Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-01
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"A Chicago huckster endeavored to
make his sick horse haul a heavy load
by rubbing blue vitriol in the animals
eyes. He was fined to the full extent
OF the law, and the Judge said he re-
GREETED he could not make 1t more.
After two Brooklyn pugilists had
fought five rounds the other night and
were both badly used up" the mother
of one of them $50 it is stately appeared
on the scene, knocked down few of
the spectators with club and scattered
the others"
John and Jacob Weber are still
teaching a school which they opened in
New Orleans in May, 1870, at which
they have taught continuously, without
vacation, and with only fifteen days
intormission in fifty years to permit of
the repair Of the building.
The sand along the banks of the
Columbia river in Oregon is an obstacle
TO railway traffic almost as difficult to
overcome as the snow blockades during
the winter Nearly every train is de-
layed on account Of the ever-shifting
sand hills covering the track.
-Mild-mannered Cinnamon who run
laundries in New York are found to be
the most successful opium smugglers
One Chinaman had twenty-five pounds
Of the odious stuff in his possession. He
said that some Of his countrymen had
put IL there TO get him into trouble.
The Detroit Free Press thinks it
has solved the problem of how to
marry on s12 week" It's plan IL to is
sue 900 invitations to the wedding, Sc
cure 900 presents from 900 victims, and
sell off about 800 to secure capital to
run the house on for the next Ave years
Adam Clark, in returning thanks at
the table Of another, made use Of the
following significant and pertinent
words: Lord, bless these vegetables
and this fruit and bread; and II Thou
canst bless under the Gospel what
Thou didst curse under the law, bless
this swine's flesh also"
Another North Polar expedition is
about to set forth under the auspices Of
the Norwegian Government and Of pri-
vate individuals who have subscribed to
the fund. Two articles, one a relic Of
the Jeanette expedition, the other an
Alaska bow, have been found on the
west coast of Greenland. Hence the in
ference-an open Polar sea, an easterly
Polar current, and new route ito the
Indies" Curiosity, adventure, courage
and endurance are all enlisted In this
new enterprise of the Vikings.
ut may come to pass" said Brit
fish lecturer lately, that some African
may, in centuries to come, point out
how a race Of Englishmen once dom
mated the West Indies and were i'm
proved off the face Of the land" Such
fears are real enough. In 1858 there
were in those islands 1850 Europeans
to 800 Africans. In 1900 the numbers
were 30, 900 Europeans and 800, 900 Afri-
cans. In the last census the figures
were L. 433 Europeans 100, 946 colored
or mulattoes, 444, 1s6 Africans and a.
$40 Asiatics.
-Lazzaroni is from lazzaro, Spanish
for pauper or leper, term applied by
the Spanish viceroys to the degraded be-
ings In Naples, half-clothed and house
less. No man was born lazzaro; and
he who turned to trade ceased to be
one. The vioeroy permitted the la1zar-
oni to elect chief with whom he con-
ferEed respecting the imports on the
goods brought to the markets In 1o47,
Masaniello held the Office, and made an
insurrection; see Naples. In 1893,
Ferdinand ". enrolled several thousand
lazzaroni as pikemen (spontoneers), who
generally favored the court party; on
May Is, 1s4S, they were permitted, on
the Kings behalf, to commit fearful
ravages on the Inflated city.
-"Lemonade and buttermilk are as
good as any thing drinkable that you
can find for this weather." said physi-
ciSu to Cincinnati Times-Star reporter.
''They both are great things to quench
thirst They both act as 9 pleasant
tonic to the stomach and they have a
stimulating quality. But they should
not be drank ice cold-that Is, bite OF
ice should not be in the goblet Let
them be as cold as the ice-chest or re-
frigerator can make them, but not more
than that. When you pour down your
throat pint or so Of fluid that is fresh
from the ice, temporary paralysis Of the
stomach follows. If man happens tC
be very hot, such thing not infre
qu0ntly is as fatal as stroke Of light
ming"