Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-09-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| California is the favOrite state of
Italian immigrants, being wine coun.
try with mild climate recalling that
of Italy.
Jean Massie died at Nevada City.
COL, last week. His blood was found
to have turned into q colorless fluid,
resembling water.
A Norwich, Conn, man who was in
Paris recently found no trouble in pay.
ing his hotel bill with United States
national bank notes.
The friends and admirers of the
greatest Jewbaiter in Germany, Herr
Reuppcl, have nominated him for the
reichstag from Berlin.
The Belleville voting district at Paris
Is the nest of revolutions in France.
Since 1848 every revolution first bud
ded among the Bellevillians.
A magistrate at Cornishville, Ky,
acquitted a deliberate murderer on the
ground that the deed was done to prop
erly avenge a brothers DEATH.
The track of the Canada Pacific
railroad is laid for distance OF lis
miles west of Winnipeg, and the grad
ing will be finished to Brandon by the
10th of September.
The hippOdrome III Paris recently
started running-matchcs fer ladies, and
at Mines the organizer of the bull
tights has engaged women instead Of
men to act as matadors.
The Jewish population of Vienna il
reported to have more than doubled It.
self according to the recent census,
within the past ten years. In 1870 It
was $4,000. tits now $4,000.
A boy was found dead in well at
Dallas, Tex, few days since. He
had been missed three days, and dur
ing that time the family had been
using the water from the well.
The Maine Beet Sugar company had
to make 1921 separate contracts IN
four different states to get 1000 tons
of beets last year. Some of the roots
came from the Mohawk country.
The official language If the Trans.
vaal is to be Dutch, and no other will
be allowed in the law courts. This
will, of course, place the British resi-
dents and natives ut disadvantage.
The Montreal chief of police is said
to have impressed his men, in recent
lectures ON the discharge of their duties,
that they were to be omnipresent, om-
niscient, polite, ard never ask for an
increase of wages.
An eagel was shot in California re-
Gently, measuring ten feet from tip to
tip of its wings, whhe in the act Of
carrying off q lamb. This is claimed
to be the largest bird of the kind ever
killed on the coast.
1t is probable that the southern part
of the territory Of Utah will supply
enough antimony. for this country.
The ore mined about 140 miles from
Salt Lake City yields from 60 TO IS
per cent of antimony.
A negro girl, aged IA years, residing
on a plantation about twelve miles
from Lake Providence, La, gave birth
to three children on the 18th inst
all boys. One was black, one white,
and the other mulatto.
The ice factories at Houston, Tex,
have allowed quantity Of ammonia,
used in the manufacture of ice, to es-
cape into Buffalo bayou, and millio.s
of fish have been killed. The surface
is covered with dead fish.
Twenty years ago prominent actor
at London theatre thought himself
fortunate if he made $50 week
Now. every young gentleman with a
good figure and stock Of fine clothes
expects half that sum for q nights
acting.
1t is the big watermelon season with
the Florida Press. The st. Augustine
Press has one weighing forty-ivs
pounds. The Brooksville Crescent
goes it better with one weighing fifty
one pounds, and the Jacksonville I'm
ion crows loudly over ffty-nine
FOUNDER.
A careful computation of the sugar
and rice crops of Louisiana, for the
season ending Sept. /, 1881, shows 218.-
314 hogsheads Of sugar, 1925, ,029 gal
Ions of molasses, and 266, ,658 barrels Of
clean rice. This is the largest crop of
both sugar and rice grown in the state
since the war.
An English inspector, in his report
on an accident to train which oc-
CURED on the London and Southwest
ern railway, mentions the fact that the
engine had run total distance OF
329,577 miles, of which 39,1O3 miles
were run since it was last repaired.
Last season the San Gabriel valley.
California, produced 10000 boxes of
oranges, but this year the crop will
not exceed $4,000 boxes, so says good
authority. Last year the Riverside
orange crop amounted to 5000 boxes,
and will this year be three times as
large.
Mai. Benyaurd, of the United States
engineers, says: "That while At the
mouth of Red river the other day be
had made observations which satisfied
him that the Mississippi was cutting
for itself channel to the gulf through
the Atchafalaya river, which would in
ne great time become its outlet. and
New Orleans would be left in shallow
stream.
A puzzle solved: Two Irishmen
were poring over the news of one Of
our city papers, and coming to thu
heading --latest" and Immediately fol.
lowing it "Very latest" one said to thi
other: "Ah, sure, Tim, will ye be at
ter explainin' what this meansT ear
, rah, bedad," said Tim, ''an' it's mesell
that can explain that to ye. Sure th'
! latest is what comes in time to b
printed, and the very latest is wha'
/ comes after the paper is out"
VI A new feature in English parlia
mentary life was noted lately by ths
appearance Of person in the lobby
who accosted members and solicited
: their vote ON behalf of Mr.. Ritehie'l
motion with reSpect To tha Francf