Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-03-01
OF eENERAL INTEREsT.

There are thlrty-Jnfee SOcletleS LUZ =
The prevention of cruelty to animals In
The United States.
North Carolina is a State without
cities. Wilmington. its largest town,
has only $4,000 people; Raleigh. 49,
900; Charlotte, 5000, and Asheville,
5000.
The gavel used by the presiding
officers of the United States Senate has
been in use over tifty-six years. 1t .
made out of an elephants tooth and
has no handle, nor did it ever have.
"A sanitary expert, who has been
looking into the causes of the epidemic
of typhoid fever ut the Jackson (Mich-0
State prison, expresses the belief that
the disease was carried from Minneo
apolis in consignment OF flour.
in the Southern States boots are
almost universally worn by the better
classes while in the North one rarely
sees Il man who does not wear shoes
Representatives in Congress from the
two sections illustrate this singular
fact and speculations as to the reaso.'
are rife.
: During the last famine in China II
required fifteen days to transport reiieI
to the people over distance of two
hundred miles. Contrast with that the
fact that at the time of the big Chicago
fire in 1871 u relief train from New
York travelled fifteen hundred miles In
twenty-one hours.
A young lady in New York, tired
of fancy work and painting plaques.
tried the healthy and useful occupation
of peeling potatoes as n diversion. In
the first one she grasped she founSb
deeply imbedded a silver dollar. which
some farmer doubtless had dropped in
the furrow while blowing.
An old couple of ninety-two years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hira Bates, of Hanover
Mass. were born in the same town. on
the same day and same hour, brought
up together, and have now been mar
ried sixty-two years. The old mar
wants TO bet one hundred dollars that
he can ''rassle" and beat any man Ct
his own years.
H. j. Furber. Jr., young Chica'
goan. not yet twenty, and now stu
dent at the University of Berlin. has
conceived the idea of founding in CHI
cago great university, to be modelled
after that at Heidelberg. He will do
vote $1,000, 900 to the project rs an iH-
ducement to other citizens to join him
in the movement.
The Geological Survey has found in
the West great quantities of soda de-
posted by natural process, so that
the cost of its production is about one
third less than that of the soda found
in Germany and other parts of the
world. The finds of garnets, amethysts
and other stones in this country during
the past year have already proved of
some commercial Importance.
William Marshall, who died at
Schenectady, n. Y, recently, in his
eighty-eighth year, had passed an in
tcresting life. He was conductor of
the first passenger railroad train that
ran between Albany and Schenectady
fifty-live years ago. When lad he
was a cabin boy on the English man
of-war which carried Napoleon to st.
Helena. In 1S49 Marshall went to
California, and was one of the first to
engage in gold digging in that State
"A citizen of West Branch. Iowa, .
who recently returned from California,
says he visited noted coal mine in
one of the doomed districts of the
Golden State. When he asked TO be
allowed to go down and inspect the
mine he was told by the superintendent
that it was too dangerous. so he con-
tented himself in seeing them feed The
engine with grease-wood roots to get
up steam TO run coal shaft in sand
bank. There were heaps of coal lying
around. but they were samples inn
ported for the benefit of tenderfeGt.
"A singular fatality has followed
the family of an old gentleman at
Hampton, GA. One son was killed by =
a horse, another by falling tree, an
other by the cars. He had marriage
and corpse in the house at the same
time. He had son, daughter and
sOn-in-law all dead in his house at the
same time; son-in-law was killed ac-
cidentally by the discharge of a gun;
one of his daughters had leg broken
by log. and a son-in-law embezzled
about thirty thousand dollars of Gov
eminent money and skipped TO Mexico.
where he is to-day.
in many cities of Europe during
the days of extreme cold, the NUM-
cipal governments, from fund previ-
ously set apart for the purpose. place
at intervals among the crowded neigh
bOrhoods of the poor. large iron bra
ziers which are kept filled day and
night with hot Goals. They are circu-
lar receptacles, about the size of bar
rel. with an open top and with holes
pierced in the sides for the purpose of
draught. They are placed upon the
pavement near the sidewalk at the
corners of streets. where crowds may
collect about them with the least OBJ
struction to traffic. During the bitter