Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-18
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to be large.
Guiteau now has boz ng-master
that he can "beat"
Mormon missionaries laboring
among the Pennsylvania y s.
1t cost $4,000 a year print the
postage stamps of the UNI States.
Since 1851 there have +,nigrated-
altogether from Ireland, 63S, 1877 per-
sons.
Australia has produced during the
past twenty years 81 ,S55, ,000, 900 in
gold.
The rate of letter postage in France.
will be two cents after January /,
1882.
In Cleveland. Ohio, 5000 irrepressi-
BILE boys and young men carry fire:
arms.
The money s,wesi sin shape or foreign
LEANS in default in Enslsad amounts to
= -0,050, 100000
New York has the only Jewish daily
published in the Hebrew character.
Its circulation is 1000.
In Oregon the comet is considered
us sign that there will not be big
run of salmon next year.
The people of New York city spend
$3.50 per head for rum every year,
making grand total of $3,000,00O.
1t is estimated that there are not less
than 100000 school teachers in the
world. The school children are esti-
mated at IL, ,G7S.000.
Nevada state prison has stone
quarry, and ut the present time a num-
ber of convicts are working out ma
terial there for the mint's new refinery
at Carson.
Very cordial and earnest is the invi-
tation made by large number of
southern papers, urging the president
to make a journey through that section
when he RECEIVERS.
The secretary of state for Michigan,
has issued report on the wheat crop
of that state for the current year, show
ing decrease of IL, 100000 bushels as
compared with 1880.
An English firm has commenced the
manufacture of paper blankets. They
are made as soft, and are warmer and
altogether lighter and cheaper than
their woOlen predecessors.
In the vicinity of Big Eole, NJ. T.,
the bears unearthed large number Of
Indian skeletons, and have strewn the
ground with bones. 1t is probably the
scene of an old battlefield.
The baby elephant, born in Philadci-
phia March 13, 1880, weighed 213
pounds at birth, and within the year
gained 700 pounds on an exclusively
milk diet. II now weighs not far from
1000 pounds.
The city of Boston gives concerts by
military bands on its common ON Sun
day afternoon, and draws the line at
pleasure boats, the passenger boats on
the pond, the public garden being pro-
hibited to run on that day.
The famous old English schools,
Eton and Harrow, Rugby and Winches-
ter, are constantly full to oyeraowing.
although their cosG constantly increases.
Oxford and Cambridge were never 80
crowded with students as now.
People dread lightning much more
than they do intensely hot weather,
yet in the United States last week,
more people were fatally affected by
sunstroke than have been killed in
this country in five years b. lightning.
Saratoga complains of egion of
genteel loafers, who spit OF the YER
andas, stare at ladies, occul he best
seats, and constantly rem decent
people of the fact that the .merican
loafer was never matcheo Or impu-
dence.
Every dog has his day. The two
pug dogs belonging to woman who is
boarding at one Of the Long Branch
hotels are brought to the table in the
nurses hall three times daily and fed
to the best Of everything from silver
plate.
The apartments of the Princess Jur-
jewsl1a, in st. Petersburg, are hung
with black cloth, and she is said to dine
off black porcelain. The princess
drives daily TO the fortress of Peter
Paul to pray at the tomb of the late
emperor.
On December IL last, ut Stockton,
CAL, one Antoine Paravagnia shot HIM
self in the head. The ball lodged in
his brain, and has never been extracted,
but, contrary TO all surgical prediction
and experience, he still lives and is in
good health.
Two government tOw-bOats for the
Improvement of the upper Mississippi
river are being constructed at the
Eagle Point boat yards, above Dubuque
and will be finished by the lst Of Sep
tember. Three flats for the use Of the
government will also he built,
The regions Of the northwest. which
now produce so large proportion OF
the swine grown in this country, are
almost wholly free from hog diseases
of any kind, and the hogs now being
marketed are reported as among the
, best known to the trade at this season
of the year.
The work Of education in Armeni;
will hereafter be promoted by specia
society. This society has just beer
formed in London, and has a numer
Gus and distinguished committee. The
first meeting was held few days ag'
under the presidency Of the late dean o
; Westminster.
!. The Shoshone falls of the Snake rive
are two hundred feet high. A few day
since boat containing one white maj
and two Cinnamon was carght in TIT
rapids and carried like an arrow owe
/. the cataract. OF the boat, splinter
|. of wood were afterward found but o
the men, nothing.
The Farwen reduction work., O
! Georgetown, Col, owned by John V
Farwell, of Chicago, closed down las
! week owing to the sharp competition
J and high prices offered for ore by buy
ers from other points. This is one O
, the largest mills for the reduction o
, silver ore in Clear Creek county.