Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-16
MISCELLANEOUS.
Every flower about the house certi-
6cs to the refinement of somebody.

Every flower about the house certi-
hcs to the refinement of somebody.
Dogs belonging to the aboriginese
and those kept by Europeans in South
Africa are bitterly hostile to each other.
4 straggler almost invariably loses his
life.
Wing Chin Foo is the editor of
Chinese newspaper in this city. Him
catchee news on Wing. No much Chin.
Him no Foo, by big majority.-M Y.
Commercial Advertiser.
The first Union flag was unfurled
on the LIST of January, 1776, over the
camp of Cambridge. II had thirteen
stripes of white and red, and retained
the English cross in one corner.-N. Y
Herald
"A Portsmouth On. H, ) man indig-
nantly denies that that town is falling
into decay. He says that the buildings
erected there forty years ago arc as good
rs ever, and they haven't needed any
new ones since.
Everything American is the fashion
Mt present in the City Of Mexico, and the
Mexicans are beginning to adopt many
of the customs of this country. Ameri-
can ladies find especial favor in the eyes
81 the dark-eyed senors.
"A Cincinnati man who suddenly got
rich in hog speculation has read some.
where that every family, the richest and
the proudest, hasa skeleton in his closet,
and now he is skirmishing around to buy
skeleton. rs his wife and daughter want
10 be in style.-B Boston Post.
Brooklyn cannot be first in ANYTHING,
[ II would seem, without exciting the envy
of anumerous brood Of rivals. The first
stroke of lightning recorded this season
occurred here. and several cities are mad
enough about il To tear down their tele-
graph poles.-Brooklyn Eagle.
"A scientific writer says that low
forehead does not always indicate ignor.
ance. Neither does high forehead de-
note knowledge. Many a man whose
forehead extends clear over to the back
of his neck does not know enough to pull
down his vest.-N. y. advertiser.
"A western Minnesota editor, in
writing up an excursion, said the ma.
I jOrity of the fine ladies' present wore
sacks of daintiest description. The com.
/ positOr got il ''sOcks of the dirtiest de-
scription." and the poor scribe has made
three Intellectual attempts to commit sui.
eide in consequence.-Ch Chicago Herald
Three Georgia girls each drank
several egg-noggs and a whisky straight,
then got in a buggy and started off in
high spirits for party. From the fact
that they were subsequently found
asleep in fence corner, while black.
smith was scraping up the remains OF
the buggy with hoe, it is fair to infer
that the party passed of without Their
prusence.-Ch Chicago NetCs.
"A smart thief in San francisco
stole knife and pair of scissors from
tailor's shop. When the police caught
him and searched him they found only
n hammer. He had no knife and nc
scissors. Patient investigation showed
that the fellow had stolen the hamme:
in the pawn shop where he had sold the
knife and scissors for ten cents.
The sarcophagus ordered last fal
by President Arthur. to be placed above
his wife's grave on South Ridge, in The
Rural Cemetery. Albany, N. Y, has beer
placed in position. 1t is of Italian
marble, about eight feet long and two
feet high, and rests upon massive tripl,
pedestal. Around the upper edge, il
raised old English letters, is this inscrip
ton: