Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-09-02
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


Jack II. Benner, q Scotch dog be-
longing to Henry Benner, of Macon,
has been all along noted for his prowess
at rat killing, but he surpassed all for
mer records recently. He killed Just
twenty-one rats In fifteen minutes. and
tainted away as soon as he had disposed
of the last one. Tho rats were mon
strous ones, some being almost as large
as an ordinary squirrel
An Albany butcher upon arrival at
his shop the other morning missed his
favorite cat While looking for it he
glanced into a corner when he saw a
huge rat snake and about half the cat
The other half occupied portion of the
snake. The reptile was killed by the
police and measured eight feet In a
few moments more it would have sue
ceeded in getting outside the cat with
out much difficulty.
-Scarpology, or the science of telling
the character of a man by the wear of
the soles of his boots, has been atten-
lively studied by Swiss doctor of the
name of CALI Speaking briefly, wear
at the back of the heels invariably in
dicates conceit pride and vanity. Soles
ceit, and even criminality, while sole
that shows an equal amount of wear on
every part of the surface denotes a
frank, upright and fearless character
IN. Y. Sun.
The first account we have of an
armored ship is In 1880. 1t was one of
the fleet of the Knights of St John,
entirely sheathed with lead, and said
to have successfully resisted all the shot
OF that day. At the siege of Gibraltar,
In 1889, the French and Spaniards en-
ployed light iron bomb proofing over
their decks The first practical use of
wrought iron plates as defense for
the sides of vessels was by the French
In the Crimean war in 1853, to be used
against the Russian forts in the Baltic.
MIR. Singerly has made an interest
ing experiment as to the time required
to print his Philadelphia Record upon
paper direct from the tree. This is the
record: Chopping one and half cords
OF poplar wood, stripping and loading
on boat, hours; time consumed In
manufacture of wood pulp, 10 hours;
manufacturing the wood pulp into pa
per, hours; transporting to Record Of
five, hour and 90 minutes; wettinp
paper preparatory to printing, 80 min
utes; printing 10000 Records, 10 min
utes Total time from tree to paper, 20
hours.
Energetic American travellers ara
the surprise Of Europeans each tourist
season A correspondent tells of a
Denver man who stayed in London four
hours. "Say. young fellow, said he to
the clerk, 1--WE been to the mint, the
Bank of England, the Tower of Lon
don and the British Museum, an I've
seen 'em ALL Anything else here?"
The clerk looked at him TRANQUILITY for
a moment and replied: "No, sirl You've
seen hour greatest sights! Better go to
Paris! A man who can do London in
three hours is wasting time when he
stays here hover a dayr'
One of the interesting features of
the exhibit which will be made by the
interior department of the government
at the worlds fair will be that relating
to the American Indians One of the
officials of that department, in speaking
of the matter, said: "We will have
Sioux and Pueblos on the ground in
OhOA pOSOAAdE wig Willis, making all Ln0
articles Of merchandise that they now
make. The Zunis, who are classed with
the Pueblos, will make blankets, stone
bottles and peculiar kind of pottery,
while the Navajoes will weave blankets
so firm that they will hold water. The
peculiar huts of the Pue blos, which are
entered from the roof, will also be
shown"
1T Il the purpose of the govern
ment, writes New York Times cor
respondent, ito import reindeer from
Siberia to st. Lawrence island in Behr-
ing sea, and a number of Siberians
with them to teach the natives how to
raise and care for the animals A rein
deer park will be estab ished and as
soon as the animals are obtainable in
sufficient number some of them will be
taken to Alaska and distributed among
the peorle In that country. And thus
the dogs, now used for sledging in the
United States Arctic possessions, will
be displaced by deer, which will form
nutritious food in case of emergency,
whereas dogs do not furnish the most
palatahle meat"