Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-06-17
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Against the Plug.-A doctor at
Charlestown, Mass, says the plug hat
is responsible for much of the catarrh
in the northern states. Between ten
men who wear plugs and ten men who
wear cadies, the latter have so per cent.
less of the unpleasant affiiction. Sit
down on your plug.-Detroit Free
Press.
"A Philadelphia lady, who has many
boarders, was telling a friend in mar
ket recently what troubles she had. ST
had pair of chickens ready for the
oven, hanging from the second story
back, and somebody in the third story
dropped a bottle of hair remover on
them; and now I'll have to SINCE them
all over again"
I'm suit to recover damages for a
crushed heart, in a Concord, n. h,
court, the lady's former lover put in as
offsets all the candy he had bought, the
miles he had walked, the rigs he had
hired, and the time he had wasted. and
when footed up and allowed, the girl
had only two dollars and fifty cents left
out Of her verdict for damages.
"A large apartment house in which
the Looking Backward" scheme of Mr..
Edward Bellamy is to be tried. is now
being built at Omaha, Nebraska. The
cooking will all be done in one kitchen.
and it remains to be seen whether the
twenty-five families, who are to occupy
the house, will make a success of CO.
operative housekeeping on so large a
scale.
The most densely populated state in
the union is Massachusetts,, which has
an average of two hundred and eighty
six persons to every square mile. Rhode
Island, New Jersey and Connecticut
stand next in order, while the southern
and western states are very sparsely set
tied by comparison, and even Pennsyl-
vania has only one hundred and four
teen inhabitants to the square mile.
Half dimes were first coined in Oc-
tober, 1892, and continued at intervals
until 1905, then discontinued until 1923.
The issue ceased in 1878. The three
cent silver coins, first issued in 1851,
ceased in 1878. The fve-cent nickel
was authorized in 1866, and has been
issued regularly to the present time. In
1856 nickel three-cent pieces and small
number of nickel cents were coined.
The two-cent bronze pieces were issued
in 1864 and discontinued in 1873. The
bronze cents issued in 1864 have been
coined annually since.
"A unique bill has been introduced
in the Maine legislature by Mr. Shaw,
of Portland. 1t provides that should
one or both eyes of an infant become
redeemed or infiamed at any time after
birth 1t shall be the duty of the mid
wife, nurse or person having charge of
said infant to report the condition of
the eyes at once to some legally quail
fed practitioner of medicine of the city,
town or district in which the parents of
the infant reside, and failure to comply
with the provisions of the act shall be
punishable by fine not to exceed 500
or Imprisonment or both.
The report to congress of the COM
missioner of patents, Hon. c. E. Mitch
ell, for the calendar year 1890, shows
that total number of applications re-
ceived, including mechanical applica-
lions, designs and reissues, and exclud-
ing applications for the registration of
trademarks and labels, was Il, GAS; the
total number of patents granted in
Guiding mechanical patents, designs and
reissues, was 26,292; the total number
of registrations was LILO; the total re-
ceipts were 81, $40, 373. sc, and the total
expenditures were 81, O99, 297.74, leaving
a surplus of $241, OLA 92 to be turned into
the treasury of the United States, MAX
ing total balance in the treasury to
the credit of the patent fund of SO, S72,-
1854.
Unusual proceedings followed the
discovery of a corpse in a western town.
A stern judge, while looking for docu-
ments that might lead to the mans
Identification, discovered pistol in his
pocket. He promptly fined the body
thirty dollars for carrying a concealed
weapon, and deliberately took the
money from roll of bills he met in an
inside pocket of the mans vest. He
saw that the eyes of the spectators were
keenly contemplating his actions, and
the honest judge, perhaps reluctantly.
returned the rest of the money The
coroner, to whom the body was then
formally turned over seized what was
left of the money, very shrewdly claim
ing that the dead man might have
stolen it.