Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
There are seven or eight negroes in
Texas. most of them ex-slaves. who are
worth about 500. 600 each.
An Oswego young lady made TOO
words of the letters contained in <'con-
servatory," while her mother wrestled
with the weeks washing unaided-
The life of a locomotive crank-pin.
which is almost the first thing about an
engine to wear out is 90, 600 miles. and
the life of S3-inch wheel is &C. TSS
miles
During her voyage of 1a5 days from
Calcutta to New York the Tmandra ran
through four hurricanes Oil bags hung
over the bows, sides and stern saved the
ship. as Captain Mowatt verify believes
Sixty years ago railroads were un-
known in the United States. and the
population consisted of IL, 600. 900 peo-
pie; to-day there are upward of les. 600
miles of railroad. and the population
has increased to %, 600, 600.
Iron Mountain, NJ ch., has a COW
club On joining each cow owner pays
into the treasury as cents for each cow
in his possession, and when a members
COW dies an assessment is made and $40
is paid to the loser. After the initiation
fee the assessments are all the members
pay into the club.
The ostrich farm at Oceanside was
raised recently by California lion He
got into the pen where sixteen ostriches
were kept and scattered them right and
left The men in charge secured the
country and secured all but one, which
is still at large The ostriches were
valued at 81, 900 each.
Some of the bar-tenders in Derby.
Conn, have live snakes within easy
reach When a man has imbibed toe
freely, and desires more liquor. the bar
tender puts a small live snake on a
plate and quietly places it before him.
The patron thinks it a snake of the
1magination--a premonition OF a vio-
lent attack of the jim-jams-and sud
denly decides that he is not very thirsty.
Did you ever think of how much
space the people who die every year re
quire for decent burial? If one could
be content with a grave two by six feet
$3.50 bodies could be inferred in one
acre of ground, allowing nothing fol
crowded plan London's annual dead
numbering about 81, 900, would fill
cemetery of about twenty-three acres
An utterly unprecedented acciden
was caused by a freak of the wind il
Paxton. Ill During heavy windstorn
the spire of the Congregational Church
was raised on the wings of the wind
elevated to a considerable height AM
then plunged point foremost through
the roof. The novel sight drew vas
crowds of spectators, who were anxiou
| to behold church steeple wrong en-
| upward.
"A preventive of hydrophobia ha
been discovered by Colonel w. G. Hill
| OF Georgia Some time since his dog
with several others, was bitten by
| rabid canine, and remem bering a rem
| edy which he had often successful
used for rattlesnake bites. he drenche
the dog with alum water. All the othe
dogs bitten developed hydrophobis
while his has never shown the slightes
symptom of rabies.
| The latest fad in medicine is know
as ''orifcial surgery" The disciples c
this new cult look chiefly to the ope1
ings in the human form, believing. wit
the great bard. that all men have thei
| exits and their entrances, and that
these are preserved in a normal cond
ton the internal regions will take ca,
of themselves. The New York Medic;
art ''oriphysicians."
If we reckon the population of tn
globe at 1, 400, 600, 600 of human being
there would be room for them all o
the frozen surface of the lake of Coz
stance (Switzerland), and the crus
would not be SO very great either, {
there would be a space of four squal
feet for each person; if the ice were
break and the whole human race wei
thus to sink into a watery grave, til
level of the lake would only be raise
| six inches
"A modern Darius Green is Mr.. Pa
rick Peters, of Prince Edwards Islam
who has modelled flying machine aft,
the wings and motion of bird. and col
fidently expects to solve with it tt
problem of aerial navigation. tt
bird" as he calls it, weighs thirt
eight pounds. is very easily manage
and claims interest from the rumor tn;
it has carried Mr.. Peters two miles
four minutes 1t is soon to be exhibite
in the States.
An example of blind and unthin
ing mimicry, such as most folks suppo
the Chinese alone are given to- is see
in the little tool which fish dealers IL
for scraping the scales off fish tt
man who invented this scraper, a fe
years ago. made it by tearing apart
horse comb and attaching one smoot
blade to the handle in place of the 70
/ of toothed blades which had formed Il
comb Other fish dealers saw him usiI
his invention. and borrowed it to ha'
J others made like it The copies we
made with the useless earmarks of Il
horse comb, like the original Now Il
!: article is staple, and thousands a
turned out, but the purposeless relics
!; the comb are reproduced in every one
n. Y. Sun
| THE CRuCIEIXION NAILS