Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-02-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| suiu tuc iOCh VI tno ui8nt.
Experience is the name men give to
their follies or their sorrows.
The Prince of Wales started the hid
eous fashion of wearing ulsters.
Reading is of little value to the man
who does not think as he reads.
The princess of Wales has lust
passed her thirty-sixth birthday.
| They never taste who always drink.
| They always talk who never think.
Many of the states report an increase
in the number of grange members dur
ing 1880.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln on her return
from Europe brought sixty-four trunks
with her.
Shakespeare knew all about doctors.
He said, "How poor are they who have
no patiencep
Our lives SHOULD be liks snow fields
where our footsteps leave trace, but
not stain.
1t is against the law in Fort Smith.
Ark, to carry pistol in any way ex-
cept in the hand.
Men, like books, at the beginning and
end have blank leaves-infancy and
gray-haired old age
Mrs. Nellie Grant Satoris finds Eng
lish a6untry life rather dull, and longs
for Washington society.
The length of the longest polar night
is equal to 142 days, but there are no
cats equal to such nights.
Eighteen hundred and eighty-one
does not resemble a pair of lovers on a
sofa because there is one at each end.
Josh Billings says, success don't
konsist in never making blunders, but
in never making the same one a second
time"
Get some one of the family to read
aloud during the winter evenings. 1t
will draw the family together, and do
you all good.
The type is set by machinery on the
London Times. 1t is not for economy
but to save time that this process has
been adopted.
1t is reported that il G. Bennett of
the N. York Herald has purchased the
London Telegram, and win model it
after his great American daily.
Wood is said to be so scarce this win
ter at Candelaria, New, that shavings
go for fractional currency, and hand
full of kindling is good for drink in
any saloon.
Archbishop Bourget, of Montreal.
asks for 81 each man, woman, and child
in his diocese, which will give him
100000 toward paying off the debt of
the diocese.
A gentleman asked a Cincinnati
belle if their was much refinement and
culture in that city, and she replied,
"You just bet your boots we're a cul-s
tllred crowd"
A red headed man recently att
ed a masquerade wrapped from -
head to his heels in brown cloth al
with his head bare. He represented
a lighted cigar.
An effort is being made to induce
Francis Murphy, the temperance apos-
tie, to live at Troy, N. Y. One
man has offered $500 toward obtaining
house for him.
Lawrence Coco, an old Indian of
Red river, died at Dykesville, Kewau-
nee county, Wis, recently, at the age
of 120 years. He was probably the
Oldest man in the county.
We should never forget that home
is the residence not merely of the body
but the mind; and that the object of
all ambition should be to he happy at
home and to render home happy.
About ten days since the lightning
entered one of the Vancouver Island
cables, consuming the core; and now
the only communication with the
mainland is by means of steamers.
The Bible is full Of alarm bells as
well as of sweet notes of invitation
and rich chimes of devout melody. So
let us be thankful for every honest
voice of warning There is need yet
of Daniels and Ezekiels in Gods church,
A Galveston man, who has mule
for sale, hearing that a friend at
Houston wanted to buy mule, tele-
graphed him: Dear friend If you are
looking for No. / mule, don't forget
me-"
The average woman does not believe
half she reads or what her neighbors
tell her. 1t is only when she whacks
up dollar to a clairvoyant that she
expects to get the real old solid gospel
truth.
'.Do you pay for poetry?" asks a
young lady in Ohio. We do. If writ
ten on white paper it is worth cent a
pound. Most papers do not pay for
poetry, but we want to encourage
genius in truly substantial manner
49," said lady recently, to mer-
chant, $50 your pretty daughter has
married rich husband?' ssWell,r
slowly replied the lather, 1T believe
she has married {. rich man, but un-
derstand he is very poor husband"
The report that smoke has been seen
issuing from one of the OLYMPIC range
of mountains, directly beyond Eagle
harbor, has been verified, and the pe0-
pie in the vicinity Of Seattle are in
hourly expectation of witnessing a
grand sight.
A North End restaurant keeper
WT1CeS his own uiii VI idio, hlS1cUy
saving the cost of printing. 1t an
nounces: Coffey, supe, rosie befe, fried
hamm, boyled and bakt pertaterg, fried
could pudden, minis pyes, mutting
chops, veele culverts and hasch.
1t was the splendid jewels worn by
Mime. RebilIard, the wife Of a tobacco
manufacturer, at a ball at the TuiIeries
in 1910, that FIRST gave Napoleon the
idea of making the tobacco trade
State monopoly. It yields to the
French government an annual profit Of
about $50, ,000, 900.
| A number Of the mining parties re-
Gently organized for developing the cop
per region in northwest Texas, return