Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-12-19
INSTANTANEOUS.

1t may not be generally known that
me disability law against Catholics still
sists in New Hampshire. No Cath.
olic can hold office in that State. .-Chil
ago News.
An electric light has been intro.
tuced Into d lighthouse at the entrauc6
10 the outer harbor Of Rio de Janeiro.
It is of 1000 candle power and is visii
Bile a distance of thirty-five miles.
The Glasgow Herald thinks that II
Americans would substitute oatmeal
Tor pies and hot cakes they would be-
calmer, less lively, less speculative.
less bombastic, and happier.
The latest indignity offered TO the
memory of Carlyle is 10 credit him
with having invented the word
dude" In his journal on July 10;
1885, he wrote: ''k seldom read any
dud of d book, novel or the like.
where the writing seems to flow
along like talk, without q certain
pain, certain envy"
Birds in Sweden and Norway are
better protected than in any other conn-
try, and the consequence is that they
are tame and familiar. A resident Of
Sweden says that evrey morning tiocks.
of sparrows Como Into the fo5m while
he is eating breakfast and run abogf
the room picking up crumbs or wash
ing themselves in basins.
Many tencment-house cigarmakers
receive from their employers 100 pounds
of tobacco, for which they have to re-.
turn l02 pounds of cigars. The di terence
is supposed to represent the water used
in moistening The dry'lca Complaints
ere made that when the tobacco fallS
short cigar stumps, willow, oak, and
elm leaves are used to make good the
deficiency, and that in some instances
100 pounds of tobacco have thus been
made to produce 200 pounds of cigars.
N Y Siar.
MIR. w. j. Andres, 0f Sun1ter, SC,
killed hog a few days ago affected
with every symptom of hydrophobia
The hog had been bitten two weeks pre-
viously by dog which was supposed to
be mad. The hog became so violent
as to necessitatc its separation from the
other hog, and finally had to be killed.
A farmer living near Bishopville, in the
same county, shortly after killed
young COW, apparently affected with
hydrophobia, supposed to have origt:
mated by the same dog passing through
that neighborhood. d.-St. Louis Post.
For some time the Capitol at Wash.
ington has been lighted with electrit
lights. 1t is now found that the build.
ing presents a most untidy appearance
owing to the fact that myriads of all
kinds of insects have been attracted by
the lights and have killed themselves
by striking against the dome. Bushels
of May-fiies, beetles, crickets, ear wigs,
dragon-fiies, grasshoppers, caddis-hies,
bees, wasps. hornets. butterflies, moths.
cicadas, froghoppers, plant lice. water
beetles, whirligigs, shippers. hprrett-
midgets, gnats, mosquitoes, and every
species of insect known to the sur.
rounding swamps and woods of the
District have met their death in this
way. Washington Star.
When the late Frank Chanfrau re.
turned from California and was tite pos
SCISSOR of q snug fortune he boughta hand
some house at Yonkers and then went
to the warehouse on Peck Slip, where
his father was employed as porter.
and said: I'D like you to step out with
me for awlrlc al can't" replied
the elder man; ''it isn't dinner hour
yet, and my employers wouldn't like
it." Eyes, they would; they are per.
fcctly willing" said the actor, and then
took his father TO Yonkers. showed him
through the house and asked MIN what
he thought of it. 1T is d very bsauti.
full place." was the reply. "Well, it Is
yours" said Chanfrau.-N Y 7ri6,
unc.