Barbour County index., 1885-02-20
KANSAS AND THE WORLD.

The Fort Scott Monitor, quoting Mr..
DilwOrth, who lately returned from
New Orleans, says this motto Is dis
played in the Kansas department of the
exposition: "The school fund Of Kan
sas is S9s, 900 ,OOO." 1t must have grown
considerable of late.
The culture of trees should engage
the attention or our farmers and stock
men the coming spring. 1t would add
much to the general healthfulness
OF a herd to have luxuriant shade in
which TO keep cool while the hot rays of
a midsummer sun parch the earth.
1t is strange to see what luck some
Kansas men do have. John johnson,
of Sharon, last fall gathered an immense
crop Of con-indeed, it was phenome-
nal. Then he became naturalized. next
he was honored with being the father of
the irst child ever born in the town and
last week one Of his cows had two calves
and an old SOW had litter of five pigs.
Surely Mr.. Jobnson's accession to Amer
lean citizenship was fruitful Of good
results.
The Philadelphia Press says that
ex-governor Click has the inside track
for a cabinet position.
Kittleman, the noted foot-racer Of
Harper, has left for San Francisco to
run against an Australian for $4,000.
The price Of coal has been reduced at
the Leavenworth city mine from IA to 10
cents per bushel, or $3.50 per ton. 1t
costs about Sll to transport ton of the
said cal to Medicine Lodge, and hence
we must pay about $3.50.
An exchange says that corn-shelling
this year in Kansas is saddened by the
thought that after the labor is over the
farmer is left in doubt as to which heap
is worth the most, the corn or the cobs.
The Norton Courier says that many
of the farmers in the northern part of
that county are arranging to use hay
and straw burners, to take the place of
coal and wood stoves.
They charge quarter to witness q
marriage ceremony at Larned. Nearly
SIS in money was taken in at a recent
marriage at that place for the benefit of
the groom.
William Jones, a resident Of Pratt
county, Kansas, was brought in yester-
day by Deputy United States Marshal
Pease and taken before Commissioner
Perkins on a charge of sending obscene
matter through the mails.-Kansas
City Times.
Reports from our stockmen in this
vicinity are to the effect that their loss
OF stock will not be so great as they ex-
Pected, considering the severity of the
weather, though when spring opens up
1t will cause the weak stock to succumb.
The angry Medicine Lodge river should
be bridged west of town. The loss of
one citizens life should Impel the com
missionersto to span the stream with such
a structure, to avoid danger in future.
Sol. Miller wrote from Topeka to the
Troy Chief as follows, i'm reation to the
subject Of woman's rights: "Why do
the advocates Of woman's rights always
send such Outrageously homely women
10 advocate the causeP Would not
handsome women make as good an i'm
pressionp Or, do not handsome women
pine for their rightsp It may be said
that the women could not help their
looks Very true. Neither can a peli-
can, or rhinoceros, or a crocodile: but
nobody thinks of sending a pelican. a
rhinoceros, or crocodile around the
country to smile upon men, and per.
suade them to adopt great reforms"
The Wakeeny World hopes that west
en representatives will not be found
voting for the state to pay the $4,000
which the city Of Leavenworth promls-
ed to nay in the event of the soldiers
home being locatedin that city.
A bright wife whose husband had
contracted club fever hit upon bril-
liant scheme recently. She procured a
Partly-wOrn gentleman's glove and left
1t on the parlor sofa when she retired,
after sitting up until II o'clock for her
derelict lord. lie does not 20 out in
the evenings now.-Truy Times.