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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
A GRIST OF GRINS.

Bio words in short letter are like large
bones in small skin; they are too prom
inent.
An enthusiast on the subject of flowers
expressed a desire to obtain some "Chris-
tian anthems"
SANDY accepted the guide wifes invitation
with the reservation: "If l am spared"
"Weel, weel," said the lady, ''if ye're dead
I'll not expect ye."
A HoRsE-DocToR has no show in this
world; it is only the veterinary surgeon
who can with impunity, and that 'hossy"
odor, enter the ranks of the ''very best"
THE fellow who was telling how he had
seen barn swallow was somewhat taken
down by another fellow who said he could
show him a cows lip that grew without any
roots.
ToMMY-'Say, Bobby, did you ever see a
chicken-hawkw Bobby-"Wen, l should
say did, One of our chickens swallered a
straw the other day, an the way that chick
en- hawked would raise the hide on a allv-
gaterr'
IT is thought that the people Of New
Zealand are of lively temperament, and
are possessed Of an unusual amount of
vlgor. This may be accounted for by the
TACT that they always have New Zealand
air, which is said to be very invigorating.
A WOMAN need never fear being out of
work. She has always got work. When
she wants TO lay of short while, she need
have no fear of her work running off. H.
Will always be right there waiting for her.
1t is the man who has to stick to his Job or
he is apt to lose it.
Some ministers are complaining against
the facetious newspaper paragraph, which
is seriously interfering with their annual
supply OF slippers. When this photographic
joking becomes so pointed as to necessitate
a minister's buying his slippers, something
should be heard to drop.
THE wife of Partisan, returning home,
rang at her own door. Nobody came, SO
she rang again. Still nobody appeared.
Finally, at louder and longer ring, the
man-servant concluded to show himself.
Pray, are you deaf!' said the lady. "I
beg pardon, madame" said he TRANQUILITY.
" but heard only the third ring"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
THIS AND THAT,

THE pawnbrokers of Washington are said
to be all wealthy.
A NATURALIZED Chinaman was run for
alderman in Baltimore recently.
THERE are over fifty thousand horses in
the service of street-car companies through
out the country.
OPIUM-sMoKING is becoming as common
among the Indians of the Pacific coast as
among the Chinese.
A LOCOMOTIVE on the Lehigh Valley rail-
way attained speed Of eighty-two miles an
hour in a recent trial
A New YORK lady has diamond brooch
set with large stones that revolve eight
hours at time, and is wound up like
watch.
SECRET organization is said to exist in
Sicily, having branches in leading Amer
ican cities, that is engaged in counterfeit
ing.
1T is estimated that bv the close of the
present year over half million immigrants
will have reached this country during the
twelve months.
DEALERS in sealslxins say that it is not on
account of the scarcity that they are so ex-
pensive but because the trade limits the
supply. The furriers of Paris and London
meet each year and decide upon prices.
A WRITER from Central Dakota says than
all towns of any pretensions now have
artesian wells. They range in depth from
900 to 1.10O feet and cost about $4,000, with
a pressure to the square inch of 200 pounds
SPAIN is rapidly regaining her ancient
lprestige on the sea. Spanish steamship
ines are fast being extended all over the
world. Splendid Spanish steamers now
ply between New York, the West Indies
nl6 ~, he 4
steamers are vigorously competing for the
coast trade.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
PROGRESS IN MECHANICS.

