Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-06-15
ALI SORTS.

A new marble quarry is being
worked near Orizaba.
Florida watermelons sell for e.
apiece in South Carolina.
Murrain is destroying the cattle in
several counties in Georgia.
A colt four feet in height was re-
Gently foaled at Vienna. Ga.
Another gold mine has been dis
covered in Bedford county, Virginia.
Young alligators are offered for sale
on the streets of Americas, Ga, at 10
cents apiece.
Boston hero worshippers are carry
ing off bricks from Wendell Phillips
lately-demolished home as relics.
A lady in Lake City, Fla, has an
orange grove, cork trees, tea plants,
and black pepper vines all in full
bearing.
In Ireland the police are arresting as
Cavendish' assassins all men whose
faces are scratched. Married men are
keeping themselves very close.
In the seven counties around Griffin,
Ga, $50 distilleries will be running
this summer. The peach crop in the
same section will be immense.
Cocoanut-grOwing is becoming an
important industry in Florida. They
grow to perfection and promise to add
greatly to the wealth of the state.
"Confound it, you've shot the dog I
thought you told me you conld hold
gun" Pat-"Sure, and so / can, your
honor. It's the shot, sorr, 1 couldn't
hOwld!"
At Grass Valley, CAL, vein of de-
composed quartz has been found which
pays the finders from 80 to 81 per pan,
and is growing better as work pro-
crosses.
The employees of Dewsnap's glove
factory at Mechanicstown. N. Y, killed
i'll one afternoon recently, eighteen
| black snakes, some of them five feet in
length.
| In Cambria county, Pennsylvania,
there are two springs only few feet
lhpart. one of which finds its way into
the Atlantic ocean, and the other into
the Gulf of Mexico.
| | IA IOICC1 chOuICooOU y SuSu,
nastusit," mailed in Champlain, N. Y,
vas forwarded by sharp. witted
derk to Indian Orchard, Mass, and
found its owner.
A fashion item says neck ribbons
are more frequently tied on one side
than in front Guiteau will wear his
"neck ribbon" that way-with the knot
well under the ear.
Gen. John c. Fremont, who is now
living in New York, is still 1.-THE and
erect, though in his 10Th year but his
bajr and beard are very graz, and his
face is wrinkled with age.
A sarcastic resident of Montreal,
who ventuTed the remark, that "tke
police were arresting boys as usual"
on the queens birthday, was hauled
before the recorder and fined SIS aad
costs for his impertinence.
The city of Newark, N. j., contains
1929 factories, with 29,232 workmen.
The capital invested is $23,9l9l15,
and the sales foot up $66. 234, 525. AS
a manufacturing city Newark ranks
tenth in its factories, working people,
AID sales, and eleventh in capital.
Livery men in New England towns
say that the extending use of the tele-
phone is doing much harm to their
business, as many persons who were
accustomed to hire teams to transact
business in adjoining places now stay
at home and talk through the wire.
/ A aged Scotch lady, knowing the
habits of her old and spoiled servant,
when she wished note taken without
loss of time, held it open and read it
over to him, saying. "There, moo.
Andrew, ye ken "a that's in it; moo.
dinna stop 10 open it, but send it afr"
A wholesale liquor firm Of Boston,
II order to get barrel of. whisky to
Il customer at Ciaremont, N. H., where
prohibition is in full force labeled it
) kerosene oil, and painted it to carry
out the deception. Now they have
been convicted of a violation of the
internal revenue laws.
Woman, lovely woman, has been
likened to many, many things-to
dear, to a darling, to duck, to sweet
little goose, and to an angel; but some
times she is really very like kettle.
She, the wife of your bosom, you
know, may be sitting opposite you on
the other side OF the fireplace, singing
away as pleasantly as possible; present.
, ly. however, she may stop suddenly,
and. when you least expect it-she
boils overt
, There is at the greenhouse at Mount
Auburn cemetery, near Boston.
century plant, or aggve. ia full bloom.
!, The main stem is over sixteen feet
! high, with twenty-three flower bearing
trusses. 1t was taken from the cold.
house Jan. 10, when it was just form
, ing, and placed in much warmer
house, where it grew at first. on an
average, four inches in twenty four
hours, and SO rapid was its growth