Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-03-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


da is about to be lit up with the cleo.
trio light.
A company has been formed at Win.
nipeg. Manitoba, to supply eastern cit
les with canned frogs legs.
The elevators of Manitoba being full
of wheat, shipments are to be made at
once to Minneapolis and Duluth.
The Montreal Abattoir company Is
in financial difficulties because of the
obstinacy of the butchers, who refuse
to patronize the slaughter-house.
Rev. Simeon Parmalee, d. d., who
celebrated his Tooth birthday the 10Th
of January, died at Oswego, N. Y, LAST
week. Mrs. Parmalee survives at the
age OF ~.
The number of postcards dispatched
in Germany during the year 1880 was
123. 600, 900. In the postoffice museum,
at Berlin, there are exhibited 418 diff
ferent kinds of postcards.
During the last four years Oregon
has exported to the eastern states not
less than 100000 head of beef cattle.
Most of these cattle were produced in
the counties east of the cascades.
1t is reported in Japan that the gov.
ernment is about to reestablish Shin
toism as the religion of the state, and
to combat, by all possible means, Budd-
hism and the progress made by Chris
tianity.
A little black-and.tan dog at Los
Angeles, CAL, has taken his place on
the grave of his master, who was buried
Jan. %, and no persuasion can induce
him either to leave the spot or partake
of food.
Eating sausages imported from
France has been the cause of the death
of popular physician at San Antonio,
Tex. The sausages contained some ir-
ritant poison that produced fatal
peritonitis.
After a recent fire in Mobile, Ala,
catfish eight inches in length was
found in the pumps of a steam fire
engine. The engine received its water
from ahydrant, and the fish must have
come six miles through the pipes.
This years ice crop on the Hudson
river promises to- be equal to that of
1879, which was 2,061, 800 tons. The
quantity housed up to the present time
amounts to 100000 tons, including
100000 tons left over from last year.
Chinese capitalists have purchased
four thousand acres of land in
San Mateo county, California, and
three hundred coolies will be employed
to cultivate it. Similar schemes in
other counties cause much uneasiness
among white farmers.
A citizen of Dallas, Tex, while
walking in his yard the other day, was
startled by the falling at his feet CT
fish three inches long, and evidently of
the salt water species. 1t was flutter-
ing and as full of lifr. as .kough it-had
just come from an aqdariuin.
An old soldier died,a day or two ago
in Pittsburgh, Pa, and five days after
his death long delayed pension, dat
ing from March 18, 1868, WIS granted
him. He left no heirs, and this accu-
mutation of nineteen years will remain
in the United States treasury.
In a single school at Charleston, S. c.,
there are 1.400 negro children. The
teachers are all white-the principal is
man, and the other teachers are wo-
men, many of them ladies of great re-
finement, themselves once mistresses
of slaves, whom necessity has COM
PEELED to seek employment.
Three red-head ducks were shot last
week in the St. Lawrence river below
Ogdensburgh, n. Y. The red-heads
migrate from the Potomac to Labra-
dor in the spring and return in the fall,
stopping in the st. Lawrence both
ways, but it is said to be very unus-
ual thing for them to remain through
the winter.
A gentleman living in Wyandotte
has made particular note that as soon
as the fly known as the "spring
fly" makes its appearance there
is no more cold weather. In
1881 the insect first was observed
March 9, in 1880, April 5, and this
year Feb. 13, thus showing an early
spring, and no more frosts can be look
Cd for.
A justice of the peace in Truckee,
New, sentenced DR.. J. r. Goss to pay a
fine of $40 and to imprisonment for one
day in the county Jail for contempt Of
court. The doctor was taken TO the
Jail in Nevada City at a cost of $40
But, owing to delay Of the train in
which he was taken, he did not arrive
at the Jail till within thirty minutes of
the expiration of his time of imprison-
ment.
A patent medicine firm notified Sir
John Macdonald of their willingness
to illuminate Parliament square, Otta-
wa, by the electric light free of cost
during the session of the Canadian
parliament, provided they were permit
ted to place above the light large
placard bearing the name of their
medicine. Sir John politely declined
to allow the square to be used for ad-
vertising purposes.
A Texas couple stood up to be mar
ried few days ago, and the officiating
clergyman, noticing the butt of pistol
protruding from the pocket of the
groom, suggested that, out Of respect
to the solemn ceremony about to take
place, the weapon should be laid aside
The request being complied with, the
bride demurely drew an eight-inch
bowie from her bosom and tossed ii
beside the other weapon.
Nevada has about million acres OF
salt land and could supply the whole
earth If necessary. The Great basin
has salt in dozen places. Near Silver
peak, in Inyo county, there is one valley
with quarter of a million acres. Lone
valley, between Silver peak and Colum.
bus, in Esmeralda county, has 100,
acres Of salt. Columbus lies right in
the center Of a salt marsh. Fifteen
miles north of Columbus lies a salt bed
of immense resources.