Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-01-23
xAssAs AND TIE WORLD.

KANSAS AND rHE WORLD
A regular drinker in sharon takes
rum, romanism and rebellion" Rum
Is the basis Of the drink and the tippler
says two or three reporters bring the
balance.
The legislative body OF Iceland has
decided to found a university which is
to bear the name, Public Institution of
Iceland" The new university is to be
officially opened on tie first Of October
next year.
A curious fact in relation 10 the
Greedy arctic expedition is not gener-
ally known. According to Lieutenant
Greeley's account of the nineteen men
who persisted, all but one were smokers
and the one was the last to die. The
seven survivors were non-smoking men.
Trying to chew chocolate caramels
with false teeth, and essaying to unite
fast knotted shoe strings with dog skin
gloves on, is very much like trying to do
business without advertising. Or it is
like man winking his left eye in the
dark-he knows what he is doing bat
no one else does.
The influence of good example is soon
felt in a neighborhood whenever i'm
proved stock is introduced, and the
spirit soon permeates the whole section
and all the farmers begin to breed up.
One thoroughbred animal brought into
any section is sure to be followed by
others, until each farmer has his fine
stock.
Bob Ingersoll said lately: ''With corn
in Kansas at and 10 cents a bushel.
we need look for 10 good times in the
near future" The Colonel NAV be
right in looking to Kansas as the regu-
lator Of the times, but corn has not
struck eight cents as yet, though it has
come dangerously near it in some sec
tons.
From all over the county, says paper
in Winfield, comes complaints from
the school teachers. They are COM
PEELED to take scrip for their salaries
and in order to get the ready money
necessary to pay expenses, discount il
at the banks from twelve to eighteen
per cent This is a shame and an out
rage. In no profession is the labor
more exacting and the pay less than
that Of school teaching. At least one
third Of the time they are out of en-
ployment. and in addition thereto must
spend a month attending normal, -
paying expenses and fees. When en-
ployed, their salaries range from $50 to
$40 per month. And when, in addition
to these exactions they are compelled to
accept deprecated scrip in payment for
their services, the imposition becomes
aggravating. If money must be bor-
rowed, it ought to be done by the dis
tricts, and the teachers paid promptly
in cash.
In deploring the extravaganza Of some
OF the citizens in Atchison county, for
their recklessness in burning corn for
fuel, the Champion makes a comparison
between an American farmer and a
Russian peasant, many of the latter
having settled in the vicinity of Atchi-
son: The Mennonite settler from the
steppes of Russia, who has been brought
up under despotism, and who comes
to this country in sheepskin coat, car
rying an iron tea-kettle, and who is
supposed by his American brother to
know but little more than a beast Of
burden, yet knows enough to keep HIM
self warm without stove or an open
fireplace, and without burning his
shade trees, his money or his summers
work. In building his house he makes
in the dividing walls sort of furnace
or oven. 1t is not complicated affair;
any mason, or any man who knows how
to lay up a brick wall can construct
one. Into this contriYance the Men
MONTE puts few bundles of dry sun
flower stalks or few armfuls of wheat
straw. The heat does not instantly as
cend to the blue vault of heaven, as in
the case of the American fireplace, nor
is it wasted on a stove that continually
wants an excuse to cool of. 1t heats a
great many brick which retain that
heat without further renewal of the FIRE
and keeps the worthy disciple of Menno-
simonis as warm as he cares to be for
many hours. He does not need to strike
out to the distant timber for load of
poles, nor drive to town in search of
bankruptcy and load of coal, or see
his corn bread dissolved in smoke. The
Mennonite has more sense than he gets
credit for; another party we know of