Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-13
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Sarah Bernhard has gained three
pounds and is now banting. She has
q mortal horror of growing fat
Mr. William Pool Of Limestone Hill,
W. Va, has a powder-horn that Gen.
Washington gave to his grandson over
q hundred years ago.
e. s. Gay of Louisiana is the richest
Southern member Of Congress. He
made his money as a sugar-planter,
and is said to be worth &c. OOO, 600.
The Prince of Wales during his re-
cent visit to Homburg initiated some
| wheelbarrow races, with ladies in the
barrows trundled along by the highest
English nobility.
! Felix Campbell is the only plumber
| in either House of Congress. His
check is said to be good for $500, 900
the sum on which plumbers usually re-
tire from business.
| George West, the millionaire Con-
| gresham from New York, came to
this country as a Storage passenger
when he was rs and landed in New
York with only shilling in his pocket.
Calvin Huntington of Port Scott,
Kas.. has given 5000 to Vassar Col
| lege with the understanding that for
all future time his children and his
children's children shall have free
schooling there.
The prince of Wales life is soon to
| DO published. Unfortunately, it is to
be entitled THE Public Life of His
Royal Highness," which means that
the interesting part of the Princes life
is to be left out.
Editor Burbanks of the New Orleans
| Pc0yssac has eleven children, seven
horses, pack of dogs, a pet camel,
| six parrots, a steam yacht, an orange
| grove, and $500, 600 in bonds, and yet
| is always growing about the weather.
An old gypsy named Rafael has
| asked the Emperor of Austria to invest
| him with the dignity of king of the
gypsies. because he cap prove his direct
| descent from King Pharaoh. He prom
Uses to make the gypsies stop their
! vagrant habits and become orderly peo-
| pie, fit to enter the army.
Printers who believe in as few hours
as possible in a weeks labor would en-
! Joy Central America. An ordinary
| newspaper announcement is that "Ow-
ing to there having been three feast
days, during which the compositors
| did not work, the publication of this
| number has been somewhat delayed"
Missionary Beach, of China. claims
to have succeeded in representing the
Chinese spoken language by system
of clear and simple phonetic symbols,
fashioned after the Pitman style. 1t
is said that an educated foreigner can
learn the system in from two to five
hours, and q bright Chinaman in ten
hours.
George F. Jones, the chief telegraph
operator of the Postal Company in the
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, is a
great-grandson of John Hancock of
Declaration of Independence fame.
He was born Independence-Day, 1853,
and served in the war as drummer
boy in the North Carolina Mountain
Guards.
A dagger eighteen inches long, of
finest steel, inlaid with blocks of gold
| engraved in Arabic characters, was
found lately by herdsman in Giles
pie county, Texas, and is thought to
be relic of the time of COrtez, and to
have been originally bought or cap
tured from the Moors by some grandee
Of Spain.
Mrs. Hallock of Milton, N. Y, last
summer cleared 81 800 from five acres
Of raspberries with but four months
| work. She paid men for setting out
| the plants and women and children for
picking the berries, and then used such
care in putting them on the market in
an attractive way that she found plenty
of buyers.
Fashion and the most exclusive taste
| have banished all pictures from the
| parlor. The hall and passages are
now the picture galleries, and even
the walls of stairways are lined with
them. Very often all the colored pic
lures are concentrated in the library,
and some houses have the dlning-room
lined with engravings.
| The remains of an ancient town have
been discovered on the right bank of
the Volga in Russia. Alarge quantity
of Arabian. Persian and Tartar coins
have been found there besides a null
titude of other objects, which bear wit
ness to the cultivated state Of the in
habitants. There were remains of mar
BILE blocks of water-courses. etc.
One of the richest men in Washing
ton. Samuel Norment, the millionaire
bank president, was once a govern
ment clerk. Another old-time depart
ment clerk who is now very rich is
Mr.. Bryan. who got his start by Or
ganizing the postofice system of Japan.
He is said to have made 800, 900 year
ever since his return from Japan.
| A wedding feast of an unusually in
terestlng character was served recent
y in Southern mansion. It was COM
posed OF dishes prepared for the occa-
sion by relatives and friends, and was
crowned by the wedding cake, an ele-
CANT specimen of decorative pastry in
lilies and orange blossoms, the artistic
work OF one of the brides friends.
| William E Scott is by far the richest
man IN the House of Representatives.
de served as page in Congress in the
i old AaEa of Nohcfo1. nd L