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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-03
TRANSFERRING OF LATE.

A NUMBER of ladies in Boston are leading
a crusade against the practice of s'docking"
horses tails.
The New York Legislature has ap-
propriated $4,000 for monument to John
Ericsson in New York City.
A TEAM OF four cows appeared in Belle
vue, l. T., not long ago, having been driven
from Nebraska, distance Of one thousand
miles.
THE New York celebration has demon
strated the possibility of massing seventy
thousand militia in New York within fifteen
hours.
Mrs. ANN DAVIS, who died in Philadelphia
few days ago, had the distinction Of dying
in the bed in which President William
Henry Harrison expired.
One of the greatest innovations in the
House of Parliament is the introduction of
bootblack in the Commons cloak-room.
He is the first of his kind.
THE English sparrow is credited with
having nearly exterminated the foreign
cabbage worm in the very extensive cab
bage fields around Chicago.
The Massachusetts Legislature recently
passed law, whereby the assessors are
obliged to ask at every residence for the
names of women desiring to vote.
THERE has been so much sickness in
Trego County, Kan, that the probate Judge
Cancelled all the druggists permits in the
county, hoping in that way to mend the
general health.
LIKES in Eastern Oregon and Nevada are
dryng up in consequence Of the divergence
OF their waters for purposes of irrigation
and "a continuous drought. A number of
large lakes have diminished many square
miles In area.
THE Goddess of Liberty on one of the
foats IN the New York centennial parade
was observed to chew tobacco and ex-
pectorate vigorously "She" was young
man hired for the occasion, but this fact
may not have been patent to all those who
viewed the performance.
THE offensive habit of splitting tobacco
juice has received recognition as an illegal
offense by grand jury of Philadelphia
That body has found true bills against one
John F. Berg for malicious mischief in
splitting on the front doorsteps Of several
houses in the northern part of the city.
FIFTEEN daring young women of Phila-
delphia have formed a club of which the
sole condition of membership Is that the
applicant forswear corsets. Each one of
the ladies comprising the club has con-
signed her whalebone cuirass to the flames.
and now taxes her ingenuity to provide a
substitute.
THE little town of Newark, in California,
has some good young men. They rode a
drurken and abusive husband and father
named Chase out of town on rail- and then
quartered the wife and children in the
principal hotel until they had raised money
enough to send them to Louisville, KY,
where the WIFE parents reside.
THE attempt to remove Libby prison from
Richmond to Chicago has not been alto
gether successful. In fact, it has met with
dlsaster-a freight train on which the
building was being transferred having
been wrecked near Maysville, KY, and the
material scattered promiscuously along the
railway track. 1t is added that the country
people carried off the old brick and pieces
OF timber as mementoes, and 1t will thus be
impossible ever to put the famous structure
together again.
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a copy ana within these Few days 1 have
heard (the truth of which know not) that
you, upon the Doctors quitting of it, have
also taken possession of it. Ii this infor-
nation be true, own can conceive no
reason why you or any other person should
attempt to disturb me in my claim to this
Land, as 1 have not, to my knowledge, in
jur'd or attempted to injure, any other man
in his pretensions to Land in that country;
it is little hard, therefore, upon me that /
can not be allowed to hold this bottom
(which is small one) In peace and quiet
ness, till legal right can be obtained,
which / always have been and still am
ready to pay for, as soon as know to what
office to apply would feign hope that my
information respecting your taking posses
sion of this Land, is without foundation; as
should be sorry to enter into ALLEGATION of
this matter with you or any other Gentle
man but as conceiv'd that ! had as good
right to make choice of this bottom, as any
other person had as am sure that am
the first that did so, and have had it sur
vey'd so as to ascertain the bounds, up
wards of two years ago, I am resolved not
to relinquish my claim to it.-Rut If you
have made any Improvements thereon not
knowing of my claim, 1 will very readily pay
you the full value thereof being,
Sir
Your most humble Servant
g. WASHINGTON.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-03
LIGHT AND LAUoHABLE.

