Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-12-29
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for export this year.
4 Tencb, a French food fish, have been
| introduced in the Central park ponds
in New York.
1t is now certain that the culture of
cane in southern Oregon will soon be q
most important industry.
The assessors valuation of Portland.
Oregon, foots up trifle over $11, ,OOO,-
1000. an increase Of 81 SOC. 900 over last
year.
\ An enterprising microscope man is
showing Cleveland people drawings of
1872 different living creatures found in
the city water.
| The mayor Of Norfolk, Va, has pro-
hibited a rattle for the benefit of the
orphan asylums of that city, as being
contrary to law.
A Massachusetts, state prison con-
Wet has Just been granted pension of
81, 100 for war services, and has made
the money over to his family.
The New Jersey constitutional CON-
mission has proposed several amend
ments to the judiciary system of the
state, materially simplifying it.
Easton, Pa, counts up twenty-five
boys who have been rendered perma-
nent cripples by attempting to jump on
railroad trains while in motion.
at the first sale this season in Natal,
Africa, of native grown ostrich feath-
ers, three pounds and nine ounces Of
long white feathers brought 800.
simultaneously with the washing
ashore of large numbers of dead fishes
near Vera Cruz, the people of that city
| were affected with a troublesome
cough.
Australia imported English spar
rows to kill worms, but 1t Is found that
the birds are the worst pest of the two,
and bounties are offered for their des.
tructiOn.
Within three years New York has
doubled her commerce with southern
ports. The Savannah line alone runs
two passenger and four freight steam
ers each week.
A dealer in one of the Massachusetts
manufacturing towns, where Il large
number of girls are employed, laid in
last year a stock of chewing gum val
ued at 81 400.
The annual revenue to the United
States from applejack alone is in lne
neighborhood of $4,000, and about
two-thirds of that is from Sussex
county, New Jersey.
About 1900 visitors regisr4reCs 1T
the Yosemite valley hotels duli1g le
summer, but it is said that the an at
of money spent by them was less N
in previous seasons.
The fifteenth new Episcopal church
built in West Verginia through me
active efforts of Bishop George W.
Peterkin is at Ansted, near Hawks
Nest, Fayette county.
A Virginia natural brid has got
into the hands of compans, u which
Gov. Cornell. of New Yors. presi-
dent, and railroad is to be bnilt to it
and other improvements made.
Flies are said soon to disappear from
room containing a plate OF the fol-
lowing mixture: Half teasp ,onful
of black pepper in powder. Que of
brown sugar and one Of cream mixed
together.
At the old center of the town of
Newfane, VT, where, forty years ago,
there were several thriving stores, nu-
merous houses, a hotel, the court
house, Jail, church and school-houses
there is now not the vestige of build
ing.
The Madison county New York; su-
pervisors make skunk killing an offence
punishable with a fine. The reason is
that skunks live on grub which dew
astates hopvines, and hop-growing is
one of Madison county's chief indus
tries.
In case involving a patent for an
improvement in corset springs, the
United States supreme court holds that
by allowing it to be generally used for
two years the inventor abandoned 1t to
the public, and can not COMPLAIN of in
fringement
The plans for new hospital In
Brooklyn, N. Y, to cost 100000, and
to be in charge of the Methodist Epis-
copalians, have been adopted. About
half of the estimated cost of the build
ing has been contributed by one man,
Mr.. George 1. Seney.
Henry Willard is to expend 81, 1,0O0.-
600 in the erection Of residence ON
Madison avenue, near Fiftieth street,
New York. Sidney Dillon is building
a mansion which will throw Wander
bilts into the shade. Bonanza Mackay
is arranging to outrival all by palace
at Central Park.
The Baltimore and Ohio road has re-
duced the rates on grain and provisions
to the seaboard to twelve cents per
hundred pounds, and the Pennsylvani
has cut to fifteen cents on provisions.
The trunk-line representatives met at
New York and resolved to advance
western freights in January.
Says the Chicago Times: There are
two congressman now serving who
commenced life as pages in the nation
al house, and a senator whose start in
life was as a page in the senate. The
congressman are Townshend Of Illinois,
and Wise of Virginia. The senator is
German, Of Maryland. Let the fact
be recorded in the eSunday-school books
and incorporated in Fourth OF July
orations.
The men employed in the tunnel
now being constructed under the bed
, of the Hudson river have of late be-
come subject to a peculiar and painful
ailment that is thought to result from
the compressed air, by the aid of which
the tunnel is being constructed. The
complaint Is a sort of curvature of the
, spine, and those attacked with it are
, bent up like half-opep jackkr'ie, and
suffer excruciating pain.
The Chicago Times says: T,,e presi-
dent is called upon to writ. , great