Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-08
or cEneRAL INTEREST.


-Enxine $40. of the Union Pacific
road. has q record of having run 1. 140.-
SOS miles. It has been in use for
twenty-five years and was one OF the
arst locomotives used west Of the Mis-
souri, river.
jim the town of Orizaba. Mexico,
there are three papers. the names OF
which signify 1.-The Rat. ".'Yhe Cat
and 1.-The Beetle" It is noticed that
The Cat" is all the time trying to
catch-.The Rat"
"A blast of six thousand fDunds OF
powder was recently set of in a quarry
on Telegraph Hill. San FRANCISCO. 10
shook the earth for miles around and
dislodged from thirty thousand to hfty
thousand tons of rock.
The value of coins to collectors
does not depend on their age. Roma0
tribute pennies, dated before Christ,
are not worth more than 81. while
genuine American silver dollar of 1904
would sell close to 81 200.
The other day a Boston man re-
ceived a letter, on the envelope OF
which were the words, ssBlood!
Blood! Blood!" in big red letters
Thinking that it contained a threat to.
kill him. he gave it unopened 10 the po-
lice. When they opened it, they found
it was harmless appeal from Saliva
ton Army crank.
"A Sylvania ga boy dug up some
aetichokes to pickle, and among them
was c0oter or tarrapin egg, which he
dropped into the brine along with the
artichokes. A few days afterwerd he
took out a handful of roots and dropped
one on the floor. It broke open and
out crawled young cooter. The boy
firmly believes that one of the 3rti-
chokes had a young terrapin tilt.
"A Washington Territory young
man applied for the leadership of the
Port Blakeley school. He sent his
application and a supposed lester a
recommendation in the same envelope
BY mistake, however, he inclose6 .
letter from a young lady, containing
charges and threats very damaging to
the would-be pedagogue's regulations
The school trustees wrote and told
him that his recommendation was noe
OF the right kind.
An Alabama lawyer closed an
argument the other day thus: s.H
your Honor please, and gentleman o4
the jury, do not desire to militato
against the majesty of the law, nor to
contravene the avoirdupois of the evie.
dence. If you strip this thing of ito
multitudinous wrappings. break the
cement and let the cohesion take place
you will find out there is nothing in
this case but an inroad by way OF an
invasion into DIR. Watson's aQothecary
shop"
Tho woody, melon-shaped fruit o.
the sand-box tree of the West Indies
is made into . neat box by saving OF
the top and scooping out She seeds,
and IL used in Barbados Tor holding
sand When, however, the fruit is ALI
lowed to ripen on the tree, if bursts
explosively, scattering the seeds .ovep
the ground. An experimenting nature
alist recently sought to preserve o
specimen OF the fruit by drying care.
fully; but + exploded with such vios
lence a. TO destroy the box containing
it
An English antiquarian has been
delving among old newspaper files and
has discovered what he says is the
FIRST commercial advertisement ever
printed in . newspaper. 1t appeared
in the MeresySsss Poltttcsse of London,
dated September 80, 1858 1t runs as
follows: That excellent and by an
Physicians approved. China Drink,
called by oil the ChineAns Tcha, by
other Nations Tay, alias Tee. Is SOLD .
1t the Sultsnese Head Cophee House
in Sweeting's Rents, by the Royal ENe
change. London"
"A retailer in The Shoe and Leather
Reporter thus explains trick OF tho
trade: II sell a shoe that costs me
81 at the original price, and use it a.
q leader Then I mark my $1.23
shoes at e1.5O, the 81 at 81. so, the
q. % at q and the 81 60 goods at IS.
See? A customer wants to look at my
low-priced grades; show them, and
bring out all my principal lines :
Likely IS not persuade him or her to
pay g and this secures me a fair
profit. No. don't sell many at 81.
and even il did, the less economieal
buyers make it up to me by giving me-
q handsome profit on the better shoes"
Queer AnaJogies in Nature.
The cocoanut is, In many RESPECTS,
like the human skull, although il
closely resembles the skull Of the