Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-10-18
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Somebody estimates that 1t would
take ten ordinary locomotives to draw
tho silver now in the United States
Treasury vaults, but there will be o
great deal of it drawn out through other
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
"A few weeks since o London clerk
attempted suicide. The bullet lodged
in his brain and he was taken to the
hospital unconscious He has now re.
covered, the bullet which remains in
his brain, causing him no Inconvenience.
"A fruit farm in Palatka, Fla, sells
for o nickel all the cocoanuts that per-
son can take away in his pockets Sew.
eral, who thought they saw good thing
in this, tried it and lost their nickel.
The nuts had the shells on, and would
not go in any pocket
"A Piute brave walked into the Col
fax Sentinel Office the other day to see
the paper printed. He was in full dress,
with feather and linen duster. The
foreman asked "Afraid-to-wash-your-
face" why he was not in the hop field.
He said: me no like pickum hops, too
much stickum hands My woman get
SITS day."
"A big moose made Its appearance in
Levant, Me- A citizen who forgot it
was close time, and seizing his rife,
shot tho animal in neighbours yard,
has just paid the fine Of $780, It was
quite costly sport for him, but he con-
soled himself with the thought that o
moose doesn't walk up to the muzzle Of
gun every day.
Judge D. c. Dawkins. Of Jackson
Vile, has q unique Masonic souvenir
sent him by friend in Delaware. 1t
is square, compasses and letter G
symmetrically nodded, and labeled:
''Made OF United States National Bank
notes, redeemed and macerated at the
United States Treasury Department
estimated $4,000"
in 1898 Mr.. Pitt proposed tax on
persons wearing hair powder, which he
estimated would bring to the revenue
Ed, 900 annually, but 1t was the death
blow to the custom, for its use was i'm
mediately discontinued. Those persons
who confined to use 1t were termed
guinea pigs, because one guinea was the
amount per head Of the tax.
BY means OF an electro wire at Do
meme, France, the power OF waterfall
is transmitted three and quarter miles
from its source, to paper mill, and
there utilized to the extent Of two hun
dred horse. power. In the winter, when
the deep snow for about two months
prevents any bute!ectric communication
between the generating works and the
mill, the power is sent as usual, and the
machinery Of the paper mill is kept in
motion.
The Sidney, O.. public school senior
class were all expelled this year just a
short time before the close OF the
schools. All OF the members Of the
class had prepared their graduating es-
saws and as the school board refused to
reinstate them they hired hall,
charged 25 cents admission and had
commencement Of their own. The citi-
zens OF Sidney adm red the spunk dis
played by the class andSpatronized them
SO we'll that 1t Melted each one o neat
sum, and the entire class took q trip to
Niagara Falls with the proceeds
The Liquor law is successfully evad-
ed by Greenberry Williams, who has Q
farm, portions OF which lie in Sumner,
Macon and Tronsdale Counties, Tennes-
see. Each patron is blindfolded, told
to step to the right, then march to the
rear, then by tho left flank" ETC. When
he is asked what county he is in, of
course he is unable to answer. The de-
sired quantity OF liquor is given to him,
the money is received, the man is led
back to the point be started from, and
the bandage is removed from his eyes.
Under such circumstances no witness
can testify in what county he bought
his liquor. Several attempts have been
made to convict Williams OF selling
without license. but AL Of them have
failed.
The parents of q young lady in the
city who is the possessor Of . fine mu-
steal voice are fond Of relating an Incl
dent which occurred in her early child
hood. Nellie was three or four years
old and had not learned how to sing
She was, however, very fond Of singing,
and one day little girl abOnt eight or,