Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-07-23
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

-iosco, Mich, has a remarkable we'll
1t is eighty-fve feet deep and has sew
enty-two feet of water in it.
Chester, in the northeastern part Of
Massachusetts,, is the home of the only
emery mine in North America.
1t is suggested that the President be
given twenty appointments to West
Point each year, and that the appointees
be sons OF regular or of volunteer off,
GERS of the army.
The practice Of clothing soldiers by
regiments in one Uniform dress was In
troduced by Louis XIV. in 1865, and the
practice did not become general for
many years afterwards.
"A man recently went to the city
hospital at Hamilton, Ont, suffering
from diseased kidney, the other being
perfectly sound. The doctor in attend
ance removed the sound kidney by mis-
take, and the man died shortly after
ward.
1t is estimated that London spends
between $1,000, 900 and IS, 900. 900 on
potted plants and cut flowers. Many of
these flowers come from Holland, France,
and even Italy. A single culturist In
Southern France claims to send every
year $50, 600 worth of white lilacs,
snowdrops, lilies-of-the-valley and
roses to London.
AT the end of the services at a Han
nibal, Mo, church recently a couple
stepped out from one of the pews at a
signal from the preacher and were mar
ried in presence of the astonished au-
dience. 1t took the congregation so
completely by surprise that not half a
dozen women in church could recall
what the bride had on.
"A girl OF twelve years old was COM
mitted as "a confirmed drunkard" to an
! Industrial school in San Francisco few
days ago. Her mother stated that the
| girl would steal, beg or do almost any
thing to get liquor and that she had
been drinking for nearly year. All
attempts either to reform her or pre-
vent her getting liquor had been fail
ureS it was stated.
The other day North Carolina
woman started for the hay NOW to see
how hen was getting along that was
setting on some eggs. On entering the
barn the woman was surprised to see
! the old hen taking her babies down her
! self. She would pick one up in heI
mouth and fly down with it, lay it down
and continue the process until she car
ried them all down. IN rteen, safe and
went on about her duty.
1t is said that Southern girls have
for generations used the juice of water.
melons to beautify their complexion. II
is believed that nothing is so soothing
to the face and hands, after long drive
or summer outing, than the water from
both the pulp and rind. "The first,
crushed by dainty hands and rubbed on
the face, takes off all sunburn, while
the application of the cool white pulI
next to the red meat removes the sticki
ness and gives softness to the skin o1
the melon bather that can be obtained
from nothing else. This is natures own
cosmetic"
The salt mountains located on the
banks of the Rio Virgin, an affluent o1
the Colorado river, in Lincoln County
New, cover an area of twenty-five
miles. The salt they contain is pure
and white and clearer than glass, and Il
is said that piece seven or eight inches
thick is sometimes clear enough to see
through to read a newspaper. Over the
salt Is layer of sandstone from two K
eight feet thick, and, when this is torn
away, the salt appears like huge snow
drift. Under the cap rock has been dis
covered what was evidently the camp Of
prehistoric men, containing charred
wood and charcoal, and mating made
of cedar bark, which the salt has pre-
served.
"A colored woman nearly a hundred
years old was bapt zed day or two age
at Atlanta, Ga.