Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-05-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

N CAIlzcH VI TOfGIdnQ, Me-, IS worm
81, GOO, 600 that he has made in the man
ufacture of chewing gum.
The highest railroad bridge in the
United States is the Kinzua viaduct on
the Erie road-305 feet high.
An English railway company has set
apart special fund from which to re-
ward acts of bravery on the part of its
employees
Silence for ten days, speaking only
In whispers for ten days more, then
gradual return to the ordinary voice, is
a recommendation for stammerers-
"A very ingenious electrical device
has lately been patented by which the
hands of clock set to a certain hour
are made to complete an electric current
connected with the kitchen stove so
that the fire is started when the given
hour arrives.
An Irish land bailiff, who had been
boycotted for ten years, and was con-
stantly guarded by the police while he
lived, died few days ago, and the
guard being relaxed little, some per-
sons unknown stole his body and made
away with it so effectually that it has
not since been found.
"A Partisan lately made an Easter
egg, intended for a wealthy Spanish
lady at a cost of 81, ZOO. 1t is most in
genius piece of mechanism and is made
entirely of pure white enamel. 1t is
provided with doors and slides, the in
side being engraved with Easter gospels.
The opening of door sets a tiny bird
singing and musical apparatus going,
which is capable of playing twelve airs.
"A recent railway accident in On
tario, in which train rolled down a
twenty-five foot embankment, was
marked by this incident: Among the
passengers on the train was convict,
in charge of bailiff He was chained
to seat, and when the car turned over
he hung in mid-air. He managed, after
considerable effort, to free himself, and
then went to the assistance of his keep
er and helped him from the wreck.
"A Georgia fisherman recently baited
his set hooks with small green frogs
He left his hooks in the water all nicely
foating-haVing been told that this was
the best of bait-expecting to return
next morning and find fish by the dozen.
He returned and to his surprise all of
his baited hooks were setting out on the
banks looking at him. and as he came
close to them they would jump back into
the water ''ker chunk He had expe-
rience, but no fish.
The great siphon in the new aque-
duct for the water supply OF New York
City Is considered a most wonderful
piece OF hydraulic engineering 1t con-
veys the metropolitan water supply
across the Harlem at depth of 3O7 feet
beneath the river bed. Certain advan-
tages were gained by this method over
stone or steel viaduct, which it is be-
lieved will counterbalance its greater
cost. Not the least of these is the inn
munity from danger of foreign attack
/ "A correspondent of the London
Times thus destroys the old legend of
the Devils Bridge in the Pyrenees:
'The popular legend about this bridge,
which spans mountain torrent called
the Tech, near the small town of Ceret,
was that it had been built during one
night by Satan and his myrmidons, and
the fact that the particulars as to it's
construction had never been found in
any of the local archives gave additional
strength to this legend. But the regis
traF Of 2 neigh boring town ealled Rrats
de Mollo, close to the Spanish frontier
has just unearthed a manuscript dated
1891, which relates how the natables of
that town contributed ten golden
crowns of Barcelona toward the building
of the bridge at Ceret upon condition
that the inhabitants of Prats de Mollo
we're exempted tsom paying toll.'"
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