Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-08
IN OTHER LANDS.

DECORATIONS of the Legion of Honor have
ceased TO confer distinction upon wearers
and have become as common as secret so
ciety badges in the United States.
THROUGHOUT France flower farms of fif-
teen and twenty acres in extent are quite
common. Laboratories are being erected in
places and perfumes are manufactured at a
high profit.
A COMPACT of citizens of Vienna have ad-
dressed 10 the municipal council petition
that special tax be levied upon the bach
elors of that city in order to procure perma-
nent relief for pauper school children.
A MUSHROOM plantation has been estab-
hshed in disused railway tunnel at Edin-
burgh. The mushroom beds occupy about
eight hundred yarcs Of the tunnel, whose
total length is about three-quaT-ers of a
mile.
An innovation in Paris is the Pneumatic
Clock Company, which takes charge of a
number of clocks, regulating them by air
power When the pipes get out of order,
which happens about twice a week, a large
part of Paris is timeless.
The common thistle, which now covers
large areas in Southern Chill. is said to have
been introduced there by an Englishman,
who imported Z bushel of seed and sowed il
under the detusion that the plant would
prove valuable for fodder
MANY fashionable French ladies' are talk
ing to the study of astronomr, and are hav-
ing observatories erected ir secluded parts
OF their gardens. A taste for rare books,
curious editions and fine bindings is another
fashion among French society ladies'
The French are rapidly extending their
possessions toward Timbuctoo and the upper
Niger. The upper Gambian districts have
been surveyed and large tracts placed under
French protectOrate. Roads are being built
and much progress in the work has been
noted.
A BERLIN correspondent says that no
where has the manufacture of woolen goods
developed itself more of late years than in
the Prussian capital, yet it is carried on
there under more unfavOrable circumstan-
ces than in most German centers of the
wOOlen industry
A PROJECT is on foot to form vast Rus
sian company to buy up all the iron works
established by German capitalists in Poland.
1t Is said that the Russian Government
looks upon this project with great favor,
and that the Bank of st. Petersburg has
already promised to support it.
NANKIN, China, has owed her worldwide
celebrity to nothing more than her por-
beyond all similar buildings, for its COM
pleteness and elegance, and the quality of
material of which it was built. 1t cost four
millions Of dollars, and was ninety years in
building, being completed in A. d. 1430.
IN an old church in Gothland, in Sweden,
pike of lances is preserved. Each of the
lances is fitted to hold a torch, and it is said
the weapons were used at one time to give
light and protection to marriage parties on
the way to church, the ceremony taking
place at night, as precaution against the
bride being taken away by some Lochinvar
who claimed better right 70 her than the
duly recognized suitor.
To TEMPT immigrants int She agricultural
districts of the Argentine Republic the
Government has enacted laws providing
liberal tracts of land for settlers Each
head of a family is entitled to $50 acres free,
and as much more as he desires to purchase.
to limit of 1900 acres, at about seventy-five
cents an acre in our money Or the settler
may acquire 1900 acres free after five years,
by planting 200 acres to grain and twenty
four acres to timber.