THERE are at present in courae of con-
struction in the South, seven cotton-mills
which together will occasion an outlay Of
over three million dollars.
A SCHOOL for the training of carriage
draughtsmen has become an assured feat
ure of the trade-school of New York The
school is intended to take the places far as
possible, Of the old system of apprentice
ship.
A CONCERN in Germany has introduced
paving blocks called iron-brick These are
made Of ground slate and clay and iron-ore
The composition is moistened with a solu-
ton Of suphate of iron, pressed, dried and
baked.
GLAss-woRKERs in Belgium are contem-
plating the use of rollers in the manufact-
ure of various articles Sheets of glass
heated to a certain temperature will by tho
use of the rollers be converted into the de-
sired shapes.
FRENCH manufacturers have brought the
papier-mache process up to state of high
perfection. Objects almost innumerable
are now made of it. 1t is turned into indie
structible balls and beads, and fashioned
ink-stands, caskets, etc.
A PROCESS for the manufacture of contin
uous tin plates Incorporated with steel has
been patented by Jersey City inventor.
Inc plates are rolled first hot then cold
and polished. This gives hard and durable
sheet of superior quality.
TELEPHONE without a receiver. thus
doing away with much yelling and noise,
has been practically introduced in this coun-
try. The words are conveyed by the motion
OF the jaws through sensitive apparatus
which is pressed to the neck
A CLOCK has been invented, and is coming
into use in Europe, which is warranted by its
manufacturers to run for five years without
either winding or regulation. The Belgian
government placed one in a railway station
In 1881, sealed with the government seal,
and it has kept perfect time ever since.
ONE of the finest and most powerful tools
that mechanical science has yet achieved
has just been finished at Mulhouse for tho
French navy. 1t is two-carriage universal
lathe, which is a complete machine shop in
itself, being capable of performing the
most varied operations--such as mortising,
shaping, boring and moulding-with the
most perfect accuracy. 1t is wonderfully
adapted to the delicate and complicated
working of pieces for armor plating for
modern war vessels. It's weight is moro
than $40 tons, and it is driven by an engine
of Ok haraa-nowar
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
A FEW CHURCH NOTES.

THERE are, it is estimated, ten million
church members in this country.
THERE are in this country and Canada
over eleven hundred Young Mems Chris
tan Associations.
MEXICO is fixed upon as the city in which
General Assembly of Evangelical MIS-
sions is to be held in January, 1888.
WALES is said to be the most Protestant
country in the whole world. There is not a
known Welsh-speaking congregation in ex-
istence.
Rev. CHARLES d. TENNEY, missionary of
the American Board to China, has been ap-
pointed private tutor to the sons of Viceroy
Lii Hang Chung.
The Y. NJ. G. A. Of Liverpool have the
largest gymnasium in the world. In it
hundreds of street boys are trained in the
use of their muscles.
FLEET of five vessels is employed by
the London Missionary Society between
stations in Africa and Polynesia The
young people raise the money for their sup
port.
MISSIONARIES in Dakota and Montana re-
port receipts for their work to have
reached in one month the sum of S23, 1881,
and the number of Bibles issued for six
montAs at 1,503, ,9S7 copies.
~ DUANAAiS CACCtCu III lOhlO, Japan, lot
the purpose of delivering lectures hostile to
Christianity, an audience of fifteen hundred
recently assembled to hear sermon by an
American minister.
WOOSTER, O., has the Oldest Reformed
minister in the world in the person of Rev.
ID. Kemmerer, who is eighty-six years of
age, and recently celebrated the sixtieth
anniversary of his wedding.
AMERICAN missionaries are arrested, fined
and misused by the Spanish authorities in
the Caroline Islands. The Protestant
churches and schools are also closed and all
Protestant property confiscated.
THERE is new missionary movement
afoot in Germany among so-called advanced
theologians, who have an organization the
object of which is to avail itself Of the ele-
ments of culture and morality found in ed1
Gated heathens, and on this basis build up a
Christian culture according to advanced
ideas.
THE "ragged Sunday-schools" are becom-
ing an important factor in London. They
are increasing in number and widening in
influence. Late statistics show no less than
10000 scholars and 1000 teachers They ara
the great means by which the poor BOYS ard
girls of that vast metropolis are being
reached and improved, and through which
moral ideas are communicated and Chris
tian influences are thrown around them.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
SINGULAR OCCURRENCES.

