Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-06
PERSONAL AND ,MPeRsonAL

The number Of different Languages
spoken in Europe is ssh
Charles Gibson. of St Louis upon
whom Emperor William bestowed the
Order of the Crown. has gone to Berlin
to express in person his appreciation Of
the honor.
"A bird fancier of Washington, who
has twenty parrots, says that the Next
can double-heads are the best takers.
while the African grays make the best
mimics and whistlerS
The new hotels in New York are
criticised for their gaudy coloring and
slipshod gliding. There is said to be =
rage for gew-gaws, scrolls cupi6s
dolphins, bats storks and an army OF
uncanny and unuamable things all
done up in plaster and smeared with
the colors of the rainbow.
Jacob Sharp is said to have taken .
fancy to Lovejoy, the porter of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, and helped him to buy
street-railway stock when it was very
cheap, and the rise in the value of the
stock has made Lovejoy rich man.
The old head-porter of the Grand Pacific
Hotel. Chicago. is said to be worth two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
made in most part from points given
him by prominent business men,
A man professionally funny" in
print is often a cause of perplexity TO
his family from his habit of picking
up ''unconsidered tribes" and weaving
them into q marketable web One such
person. whose notebook is never at
hand, was heard repeating to himself
the chance remark of a clever child
''Well," said his wife, what can you
make out of that?" ''Oh." was the lit
eral reply, about s. "-Christian Union
"A Washington paper remarks: al
| len Weir, the former editor OF the
Port Townsend Argus. is a sort of
| Muldoon in the new State of Washing
He is Secretary OF State, insurance com
missioner. member of the State land
commission. member Of commission to
select indemnity school lands. member
of the commission to select site for a
normal school sealer of weights and
measures, member of the State board of
equalization of the value of tide lands,
has to audit the State printing bill, has
supervision over the capitol building
grounds and is required to furnish sup
plies to the State officers and library"
A vegetarian of New York has be-
come a flesh eater since he discovered q
scientific law that he had not previous
" been aware of. He changed his mind
upon the diet question, and got con-
WINGED that meats were among the
proper edibles for mankind after he had
been assured by professor of chemistry
that beef, mutton and pork were mere
~ transformed grass. vegetables and
grain" After bordering upon this in
teresting law of chemical transforma-
ton he came to the conclusion that
vegetarianism is doctrine of narrow
scope. and he adopted a new dietetic
policy, under which he now enjoys
tenderloin steaks, lamp chops and fried
bacon, not to speak of stewed kidneys.
pigs feet and tete de Uedu-
Who is there in this great metropo-
lis that isn't acquainted with some one
! named Smith? asks the New York
Times And yet there are not so many
of them as is generally believed II
one were asked to guess the number OF
Smiths in the city it would be quite
natural to place the figure as high as
10, 900. To be sure, the new directory
? devotes thirty-five columns to the dis
tingui-hed family, but there is only 3
, Sa4 Of them. OF these 1l3 are plain
John Smiths and 12a are John-with-an.
initial Smiths The Browns number l.
$50. and there are eighty Brownies
, This is decrease of seven compared
with last year, when there were eighty
, seven The decrease may be taken as
an indication that the final is going
out of fashion.