Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

or GENERAL INTEREST.
"A girl of fifteen. of Remove. Pa.
became insane Immediately after
drinking q glass of ice water a few
days ago, and died soon after. The
doctor attributed the result to the eff
feet of the ice water on her brain.
"A large darniug needle was found
In the liver of deer recently killed In
the presence of nobleman near Wen
ma A Viennese microscopic. VINO ex--
ahmed the liver. found it to be sound
save the immediate proximity of the
needle.
1t does not pay to be hog. Two
tnleves appeared at a house near
Montreal. where peddler was spend
ing the night. and demanded money.
The peddler gave them his pocket
book and contents, but they said
this was not enough TO pay them for
their trouble, whereupon he shot them
both dead.
"A clergyman. who said he had
lost a wife and three children at
Johnstown, refused suit of clothes
at the Pittsburgh relief depot because
they were secondhand. He then
asked for a summer hat. He was Of
fered a new black one. but he would
not take any but one of a summer
color. and went away dissatisfied.
After considerable letter writing
in the press the crusade against the
game of Tip cat" the street arabs
cricket, which can be seen in the
streets of New York as well as in
London. was begun by the arraigh
ment of boy at Westminster charged
with ''wantonly discharging to the
common danger a missile called a
cat"
"A Missouri farmer recently
brought an extraordinary bunch of
wheat into Kansas City. 1t was COM
posed of thirty-two heads and weighed
fifteen pounds, or little less than one
half pound to the head. The straw was
five feet. two inches in length. and
very heavy. One of the heads was
shelled out and the naked grains just
filed a half-pint cup.
1t is said that a prominent mer-
chant in Atlanta. Ga, has adopted the
following plan of determining the
price of his chickens. He has four
coops. In them he has a half inch, a.
one-inch. an inch and half and a
two-inch auger hole All the chickens
he can squeeze through the first he
sells for ten cents; through the second.
fifteen cents; the third twenty cents
and the fourth twenty-five cents. He
is making money.
"A CANTON n l.;
own fly paper. spread it proudly in his
window and found about 500 flies stuck
on it the first morning. Later in the
day, as he opened the glass door to
take another census of his catch. 500
flies buzzed past his ears in the di-
rectiOn of the white marble female on
the soda fountain. and not fly was
on the paper. A globular-shaped bot
tie in the window had so focused the
suns rays as to melt all the flies of.
-ShOe-buckles came into England
with the Restoration, and became so
large, costly and popular that at one
time their manufacture gave en-
ployment to four thousand people in
Birmingham alone. When shoe-strings,
always affected by the Puritans and
Quakers. resumed their sway, the
buckle-makers petitioned the Prince of
Wales to try to avert their ruin. This
he endeavored to do by wearing
buckles himself and commanding his
household to follow his example.
The invention of omnibuses is due
to the philosopher. Pascal. who. in
February, 1867, obtained priv
ilege"-what we should call patent
for public carriages to travel through
certain streets of Paris. They held
eight passengers. who paid six sous
each. and were very successful. al
though an act of Parliament of Paris
forbade them being used by lackeys.
soldiers and other humble folks. Pas
cal died in 1867, and his useful inven--
ton did not long survive him. The
omnibus reappeared in London about
the beginning of this century. and was
adopted in several French provincial
towns before Paris accepted it again.