AN English gentleman aged eighty years,
together with another gentleman is reported
to have broken the thirty-mile record at
tandem tricycling. The old gentleman did
quarter-mile in forty-nine seconds.
GREAT excitement was occasioned in
Amsterdam,N. Y, the other day by the fall
Of an immense aerolite in one of the
principal streets. The heavenly visitant is
said to have weighed three tons and when
it fell buried itself deeply in the ground.
In a lake near Wallingford, Conn, Q
strange duel was witness not long ago by
several persons. 1t was between two huge
turtles weighing at least fifty pounds each.
The combat lasted ten minutes and was
terminated only by the spectators who
sought to capture one of the reptiles.
NEAR Edison, Pa, the other day largo
hawk was seen to attack and carry off a
large cat. The animal battled desperately,
compelling the bird to release him As he
was falling the hawk swooped down and
caught him, but TO its sorrow, for the cat
turned and sinking his teeth into the
hawks neck, brought it to earth dead
bird.
A CLERGYMAN lately went into his pulpit
wearing a pair Of trousers which had been
hanging in the wardrobe for some time. In
the midst of his sermon, as was his habit,
he thrust his hand into his trous ers-pocket.
He paused suddenly and drew out his hand
and in it he tightly clutched a nest of young
mice. Throwing them under the pulpit he
resumed his theme.
A FARMER met with a singular accident a
few days ago while standing at Hotel in
the city In somnambulistic state he
jumped from a second-story window into q
narrow passage-way between two build
ings, and became so tightly wedged in that
1t took the combined efforts of two men to
get him out. Beyond the terrible squeez-
ing he got he was uninjured.
AN account is given of the swallowing of
turtle by young lady of Chicago. She
was taken sick in an unaccouutable man
ner and was attended for some time by her
physician to whom her case was puzzle.
One day, not long since, she vomited tur-
tie an inch in diameter which, it was
thought, she had swallowed in glass of
water taken in the dark from hydrant.
Her protracted illness and the shock
proved fatal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
FROM ALL SOURCES.

THE buyer of large Cincinnati tobacco
house, who is paid $4,000 a year to know
good tobacco when he sees it. neither
smokes nor chews.
A STREET gamin unlocked the clasp on
the door of the 'Black Marian while going
along the streets of Boston recently and
eight prisoners escaped before the driver
knew what was going on.
A FRENCH woman living at Lathrop, Mo.
gave birth to twins Tuesday, their combined
weight being two pounds and twelve ounces
They are regarded as great curiosities The
little ones occupy two cigar boxes as cradles.
Both are very lively, and are expected to
live.
THERE is living in Buffalo young man
who has young wife. She has an insur
mountable hobby. Whenever she gets a
new dress she insists that he shall have a
necktie made of the same cloth. He thinks
so much of her that he can't help CARRYING
out her wishes. He has plenty Of nice neck
wear,
A PANTHER six feet long, weighing two
hundred pounds, pounced down with veil
upon an engineer while in his cab near Min
den, Neb., Sunday night. The animal
boarded the train while at a standstll. The
fireman dazed the brute with a wrench and
the engineer shot him with revolver. Both
men were badly injured.
EVIDENCES of immoral traffic in Chinese
women for San Francisco are being found.
This week an old hag brought over a score
OF women from China and was arrested for
perjury in trying to get them through the
custom-house. The old procuress was
bailed by two wealthy Chinese merchants.
suspected OF being her partners ia the
trade,
A NEGRO boy was recently born in Florida
whose color was distinctly divided, repre-
senting the white and black races. One
side from the center of its forehead down is
as black as coal; while the other is equally
white and fair. Another monstrous freak
OF Dame Nature is shown by the fact that
the Caucasian side has thick lips and fat
nose, hnky hair, and black eyes, IN fact, ali
the African characteristics, while the dark
side has fair and good features, blue eyes,
and soft, silky hair. Its arrival created a
terrible hubbub in the settlement. and then
the negroes were inclined to regard it as an
omen Of evil
IHE wife OF priest IL Russia assures to
her husband his position. At her death he
IS deposed and his property is taken from
him and divided between his children and
the government. The wife is therefore the
object of great solicitude and is well taken
care or. This has given rise TO the express
sion so common in that country: -As happy
as a priests wife.
In British Colombia in the region Of Bella
Coola, cannibalism is said TO be still in vogue
among the natives. They are wild and fero-
cious and without missionaries. A custom
among them, by which a chicftian is made,
is to bite pieces from one anothers arms or
bodies and eating them. The victims consider
II an honor 70 be bitten. and receiva fbere
for pecuniary compensation
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15

No PERSON should run about sleeping
rooms or into halls from bed in bare feet.
Air currents are constantly in motion near
the floor. and circulation is more easily re-
tarded in feet and legs than near the heart.
A PAIL or tub Of fresh, cold water, re-
newed several times in the course Of TWEEN
ty-four hours. VIII absorb all the evil odor
Of fresh paint N a-day or two. The
taste Of the water after an hour will prove
the thOrouQhpeas ~ ira u.so-l-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
EDUCATIONAL JOTS.

