Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-27
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troops.
The clergy of the Church of England
OF all grades, from archbishops to
curates. number $4,000.
1t is in the contract with the Queens
housekeeper that she will not get mar
ried for at least ten years.
OF the 200 goldbeaters of New York
not one Is woman, while of the 900
| goldcutters not one is a man.
About $4,000 cords of birch wood
have been manufactured into spools at
foxcroft, Mo, the past few years.
A boy at Grand Rapids, Mich, has
| been arrested for stealing trees from
q cemetery with which to embeIlish his
fathers lawn.
A hen which is said to have Matched
and raised sixteen chickens from fifteen
eggs is one of the curiosities of With
lacOoche, Fla.
a Michigan woman is developing
rapidly as professional whistler. The
complishments.
Captain John Miller, who recently
died in the Indian Territory, aged
seventy years, had taken thirty scalps
during his eventful life.
A Mr.. Lee, of Toronto, aged fifty,
TOOK notion seven years ago not to
talk any more, and the first word
uttered by him since that time was
spoken some days ago.
An audaciouS tramp sneaked into 8
residence in Washington place, New
York, and tarried long enough on the
premises to make an entire change of
clothing. He even appropriated under
garments. 1t is said that on emerging
he resembled s'swell," carrying q
heavy cane and wearing high hat.
James Harmon, of Worth County,
Georgia, has a powder gourd that was
! carried by his grandfather in the revo-
lutionary war. 1t is we'll preserved,
and seems good for several hundred
years yet. Mr.. Harmon also has a
single barrel shot gun that did service
in the same war, which is still capable
of good service.
Two boys played shrewd trick on
| a Boston photographer. They asked
to have their pictures taken, and when
the plate was about to be exposed one
| of the rascals realized that he would
| appear to better advantage if he had a
watch. The photographer loaned his
time-piece, and while he was again
adjusting the camera the customers
ran out of the establishment.
A French physician, DR.. Felz, men.
lions curious apparent cause of left
handedness. A child in certain
| family was left-handed, and the second
| appeared to be so at the age of one
year. 1t was then learned that the
mother always carried her children on
her left arm. She was advised to
change, and held on her other arm the
infant, having its right hand free to
grasp objects, soon became right
! handed.
The curious fact has been demon,
strated by Sir John Lubbock that Ger.
| tin kinds of ants are unable to exist
without keeping other ants as slaves
| though why this is so he has not found
out. On removing the slaves from 8
nest of fifty slave-holding ants he
found that the latter Immediately com
menced to die off, and were speedily
| reduced in number to six. When the
| slaves were returned the mortality
| ceased.
The Presidents writing desk Wash.
| ington letter says, is made of oak from
the British ship Resolute, which was
| rescued inthe Arctic Ocean, thorough.
| ly rebuilt by the United States and
sent to England. This is not last
card. The British Government took
out some of the oak in the original
| framework of the ship and had q
superb desk made, which all the
Presidents of the United States have
used since.
The captain of the steamer Benvenue,
which was recently caughtin a typhoon
| in the China Sea, says of the center
| of the disturbances: cit was filled with
| lightning, and heavy roar made ii
impossible to distinguish the noise OF
the wind from that of the thunder.
The smell, too. of electricity, like the
| smell of burning sulphur, was SO in
tense as to cause an almost overpower-
ing sensation of suffocation, and the
biscuits and food not washed away by
the storm tasted so of sulphur as to be
unfit for use.
Fishing in Alaska is good if Cana
dian gentleman recently visiting there
tells the truth. He says that at Ton
mass Narrows he saw creek so crowd
ed with salmon that the surface was
actually blackened with their backs
and dorsal fins. In some places they
were crowded so closely that they
could hardly move, and could be
picked out of the water by hand. At
a canning establishment he saw 5000
fish just taken, waiting tire atment, and
in one case one draught of seine
brought to shore $500 salmon.
A Georgia paper says that Alfred
Daniel, of Douglas county, is eighty
two years old, was never in bed at sun
up, never lost a tooth, has been to six
log-rollings this year, lifts more than
most men. often INDUCES in coon and
opossum hunting, has been deacon in
the Primitive Baptist Church for fifty
eight years, was never drunk in his
life, and an oath has never escaped his
lips. He is the father of twenty-s
children-ffteen now living : has
seventy grandchildren.
Lead in the form of filings, under q
pressure of 1000 atmospheres, or
thirteen tons to the square inch, be-
comes compressed into solid block,
if which it is impossible to detect the
slightest vestige of the original grains.
Under a pressure of 5000 atmospheres
it liquifies. Tin, when compressed in
powder. becomes solid under a
pressure of ten tons OH the square
oil