Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-01-02
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.


THE yield of hops throughout tho
world for 1889 is estimated at 1,700, 600
cwt
TIE empire of Brazil composes ono
fifteenth of the land surface of the
globe.
TIE United States sent ten million
dol lars worth Of machinery to Mexico
this year.
FISH in the Gulf of Mexico have been
reported dying by thousands of an un-
known disease.
THE New York bar proposes to cele-
brate the centennial of the United
States Supreme Court in February next.
LECTURES on secular subjects in pub
lie halls ana theaters are becoming very
common on Sabbath evenings in New
York City.
CANADIAN customs officers calculate
that the United States Gov ernment is
defrauded of nearly 81, ooo, 600 a year by
opium smuggling from British Columbia
across the border.
A FEW of the feuds for which Ken
lucky is noted are these; The Hatfield
Mccoy, the Sowders-Turner, the French
Eyersole, the Howard-Lewis, the Null
ins-Taylor and the Brumfield-Runyon.
THE discussion Of the ACCESSIBILITY OF
colonizing Vermont and New Hampshire
with scandinavian Immigrants has di-
rected attention to the fact that Maine
made successful venture of this kind
twenty years ago.
PRIOR to 1929 all ballots used through
out the States were written. The first
printed ballot was used in Massachusetts
in 1889 by David Henshaw, and was re-
fused. It took q decision of the SUI
preme Court to establish it's validity.
THERE are about II, O00, 900 or IL, O00,-
900 of colored people Tn the whole of the
United States. OF these, at least ,OO0.r
600 are to be found in the Southern States
Of Florida, Louisiana, the Carolinas,
the Virginias, Alabama, Georgia, Missis-
sippi, Maryland and the District OF
Columbia.
AMBITIOUS young novelists may be
interested to learn that under the pres
emit conditions in America, if one took
ten writer's Of novels whose books have
q fine sale, and ten mechanics who have
steady work at two dollars and a-half
per day, at the end Of two years the
mechanics will have earned the most
money.
The Pullman Palace Car Company has
built in year one hundred and forty
one palace cars, costing nearly two and
one-haH million dollars. It is now
building sixty-four more. During the
past twelve months it has turned out
cars worth nearly nine million dollars.
It employs II, o63 hands. The last year
wages amounted to SIS, ITO, 900.
IT is rumored that an experiment will
be made with vessels of the Boston and
Atlanta type in carrying fresh water in
the space between the outer and inner
bottoms and then, if possible, use fresh
water in the boilers only. This plan is
about to be carried out in several of the
new and even with some of the old ships
ruinous in its action to always remain
in vogue.
THE biggest edible oysters in the
world are found at Port Lincoln, in
South Australia. They are as large as
a dinner plate, and the same shape.
They are sometimes more than a foot
across the shell, and the oyster fits the
shell so we'll he does not leave much
margin. It is a new sensation, when a
friend asks you to lunch at Adelaide, to
nave one oyster SET DcS1Qo you 1r1oQ In
butter or egg and bread crumbs. But il
is very pleasant sensation, for the
favor and delicacy of the Port Lincoln
mammoths are proverbial in that land
of luxuries.
SIMON PoKAGoN, chief of the Potto-
watomie tribe of Indians, which inhab.
tied Northern Indiana and Southern
Michigan when first settled by the
whites, will shortly receive for distribur
ton among his people the sum OF
two hundred thousand dollars from
the Government for the settlement
in full of all claims of that
once powerful TT ibe. The dis
tribution will probably take place in
Pokagon, Cass County, which town is
named for Chief Pokagon's grandfather,
who signed treaty with General Casa
in 1925 between the tribe and the
Miamis.
NOTHING tends to turn a man toward pro-
hibition quicker than going to the closet in
the dark for the brandy bottle and getting