Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-11-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The greatest bird cage on the con,
tinent is said to be the Grand Central
railroad station in New York. The
noisy English sparrows swarm there by
the thousands and nest in the great
arching roof Orders.
The San Francisco board of trade,
which is in fact acknowledgement or
ganization, is discussing the feasibility
of maintaining training ship from
which the merchant marine of the Pa
cific may be recruited.
"A New York police captain carries
about what looks to be an ordinary
umbrella, but which is in reality a
breech-loading gun-barreL It can be
fired rapidly and has a magazine for
one hundred cartridges.
One morning, while making repairs
to residence in Moulton township,
Ohio, carpenters came upon a nest Of
bats in window casing. They killed
$50 of the animals, which ranged in
size from an inch to seven inches In
length.
"A cook fell overheard from a
schooner on the lakes recently, and
was stunned by the fall Consequently
he remained under water for half an
hour without Inconvenience so far as
drowning was concerned, and was in a
few minutes after his rescue as well as
usual
There is hotel in Boston that is
frequently mistaken for a church by
strangers who pass one of it's entrances.
At the end of the corridor and visible
from the street there is peculiar feat
ure of the stairway which, from lit
tie distance, resembles the pipes of an
organ.
The Historian says that as Mr..
Alexander, an Oregon sheep raiser, was
driving herd of ten thousand mutton
sheep through Klickitat county to the
Sound market recently small canyon
was reached which the herders did not
see, and when the front sheep came to
it the rear ones pushed them ahead I'm.
til there was a bridge formed with the
struggling and dying leaders. The
rest of the band passed over, and when
the herders arrived they found three
hundred and sixty dead and dying
sheep.
-''Starboard, which has ALWAYS
been disputed by scholars as to its
meaning, has at last been explained
with satisfactory authority. Mr.. K.
Keat says that DR.. Kingsley informs
him that as ''starboard' is, by common
consent, from '.steer-board," the side
on which the helmsman stood to Prasp
the steering paddle, so larboard is
from "leer-6Odrd," the empty side.
where the steersman didn't stand. In
Hakluyt's Voyages" there is this
passage about Ohthere: "Whereupon
he tooke his voyage directly north
along the coast, having upon his steere-
boord alwayes the desert land, and
upon the leereboord the maine ocean. I"
Georgia hal unique railroad train,
which is described by the Atlanta "Con-
stitution." 1t runs from Chamblee up
on the Air Line road out to Roswell, a
distance of only about fifteen miles, but
the little train is famous. It consists
of one car, which is divided into three
compartments, an engine without any
of the modern improvements, without
even tender, the wood being piled up
in the cab AS soon as every body gets
on the train starts. There is no pre-
liminary bell-ringing or warning from
the engine, but you are off, humping
and rolling around at the rate of about
nine miles an hour before you know it.
"A st. Bernard dog became involved
in a quarrel with two ours at Whining
ton, Del The ours snapped and growled
at the canine bully, which turned and
made the little fellows ''ki-yi" An
other dog, which was watching the row,
saw that the ours were getting the
worst Of the fight and Immediately
started for help. At Whiteman's livery
stable he found three collies and an
other large dog to whom the situation
was quickly explained by barlrs. The
four stable dogs made dash for the
corner. When the St Bernard saw the
achievements coming he found that
he had important business in the direc-
ton OF Market street The ours thanked
the collies for their timely aid by wag-
ging their tails, and the collies went
back to the stable
The people propose to transfer the
seat OF government from Wall street IN
the factories and farms of America =
Pittsburgh Kansan.