Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

world.
The value Of the sheep in Texas is
&13,800000.
Forty Cinnamon make watches in
San Francisco.
There are 400 Jew pawn-brokers
in Great Britain.
Cyrus advised his countrymen never
to eat except after labor.
There are $1,000 physicians In the
United States, and only 5000 in Spain.
Since the passage of the Edmunds bill
Salt Lake real estate has risen in value
about Is per cent.
Over 10000 people are working on
the Nothern Pacific railroad in the
Territory Of Montana.
Alpha Centauri is the nearest Of the
fixed stars, and its distance from the
earth exceeds the suns 100000 times.
The religious revival in Kentucky
has been so thorough and general that
the fashionable young women use note
paper bearing the legend "Praise the
Lord"
On the lowest computation, $4,000
tons of fish are annually taken in
British waters, and Prof. Huxley esti-
mates the take of behring's in the North
sea at 3.000,0O0,000.
Three hundred whales captured by
a number Of small Shetland fishing
boats by being driven ashore and
killed, were sold for e390-a very con-
siderable sum Of prize money.
The total valuation of school prop
erty in the territory in Arizona is
1921, 318.46. The whole number of
persons of school age in Arizona, as
shown by the last school census, was
$500.
A vein of coal eight feet thick has
been reached in the Dorrance shaft,
Wilkesbarre, at a depth of 1926 feet.
1t is expected the Baltimore vein will
be reached at from 400 to 500 feet
deeper.
A field near South Nashville, Tenn,
was lately plowed, and potatoes as large
as mans fist, which had grown dur.
ing the mild winter from the small po-
tatoes left in the ground last fall, were
turned mp.
The damage done by rats on the
public slaughter houses of Paris repre-
sents an annual loss to the city of
$4,000 franc. 1t is impossible to ex-
terminate the destructive animals. All
that can be done is to thin their ranks
little now and again by organizing
monster battues.
Many persons iron towels and fold
them and place them away before they
are thoroughly dry. This is an error,
and sometimes leads to results not ex-
pected. In this damp condition there
Is mold which forms on them called
"oidium," one variety of which causes
q skin disease known as ringworm.
A dealer who has been posting him.
self say 8 that the buffalo crop of the up
per Missouri, Yellowstone and Milk riv-
ers, will amount to 1000 hides and Co.
600 robes, with the river between Wolf
Point and Carroll to hear from. The
kill Of year ago, an unusually large
one, amounted to 10000 hides and
$4,000 robes. The hides represent the
animals killed by the white hunters
who waste most of the meat.
Lovers of statistics will hear with
interest that 100000 fowls, 100000
rabbits, 100000 pigeons, 100000
larks, 297 900 partridges, 100000 hares,
and 5000 head of deer were sold at the
Paris Halles Centrales in the course of
single year. In the same period &c..
100000 kilos (roughly 10000 tons) of
butchers meat changed hands in the
Halles and this immense quantity
hardly represented a fifth part of all
the butchers meat sold that year in
Paris.
Mainly through the efforts of Col.
John @. Calhoun, a son of the famous
statesman of that name, a stock CON-
pany is going into cotton culture ex-
tensively in Chicot county, Arkansas.
The capital is provided by New En-
gland men, and amounts to 81 ,000,0 900.
Plantations aggregating $1,000 acres
have been purchased, along the route
of a projected railroad, and bordering
the Mississippi river. Negro labor
will be employed at days wages in
cash, and the best machinery will be
put in.
A young man of Cincinnati, named
Dow, by profession an electric physi-
clan, was some weeks since engaged to
take charge Of the electric baths at the
Hot Springs, Ark. He has now been
brought home and placed under care
for strange lunacy. His brother,
who went to the Springs to get him,
says that the young physician was
mentally deranged at times, and that
when the spell was on he knew no
one. The cause, as near as could be
ascertained, was the intense heat OF
the baths as generated by the springs.
The Transit of Venus on the 9th of
December will be observed on behalf
OF the French government by eight tx-
petitions at the following points: The
French Antilles, the coast OF Patagonia,
Santa Cruz Chubuth. Chill. Cuha