Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

-Bootblacks ale called ..boot bronz-
srs'' in California.
Austin, New, has passed a curfew
law. prohibiting boys under sixteen ap-
pearing on the streets after eight o'clock.
Georgia furniture manufacturers
predict big movement of Western fur
niture men and wood workers into the
South.
Canyon City, Col, has the largest
artesian well in the world. At the depth
of 1,220 feet stream was tapped which
flows four hundred gallons minute.
There has been almost an epidemic
OF lunacy in Luzerne County, Pa, the
past year, forty-seven cases having been
reported within seven months. PhiLo-
delphia Press.
Benson j. Lassig, the historian,
would like to see the fourth centennial
of the discovery of America by Column.
bus-October y, 1892,-celebrated Nv
a gathering of ships of all nations in
New York harbor-N T. Herald.
The San Francisco reporter didn't
get anything new when he asked
Chinaman how the children of Conf,..
Gus kept Christmas: "Samee like Mel.
lean man." was the rejoinder; ..eat,
dlink and gled dunk. - Chicago Times.
"A rowing newspaper man has made
the discovery that all the women in the
Isle OF Jersey are pretty, many of them
prettler than Mrs. Langtry, and he will
build summer resort hotel with
frontage of one thousand feet, and
piazza with a double deck Chicago
Herald.
The negro population of the Union
Increases faster than the white. In
eighty-one years, at the present rate OF
increase, it will be larger than our
whole population at the last census. In
1880 the black population of the Repub-
lie will be, according to estimates, 1922
300, 00.-BoSton Globe.
Three children of George Graham,
Of Brooklyn, were taken Violently ill,
recently, soon after supper, and their
mother who was sick, hearing of it,
jumped to the conclusion that they had
been poisoned and was so shocked by
he thought that she went into conyui-
'ions and died.-Brooklyn Eagle.
LOTUS Wood, of Brooklyn, sued
The Broadway Railroad Company for
$4,000 for damages incurred by negli-
gence of the officers of the company,
and lost, the testimony going to show
that Lotus Wood, Just previous to the
injury, had put fifteen glasses of whisky
between the front and back of his wes-
kit.-N. Y. Sun.
"A lady of Huntington, Pa, tells
dream she had. She dreamed that her
mother, who died thirteen years ago,
came TO her bedside, shook her by the
arm, and told her to get up at once and
open the door. She did so, and discov-
cred that the room was full of gas from
the stove. She believes the timely APP
partition of her mother saved her life
Philadelphia Press.
Lawrence T. Fell, Inspector of child
labor in New Jersey, reports that about
$4,000 children are employed in facto-
ries in that State, and that this labor i'm
poses ignorance, physical dwarfing, and
moral darkness upon these unfortu-
lates. Some of them do not know the
name of the State they live in, and have
never been to school. 1t will require
three inspectors to look after 1000 facto-
ries.-N. Y. Times.
The Richmond (Va) State says that
the banjo is as dear to the Southern
negro now as his hog and hominy, and
always has been, and it expresses the
opinion that Mr.. Joel Chandler Harris,
who has asserted the contrary, only
demonstrates the fact that he has never
been very far away from his Atlanta
home, and that his opportunities for
observation there have been confined
to the most narrow limits.
DIR. Beal writes in the Grange TiSitoT
as follows: Take pains to explain the
new things to the children. Take them
to the foundry, the printing office, the
planing-mill, saw-mill, the fair, to see
neighboring farms. Patiently show
them how to perfarm various kinds of
work in the neatest, handest, and best
manner, and they will be more likely to
make industrious and intelligent men
and women.
AN old friend of Archbishop Whate.
ley, who was with him at Oxford, went,
after many years absence, to visit him
at the palace in Dublin. On entering
the grounds he spied an old man Dig
ging, despite pitiless storm of sleet.
II shall venture to rebuke the Arch
bishop for this" said the visitor to him.
self; ''he should show more considera-
ton to his servants" Presently, on
going into the house. he found that the
decrepit old digger was the Archbishop