Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-29
BEYOND OUR BORDERS.

THE reins of the French Government are
practically held in the grasp of NJ. Clemcn-
ceau, who, few years since, was q prac-
ticing New York physician.
THERE are nine hundred members IN tho
cooperative organization of England.
These realize a yearly profit of $4,000, 600
out Of business of SS0,000,O00
A REWARD Of four thousand dollars is
offered by Venezuela to any one who con-
trives means of converting the omnipres-
cnt locust into some form of usefulness.
VoLAPuK, the new international language,
now has one hundred Thousand students in
Europe. Six periodicals arc devoted TO il,
and about sixty societies are embarrassing
10 introduce 1T.
BUENos AYREs Is said to contain moro
miIionaires than any other city of its size
in the world. Many OF the private houses
IN the city have been built at cost of over
81 100000, and one Of the banks has paid up
capital Of s57,000000, with deposits and a
line Of discounts aggregating S95, 100000.
THE authorities of Belgium recently ex-
perimented with new method of telegraph
ing. A number OF electric lamps were ele-
waited by balloon, connected by wire with
battery on the ground. The telegraphic
alphabet is employed and conveyed TO a dis
tance by flashes from the lamps correspond
ing In duration with the characters
ELEcTnIcITY as q means of illumination
Is constantly growing in favor in Europe.
There Is demand for apparatus in Spain,
activity prevails in Austria, some large m
sta,lations are progressing in England,
while in the land Of the Turk a syndicate
has been formed to push electric-lighting,
beginning with fifty years. monopoly in
Constantinople
MEXICAN hogs, which are a cross between
the Spanish and the wild hog Of the Mexican
mountains, are raised with profit in Mexico,
but not In any considerable numbers. They
average one hundred and seventy-five
pounds in weight, and are killed chiefly for
their lard, which is worth twenty cents a
pound. Fresh pork is worth twelve and
one-half cents pound, but is eaten very
little, for most persons can't afford It. 1t is
said that Monterey, which has fifty thou
sand, eats only about five hogs day.
In Zapontlan, Mex, two hunters recently
discovered beautiful grotto three hundred
yards long and one hundred and fifty wide.
The grotto is formed OF quartz and Is
adorned with the most beautiful stalactites
and stalagmites, which glitter like pearls
when the light of torches falls upon them.
The infiltrations have formed exquisite pill
lars and colonnades thirty yards in height
In the center Of the grotto are two artificial
rcservoirs tiiled with clear and very cold
water. On the floor were found many pet
rified skulls and bones, which leads TO the
belief that the place was once used as a
temple for human sacrifice by the ancient
Mexicans.
MnE. BoucIcAUT, the great Partisan shop
keeper, well merits the Cross Of Knight
of the Legion of Honor, which has been be-
slowed upon her. She has given about one
million dellars to her employees as q pension
fund for tho sick and supennnnated. be-
sides splendid library and reading room
funds, and she allows thcin an shares in the
profits of her business In her native de-
partment she has built, at her own expense,
and at cost Of over two hundrcd thcusand
dollars, bridge across tho Saone, TO give
the people a more direct road 20 market,
and she has distributed moro than one mill
ion FIVE hundred Thousand dollars 70 relieve
the sufferers frou the phyiloxcra plague