Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

Is.
-At recent aristocratic marriage in
tnglands several of the gentlemen wore
plain gold earrings. %
"A word in season: Why not send
Dr. Mustard, of the Delaware State SEN
ATE, to the Sandwich Islands.-M Y
Grqphic. 3. ~ q
The great dry-goods stores of New
York. as well as those of Paris, are COM
PEELED TO watch for female kleptomani-
acs. The number of otherwise respect
able women who steal is said to be
astonishing. My Times. 80 81
The Fruit Growers and Forest
Tree Association of Canada, have passed
a resolution favoring the extripation of
the English sparrow. 1t was shown
that the bird was Strengthening Canadian
song-birds. besides proving destructive
to farmers and fruit-growers. q
"A little prattling child in Denver
wandered out in the street, asking plain
lively for some one to ''please come and
wake up my mamma" Finally two men
accompanied her home, and found her
mother dead from heart disease.-DenU
Tribune. hrs r9 sie-I NO
"A bullet shot from pea shooter
struck New Orleans lad in the head
and penetrated the brain. The ''pea-
shooter is composed of forked stick,
two strips of rubber, two bits of Irvine
and patch of leather What a New
Orleans lads head is composed of, is a
matter of conjecture Chicago Herald.
The Boston Courier imparts the i'm
portant information that person scan
not decide a knotty question with tie
I vote" But il YOU give foolish talker
rope enough be viii soon settle the
matter to the satisfaction of all parties
concerned, gravely decides the New Y orb
Commercial AICerttSer. 81
Although three or four crystals of
the genuine precious topaz, remarkable
for size and clearness, have been found
near Pixies Peak, Mr.. X. L. Cross as
J serts that the stone which is cut in Col
orado and sold as topaz to tourists, is
not topaz at al. but simply smoky
] quartz, or the cairngorm stone of Scot
land, Chicago Tribune. &C., = 7 ..
After hard run policeman at
Seneca Pals, n. Y, discovered that the
laughing man whom he had caught
dressed in a striped convict suit was
only goiDgrto a masquerade ball. Ii
was good joke, and it will be long
! while before the officer can put in loaf
ing enough % make up for the exertiOn.
-ttieq Herald. ~ -s
FOR fifty-one consecutive wears
William Stanford was an occupant of
the County Jail at Richmond. Va. and
for eighteen of those years he was
chained BY the leg to the floor of his cell.
raving lunatic. He was released in
1877, harmless imbecile. and a few
days ago he died. His last words were:
Dear mother'-the only utterance he
had ever been known TO make concern
ing his youth, some eighty years ago
Washington Post.
james McHardy, the oldest inhabit-
ant of the Braemar District, Scotland,
died recently, in the ninetv-ninth year OF
his age. In bis early years, when flax
was grown in Brae mar, he followed the
trade of heckler. but during the greater
part of his life he worked as sawyer.
His wife died six years ago at the age OF
ninetyseven, and their married life ex.
tended OYER The long period of sixty.
eight years, Their family consisted OF
three sons and ,six-daaghters. the oldest
seventy flyer and~ the youngest about
ssiYty, and, as farsas known, they are all
| living.