A BosToN young lady defines love as
tan inexpressibility accompanied with out
ward alloverishness.
THE pigs In the clover puzzle seems to
have run its brief course of popularity al
ready. There is nothing permanent in this
country but poker.
IT is recommended to those who are In
ordlnately fond of chowder that they take
out an accident insurance policy before
they begin to indulge themselves.
"WHT do you use painti" asked 8 vio-
linist Of his daughter. "For the same
reason that you use resin, papa" SHOWS
thatl" "Why, to help me draw nay beau
"a HUMOROUS old agriculturist," says the
Newell Mirror, "tells the editor that he has
Jersey cow which he carries across the
field to good place and then millzs her.
getting so much milk that he can not carry
it back to the house."
THE world will seem but dreary plaoeto
a man who has been using five-dollar bills
as stationery for his love letters when he
gets note like this from the adored object:
Another young gentleman Is writing to me
on ten-dollar bills Unless you employ
twenty-dollar bills all Is over between us.n
"TELL the truth is bit of whole
some advice that is frequently given to
those who are supposed to need it; but, like
all rules, it has exceptions. A Chicago ed
itor, for telling the truth. was recently fined
900. Had it not been his first offense,
there's no telling what the fine would have
been.
BosToN mother Ito her daughter retiring
for the night)-"Did you eat the cold beans,
Penelope. that put aside for youi" Daugh-
ter Gliding her face shyly op her mothers
shoulderl-'sNo, mamma; Clarence told me
tonight that was all the world to him, and
even beans, mamma, would be In discord
with the tranquil harmony that is singing
in my soul"
In some Of the species of mosquito the
male is found to be tiny bird of transcend
ent beauty Ct form and plumage, with
transparent wings covered with minute ir-
ridescent feathers of findescribable sp,endor.
The male has the grace ot person and the
female the voice and sting. Why Is this
thnsi A disgruntled old bachelor snaris
out, all females have yoices and stines.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-03
NOTES ABOUT WEEDS.

The "cursed crowfoot'' is stated to be
sometimes boiled and eaten as vegetable
by German peasants,
BURDocK has the honor of being looked on
by the Japanese as having an eatable root,
and is cultivated under the name 'gobo."
PIGwERD is exalted in that the seeds Of
certain kinds are said to be gathered by the
Southern Indians and used for making into
bread.
OSE plant of ''pusley" has been known
by actual count to possess 10000 seeds.
So states the botanist of the Departments Of
Agriculture.
IL the days of chivalry the daisy was so
esteemed as the enoblem of fidelity in love
as to be often borne by knights and ladies
al tournaments.
Is France and Germany the st. Johns
wort was hung in the windows 70 act as a
charm against s'storms, thunder and evil
spirits" The 'sdevilfuge" was the ex-
pressive name the plant enjoyed among
some folk
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a CANINE oRuNkARo.
How q Very Promising BuII-Terrier ToOR
to Consuming Liquor.

