Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-10-06

i Ninety-ive per cent of the surface
of Iowa is arabic land.
| Sixty per cent of cereals received at
Chicago is from Iowa.
The standing army of Europe mum.
Der over 100000 men.
Cocoanut growing is becoming an
important industry in Florida.
Silence sometimes has power more
efficient than the clamor of words.
Moderation is the silken strings run
ming through the pearl-chamber of all
virtues.
The average annual crop of an or
ange tree is from six to eight thousand
oranges.
The losses by fire in Chicago for the
month of August reaches the snug sum
of $2,000.00O.
Theological students are increasing
in the Prussian universities faster than
any other class.
The statement of the Imperial Bank
of Germany shows decrease in specie
of 6,820000 marks.
The ancient athletic games were
leaping, foot races, darting, quoits,
wrestling and boxing.
A Vassar college girl, upon being
asked if she liked Goldfish balls, said
she never attended any.
A vigorous mind is as necessarily
accompanied with violent passions as
great fire with great heat.
Nouv nr1oonc &c ooIJaJ Tho ssNroroo.~k
City," on account of the circular bend
of the river on which it stands.
An irritable man lies like hedge
hog rolled up in the wrong way, tor
menting himself with his own prick
les.
A young lady rebukingly asks us:
(which is worse, to lace tight or get
tight?" We give it up-we never
laced.
Not less than $578,0O0,OOO of our
national war debt now bears interest
only at the rate of three and one-half
per cent.
The word "blanket" was so called
from Thomas Blanket, who established
manufactOry for these goods, at Bris-
tOl, in 1340.
Wine that has been bottled for years
is like an unmarried lady of advanced
age, because it is old made, and none
the worse for it.
A recent analysis of Lake Superior
copper is as follows: Copper, 99,916;
sulphur, 0.002; silver, OOPS; iron,
0.007; oxygen, 0.002.
The stock of lard in this country is
reported at 217, 1853 tierces, against 10,
OH tierces one year ago, and 194, ,232
tierces one month ago.
1t is estimated that 500 human
beings have perished and 10000 peo-
pie are homeless in Michigan, caused
by the forest fires in that state.
A Cincinnati paper says that the
politest young man going is resident
of that city. He took off his hat to
young lady through telephone.
A merchant died suddenly just after
finishing letter. The clerk added in
postscript: "Since writing the above
I have died. Tuesday evening, 9TH
inst"
Several notable happy marriages
have been made on two hours court
ship, but it is a pretty safe rule to
know the girl for at least three days
and picnic.
More than 1000 Mormons have
sailed from Liverpool for Utah during
the summer. They have been re-
cruited in Great Britain, Germany and
Switzerland, but chiefly in Great Brit
ain.
1t is estimated that the grain crops
of Nebraska for 1881, if the present
outlook holds for the season, will ag-
gregate 105,0OO,000 bushels. This is
an increase over 1880 of fully thirty
per cent.
The railroad locomotives are most
persistent and irresponsible incendia-
rles, and according to western sta
tistician they have destroyed this year
from $25, 100000 to $30,00O,000 worth
of property.
The historic Bonaparte Park at
Bordentown, n. j., once the home of
the ex-King of Spain, Joseph Bona
parte, is about to be turned into a
mammoth machine shop. The price to
be paid is $4,000.
J. X. Graves and Joe Rhomberg, of
Dubuque, La, are in scheme to form
a syndicate for building a capitol for
Texas, costing $1,400,000, for which
the company will receive 100000
acres of state lands.
In the time of William the Conquer
or an English pound was an actual
| nsrxhf af OF 1xyor oh in
to20 shillings. Now pound is worth
less than four ounces of silver, and is
coined into sixteen shillings.
| 1t is said that speed of eighteen
miles an hour was attained OH the
Slemens electrical railway at Berlin.
but the authorities restrict it to nine
miles an hour, the highest rate al
lowed for tramways, in which catego-
ry this is officially reckoned.
Al An Englishman arrived at Swiss
, inn and ordered an old bottle of a bet
| ter quality than the wine of the coun-
, try. The landlord produced bottle
! whose label certified to fourteen years.
| When the bottle was uncorked the
3 first thing to appear was a live fly.
IL A newspaper agent being told by an
old lady that it was no use to subscribe
for the papers as Mother Shipton said
q the world was coming to an end this
year, said: "But won't you want 10
+ read an account of the whole affair as
q soon as it Is overY' "That will,
+ answered the old lady; and she sub.
n scribed.
d The Southern states possess a chick
en- syndicate. Six firms virtually con-
4 troll the poultry market. The combined
: capital is $4,000. Their agents re-
I ceive per cent for purchases not only
1 of poultry, but eggs, butter and sau
0 sages. The quarters are at New Or
9 leans, Savannah, Charleston and three
9 places In Tennessee.