Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

Silk from paper pulpis made smooth
and brilliant, with about two-thirds the
strength of ordinary silk and about the
same elasticity.
One of the Berlin hotels was lately
robbed by two persons in the garb Of
nuns. They were subsequently appre-
hended and one of the women was
discovered to be man.
"A bread-buttering machine for use
in penal institutions, operating a brush
fed with soft butter, is patent lately
issued. 1t is said to save butter and
crumbs.
"A Charlestown lady became quite
sick the other day and vomited small
live fish. She does not know when it
passed down her throat, but supposes 1t
did so with drink of water.
Mr.. Wick, of Chelsea, England, II
the father of peculiar infant prodigy.
His daughter Nelly, four years of age,
recently shaved five men inside of thirty
minutes for silver medal.
What sort of restaurant is this,
waiter?" he asked the first of that ex.
elusive set that deigned to approach.
well, sir, know one man that's been
living yet. t."-Philadelphia Times.
-"Ten your master that he has made
mistake of twenty marks in the ac-
count he sent me-" "Impossible!''
why impossible? 1t is human to make
mistakes" ''Yes, l know that, but my
master is not human. - Fliegende Blat-
ter.
South Attica, Mich, farmers planted
mustard seed. They did not expect pine
apples or oranges, but they were wild
when the plant came up and proved to
be western mustard, which is about ten
times as hard to eradicate as the Canada
thistle.
"A valuable find has been made by a
farmer at East Cape Girardeau, Mo. A
hill on his promises is declared by an
expert from st. Louis to be composed
chiefly of the finest porcelain clay. II
Is estimated that there are at least 1, 600
car loads, worth S125 per load.
-Dtstanced.-"Y SIR" began the
distinguished looking stranger. 81 have
delivered that same lecture 200 consecu-
i've nights, sir! That's nothingP' de-
clared Peckson. my wife often de.
hvers 400 same lectures in one consecu.
tive nightr-American Grocer.
"A hve-year-old child in West Camel
is of the following Dimensions: Height.
4 feet; weight, 1T pounds; circumfer-
ence OF abdomen, 42k inches: waist
37X inches; chest, 81 inches: neck. IL
inches; head, 221{ inches thigh. 28
inches; calf, 15H inches; arm. 11X
inches; forearm, 101< inches. He ID
very healthy, eats all he can get and is
fairly intelligent The parents are bY
no means corpulent, and their other
children are of ordinary size.
Samuel Elliott, of Newbury, claims
to have devised an apparatus by the
adoption OF which the smoke nuisance
Will cease to exist. The process re-.
moves from the products Of combustion
all the black carbonaceous matter of
coal smoke, and remarkable and inn
portant thing is the entire absence OF
sulphur in any form after the densa
volumes of smokepenerally seen ISSUING
from chimney shafts have been forced
into the ''annihilator."
AT the palace of Bangkok n per-
forming leopard was brought in for the
amusement of one of the Siamese
princes In one of the princes retinue
was a young girl of about fourteen years
OF age, The leopard jumped on her
breast. 1t was merely in play, said the
animals caretakers. who begged her not
TO be frightened, butin another moment
the leopard had seized the girl by the
throat. and she died in sight of the hor-
rified spectators.
-1rampl Tramp!i Trampi!i The earth
is fairly shaking with the mighty revolt
In politics that 10 taking place.
Wa-l Union.