How q Very Promising Bull-Terrier Took
to Consuming Liquor.
We know a drunken dog, says Saturday
Reviewer, we regret to say, a real drunken
dog. He was employed in whisky distill-
cry of some repute-not an illicit one-m
the north of Ireland to guard the premises
in case of thieves and burglars. He was
bull-terrier of very promising exterior for
such purpose-we believe exterior is the
proper term to use in describing the out
ward and visible signs of character. But
wher we saw him he was wreck, with
only the shattered remains of his promising
exterior visible. He was lying on the
hearth-rug before the Office fire, blear-
eyed, dilapidated, abandoned to vicious
habits, with all the marks upon him of
dissipated scoundrel, thin, weak, unsteady
in his gait when he got up, tail nowhere to
speak of, ears much the same. The cause
of this melancholy backsliding was thus ex-
planned. Soon after he came to the distill-
cry, then a sprightly dog, fully alive to the
work of detecting the stealthy steps of
thieves and burglars, he felt thirsty. So he
followed some of the men up a sort of a lad
der of steep steps to an upper floor, and
there he saw a bright liquid looking like
water running over the refrigerator;
he Tapped, and was lost dog.
1t was a pure spirit; he liked it, and re-
turned to 1t again and again. The
sensation of getting drunk was very agree
able to him; he went up the steep steps
not the usual way to sin-drank to excess,
became hopelessly drunk, came down, often
falling headlong, lay down by the fire in
stupid condition until he was sober, sleep
ing off his debauchery, and then again went
up to get drunk as before. This was the
evil life he was leading when we saw him.
A more wretched, lll-conditioned, black
guard looking dog never was seen. 1t may
well be asked, why was such conduct al
lowed? In busy place such an unusual
falling away from virtue in a faithful dog
may not have been at first observed Posi-
bly, the upper classes ia distillery do not
take much notice of dogs, whilst the lower
classes may haze had a sneaking kindness
for, and sympathy with, dog in doing that
which they would only be too glad to do
themselves If they could. However that
may be, the vice had been acquired beyond
all hope of reform, and the very curiosity
of literally drunken dog, a lapse unex-
ampied even in distillery, of moral nat
are, proof in all former experience against
the temptations of such ap alcoholic para
disc, was enough to let him ile, an example
TO mankind, on the otfice hearth-rug OF ala
Irish distillery What his end may be- or
may have been, it is painful to contemplate.
To imagine a bull-terrier with delhfum
tremeDs is not pleasant, and the NJ. r. G.
V. g. called IN on such an occasion would
not be in an enviabIe position. u would be
probably pronounced rabies. as every
thing else is. and the end would be any
thing but peace.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-03
COMMERCIAL CLIPPINGS.

MORE American cheese is said to be sold
in London than of the home manufactured
article.
THE shipment Of wines from Bordeaux
last year showed falling OF Of more than
100000 gallons
ONE OF the greatest novelties is rattle
snake leather, which is used chiefly for max
ing pocketbooks.
THE decline in the Chinese tea trade is
said to have been due to carelessness in
preparing the leaf.
The mild winter and overstocks OF canned
goods are said to be peculiarly disastrous to
the retail grocery trade.
THE potato crop of the United States for
1888 was 200, ,000, 900 bushels, and of sweet
potatoes 4o,OO0, 900 bushels.
Los ANGELES, Cal, last year shipped
away 6,095 tons OF fruit, and imported from
the East 1921 tons Of beer.
IE 1888 the United States sent abroad
100000 worth of sewing machines and
S6,OOO,OOO worth of steam engines.
IT is the superiority of English coal that
makes the westward trips OF Atlantic
steamers faster than the eastward.
TIE total valuation of all the exports by
the English steamers from Portland, Me-,
the last winter season was q, ,055, ,202.
THE watermelon center of the world is at
Quitman, Ga, town Of 2,500 inhabitants.
Last year 100000 watermelons were
shipped from Quitman.
IT has been estimated that 10000, 600 or
100000 pounds Of maple sugar, or its
equivalent in sirup, Is made in the United
States each year.
TANNED horse-hide is being extensively
used for baseball covers, and, like the sheep
and calf hide used for this particular pur-
pose. they are all alum-tanned
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-03
sTRAYs FROM ABROAD.

TIE consumption of beer and whisky is
rapidly increasing in india.
UP to the present time the Canadian Gov
ernment has given 40. 100000 acres of lands
to railroad companies.
ALTHOUGH Italy has the highest murder
rate of any county in Europe, it has abol=
ished capital punishment.
THOUSANDS of persons in Asia and some
parts Of America subsist upon the seeds of
various species of water-lilies.
IT cost the English Government $40, ,1e3
20 keep the royal palaces in order last year
and f445,tE6 for royal parks and gardens.
One of the features OF the Earis Expo
aition is an Egyptian restaurant, with all
natiYe food cooked and served in native
style.
GERMANY last year imported into that en-
pire "a, ,519 horses, most of which were for
cavalry horses, besides what they raised at
home.
ENGLISH trade unionism is rapidly grow
ing socialistic. On the continent 10 call .
man workman is equivalent to calling
him Socialist.
CI6ARETTEs of tea, lately introduced in
England, have been followed by those made
of a mixture of herbs, which seem to be re-
ceived with favor.
THE Gar has donated 2Oo, 900 rubles to the
widow of Count Toistoi, late Russian Min
ister of the Interior, and granted her
yearly pension of 5000 rubles.
A GOLD crown, worth 81, ,ooo has been
sent TO Vienna by the Austro- -Hungarians
Of Buenos Ayres. 1t is TO be placed on the
coffin of the late Crown Prince Rudolf.
We send missionaries TO Guatemala;
Guatemala sends morals to Us. Its Gov
ernment has refused to allow the tickets of
the louisiana lottery TO be sold under its
jurisdiction.
RICH Mexican lately had twenty bulls
turned loose In his yard and single handed
and alone he enjoyed the spectacle of con-
tests between them until they were tired
out and could fight no more
A RUSSIAN army officer has invented .
method Of searching tbs sea or coast ny
night, which does not reveal the position OF
the shin. A mortar Ares . huoYant shall
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-03

