Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-05-25


urative rule, while custom is a practi-
cal law.
If common sense has not the bril-
liancy OF the sun, it has the fixity of
the stars.
Little minds are tanned and subdued
by misfortune, but great minds rise
above it.
To have the reputation of bitter
tongue gets you enemies and invita-
tons to dinner.
Experience is trophy composed of
all the weapons that we have been
wounded with.
Habit is cable. We weave a
thread of it each day, and it becomes
so strong we can not break it.
Oscar Wilde has made $4,000 by
his aesthetic mOnkey-shine. That's the
kind of a sunfower he is.
A Nevada school-teacher died the
other day, and the local papers an
nounced it under the head, "Loss of a
| Whaler."
The boarding house mistress, like
the rest of us, has her weak and strong
points, the weak point being her tea,
and her strong point the butter.
Boy to papa, who Is busily engaged
in writing: "Papa, is it wrong to say
'confound you'p ?" Papa replies: "Con-
found you, yesl Don't bother me-"
us he good German scholar ?" they
asked Brooklyn belle concerning her
lover "Splendid' she replied. "He
holds lady beautifully, and knows all
the figures"
An Irish coachman, driving past
some harvest fields during summer,
addressing a smart girl engaged in
sheaving, exclaimed :-"Arrah me dar-
ling, 1 wish 1 was in jail for stealing
yer
'tNo, indeed, I'm not going to learn
how to make bread" said New Haven
belle. "Girls who know how to make
bread generally marry men who can't
afford to buy flour to make it with, and
they have to work in a milliner's shop
to help pay the board bill. I'll stick to
my fancy work"
A Long Island man, accompanied by
his little son, paid a. Brooklyn news.
paper office a visit, on which occasion
one of the editors remarked that he
had frequently seen the visitors name
in the Eagle. The little boy spoke up
and said: Eyes, indeed. Pas name is
in the paper every time land is sold for
taxes"
Strange freaks of vandalism were
performed in Harrisburg, Pa, a few
MI 70 oil hv
scamps. They consisted of removing
and carrying away the plates from all
the water and gas stops on the pave
ments along several streets, chipping
wooden door-steps with knives and
piling loose bricks in the cutters.
Mrs. Malloy-"Shure, Mrs. McGinnis.
an It's rather poorly you're lookin' this
mOrnin'." Mrs. McGinnis-"Indade,
thin, Mrs. Malloy, an it's good raison
Pm having to look poorly. Here's the
postman just been here to the doore to
tell me there's dead letter waitin' fur
me at the postoffice, an can't fur the
life of me think who it is that's dead.'
An Esquimaux and his wife have
been brought from the arctics to New
London, Conn, to testify in the case of
New London firm against a New
Bedford finn for the recovery Of dam
ages for the alleged appropriation of
bone and oil left on the Esquimaux
coast by the New London firm. Es-
quimaux interpreters are in attend
ance.
Piute John, of Empire, New, was
recently bereaved by the loss of his
wife. He swung her body over his
shoulder and went 10 the foothills,
where he buried the remains in hole
about two feet deep, covering the grave
with a pile Of boulders. He returned
to the lodge and joyously selected
shapely squaw, to whom he was i'm
mediately married.
Two ash-knots, weighing 1,150 and
1,490 pounds, were last week shipped
to New York. They are steamed,
which softens them and develops their
color, and then used in exceptionally
fine veneering. Persons who are ex-
perts in judging what knots are of
value, make considerable by going
about looking for them. These two
were from Caledonia, ". Y.
4 little romance IN real life occurred
in Tacoma, Washington territory, a
few days since, in the marriage of a
couple who had been divorced from
each other year or more ago in Cali
fornia. The reconciliation was con-
summated at the deathbed Of an only
child, beautiful boy, the father going
from Portland at the summons of the
mother to assist in nursing him.
a country clergyman had been raised
to the dignity Of rural dean. When
before the bishop he complaine. Of not
receiving any extra title-plain rever-
end didnot seem sufficient for his new
dignity. "The bishop" he said, "was
called right reverend; a dean very rev.
erend. Why he'd not the rural dean
also some prefix p well" returned his
lor,lchin aI don't Epovy what If can no