Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
TRANSFERRING ABROAD.

DURING the last year the Argentine Re-
public received 10000 immigrants from
Europe. These are principally fran italy.
Germany and Sweden.
A NEW canal Is projected between the
Dwina and Dnieper rivers, in Russia Itis
thought that the cost will approximate five
million dollars.
THERE were recently shipped from Franco
five hundred of the worst kinds of criminals
The convicts were locked up in cages and
carried by water to the penal colony of Cay
enne.
A medical Missionary Academy has
been organized in Madagascar by English
and Norwegian missionaries TO secure to
native students greater variety and thor
oughness Of instruction. Here the medical
curriculum extends over five years
WITHIN year great many deaths have
occurred among the young farmers in the
eastern part Of Croatia Investigation de-
veloped the fact that the deceased were in
most cases newly-married men who had
been poisoned by their wives for their
houses and lands.
The total consumption of coffee in Great
Britain'is about 30,000,000 pounds yearly
The amount of tea used Is less than 1000.
600 pounds for the same length of time.
China is drawn upon for the bulk of the tea
supply. India and Ceylon furnishing about
one-quarter the amonnt
ALL vehicles in the Highlands of Scotland
are provided with brakes, to be used in tho
descents, the pony chaise having one as
well as the four-horse coach. The natives
trot their horses up hill and walk them
down, and are amazed at Americans who
always reverse the order in the matter of
up and down-hill travel
ANSTrpnAs 70 c4uro,, Io-aIo o..L
week about twenty thousand carats of dia-
monds. These are mostly the property of
Paris and London dealers. There are over
seven thousand persons employed in tho
diamond industry in that city, receiving an
aggregate Of three million dollars per an
mum in wages.
An Anglo-American syndicate has under
taken the engineering Of vast enterprises
In Peru. The syndicate is to become re-
sponsible for sS0,00O,0O0 of Peruvian bonds,
and are given control Of the railways Of the
State for thirty-six years. 1t is said that
$S0,O0O,000 are to be expended in the extern
sion Of railways into the mining regions.
| THk cultivation Of tobacco in Syria Is de-
creasing year by year, owing to the OBJ
stacles thrown in the way OF the growers
| by the Turkish Government II would
seem that the authorities are endeavoring
70 TcSLrlCI as HluCu do pOSSlOlS 1hdO hhuuS-
! try which was once so prosperous in the
Syrian provinces.
AUcKI.ASp, New Zealand, is lively and
enterprlsing city of 10000 inhabitants. 1t
! is situated near the crater of large extinct
volcano, which, according to scientists, may
resume operations at any moment. The
| Aucklanders, however, are not terrified at
the prospect, and in fact are going TO cement
| the bottom of the crater and use 1t as a
reservoir for their water supply.
! A TRAVELLER in Morocco one day asked a
| prison keeper what the punishment with
the bastinado was like. By way Of reply
the keeper produced man who was
fastened, face downward, 20 the floor, and
beaten upon the soles of his bare feet It
turned out that the victim was innocent Of
any offense and was simply tortured by way
of illustration.
WITH the aid Of science even the Desert
OF the Sahara is becoming inhabitable. and
colonization is encouraged. The Lower Sa-
hara is an immense basin OF artcsian waters,
and the French are forming fresh GASES
with skill and success, so that the number
of cultivated tracts is increasing rapidly.
After period of thirty years forty-three
oases have 1900 inhabitants, 10000 trees
between one and seven years old, and 1O0..
600 fruit trees.