THE funeral procession must not cross
river.
THE last name dying person calls is the
next to follow.
THE corpse must not pass twice over any
part of the same road.
To DANCE on the ground indicates disaster
or death within year.
A DIsH-cLoTH hung on a door-knob il
sign Of death in family.
WHOEVER works on sick persons dress,
he or she will die within year.
If hoe be carried through house some
one will die before the year is out.
WHOEVER counts the carriages at a pass
ing funeral will die within the year.
THE person on whom the eyes of dying
person last rests will be the first to die.
If thirteen sit at table the one who
rises first will not live through the year.
If three persons look at the same time
into mirror one will die within the year.
To BREAK a looking-glass is a sign Of
death in the family before the year closes.
THE clock should be stopped at the time
OF death, as its running will bring i'll luck.
If hearse is drawn by two white horses
death in the neighborhood will occur In q
month.
IF one dies, and no rigor mortis ensues, it
indicates speedy and second death in a
family.
If rain falls on a new-made grave there
will be another death in the family within
year.
IT is unlucly in funeral for those pres
sent to repass the house where death has
occurred.
AT funeral entering church before the
mourners means death to some of the enter
ing party.
If the grave is left open over Sunday an
other death will occur before the Sunday
following.
To KEEP the corpse in the house over Sun
day will bring death in the family before
the year is out.
IT is unlucky to pass through a funeral,
either between the carriages or the files Of
mourners on foot.
If rain falls into an open grave, another
burial in the same cemetery will occur
within three days.
If any one comes to q funeral after the
procession starts, another death will occur
in the same house.
To PUT on the bonnet or hat of one in
mourning Is the sign that you will wear one
before the year is out.
IN Switzerland, if a grave is left open
over Sunday, it is said that within four
weeks one Of the villagers will die.
If during sickness a pair of shears be
dropped in such manner that the point
sticks into the floor, it indicates the death Of
the sick person.
WHEN a woman who has been sewing
puts her thimble on the table as she sits
down to eat, 1t Is sign that she will be left
Q widow II she marries.
A COMMON saying in England is: Happy
f@ &1aa 81 f~ll. @lsSl
exists also in the United States. Thus, It
is said that if rain falls at the time Of the
funeral, it is u sign that the dead has gone
to Heaven.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-03
MUSICAL INSECTS.
The Notes Produced by the Houso-Fly,
the Bee and the Mosquito.