FIFTY-oSE per cent. of the books writ
ten in the last year were written by
women.
1T costs the Taxpayers of New York City
thirty dollars year to keep a child in the
public school
SIXTY THREE students at Yale University
are from Chicago, this number being third
largest from any city in the Union.
FIFTY THOUSAND dollars are called for by
the Commissioner of education in Alaska
for educational purposes.
FROM ten to thirteen years are generally
devoted to the educating and training of
the ordinary American boy for the life of a
skilled mechanic.
THERE is public school for Chinese chill
dren in San Francisco the attendants Of
which are said to be as capable of becom-
ing educated as white children.
MANY parochial schools are springing up
through the country as result of the strict
ly unsectarian character of our public
schools, and into these the Roman church
is drawing its families.
IN Prussia there are 100000 children
within the age of compulsory school years
There are $1,000 elementary schools, with
an attendance of 4.So0,O0 scholars. engag-
ing the services Of 100000 teachers, or one
teacher to every seventy-eight pupils
The subjects of instruction and study in
American colleges have within the last few
years undergone marked change. French
and German are supplanting Latin and
Greek History, physics. political economy
and the science Of government have become
the more prominent subjects Of study.
IN Servla- Bulgaria, and Roumania boots
made OF bullock IS hide or leather, and which
are SIMPLY fiat piece of leather drawn over
the loot all around and fastened by leather
tnongs or birch bark crossed over the leg,
which is encased IN either stockings or q
piece OF red cloth, are worn by the peas
antry. The Slayonic peasantry in Austria
also wear boots Of the same description and
50 DO the Turkish soldiers, but they make
taelr own The Russian peasants make
shoes Of birch bark. and fasten them in the
same way over stockings, exec pit in winter,
when high leather boots are worn.
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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
The First SnoM.

The harvest now is DER; the fields are bare;
And yondcr is the pIowman on the hill;
The water freezes in the purlIng rill
Bleak desolation meets me everywhere.
Gray, threatening sky; a frosty atmosphere;
The haws o'er-rIpe are falling from the trees:
fairy snowflake floating on the breeze
Announces that the winter-king is near.
The withered leaves are moaning as go
Arequiem for the sweet season dead;
Each little flower is hiding from the snow,
And happy, happy swIllows-all are fed.
My spirit turns away-with other eyes
! still can see the blue, the summer skies.
-Chicd9o open Court.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15

A MAN and woman were recently married
in Birmingham, Ala, who were at one
time, while yet strangers, plaintiff and de-
fendant in case of disorderly conduct.
After serving two years for the offt nse
the man and woman again met, and un-
known to each other, fell in love and were
married in the Office of the same justice be-
fore whom they had appeared as part - to
the assault
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
Jar Gould,r Mods.t Wants.

Jay Gould's Modest Wants.
My wants are few; scorn to be
A querulous refiner;
only want America
And a mortgage deed OF China;
And IL kind fate threw Europe in,
And Africa and Asia,
And q few islands OF the sea,
I'd ask no other treasure.
Give me but these-they are enough
To suit my humble notion
And I'll give up to other men
All land beneath the ocean.
Those vast, untitled, ungathered fields,
So fertile and prolific,
That untrod acreage of soil
The bed OF the Pacific.
Ionly want to own the earth,
And regulate and man It;
Ny wants are all contracted down
To Just one little planet
A desert tent was good enough
For Abraham and Sarah,
And I'd give all my fellow men
A house-lot in Sahara!
IS. ". F0ss, fn 7Td-BHs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
THE CREAM OF VERSE.

III.
II you have happy voice,
Sing, that others may rejoice;
Let its tender cadence flow
Till IL soothes the mourner's woe;
Breathing pathos in each word,
Frozen fountains mar be stirred;
Slumbering souls may wake again
AT some long-iorgotten strain
II you have precious thought
That TO you has gladness brought,
Shrine IL not within your breast;
Write II, and make others blesti
Oft some written thought will reach
Hearts grown loath OF human speech
Hearts by faithless promise grieved,
Hearts by lying lips deceived
If you have loving word,
Speak IL when IL can be heard;
Souls are languishing to-day
For the words that you might say.
Earthly burdens sorely press,
Loving words can make them less,
And no soul can suffer loss
Thus who lifts a brothers crossi
N. A. Maitland, IN Christian at Work
Cruel, But Kind.
Twas plain TO see
No youth could be
With maiden's charm more smitten,
Yet when he told
The story old,
He got-poor boy-the mitten.
When she perceived
How much he greved,
She said: Though l don't love you,
Take not TO drink.
I'll always think
Just like a sister OF you"
Columbus DispdteH
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Aaniration.


