Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-27
ALL SORTS,

A sage hen-One who avoids the
hawk.
The retired liat-A hotel register at
midnight. 81
There's vastly more taffy criticism
than true art.
Which is the debtors favorite treep
The willow twill owe.)
The Arabs have it that too much
sunshine makes desert.
This assembly is forthwith dissoly-
ed" as the south wind said to the ice
and snow.
What does an aeronaut do, after in
Hating his balloon? He highs himself
away on his trip.
AS we must render an account of
every idle word, SO must we likewise
of our idle silence.
A lawyer in Ohio has been disbarred
for stealing sheep. He began his career
by fleeing the lambs.
"I'll be hangedi 1 don't" said the
convict, when asked whether he intend.
ed to apply for pardon.
Texas boasts an animal which has
features of both an OK and horse.
Wonder how it enjoyed the equine
Oxial.
1t is feared that the enormous manu-
facture OF wooden toothpicks is leading
to the utter destruction of American
forests.
The reason there are SO many
divorce cases in ON. courts is because
there is too much birthstone in the
matches.
"Always pay as you Co." said an old
man to his nephew. "But, uncle. sup
pose 1 have nothing to pay with?"
"Then don't CO."
Many man after marriage wishes
he had One-tenth of the money he had
fooled away, on other girls, to buy
baby carriage with.
A city missionary was asked the
cause of his poverty. principally"
said he, "because 1 have preached so
much without notes."
Pope Leo XIII. rises at and saws
mass in his private chapel. He break
fasts early, dimes at 2, and sups at 9.
AT II he goes to bed.
'Do you think you'll be able to pull
throughT anxiously inquired the
needle of the thread. eye guess So"
was the curt response.
Before marriage she was dear and
he was her treasure; but afterward
she became dearer and he treasurer.
and yet they are not happy.
John, why do you fill your pockets
with those great stones" Because.
Sam, 1 always feel bowlder when /
have the rocks in my pockets
A man i'm Morrisania says that when
he asked the girl who is now his wife
to marry him, she said, 81 don't MIND"
and that she never has minded.
A man was shot at, but was saved
by the bullet lodging in his false teeth.
A fine instance of tooth stoppingl
Still, the saving of life was purely acct
dental.
Mr.. Circle was married in Chicago
The other day. The bride seemed par
ticularly happy in the consciousness of
having husband who would be ant to
stay round.
Maybe woman can't sharpen a
cad pencil or drive hoop on barrel
out she can invent more new stvle
than there are words in the
Chinese dictionary.
A Qlaker's advice to his son on his
day. "When thee went
a-courting told thee to keep thy eyes
wide open. Now, that thee is married,
tell thee to keep them half shut"
A daughter of the late President
Johnson manages farm near ALBANY.
Tex, with such economy and success
hat prosperous future is already in
'ured the presidents two grandchildren.
A price is set upon the heads of wild
lorses in three Of the Australian colo
hes They bang upon the outskirts of
and are a ceaseless cause
If annoyance and loss to OUTLYING
'quatters. They are vicious, physical
y weak, and worthless as workhorses.
stalking them with rifles, or running
hem down, is favorite sport.
After Longfellow's visit to Windsor
castle. in 1857, the queen said to Sir
Theodore Martin: II noticed an un.
usual interest among the attendants
and servants. / could scarcely credit
hat they so generally understood who
he was. When he took his leave they
concealed themselves in places from
which they could get good look at
linn as he passed."
The long Black canon in the Gun
lison river, in Colorado, through which
he Denver and Rio Grande railroad is
o pass, is so MARI ow, and the walls so
Ugh, that the stars can be seen from it's
lepths in the brightest day. In some
'laces the walls are mile in height.
nd scarcely more than forty or fifty
eet apass. The engineers have zig
aged the line across the stream.
"There is too much horse-racing at
our agricultural fairs" remarked Par
on Jones to the secretary of the county.