Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT a press banquet held in New
Jersey few days ago, ut which thirty
six editors were present, Il was found
that not single man of them could sing
q song, tell n snake story, nor point out
good spot for fishing.
When n man ''mysteriously disap-
pears" nowadays his friends don't be-
gin dragging the river or casting around
for murderer until it Is known ho1y
his books stand and how much money
he has borrowed. Detroit Post.
After bale of cotton had been
stolen from a colored man in Dublin.
Ga, the thief could not be detected be.
cause every colored man in the town
stoutly protested his own innocence, and
as stoutly accused some other darky of
the deed. In the general hubbub the
real thief escaped.
Recently they had an "Eisteddfod'
in Chickering Hall, New York, at which
one man read an "Englynion'' and an.
other recited an "Awdr'' and another
the "Cwydd Farm Fawr," and then
the whole crowd stood up and sang
"Hen wlad fy nhadhau." And then the
roof Of the hall fell i'm. Y Graphic.
"A Boston correspondent of the Provi.
dence Press says: "Mrs. Amory, of Bos.
ton, when dining in London with dis
tinguished company. gathered in honor
of her relative, Lord Lyndhurst, was
asked IL Mrs. Stowe, whose Uncle Tom .
Cabin was the sensation of the day.
was black. like the characters she de-
scribedr"
The altitude Of nearly all the arabic
valleys in Montana averages from five
hundred to one thousand feet less than
the most fertile ones of Colorado and
Utah. And the highest mountain ranges
in Montana--six thousand feet-have
no greater elevation than the plains have
at Cheyenne, in Wyoming Territory
Chicago Times.
Upton, President of the collapsed
Rochester IN. W City Bank. does not
know good thing when he has IT, He
put fortune in oil, and had an oppor.
tunity TO unload at good profit. but, in
the vernacular OF the worldly, she
wanted the earth" There came m
oleaginous decline and Upton slid down
on it-Chicago Herald.
"A pulling match" to see whether
two mules could pull bag of sand
weighing 500 pounds attached to one
end of 300-foOt rope, the wager being
fifty dollars n side, came Off at Prescott,
Arizona Territory, last week. The
mules walked away with the baggage as
easily rs IL il had been loaded in a light
wagon. Considerable money is said to
have changed hands.
The number Of mysterious deaths
among the occupants of the Soldiers
Home at Dayton, Ohio, has led to an in
westigation and the investigation to the
discovery that many of the old soldiers
are murdered on their way from Dayton
20 the Home, for the money paid them
rs pensions. IL Is said that at least one
case can be proven and that prosecution
will be begun. Dayton roughs are sus-
Chicago Herald.
Unlike the duelsts who have recent
ly been attracting the attention of the
whole country were two chivalrous
youngsters OF Pensacola, Fla. One was
a tErteen years of age, the other a few
years older, and both loved the same
girl. They met, shot ut each other and
were carried from the field of honor, the
one with bullet hole through his knee,
the other with n similar hole through his
cheek.
-One day recently Judge Greer. OF
Oglethorpe, Ca, heard loud call from
the street. "What do you wishP" asked
the Judge Of a young man who sat in q
buggy, pretty girl being by his side
''Please marry u.s." said the youth
"Shall IP' inquired the official, looking
mt the girl. Eyes" she said, and the
lovers were married as they sat in the
buggy. After tho couple had ridden
away the girls father drove hurriedly
up, to swear ut empty airy. o. Pea
yttne.
1t is q mistake, says the London
Lancet, to both rise early and take late
rest. The rising early is good as n habit
OF life. IL IL does not mean robbing nature
of her opportunity to recruit the ex.
hausted strength of brain and body by
prolonging sleep when that necessary
luxury is at length enjoyed. II we must
sit up half the night, il would be better
TO sleep half the day than to rise betimes
and go in for arduous labor after insult.
ficient rest. Early rising is harmful
without early resting.
In his annual message Governor
'Crittenden. of Missouri. referring to the
long hours which street car employees
are compelled 10 spend at their work.
says: Those employees are naturally
deprived of all domestic associations and
opportunities for physical. moral OF
mental improvement IL Is not in the
interest Of tho State to permit such de.
mands 10 be made upon any class of It's
citizens. IL Is n compulsory labor anC
against the sentiment Of the law and the
instincts OF humanity, and should b.
remedied."