The Notes Produced by the House-Fly,
the Bee and the Mosquito.
Poets have frequently alluded to the
"busy hum of insect ife,n and its har-
monious murmur adds q dreamy charm to
summers golden days. Naturalists have
afforded US much interesting information
as to the means whereby these tiny NOR
sells Of creation produce distinctive sounds,
and musicians have succeeded in trans
ferring to paper the actual notes to which
they give utterance. The song Of birds has
been often utilized by musicians, even
Beethoven having so far pandered to q
taste for realism as to simulate (and that
IN mastery fashion) the utterances Of the
quail, cuckoo and nightingale in his Pas
toral Symphony. Mendelssohn, too. has
idealized insect life in his midsummer
Nights Dream music From researches
recently made it has been discovered that
the crlcket's chant consists of perpet-
ually-recurring series of triplets IN b nat
ural, whereas the "death watchn q series
OF B fiatsin duple rhythm extending over
one measure and an eighth. The
female INDUCES in precisely the same
musical outbursts one minor third
lower. The whirr of the locust is produced
by the action of muscles set in motion by
the insect when drawing air into its breath.
alternately q pair OF drums formed Of con-
vex pieces OF parchment-like skin lodged in
cavities OF the body. The male grasshopper
Is an animated fiddle" Its long and mar
row wings placed obliquely meet at the up
per edges and form a roof-like covering.
On each side Of the body Is q deep inoision
covered with q thin piece Of tightly drawn
skin, the two forming natural sounding
boards" When the insect desires to ex-
ercise its musical functions, it bends the
shank Of one hind leg behiud the thigh, and
then draws the leg backward and forward
across the edges and veins Of the wing
cover. The sound produced by the common
house-fy is produced by the motion Of its
wings, the vibrations of which amount, in
credible as it may appear, to nearly twenty
thousand in the minute. The actual note
heard is F. The honey bee, with half the
number Of vibrations, causes by similar
means q sound one octave lower, and the
ponderous flight Of the May bug originates
a note an octave lower tnan the bee. II il
interesting TO add that the popular mos
quito is responsible for the production of
A-natural when wooing her victim in the
otherwise silent watches Of the summer
niQht-Boston Musical Herald
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-03
SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS.

"PETRAeIT'' is new German explosive
from molasses. 1t is said to be three times
as powerful as nitro-glycerine.
ERLEMEYER, a German authority. says
that children born of women addicted to
the morphine habit are practically morphine
eaters from birth.
RECENT discoveries made by the use of
the spectroscope show that all the heavenly
bodies appear to be composed of the same
chemical elements.
THE treatment of mental diseases by
colors is revived. Melancholy requires red,
acute mania, blue. The young love yellow,
the color most conducive to growth; while
old age prefers the warm red ray.
PROF. ELISHA GRAY says that he who
wishes to keep abreast with the march of
science to-day must leave the college and
go to the workshop and into the dark corn
ers of private laboratories, for the investi-
gators rarely have time. 10 write, so that
text books are years behind the science
itself.
A BoMBsHELL has been thrown into the
scientific world through the discovery of
Brereton Baker, of Dulwich College, about
oxygen. That gas, which is known as the
great agent of combustion loses its char
acter when dried. 1t becomes inert Even
charcoal will not burn in it when heated to
redness, nor phosphorus become luminous.
AS yet there is no explanation,
A PROCESS OF engraving on glass and
crystal by electricity has been communi.
Gated to the French Academy of Science by
NJ. Flants. The plate TO be engraved Is COW
cred witha concentrated solution Of nitrate
of potash, and put in connection with one of
the poles of the battery, and the design is
traced out with fine platinum point con-
nected to the other pole. The results arc
said TO be of marvellous delicacy.
IT is just as well to bear in mind that
chlorate of potash lozenges are not lollipops
properly so called, says Medical Classics.
The use Of these pharmaceutical sweet-
meats IN any thing approaching excess is
apt to be attended by marked pr0stration
and even severe toxic symptoms A num-
Der of cases are on record in which an ex-
cessive dose of the salt, taken either by
accident or from inattention, has been fol-
lowed by alarming and even fatal effects.
A SPIDER, the caracurt. or 'sblack wolf,t,
secretes O powerful poison, which forms
twenty-five per cent. OF its whole weight.
The poison, Prof. Breeger finds, is pecu.
liar unstable alksloid. Introduced into the
circulation of warm-blooded animals, one
thirtieth OF Il miIligramme per kilogramme
OF the weight of the animal treated was
sufficient to cause death. 1t exceeds Ia pow
er all known vegetable principles, and prus-
sic acid, being comparable In toxi0ity with
the poison Of snakes.
PROP. WoLLNY, of Munich, has lately
been conducting experiments upon the ao-
Eion OF sn slectrtoA current on vegetation.
The soil experimental on was divided into
plots four mstsrs aaRare. niGtes Of zanc