Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-25
OF cenERAL INTEREST.

"A dog down in Piedmont. W. Va.
has two tails. and he wags them in
different directions.
"A number of persons in Atlanta
recently responded to parrots cry of
..fire" and discovered that house
across the way was in flames.
The coin and slot device has been
applied to children's savings banks
When once set for action a regulated
oumber of coins must be dropped In
the bank before it can be opened
"A kentucky man who was dying
alone left his will in lead pencil on the
head of a whisky barrel. and 1t Is
held to be valid The only thing he
left. however. was q gallon OF whisky
in the barrel.
Big sheets of cork q little less
than half an inch thick are used in
bathrooms because it is said they are
pleasanter than any other material
upon which to stand in ones wet bare
feet directly after coming from the
| tub.
AT Lewiston, Pa, what is called
'.thunderbolt" was found imbedded in
y
| lightning. 1t is egg-shaped. three and
one-half inches long and of a metalso
hard that 4 file does not affect it,
"A man in Sedalia stole horse for
the purpose of getting a term in the
penitentiary. He gave as his reason
| for so doing that he might reform. as
had been running about the country
| for three years and had grown very
wild.
A sharp fakir makes good income
by advertising sure method of killing
all insects. When you send him fifty
cents you will receive printed card
on which are these words: ''Get your
| insects to smoke cigarettes and they
| will die within an hour. So long"
in one block on Main street iu
| Battle Creek the other day a reporter
| saw three one-legged men, four one
armed men and two other men who
were so lame they couldn't walk with
| out canes The reporter went home
and wrote up the item. stating that
Battle Creek is one of the greatest
railroad towns in the United States"
American engineers visiting En-
gland are chiefly impressed with the
superior solidity and finish of En-
glish engineering work and the extreme
backwardness in the speed of elevators
and in the adoption of the electric
light. But England is ahead of Amer
lea. they think, in keeping clear of
! overhead wires.
"A respectable looking white wom-
an has been going about Louisville
for the last eight years telling people
that her husband had just died. and
that if she had a sewing machine she
could make living. She would then
borrow ten dollars to pay on one.
promising to return the money as soon
as she had earned it. She has taken
in good deal of money in this way
from kind-hearted people.
At Summerside, P. E. L. the other
day man came into town and bought
complete funeral outfit--coffin,
plate, gloves, etc, when. the clerk was
engraving the plate he asked what
date should be put upon it. ''Oh. he
is not dead yet" was the reply. The
death of the person for whom the out
fit was intended was daily expected.
and the idea was to have every thing
in readiness when required.
1t is an error to suppose that the
Johnstown disaster is the greatest of
its kind in modern times. The great
food in the Yellow river of China in
1887 destroyed three thousand villages
and the 'best informed European in
Pekin" calculated the destruction of
life at seven millions. The lowest
estimate was one million. In 1876 a
tidal wave overflowed the island of
Observation-Disclosures, in the Bay of
Bengal. drowning three hundred
thousand people.
e. Randall. the mountain evange-
list of West Virginia. some years ago
went over the State painting texts on
rocks and walls. He decorated all
sorts of waste places with the text,
what shall l do to be saved?" A
patent medicine man came along later
and painted just below this. wherever
he could find it, Use Blanks cure for
consumption. The quaint combina-
ton got into the papers, and Randall.
seeing it, went back over his route
with his paint pot and added below
the text: "And prepare to meet thy
Godr'