Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-07-14
NO. 6.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Improvements of vast nature are
being made in the great National park
in the Yellowstone valley.
Nellie Grant Sartoris will probably
spend a part of the summer at the resi-
dence of her parents at Long Branch.
The sugar crop of the world in 1880
was 3,442, 1856 tons, of which 1857. .988
was from cane and 1,565,000 beet-root
sugar.
The receipts of butter in the Chica-
go market since January !, 1881, have
been 23,000,000, against 2I,OOOOOO
pounds for the same period last year.
There not only seems to be a great
scarcity of farm laborers in Montana,
but cowboys and sheep herders are
much harder to get this year than ever
before.
A cattle-buyer has arrived in the
eastern part of Lake county, Oregon,
looking for some fifteen thousand head
to twenty thousand head to drive to
Nebraska.
The London Telegraph says that in
Berlin the mania for change in femin-
Inc costume has been strongly develop
ed, and Clothing League for the
abolition Of long skirts established.
Mexico is becoming the favorite field
for missionary enterprise. The Metho-
dist Church South appropriates $82,-
5OO this year, and other denominations
are showing increased energy in that
direction.
A statue has recently been found in
mound on the Egyptian government
railway line. 1t is believed to be
4,56S yeaess old, and if this is confirmed
it will probably be one of the Oldest
known statues in the world. This
statue is about being removed to Cairo.
New Haven, Conn.,, has been desig-
mated as a port from which imported
merchandise may be shipped in bond
in transit through the United States
to and from the Dominion of CANADA,
by such routes and under such regula-
tions as the secretary of the treasury
may prescribe.
Marshall Johnson, of Claiburne, La,
dreamed for two nights in succession
where his grandmother, who died a
of years ago, had buried
quantity of money, and going TO the
place which was pointed out to him in
his dream, and digging, he found the
money, 81, 200 in gold.
Reports from the cotton-growing
states show that the condition of the
crop generally is good. There are but
few complaints of the cut-worm, and
rs rule the acreage in the states has
increased, and the use of fertilizers is
becoming more general. Labor is re-
ported scarce in some sections.
Some of the bodies of the miners who
were killed in the snow-slides of last
winter at Alta, Utah, have never yet
been recovered. In searching for one
of them, few days since, u hotel pro-
prietor, named Albert Thomas fell into
an abandoned shaft forty feet deep,
the mouth of which was hidden by
snow. He was seriously injured.
Paper car wheels are made by sub
jecting disks of straw board to pres
sure of $3.50 lbs. to the square inch.
After the blocks have been dried they
have a specific gravity about them the
same as that of lignum vitae. They
are then turned with lathes and pre-
pared for the steel tires and hubs.
The census recently taken of the
population of the islands of Cyprus has
furnished the following results: In
the Province of Larnaca, 25,691 inhabi-
tants; in that of Limasol, 29,213 in
that of Baffo, %, 8,416; in that of Fama-
gusta, 3S.139: in that of Kyrenia, 49,
329 and in that of Nicosia, 56,081;
altogether 185,S69 souls.
A farmer at Ephriam, Utah, while
engaged in irrigating his grain field
last week, suddenly felt the earth sink
ing beneath him. He ran backward
several steps to solid ground, and then
saw that the soil where he had been
standing had gone down out of sight.
The hole thus created was twenty feet
deep, fifteen across, and its walls are of
clayey formation.
A committee has been formed in
Paris for erecting to Victor Hugo a
monument on which his eyes may rest
before he is taken away from this
world. Gambetta, De Lesseps, Meis-
sonier, A. Dumas, Sardou, and host
of other celebrities, have sent in their
names as candidates for places on the
committee; money flies in by the bag
full, and NJ. Grevy heads the list with
large subscription.
The "sweet girl graduates" of Russia
are having a hard time of it. Gen.
Ignatieff has issued an order directing
all letters received at the Russian col
leges to be opened by the head of the
establishment and handed over to the
girls to whom they are addressed only
in the event of their containing nothing
of a revolutionary character. The
"heads of the establishment" will be
allowed to pass love letters; but they
are particularly cautioned to exercise
vigilance over these, ''as nihilists may
be expected to attempt to convey their
sentiments in the language of love-"
TIE Tucson ca. IT, Star says that
few days since a magnificent bald eagle
SCARED down from the mountains, and,
after circling around for some time,
settled on a staff from which floated
the flag of the United States. The
monarch of the air passed several for
eign flags which were in. just as in
viting position as the stars and stripes.
He paid no attention to them, how
ever, but sought with unerring instinct
the symbol of freedom. For full ten
minutes he stood sentinel, surrounded
on all sides by multitude Of lockers
on, after which he spread his massive
wings and sped away to the peaks of
the Santa Catalipas.
Covington Commonwealth: A man
named John Wolf, stranger in this
locality, is lying in PROSTATE con-
dition in st. Elizabeth's hospital, this
city. His condition is the result of
very unusual surgical operation, per-
formed at his own earnest nravarfrI