Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

Rhode Island 81 Reform school for
Bows has no locks on the doors and no
bars on the windows.-There is very
rarely an attempt to: escape, though the
$50 inmates include many lads who have
been considered incorrigible.
AN eastern merchant who never adj
vertised was found lying dead on the
counter in his store the other day. 1t IS
thought the body had lain there for sew
eral days before being dlscovered--Dn-
iuth Tribune. Il, ~
The Shenpao, q Chinese newspaper
gives an account of a man thirty-four
years old, with thirty-two children-N
sixteen pairs of twins. The father is q
poor farmer and the children arelsup-
ported by their neighbors. ~ ga
= An Ohio family of six weigha ton
an average of III pounds each. The
fathers weight is $50 pounds, the moth
er's 2S6, the oldest 307 and the weight di-
minishesto the youngestwho weighs III
pounds. 1t must be unpleasant for any
one of them when the rest of the family !
sit down on him. --DetroI Free Press.
"A Chicago man started a business
in competition with, the postoffice- He
delivered letters anywhere in the city at
a cent apiece and sold stamps at even
a lower rate bv the thousand. He did
we'll until a fine of $3.50, with q promise
! of the same punishment for every letter
| afterward carried, closed his enterprise.
| -CYesedgo Ne,cs.
in Pulaski County, Virginia, a few
days since, MI" David Smith, Jr:, and
Miss Lizzie King, IA romantic couples
undertook n runaway match. The ele-
ments sided with the girls father, who
/ captured the lovers, took them yhome,
and made them get married In decent,
prosaic style. His only objection ITO
Smith was hissextreme youth.
A liking for one-story factories has
been developed among the manufacture
ers of New England, and they are being
built in many casns where the naturesof
sites permit. They are said to be eco
nomical, handy, safe, and free from that
vibration which looms impart to tall
structures. An immense flax mill on
this plan has just been opened at ia
maica Plain, near Boston. y
A prize was offered by a lotof butch
ers in Flushing, L. l., for the nearest
guess to the weight of a hog. One man
had dreamed the night before that the
! porker weighedS97 pounds, and he put
these figures down. The other guessers
laughed and jeered at him, bat his time
came when the carcass was laid on the
scales. He hit it to the fraction of
| pound. ~ III
-Dielman had been chief clerk of the
Hotel Emery, Cincinnati, for a number
OF years. The owners decided to make
him the landlord because they regarded
him as very able and honest. In exam
lining the books for the purpose of letting
him start anew, they discovered false en-
! tries covering his stealings of thousands
| of dollars Instead of being the host of
n great hotel, Dielman is now dis
graced fugitive Cinciap,ati CONNER
cidl.
a remarkable thief has been caught
in Chicago. He is young, handsome.
well educated, very gentlemanly and
wonderfully audacious. He lived sew
eral months at the larger hotels, dressed
in such an extreme of the fashion as to
attract attention. and paid his bills
promptly; and all the money was OBJ
tanned by sneak thievihg in the rooms of
fellow guests. In one instance he took
4 bag colltaimn gaiegotiableb bonds. worth
$1,000 When caught at LASTLY watch
! man he, drew.a pistol and attempted to
! escape by murder.- Chicago Ne,os.
"A New jersey. doctor is trying to-
form "a joint stock company which he
wants to form for the purpose of saving
! 400, 900 lives in this country per year.
The prospectus of this company has been
issued and sent to large numbers of per-
sons. The doctor offers to reimb urse the
stockholders and devote one half of the
enormous sum he iissto receive toward
! destroying disease altogether in this
country aud putting an end to the press
| ent medical fraternity, which he. calls a.
! dynasty licensed to commit Unlimited
murders every year-N.s Y. Times.
MIR. Arthur Fewles, a. marine artist
of Ryde, England, met with a sad end
recently. He was sketching the yachts
in Fishburne, Creek, about two miles
frop1 Ryde, and his son, only about sew
en- years of age, was with. him =, A mar
liner who had been shooting wild fowl
on the beach left his gun upon o sort of
staging. 1t was noticed by the little
boy, who lifted it up. The charge ex-
p!oded and struck Mr. Fowles, who was
only few PAGES Distant in the head,
killing him instantaneously. He leaves
wife and several young children.
:, Ezra Clark. an old Settler of Kirk
land, N. T., and 8 prominent manufact-
urer of that place, died Arecently. aged
eighty six years. He was thrice mar
ricd. his last wife dying few months
ago. Three children survive him. a
remarkable fact in his history was that
of occupying the same house and farm
for eighty-six years. and of residing in
two counties Herkimer and Oneida
and in four different towns New Hart
ford. Paris. Kirtland5al Whitestown-
at the same time and under thersame
roof. the house being on the dividing line
4 Cor the county and town.