Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23
MISCELLANEOUS.


I When two days elapse without q
Chicago policeman being shot the
papers of that town express great aston
ishment and congratulate themselves on
the fact that crime is rapidly decreasing.
IN Y. Advertiser.
If persistent effort win accomplish
an object, the railroad restaurants and
some of the hotels will make Java coffee
from tanbark yet. The experiment has
been going on unihterruptedly for years
and years.-Detroit Free Press.
1t Is against the law to have fun
with a boy in New Jersey. A black
smith asked little chap to pick up a
hot horseshoe for him, and the lads
blisters felt great deal cooler when
the jury gave him 5000 damages.
troll Free Press.
Some idea of the active work being
done by Mormon missionaries may be
CLEANED from the fact that one of their
papers, in its last issue, published re-
ports from twenty-eight saints who were
seeking converts as far West as Nevada,
as far South as Alabama, and as far
North as Oregon. Chicago Herald.
The treasurers, book-keepers and
confidential men all over the country
have turned over a new leaf for the new
year. They got in their work in 1882
and are now absconding to various parts
OF the country for the purpose of cstab-
fishing silver mines. atlanta ConStitu.
ton. -
Boys employed on the New York
d New England Railroad are required
to obtain the signatures of their parents
to contract by which it is agreed that
they shall not sue for damages in case
their children are killed by an accident
1t is considered that youths are apt to be
careless, and the company makes the
provision to protect itself.
People must remember that all at
tempts to reduce corpulence after it is
once acquired is attended with more or
less danger. The only safe remedy for
males or females having tendency to
the excessive accumulation of fat is the
preventive one-that is, the pursuance
of those habits of life ordinarily OBJ
served by professional athletes. Chicago
Journal.
dramatic criticism, so-called, is
allowed great license, but to that. as to
everything, decency must fix limit.
When respectable young American fe-
male is described as appearing like an
incarnate delirium tossed by whirl-
Wind we think that limit has not only
been reached, but passed.-Bu6alo IN.
~ Express.
According to report the Mexicans
must be among the politest people on the
globe. Even the robbers are gentlemen,
and when they are obliged to rob, really
put one under obligation for their atten-
ton. An instance is given of pretty
speech made by a Mexican Beau Bro
cade in appropriating pair of earrings:
possessing such eyes, sonora, what
need havesyou of these dull stones?'
"A ''pink luncheon party'' was given
in New York the other day. These were
pink lights..and several ingenious decora-
tons in this charming color. A center
piece of ferns and cyprepediums con-
trasted with the sixteen corsage bou-
! quets, which were made of deep Bon
Silene buds, Hinsdale pinks and adam
tums. There were four corner circles of
glass filled with pinks and ferns.
"A Russian authropologist. who has
been studying the dental characters
tics of Russian soldiers. declares that the
| teeth of persons who have dark hair and
complexion are more durable than the
teeth of fair-haired persons OF light COM
plexion. On the other hand, according
to the same authority, the taller person
is the less durable his teeth are likely to
be. A man who is dark-ha and short
would appear to be surest of sound
teeth.
Cincinnati has developed a most re-
markable, hitherto unheard of sort of
man. His daughter left home ''to visit
friends" she said, but really to meet and
wed the man of her choice, and when
she returned with the husband and that
husband approached timidly and told his
father-in-law what he had done, the old
| gentleman quietly observed: "Carrie is
a good. sensible girl, and her choice for
husband is certainly my choice" But
then the new son-in-law was an editor
There's something in that. Chicago
| Herald.
1t is recorded by the Lawrence
| (Mass.) american that prominent c:ti-
zen of that place, who was abroad last
year, dreamed the other night that he
was on an Inman steamer, lying in
fog at the estuary of the Mersey, when
the vessel was run into by another
steamer, cut down and sunk. The whole
scene was most wildly impressed upon
his mind when he awoke and on taking
up the morning papers he found full
account of just such an accident at the
very point and to one of the Inman
steamers (the City of Brussels) as pict-
ured in his dream.
| Some one has called attention to the
remarkable fact that within at least two
centuries, no French statesman having
reached so high position as Gambetta
died so young. Robespierre, however,
must be excepted, though it is added
that Robespierre ''was only by usurpa-
ton supreme ruler of France" M.
Casimir Perier, who was prime minister
in 1882, died atforty- mine, and this is the
only instance nearly approaching that of
Gambetta, who died at forty-four. When
NJ. Gambetta became Minister of the Inte-
rior in 1870 he was the one hundred and
sixth politician who had filled that Office