Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-12-08

There are more than $4,000 Baptists


museum, which will cost 100000.
Frank Hatton, the new first assist
ant postmaster-general was drummer
boy during the war.
/ Refined cotton-seed oil is supplant-
ing lard for culinary purposes in sew
eral cities in Alabama.
The Prince of Wales rifles, Montreal.
intend to try marching on snow-shoes
during the coming winter.
The Boston Courier has rendered
new version of an old song: 81 know
a bank wherein cashier lies.''
The Carson Appeal boasts of youn
Chinaman known as .Charley," who
has accumulated $4,000 by peddling
vegetables in that rlace
According TO statistics just issued.
the import of grain into Germany has
far exceeded the export during the
first nine months Of the current year
The state of Mississippi has sold to
the Georgia Pacific Railroad company
100000 acres of Mississippi river
swamp land.
BY the end of the present year the
Mexican Central railroad will reach
Queretaro. The rails are laid to Venta
Hermoso, and the grading is well
under way.
When Mrs. Reed of Laona, Chautau-
qua county, N. Y, was elected school
trustee, she Immediately drew on her
husband for money to paint and carpet
the school-houses.
The owners of the quarries at
Medina, Orleans county, N. Y, have
nearly four hundred men employed,
and still want more. They are filling
Chicago contract at present.
Dead horses are reported to be ad-
vancing in price in Philadelphia, which
is due to the increased price of glue.
They are scarce and wanted now at SIS
each, instead of 50 as heretofore.
Oranges, lemons, lines, citrons,
grape fruit, guaves, peaches, plums,
grapes, apricots, figs, pomegranates,
olives, pears, peacans, and berries, all
flourish in fernando county, Fla.
The Tyne has been greatly deepened
of late years, and the effect has been to
increase the shipping until Newcastle
ranks third among England's ports,
1917 vessels having entered last year.
1t is said that the fund being raised
for Kate Shelly, the heroine of Il
Chicago and Northwestern railroad
accident, amounts to nearly $4,000,
and also that most of this has been
contributed by commercial travellers.
1t will cost $4,000 to insulate the
national library of Paris. The work
is expected to be completed by next
summer, and the danger to the library
will be proportionately lessened. The
British museum is entirely insulated.
The father of hazed freshman at
Bowdoin college has brought suit for
$4,000 from each of seven sephomores
and juniors, who. in the course of their
sport, threw piece of coal through tbs
freshman's window and injured hi
sight.
The Wesson cotton. mills, of Missis-
sippi, consume annually 100000
pounds of cotton and 100000 pounds
of wool, manufacturing rs varieties
of woolen in 126 different patterns,
and "A varieties of cotton fabrics i'm
155 patterns.
The old appellation dead letter Office
has been changed to returned letter
office in London, owing to the fact that
multitude of people misunderstood its
significance. The comptroller was
besieged with demands for informa-
tion about missing people and letters
addressed to dead ones.
Many cases of typhoid fever are
affecting the people of Hartford county.
Maryland, between Hopewell and
Havre de Grace. The disease is COM
monty known as the canning house
fever, because it originates from the
refuse matter left to rot in the vicinity
of the canning establishments.
A colony of veteran soldiers from
Philadelphia, Norristown, and Con-
shohocken, with their families, num-
bering forty-six persons in all, will
shortly sail from the former port for
Texas, to settle on the Mexican side of
the Rio Grande, where fine tract of
land has been secured for them.
A Mexican laborer has dug up an
important archaeological curiosity near
San Antonio. Tex. Itisa church orna-
ment consisting of two curces ansat@,
surrounded by biblical pictures not un-
like those seen on the marble amboneS
and upon the walls of the primitive
churches, such as the Matenee in Mad
rid.
The remnants of the Philadelphia
centennial exhibition have been sold at
auction. The great organ which cost
$4,000 went for $1,000, and is to he
removed to a Boston fair building.
The largest mirror in the world, eleven
by eighteen feet, in one plate, originally
costing 5000, was bought by saloon
keeper for 5000.
President Arthurs door keeper in
New York says: "Mr. Arthur sees
every one that calls, it does not mat
ter who; even in his house in Lexing-
ton avenue evey one who called
was admitted. The presidents orders
, have always been: If people will
J take the trouble to call upon me, /
shall always see them "
There i, considerable satisfaction,
even if reason and conscience do not
approve it, in hearing that a couple Of
Mormon missionaries who have been
engaged in the nasty business of max.
ing converts in Hackney, England,
were recently pelted with rotten eggs
and eventually driven out by an in
!. dignant crowd who had been listening
J to their harangues.
The farmers of Maine ought to put
lup monument in honor of the cater
pillars which devasted their apple or
chards few years ago; for since that
time the trees have regularly borne in
what are elsewhere ''off years." This
years crop of apples is enormous, the
lquality is superb, and the farmers are
lgetting $3 a barrel at their own doors,