Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-09-04
DRIFT FROM ABROAD.


ALL Russian students are to be expelled
from Berlin.
HUMAN sacrifices are still quite common
on the East African coast
A MEDAL is to be struck TO commemorate
the tooth anniversary of the mayoralty Of
London.
A COMPANY is being formed. with q capt.
tai of $1,000, 600 for the purpose of holding
worlds exposition in Buenos Ayres.
For the first time In $50 years the En-
glish Presbyterian Synod was this year re-
ceived at his official residence by the Lord
Mayor Of London.
THERE was meeting of three sons Of
American Presidents in London the other
day. Jesse Grant, Russell Harrison and
Robert Lincoln were at the United States
Legation together. Russell Harrison after
wards dined with the Queen in company
with Minister Lincoln.
The work of connecting by canals the
two great arteries of navigation in West
ern Siberia has so far progressed that q
boat ffty-six feet long and fourteen feet
wide, taking three and one-half feet Of
water, has been lately drawn from the Obi
into the Yenisei with load of forty tons Of
-four. The two rivers are $50 miles apart.
THERE were numerous casualties during
the erection Of the Paris Exposition build
| ings. Il Is estimated that 800 workmen
hurt their legs, 260 received severe injuries
in the eyes from projecting timbers or bars
Of iron, ia were scalded or severely burned
and fifty had their fingers cut OF. Tho
deaths from falls are put down at twenty
four.
On the sides Of the Jesen Fiord, on the
west coast Of Norway, mountains rise per-
pendicularly to height Of several thou
sand feet. Recently stones and rocks,
some Of which are said to have been as
large as house, began to fall on one side
of the ford The avalanche continued for
more than two hours, and the crash was
heard ten miles away.
A CLEVER fellow has shop at the dizzy
height of the third platform of the Ethel
Tower at the Paris Exhibition, and is max
ing small fortune by selling books and
pictures stamped third PLATFORM" aud to
be had nowhere else. These are purchased
at fancy prices by all the adventurous who
ascend to the top. and taken away as pos
tive proof that they really have made the
ascent.
The Gladstone family seems to be one Of
the few in which intellect has descended
not only from father to son but father to
daughter. None Of the statesman's chill
! dren shine in comparison with their father,
but they are all children Of whom he may
be proud-of none more so than his daugh-
ter Helen, who was one of the first to take
an,active interest in the higher education
OF women, end who is now president Of
Newman College, Cambridge.
THE giant diamond, lately discovered in
Cape Colony, and now at the Paris Expo
sition, weighs $50 carats and is valued at
$3,OOO,000. It is kept in a glass case by
itself, and guardians stand around it all
day. At night it is placed in big safe,
which is similarly guarded all night. It is
| said to be of the first water, and as pure as
the famous Regent in the French crown
| diamonds. It Is for sale, and it is confident
| ly expected that some American in home
| spun clothes and a SLOUGH hat will come
along one Of these days and buy 1t as a
pocket piece.