Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-01-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"Far West, thirty years ago, meant
st. Louis.
Eleven hundred doctors of medicine
in Philadelphia.
There afe said to be no poor-houses
and jails in Norway.
Chicago is going to tax her street
cars $50 each per annum.
The Arab who invented alcahol died
900 years ago, but his spirit still lives.
One of the richest heiresses in Ger
many is Countess Solms, baby, only q
year old.
The thin man who has been fat
knows what it is to live in reduced
circumstances.
Guiteau says he will lecture within
a year. Sorry; but we shan't be down
that way to hear.
When the body of starving man or
animal losses two-fifths Of its sub.
stance it losses life
Why are some people like eggs? Be-
cause they are too full Of themselves
to hold anything else.
A census of the Catholic parishes Of
Dubuque, Ia, shows IL, 900 Catholics in
a population of about $4,000.
John M. StaIin, of New York, who
now has an income of 100000 a year,
began life selling horse liniment.
Two Iowa children;;who have pink
eyes, can hardly see in the daylight
but can pick up a pin in the darkest
night.
In 1918, Joseph Walker, of Hopkin.
ton, Mass, invented shoe-pegs. Moth.
ing but sewed work had been used pre-
vious to this invention.
II take my tex dis morning." said a
colored preacher, "from dat potion OBJ
de scripture whar de PostOl Paul pints
his pistol to de Fesions."
Sound travels at the rate of 1,142
feet per second in the air, 1900 in the
water, 1900 in cast iron, 1900 in
steel and $4,000 in glass.
A colony of $50 Italians, in and
around Nashville, Tenn, have 1900
acres of land devoted to grape raising,
which has proved very successful.
The time to possess your soul in pa.
tiense is when your hat blows off in
the street and your eyes are too full Of
dirt to discover in which direction it
has gone.
Deep drinkers escape gout, not be-
cause they deserve it, but because the
nervous powers of the stomach are en-
feebled by over-stimulation; they have
consequently no appetite.
In the Turkish language there is no
punctuation, and no capital letters are
used. The gender of nouns is simple
and natural, as in English, the names
of inanimate objects being in the neu-
ter.
The devil must feel himself rubbed
down pretty thin when man becomes
so good that he won't let his milkman
call on Sunday. There must be a
special department in heaven for these
men.
Black diphtheria is killing many peo-
pie in Bioomingdale, N. j. The pa.
tients tongue becomes black and swol-
len, and protrudes from the mouth.
Death ensues in about forty-eight hours
after.
A Michigan farmer heard that mu.
sic would prevent bees from stinging,
and he took his ACCORDION and went out
and sat down by hive. Only forty
four bees had got show at him when
he jumped into the lake.
The empress of Austria always wears,
when on horseback, amazones of the
costliest silk velvet. Her favorite col
or is myrtle green; her other colors ad.
miral ue,turkey violet blue, iron gray,
fog gray, carmelite, chimney sweep. A
tailor goes with her.
A deed on record In Taylor county,
Iowa, conveys the land described "t[
have and to hold forever, unless Kent,
Copeland d Co., shall bring this tran
sient world to an untimely end. 1t is
a relic of twenty-odd years ago, when
the adventist excitement swept over
that part of the country.
At a social party, where humorous
definitions formed one of the games Of
the evening, the question was put:
"What is religionP" Religion" said
one of the party, who had less renown
for piety than anything else. religion
is an insurance against fire in the next
world, for which honesty is the best
policy.
A poor vine-dresser of Burgundy
drew from lottery aprize for $50, 900.
thankfully he gave $4,000 for the
building Of church in his native vii
lage, and then, with his family, went
to Paris, where, in one year he spent
the remainder of his money. he re-
turned to his village and became sexton
of his church.
Old Grimes hen which "Hsed to lay
three eggs day and Sundays she laid
three" has been outdone. A Colum-
bus, Ga, newspaper tells of Jonesboro
hen that laid an average of eight eggs
a day for three months. The hen
would lay sometimes four eggs day,
sometimes six, eight, ten, twelve and
four. But then there are hen as well
as fish stories.
"These rubber garments are such
blessing" remarked fat man as he
brought into street car perfect de-
lupe of water. The lady at his right,
who mopped one side of his coat with
, her costly dress agreed with him per-
: fectly; the man at his left, who caught
, about pint of the drippings in his
shoes, could scarcely conceal his admi-
, ration; while the young miss to whom
the fat man gallantly offered his seat
, a few minutes later, went into perfect
i ecstacies as she sat down in pool o
water left on the seat.
The Monaco crown jewels, according
to the London World-those OF the
late Nine. Blanc-realized handsome
sums at the Hotel des Ventes. The
auctioneers had arrayed themselves In
, evening splender, proceeding which
ALWAYS denotes a sale of exceptional