Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-10
NOTES OF THE DAY.

memOrate the surrender OF General Dur
goyne to General Gates, October II,
1777, will be appropriately dedicated
next autumn. It is proposed to invite
distinguished men from abroad, includ-
ing descendants of French and German
officers who fought in the continental
army and representatives of the Ameri-
can officers from other states who shared
in the glory at Saltwater, Bemis Heights
and Saratoga. Senator Warner Miller
will soon introduce in congress a bill to
appropriate $1,000 from the national
treasury for the celebration, and it is ex-
pected that local committees will also
raise generous contributions to make the
event success. Several of the base re-
liefs to ornament the lower story Of the
interior are already completed. Among
the subjects are: ''The Women OF the
Revolution" George III. and his min
isters," 'Mrs. General Schuyler setting
fire to her wheat fields on the approach
of the British ''The rally" and LADY
Harriet Achless crossing the lake in ca
noe in storm to visit her husband,
prisoner in the American camp"
One of those heroines of whom the
world hears but little lives near Lexing-
ton, Ga. Her name is Sallie Hansford.
Her husband has been bed-ridden with
rheumatism for nine years, and she has
had family of four children, two boys
and two girls, to support. Last year she
bought one hundred and seven acres OF
land, much of it original forest, and with
the aid of her two boys, IA and Is years
old, cleared five acres. She cut down
the trees, rolled the logs together, split
the rails, built the fence, and burnt the
brush with their help, and raised last
year nine bales of cotton, also corn and
peas enough for her own use, and paid
her rent, her store account, and $40 on
her land. She has bought her meat for
this year, and paid for it. In addition to
this she has done the cooking and gone
to market with eggs and chickens.
A child was born to the family of VIII
liam Underwood, near Chattanooga, Tenn,
which is peculiar for its malformation. 1t
weighs less than two pounds, and has
head the size of a goose egg. The hair
grows profusely over the entire forehead,
there being no line of distinction as be-
tween the eyebrows and hair. The arms
are no longer than the index finger OF an
adult Those are mere stumps, without
hands, and terminal in an elongation re-
sembling thumbs, but with out nails. The
legs are the same length, one foot has
only four toes, and the toes on each foot
are connected by film, giving the feet
the appearance of web feet. The child
has attracted wide attention. 1t is now
nearly week old and has the appear
ance of healthy child, but old ladies
predict its early death.
Two years ago little child of j. G.
Dabney, of Point Palestine, W. Va, swal-
lowed knife blade. The local physi-
clans could not afford her any relief, and
she was taken to Cincinnati and placed
under the care of the best surgeons, who,
after long treatment, gave up the case
as hopeless, and her parents returned
home with her, calmly submitting to the
inevitable. Some two weeks ago she was
taken with pneumonia, accompanied with
paroxysms from coughing. She dislodged
the knife-blade, much to the relief of her
parents, and she is now on the high road
to recovery. One end of the blade was
incrusted, while the other was perfectly !
bright.
On Madison avenue horse in
New York an ornithologist saw on the
bonnets of eleven women: First, heads
and wings of three European starlings;
second, an entire bird of foreign origin;
third, seven warblers, representing four
species; fourth, large tern; fifth, the
heads and wings of three shore larks;
sixth, the wings of seven shore larks and
grassfnches; seventh, one-h half of a gall
mule; eight, small tern; ninth, turtle
dove; tenth, a vireo and yellow breasted
chat; eleventh, ostrich plumes.
Book lenders might do worse than
adopt as model for their advertisements
the following announcement, which is at
present adjoining the notice-board of a
certain Oxford college: "Mr. -, hav-
ing lent volume of 'Jowett's Plato to
someone, and being unable to remember
to whom he has lent it, ventures to point
out to the unknown borrower that, under
the unusual circumstances of the case, he
would be quite justified in returning the
book to its owner without waiting for a
more direct invitation"
The bell that hangs in the steeple of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church, at
Lebanon, O., was made in Malaga, Spain,
in 1852, and weighs three hundred and
twenty-five pounds. During the politi-
cal troubles in Spain in 1857 the
Spanish government suppressed all the
converts and confscated their property.
About one hundred convent bells were
shipped to New York and sold at anc-
ton. This is one of that number. The
auctioneer's bill and receipt are dated
February 81, 1888.
Six natives of Oregon and one tender
foot are camped in the mountains thirty
miles from anywhere. Their provisions
were as follows: Three quar- bottles OF
whisky, one bottle blackberry brandy.
one bottle blackberry :'bitters," twenty
five bottles beer, seven leaves bread, two
pounds cheese, one ham. The last items
in the bill of fare were provided probably
for the tenderfoot.
A half score of MontreaIs most fash
ionable young men have got themselves
into nice scrape. They forged invita-
tions to card party at the residence of
two young ladies, and the house was