Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-10-01
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL

" VAC SAAPA0 SnO uApIoUcAGlOub WOrO
| painter.
There is said to be a striking SINH
larity between the sign language used
by deaf mutes and that in vogue among
the Indians of North and South America.
The Queen of Spain speaks most
excellent English. She is thirty years
! old and woman of extraordinary ac-
complishments in social and business
ways
Edgar Grouse, the New York mil
lionaire, is having grand piano built
specially to fit niche in his S4OO, 900
stable. Probably he thinks music will
lessen the time of his $40 horses
On an uptown street in Philadel-
phia there are six houses adjoining each
other in which the wives are all sisters
The last was married month ago, and
last week secured the house adjoining
those OF her sisters
"A new tenor has been found in Ger
many at the village of Fischer, named
Kautor, possessing all the attributes Of
a great singer. including the high c.
He will be carefully educated by his dis
coverer, an impresario.
Mrs Sheridan has withdrawn al
most utterly from the world. Within
the walls of her beautiful home in Wash
ington she lives in a quiet, unostenta-
tious grief for her loved husband and in
beautiful motherly devotion to her four
children.
The Austrian Archduke Francis
Ferdinand is exceedingly wealthy, and is
valeted to perfection, but he can not be
aoid 10 ho handaAroA
short body with very long limbs,
small head pei ched on long neck and
prodigious nose
Charles Stewart Parnell is a close
reader of American newspapers and
American literature generally. Balfour,
Chief Secretary for Ireland, is also an
omnivorous reader of American news
papers, and recently saids 81 like the
snap of the American writer's"
Rev. Charles Weston, a Wisconsin
minister, has married his wife, Stella
Weston, nine times in nine years. Re-
Gently he requested her to go through
the ceremony for the tenth time, where
| upon Mrs. Weston filed suit in Provi-
dence, R. l., and asks for divorce in
stead. She is Of the opinion that the
honeymoon ought not to have too long
| a run.
The Gar of Russia is in such state
of apprehension that he now only eats
food which has been prepared in
kitchen that adjoins his library. Every
conceivable precaution is taken to pro-
tect the Emperor against poison, and he
has ceased to eat eggs since somebody
discovered that they can be poisoned by
the insertion Of a needle, which does
not perceptibly break the she'll.
"A doctor in a mountain town In
North Carolina has this sign: ''Dr. O.
| A. Quack, the Pillar of the Peoples
Hope"
Senator Morrill,, of Vermont, and
Senator Payne, of Ohio, are crack"
whist-players, and habitually beat the
| greater number of their antagonists,
notwithstanding the fact that they di-
vide more than one hundred and sixty
years between them.
jay Cooke has become gentleman
OF elegant leisure again. He owns sew
eral country places. but his favorite re-
sort is his farm at Chelten Hills. a few
miles out from Philadelphia. Here he
spends nearly every afternoon, giving
personal attention to all the necessary
details of practical farming.
Sig. Arrigo, the Italian banker Just
ransomed from Sicilian banditti for the
round sum of twenty-five thousand dol
lars in gold, says that his captors kept
him in the bottom Of dry we'll, where
they furnished him regularly with food.
At the end OF certain time, unless
ransomed, he was to be killed.
-FraScuelo, Madrid's most famous
bull-fghter. has retired from the ring
owing to wounds received during his
career OF twenty years. At his farewell
performance, sixteen thousand persons
from the Infanta Isabella down-were
present and almost went wild in their
efforts to testify their admiration Of
him.
Many persons have expressed aston
ishment at the fact that the Prince Of
Wales speaks German with perfect
huency. The truth is that command
OF English is the surprising thing. In
the royal nursery German was spoken
until Albert Edward was twelve years
OF age. The Prince Is also in thorough
command of French.
Miss Ella Ewing, the seven-feet
eightinch giant girl Of Scotland Coun-
ty, Mo-, read the Declaration of Inde-
pendence at Fourth of July celebra-
tion at Wyaconda in that county. Miss
Ewing is said to be the tallest girl in
America She is eighteen years old
and weighs 2e9 pounds; her foot meas
ures seventeen inches in length and is
| NJ nd IT,
Card players who have long thought
that the time spent in shutting was
wasted will be interested to learn
that q shutting machine has been in
vented by an Engtshman named Booth.
Two packs are used, and while the
players are using one pack the machine
effectually shuff1es the other pack. In
twenty seconds the cards are 80 thor
oughly shufled that every card changes
its position.
lis 1t not pity that so many of our
girls take pride in being weakly? A
short time ago one little girl said to
another: 81 can run round the house in
just fifteen seconds!" Upon this little
Miss Eight-year-old assumed what was
intended for very melancholy express
sion, and said: ''Oh, myi If should run
like that my heart would beat SO that 1
couldn't stand It'll" How early these lit
tie folks begin to copy the older ones!
"A lawyer of ability here in Boston
who had the misfortune TO be born else
where once told me that the worst OBJ
stacles to success in his profession had
come from the competition of men of
superior social position who in other
cities would be idlers or men of elegant
leisure. Here, he said, rich mems sons
not only had disposition to work, but
they had brains enough to make their
employment by members of their own
s.-tlte.-Restc- DoAt
"A negro, who was bitten in the leg
| by a rattlesnake in the woods near Val.