Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-27
NEWSPAPER NOTES.

THE long distance telephone between Bos-
ton and Chicago has been nicknamed
ssPork and Beans"
a BRONZE statue of heroic size Is to be
placed over the grave of Stonewall jackson
at Lexington, Va.
A FULLBLooDED negro testified in rich
Irish brogue before q Brooklyn court the
other day. He was born in ireland.
A GANG of tramps captured at Ventura,
Cal, had IN their possession over 200 keys
OF different patterns and no end of clothing.
A CHICAGO paper in trying to refer to
''the late lamented," gets it: The late
lieutenant and what makes it worse Is the
fact that it was woman.
A sHIPBUHDING feat never before an
preached was lately performed on tho
Clyde. A 5,00lton steamer for the Ger
man line to New York was launched, which
had been built in less than four months.
THE new cruiser Chicago is to have q
costly service of silver, to be used when
distinguished guests are entertained on
board. 1t Is to be a gift from the people Of
Chicago, who at first thought of giving q
handsome library.
OSE Collins death, which occurred lately
IN Vernon County, Mo-, is said to have been
the result Of voluntary fast of forty-two
days. He was a victim of Bright's disease,
and looked forward TO death asa relief
from great suffering"
A FREAK has been born in Mackinac Coun-
ty, Mich, in the shape Of girl baby who
has two heads-onc Of the regulation kind
on lts shoulders, and the other without ears.
| eyes, nose or mouth, ON its back. The babe
is apparently intelligent and healthy.
THERE is decided movement in West
Virginia in favor of changing the name of
| that State. Its promoters say that every
| State should have distinct name OF its
own. 80 far removed from&he name of any
| other State that no confusion Of names can
arise. West Virginia Is so near like Virginia
that the people do not enjoy it. Curiously
enough, they all agree that s'Kauawha'' is
| the name for the State.
JAMES A. STEWART, the newly elected
:! mayor Of Griffin, Ga, is one Of the young
est mayors on record, his twenty-second
| birthday having been celebrated in August
| last. He is the son of Congressman J. D.
| Stewart, who was greatly surprised when
he heard Of his boys election. Young
Stewart entered the campaign but one day
1 before the election, and received thirty
| nine majority over one Of the most solid
citizens of Griffin.
| A PERSIAN cat was able to spread scarlet
| fever amidst a large community of children
| in Chicago Tnls animal had been petted
| by sick child, and in its visits to several
neighbors' houses it carried the disease
with it. Nothing is more natural than that
! its fur should harbor particles from the
patient, and nothing more likely than that
these should be waited through the air
| every time its fur was stroked.
AN old male ostrich escaped from the
farm at Red Bluff, Cal, and started at
lightning speed for the Sacramento river,
which he swan, and disappeared in the
brush on the opposite shore After putting
| in two or three hours roaming around IN
| the underground, he swan the river again
and was finally captured seventy miles
| from where he started, and evidently as
| fresh as ever, Notwithstanding his two
baths and little jaunt.
INVITATIONS have been issued to the
maritime nations to send delegates to at
tend an international Maritime conference
to meet in Washington on April II, 1889.
The objects of the conference will be to re-
wise the regulations concerning vessels at
sea. to adopt q uniform system of signals to
indicate the direction in which vessels are
moving in fog, snow, or thick weather, and
at night to convey warnings of approaching
storms and other important information,
and to formulate regulations for the pre-
vention of collisions. The Importance of
the subject is so great it is hoped there will
be full attendance of delegates.