Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-23
A GENERAL TUMBLE

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A WESTERN dramatic critic recently said
OF play that it was as lively a. an cid
cheese.
II b estimated that the total wagers in
New York on the result of the late election
amounted to 81 10000.
San Francesca proposes to undertake a
Great Pacific Slope and International Ex-
position - in year or two.
ESTIMATES of the number of dogs in the
United States fix it at 1900, coo. and their
cost of keeping at 300, o0O, O0e per annum.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX composed her
beautiful little poem, The Land of Nod, !"
while rocking her baby brother to sleep in
the cradle.
Mrs. GARFIELD has the first dress of
native grown silk. 1t was grown by various
members OF the Woman's Silk Culture As
ISOLATION.
ALL but four Of our States make the father
the natural guardian of children, and give
him the preference IN the appointment of q
guardian.
ANN ARBoR, Mich, claims the honor of
originating the He's sll right" yell. It
has been known for many years among COL
lege men there.
SEVERAL hundred Indians OF the Chin
pewa reservation in Minnesota were this
year allowed to vote for the first time, un-
der the provisions of the Dawes bill.
TEE United States Supreme Court has de-
cided that creditors of dead man can not
seize his life insurance when the policy is
made payable to his widow or children.
THE word-coiner has already found a new
combination of syllables to designate the
death by electric shock that the law now
prescribes. Electrothanatos is an easy and
pet invention
EMERsoN's grave at Concord. Macs, ia
marked by large bowlder of pink quartz,
which serves for headstone. No chiseI ever
touched it, and it stands as it CANE from its
native quarry.
BREAD baked from Eastwood sawdust and
corn starch passed muster in a Boston
restaurant as Indian bread" but some of
the eaters afterward complained that their
hunger had not been satisfied.
POWERFUL American syndicate is about
to be formed for the purpose of building
railroads in Siberia. Besides a large sub
sldy, the Government will give 1000, 600
rouoles yearly Tor the transportation of
mails and convicts.
TIE Prince of Wales does not care to di-
rect attention to his age. He has reached
the point where all references to the time he
has been on earth are reminders that life is
rapidly slipping away, and that no crown
has ever pressed his head
The number of babies who have been
named either after President Cleveland or
his vile is enormous. No Administration
In our history has had so potent an in
huence on the infant industry of baby-nam-
ing as that which now gives way to the
Harrisonian regime
The area of China is only one-third the
population of the United States; vet China,s
population is six times as large as that of
the United States. When the United States
is as thlckly populated as China it will con-
tain over thousand million of people, or
more than two-thirds as many as now live
on the earth.
The word roorback originated in 1874,
when fictitious story was published for
purposes OF political intrigue, and which
purported to be an extract from the travels
of Baron Roorback. The Baron,s name has
thus become synonym for a campaign lie,
although he himself was innocent of any
such guile He was sinned against rather
than sinner.
CREMATION is slowly winning it's way into
public favor. At congress of it's advo-
Gates in Vienna it was reported in the
course OF discussion that there exist about
fifty furnaces in all, the majority of which
are in the United States, one is in Germany
(Gotha), twenty in Italy, one in England,
one in Switzerland and one in France
A WASHINGTON correspondent remarks:
Unlike many of our distinguished army
officers, General Sheridan is seid to have
left quite handsome estate, and Mrs.
Sheridan, 1t is understood, is not really in
need OF the pension which it is proposed to
give her. AS a matter of courtesy, how
ever, the House may conclude to pass the
bill. 1t is hoped by the many friends of the
family that Mrs. Sheridan will continue to
occupy the residence in this city