Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-01-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

New York police commissioners mod
estly ask for $3,402,180 to run three
thousand policemen during the year Of
grace 1882.
Advocates of woman suffrage claim
that eighty of the ninety-four newspa-
pers published in the state of Nebraska
favor the innovation.
The telegraph was first exhibited in
New York forty-fcur years ago. AT
the present time the Western
Union operates $4,000 miles of wire
in the United States.
A farmer in plowing recently over
the site of a granary burned by Indians
in 1855, in Douglas county, Oregon,
found quantity of wheat in a good
state of preservation.
Virginia in the last year produced in
her twenty.one iron-ore establishments
1872, 1876 tons, worth $439,S24, giving
employment to 939 men and boys, who
earned $l86, ,279 in wages.
The project of elevating the princi-
pality of Servia to the rank of king
dom has been revived, and it is expect
ed that Prince Milan will be proclaim
ed king early in the new year.
Thousands of fish, it is said, were
tossed on the beach of the North Is
land of Arran, by the trembling of the
earth, the other day, thus saving TO the
Irish fishermen hours of painful toll
ing on the sea.
According to some experiments
which were mentioned at late meet.
ing of the French Academy of Sciences.
one can cause an unusual number Of
tadpoles to turn into male frogs by
supplying them special diet.
The cost of cleaning the streets of
the city of London proper. for the
year ending at the beginning of Octo-
ber last, was $l10,770, and the expense
of paving was as follows: Granite,
$54,265, wood, $38,160; asphalt, $685.
235.
Patrick Downey died in Castleton,
VT, the other day, after living the life
of hermit for quarter of century.
In his bed was found roll of $1,000
in bills from the Castleton Mutual
bank. The bank discontinued business
in 1859.
Women in Brooklyn have formed
a society whose avowed object is to urge
congressional legislation againt polyga--
my in Utah. They have already OBJ
tained three thousand signatures to a
petition praying for the enactment of
laws for the prevention and punish
ment of polygamous marriages.
The weekly story papers are dying
out of the land. Ten or fifteen years
ago they had calculations of 100000,
and up to 100000 for the most popular.
At the present they have not half, and
some not a quarter Of the distribution.
The cause Of their decay began with
the issue of novels complete in pamph-
let form, sold at 5, 10, and 20 cents.
A Washington paper says that on a
winter night, when the sleet was driv-
ing and poor Irish woman was strug-
Cling along the icy pavement with a
heavy bundle in her arms, Secretary
Frelinghuysen came out of his house
on his way to state dinner, and with
courtesy invited her to take his carriage
and tell the driver where 10 take her.
In 1775 there were but three post
offices established in Maine, one of
which was at Kennebunk, kept by
Nathaniel Kimble, another in Portland,
by Samuel Freeman, and the third in
Georgetown, of which John Wood was
postmaster. At the present time the
whole number of postofiices in Maine
is 946, and the whole number in the
United States is 44,797.
A lady at New Market, Va, entered
one of the baI-rooms in that place the
other night, between and o'clock,
found her husband present, and, de-
termining that her rights should be
protected-if not by the law by her
own hand-threw over a bSgatelle ta-
BILE, knocked the legs off, and took her
husband home with her. The specta-
tors and players surrendered at the first
assault. beat hasty retreat, and left
the field to the victrix.
In Japan, with more than 100000
people, there are only 1000, 600 head Of
cattle, of which only 100000 are fit for
food, or two head for every 100 people,
against 73 head per 100 in the United
States. Mutton and pork are unknown
in the interior, fish being largely the
1000 OF the people, many varieties be-
ing eaten raw. S1onin pIanIs are GA
tensively eaten, as is also an acron which
grows on bush three or four feet high.
A preparation from matted barley and
rice is also much eaten.
An extraordinary amount of capital
is being invested in sheep and cattle
raising in Cuba Including horses and
mules owned by the planters, it is cal
culated that the value of the cattle of
all sorts in the Trinidad valley amounts
to 81 100000. Great care is being be-
slowed upon the breeding, and the i'm
portation of sheep. cows, and bulls is
increasing largely. no less than thou
sand head having been delivered from
England and the United State at Glen
fuegos alone in single week.
Since the war between France and
Germany ended, the growth of the two
countries in population has been curl
Gus in its contrasts. Germany has in
creased by 100000 souls, but France
by only eI2 o. In 1867 the excess
of births,,o, deaths in France was
l4O.6OO. In S78 it was only 98,175.
Germany, ON the other hand, shows an
excess for 1869 of 428,000 and for 1873
of 556,506. With these figures as a
startling point it is estimated that at
the end of the century, providing emf
grafton and immigration do not inter-
fere with conditions as they are now,
France will scarcely have 40, ,000, 600 to
the 60,O00,O00 which Germany will
have.
In a recent speech Lord Randolph
Churchill compared the English cabinet
to the pig that cuts its throat when it
tries to swim; its policy he called
..n..al-a, <.r.aaIro.x. and docla rod that