Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-06-29

Middle Florida win ship 1000
melons this season.
Eek. Secretary James G.. Blaine. is re-
ported to be worth over SIC, QUO. 900.
It is impossible to have the last word
with chemist, because he always has
a retOrt.
Trumbull county, Ohio, has exhaust
ed the owl and hawk fund, having paid
over $50 claims.
Sol Shafer, near Mount Blanchard,
Hancock county, o., has lost Eve cows
from milk sickness.
The wild strawberry crop promises
to be an immense one in the vicinity
of Silverton, Oregon.
Small. pox is prevailing to an alarm
ing extent in the northeastern portion
of Licking county, Ohio.
81 live by my pen," said the poet,
wishing to impress a young lady. "You
look as if you lived in it," was the re-
ply.
st. Andrews bay is the Long Branch
for west FloridianS. 1t is about mid
way between Pensacola and Apalachi-
cola.
Col. E. II. Webster, collector of the
port of Baltimore, recently sold from
his farm near Belair three Jersey cows
for 5000.
A curious freak of nature to be seen
in Greensboro, KY, is catalpa branch
growing out of the side of large To- $
Gust tree.
Three hundred men are now engaged
In picking peaches on one farm at Grit
I'm, Ga., and will continue to pick them
until the middle of July. II
The largest pineapple ever raised in
Florida had circumference Of twenty.
three inches, and its weight was eight
pounds and three quarters.
A contemplated marriage at THIN.
o., was broken up by the father of the
young man leading him home by the
ear and busting his jacket.
1t is reported that slate quarry
equal to any in the United States has
been discovered on the Arkansas river
forty miles above Little Rock.
A Yonkers man says his wife works
ike lightning, which moves the states
man to the opinion that she never
strikes twice in the same place.
A 3-months-old negro child, at Frank
lin, KY, was attacked by rats while
asleep, and its nose eaten off and
holes gnawed in its forehead and eve
lids.
"Ain't that lovely critter, Johnp'
said Jerusha, as they stopped opposite
the leopard's cage. "Wall, yes" said
John, "but he's dreffully freckled, amt
hep"
There are no less than 254 lawyers
In congress, which goes to show that
Solomon was little off when he wrote
that there was safety in multitude of
cOunselOrs.
The Chinese in San Francisco are
turning their attention to type setting,
ana Two weekly papers have Chinese
compositors. They may be called rat
eating "rats."
The census bureau shows that the
number OF men engaged in agricultural
pursuits In the United States is 1893.
212 as against 3.319,647 in manufac.
turing. mechanical and mining occu-
pations.
The New York Broadway stage line
offers 100000 for franchise to run
horse railroad on Broadway. The
bill pending before the governor
gives the franchise to certain parties
for $4,000.
A cats eyes IRE said to be the lar
gest at midnight. We never made ar.
examination, but we are positive that
its voice is about seventeen times larger
at that hour than at any other period
during the twenty-four.
"Why are doctors called physicians.
mammal" said a little inquisitive girl
to her mother, who had just been Wis
tied by one of them. physicians"
replied mamma, who was seldom at
loss for an answer, "comes from fee
seek. as the doctors ride about all day
too seek fees
"Are you going to take that ugly pug
dog with you again, Carrier" asked
Charles. 81 really believe you take
him simply to make yourself look pref
tier by the contrast" "Don't be jeal-
Gus OF poor Pug, Charlie" replied Car
RE. "I'll take you sometime when
want to look especially handsome"
A few days since negro woman
met white girl, about Is years old, on
the sidewalk in Athens, Ga, and both
wanted the inside. Neither would
give way, and after facing each other
for some little time, the negress jerked
the girl from in front of her. nearly
tearing off her dress. az spose Won
will learn how to give de way to Gull
lard ladies de mex time you meetr' she
said.
On st. Valentines Day. a city-doctor
committed the folly of sending the ira
ditional missive to three charming but
petite young girls. Having facile pen.
he designed big bruin standing erect