times.
A minister had preached an hour;
then he remarked: "Another wide
field opens from the subject in another
direction" Just then an old cOlored
saint calculated: "Please, Lord, shut
up de bars"
Mayflower, Ark, and two local CON-
panies have been formed, who are leas-
ing all the land in the neighborhood.
Prospectors and spectators are flock
ing in in great numbers.
Out of $4,000 tenements occupied
10y the Partisan poor, there are but T.
600 whose tenants are able TO pay an
annual rent OF more than $40. On the
other hand. nearly 1000 chambers are
Only one tree has been grown from
the acorns of the Charter oak, though
many attempts have been made. 1t
stands on Ann street at Hartford, and
is said to have the peculiar leaf of the
parent oak, and very much the same
shape.
A sheep diary for the manufacture
of cheese has been started near Chat
tanooga. Sheep cheese is popular ar
ticle of food in Austria, and this enter
prise, beginning with one thousand
sheep, is under the management Of an
Austrian. "A
The slave trade is lIourishing sLtie
Soudan. 1t is stated that no fewer
than fifty thousand or sixty thousand
. negroes are still annually conveyed TO
the Turkish and Egyptian ports of the
Red sea, where they are disposed of to
dealers from all parts of the sultan's
; dominions.
Swells of the period at Saratoga
wear pointed shoes, very tight trow.
sers, cutaway coats, little, low-crowned
hats and very large canes. They rep
resent four or five different kinds of
fool, and whenever they open their
mouths to converse the representation
!. is complete and thorough.
!, A Cleveland reporter, whose salary
is liable to be raised, thus describes
, the surroundings of man who hung
, himself: can owl hooted lOnesOmely;
an old clock on the shelf licked with
terror; q dog howled; it was midnight
!, outside; the wind sighed cat crOuched
on the cold hearth in fear, and sound
!, like the laugh OF maniac came from
, the garret."
The Rome Aurora, which was start
ed as the official organ of the late Pope
Plus IX., and which now holds the
same relation to the present Pope Leo
KILL, contained in It's issue of July 8
nearly two columns Of matter devoted
to the assassination of President Gar
field and expressing adherence at the
terrible crime and sympathy for the.
American people.
The art exhibition which is to be held
at Vienna in 1882, in the Kunstlerhaus
, will last from the 1st of April till the
30th Of September. The exhibition
will include works of architecture,
,, sculpture, medals, paintings, drawings,
!, arts of reproduction, etchings. etc. A
large number of medals will be conn.,
peted for, and both foreign and native
, artists may strive for these.
The Spanish journals are full of sad
/ details of the despoiling of their colony
{ in the province of Oran by the Arabs,
] and the loss of life and property thereby
; occasioned. The colonists are flying
e ii. all directions, and already over three
t thousand have left the country in the
: men-of-war Numancia, Vulcano. and
e other vessels, many of them suffering
v from severe wounds, and all destitute.
e There are forty-fve thousand persons
II engaged in the manufacture of pottery
T, in England and Wales. The death-rate
% among the males is thirty-eight pei
IS cent higher than among the male ele
3 ment at large In the lungs of a pot.
u ter who recently died of consumption
"a were found forty-eight per cent OF
y, silica, eighteen of alumina, and five OF
re oxide of iron-articles of constant us'
ai in his business.
s The thirty-eight states of the uni0i
VI contain 2,299 counties. Texas leadi
+ off, having Isl counties, followed
!. q closely by Georgia's 137. After Geor
~ gia in the table come Kentucky, witt
. III counties; Missouri, rs; Virginia
O. 1O5; Illinois, 102; Iowa, SO; Tennes
see and North Carolina each 81, ant
Indiana 81. AS rule, the southsrI
states have more counties than TIN
Of northern states.
10 John Maloney, the soldier who, il
~ August, 1922, saved the life of tn
II little Princess Victoria, has issued
Il pamphlet complaining that one wht
IN saved the life of the queen ought no
% at the age of 81 to be dependent 70