Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

There is a man in Rawlins Coun-
ty, Kan, who is the owner of 600
trees all planted by himself on his
homestead.
"A Tuscola County. Mich. man has
during the past eleven years been
tapped 134 times for dropsy and $500
pounds of water taken from his body.
Two ragged italian children, who
were arrested at Chicago while gather
ing cigar stumps on the streets, ex-
planned that they sold the discarded
weeds to a fellOw-countryman for fif-
teen cents p pound. and that they were
''made into cigarettes.
American enterprise is felt at
HernOsand. Sweden, which has just
been provided with the most northern
electric light station in the world.
The lamps there at extreme times are
lighted at 2:30 o'clock in the after
noon and put out at 1915 o'clock at
night. Electrical ReUiesO.
"A brother of one of the lady teach
ers who persisted during blizzard in
Dakota recently visited that section
for the purpose of removing the re-
mains to the old home in the East. In
settling up with the school directors
where she had been teaching they
made him discount her bill twelve per
cent because she had not finished the
term.
The scope of the messenger boys
work appears to be broadening very
materially. In New York. the other
day, one of them was called upon to
escort an intoxicated man from a
saloon in Forty-second street to his
home, in Harlem. He appears to have
performed his duty faithfully-not-
withstanding its unpleasant nature
even putting his helpless charge to bed.
Queen Victoria has now reigned
over England longer than any mon
arch but two-Henry III. and George
I'LL She overlook Queen Elizabeth
six years ago and has outdone Edward
ILL.,, who only reigned one hundred
and forty-eight days over half cen-
fury. If she lives a few years longer
Victoria will have reigned longer than
any royal parsonage OF history. -PhtIG- O..
deLphiG Times.
Some one has got up an alphabef
of precious stones as follows: Anne
thyst. beryl. chryso-beril. diamond
emerald. feldspar, garnet. hyacinth
idiocrase, kyanite (more commonly
cyanite, a blue mineraD, lynx-sap.
phire, milk-opal, natrolite, opal, py-
rope, quartz. ruby, sapphire, topaz.
uranite. vesuvianite "a species of gar
metz, water-sapphire, xanthite. zircoD
Ca Cingalese stone).
The Boston Transcript tells of two
shoemakers who formerly did business
in Boston. One OF them placed this
sign over the door: "P. Flaherty.
Bootmaker, from Paris" His rival
ssw that this was n strong card, and
determined to play one equally strong
if not stronger. So he had n sign put
over his door which reads as follows:
u. Mahoney. Bootmaker. Never in
Paris, But as Good"
in November, 1887. n woman, aged
seventy years, a resident of Leeds,
England, was charged with the larceny
of a shoemaker's last, valued at four
pence. The judge, in passing sem
tence, said that offense was a serious
one. inasmuch as it might deprive
patron of the cobbler of his shoes
when he most needed them. The de-
PENDANT was then sentenced to nine
months imprisonment and fined two
pounds. Her only daughter was
buried the day she went to prison.
"A Florida newspaper says that the
killing off of alligators is having a
marked effect on the supply Of water
in the cattle country. When alliga-
tors took possession of water hole
they always kept the mud pushed up
on the banks, and even when hundreds
of cattle went TO the pool. and by
crowding and pushing filled it with
mud, the alligators soon repaired the
damage by digging and pushing back
the mud. Now the cattle stand around
these holes, which are filled with mud
and almost entirely dried up. and
wait for rain; the only water they get
meantime being from the dew-covered
grass which they eat at night
AN interesting investigation as to
the comparative length of the index or
first finger and the ring finger (the one
next the little finger) has been going
on for many Years. 1t seems that ac-
cording to ancient Greek art, an index
finger trife longer than the ring
finger is characteristic of the higher
forms of human beauty. In the Apollo
Belvidere there is said to be no ap-
preciable difference in the length of
the two fingers. Among GOrillas,
Orang Outangs, Drshmen and cognate
creatures, the ring Snger is the longer.
although they do not wear rings.
Among Europeans and Americans there
is no uniformity in the matter. many
having the ring fingers the longer.
many others having longer index
fingers, and still many others having
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