All were but pair of dainty, blest
Four-buttoned kids Ga size or so too small),
That might squeeze my lady's hand with zest
And own no improperly al all!
About her wrist to count the pulsing dow,
Fresh from her throbbing heart; or from her
lips
To catch the waited kiss she fain would throw
To some one else, from taper fincer-tips.
To feel the pressure of her soft, warm cheek
When wearily she poised her dropping head
Upon the hand enveloped-so TO speak
BY my sleek self, caressed and comforted.
Perchance arrighted, with sudden start
And little cry Of terror she might press
The palpitating region OF her heart
How sweet to soothe and quiet her distress.
And when together we grow old I'd seek
Within her boudoir still to find place;
Devoted TO the last I'd kiss her cheek,
-And bring the rouge-red roses TO her face.
Arthur j. HuHdGy.
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My friend, 1 see the lines OF care
Engraven on thy face,
And cen the stamp of sorrow there
With certainty trace.
Within thine eye an anxious look
also plainly see;
Hangs like a shadow DER the brook,
And breaks but htfully.
Thy voice is tuned TO some regret
And trembles with tear:
o. friend, twas not so when we met
In those old days so dear.
You've striven-the world has scorned your
strife;
You've loved-the world has frowned;
You've blessed-the world has cursed your
life,
With thorns you have been crowned.
o, friend plainly read it all;
I've tasted OF your cup
The bitter wormwood and the gall
That hapless man must sup.
And yet this is the faithful sign
That you have Heavenward tTod;
Yes, in il lies the truth divine
That you have walked with God.
DiscouragedH No! That can not be
While God is by your side,
shield and bucller unto thee,
A shepherd and guide.
Go forward in the line of right,
Let men say what they will;
Thy glory, like the dawning light
The darkened vale shall fiIl
&C. w. Cr9fts, ia Inter Ocean
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15

IN the Austrian provinces drunkard n
regarded rs a criminal and heavily fined
and imprisoned for two months A third
offense secures to the offender heavy
penalty.
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They Were.


Were her eyes gray or bluei
dare not say.
How could judge Of their soft lucent rayi
only know she looked at me the way
That angels look
When mortals pray.
Was her voice proud or kindi
do not know
1t whispered to me as turned to go,
And stole into my hearts recesses so
thought it sweet
And soft and low.
Was her hair gold or browni
1 can not tell
Its clustered glory wrought on me a spell,
While dreamy eyes beneath her lashes fell
In tenderness
knew full well.
Were her feet small-or large?
'Sh-whispcr low
She owned pair OF number nines-you know,
Broad at the heel, and spreading at the toe;
Don't mention it
Iloved her so!
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15

IT Is said that the population OF Northern
China is sufficiently numerous 70 over
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CHURCHES.

OHHlSTIAN.- Communion services every
~ sunday ~ n o'clock a. m. Prayer meet
ing every Wednesday night Sunday school at
10 o'clock a. m. every Sunday.
METHODIST EPISCOPAI.-Scrvices every
1N1 sunday NJ ll:OO ". m. and 30 y. m. sun
day school every Sunday nj 10 ~. IN. Prayer
meeting every Wednesday evening ut 7:aD.
Strangers invited. X. SANDERsON, Pastor.
DRESBYTERIAN.-S Services every sunday at
n n. M. and 1880 y. m. sunday school NJ
lOa.m. REv. MCELHOY, Pastor.
CATHOLIC CHURCH - Services ON 2nd
Sunday of every month Ht ShcrlOCks hall, nt
1000 u. m. REV. BITTER Pastor.
n ERMAN BAPTIST BRETHREN-IIold reg
" ulHr services Ht MiugOnu, liurbcr county,
the second uud fourth sundays In each month.
AZ Forrest school house ON the second sunday
Cedar Greek school housc on the third sunday.
By Elders ShHmbcrTCr, smith and Nchcr.
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ABSTRACTS, LOAN AND INSURANCE,
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