Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-09-30
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"A subterranean Roman temple has
just been unearthed at the foot of CAL
varienberg at Baden, near Vienna In
a niche of this cave, or Mithras grotto,
are the remains of an altar hewn out Of
the rock. Fragments of Roman YES
sells and utensils, as well as knives, ar
rows, lamps and coins were also found.
insanity among Jews is increasing.
In the lunatic asylums of Prussia the
number of Jews is said to have nearly
quadrupled in sixteen years. Accord
ing to the statistics of the German en-
pire there are $50 insane Jews in every
10O,0 900 of their number, against 241
insane Protestants and 237 insane Ro-
man Catholics in 100, 900.
The wild beast business seems to
be very active. Carl Hagenbeck, of the
Crystal palace, has, during the past
year, disposed of TAI lions, over 700
tigers, $50 elephants and panthers.
Nine hundred pounds was paid for
female hippopotamus, $500 for rhi-
noceros, and 920O for tapir. Lions vary
in price from 940 up to 9400. A fine
tiger fetches e2OO. and white bear
only EGO.
Acres of ground around Sandring-
ham, the prince of Wales country seat,
are devoted to the cultivation of lilies
of the valley, the sweet-scented and
ever-popular spring blossom. In the
little village near there is little else ex-
cept remarkably fine ruin of little
church, and hundreds of thousands of
the pure bell-shaped blossoms are sent
up to London every year.
The working classes of Italy are
very poorly fed. The consumption of
meat is very scant except on feast DAYS,
and but little wine is drunk Living is
almost exclusively confined to cereals
(wheat. maize, rice), with vegetables
and other green herbs, cooked with
bacon. The food in general is very de-
fcient in heterogeneous qualities, the bulk
of which is derived from vegeteble
rather than animal food.
M. Leygonie, the Paris commissaire
de police, is having great trouble with a
haunted house on the Boules ward Vol
taire, No. 1913. In this establishment
the beds shake and dance, the tables
kick like mules, and the walls give out
unearthly noises. The policemen are
slapped and slugged by invisible hands,
and altogether the place is just about
as uncomfortable for them as the evil
spirits can make it. The Paris papers
have been giving columns to this house,
and the commissajre is at his wits end.
Frances stagnation of population
has been seriously discussed by the
academy of medicine, with the result
of evolving a strong sentiment for
adopting various means of resisting
epidemics such as the French have not
inclined to hitherto, compulsory vac
cination for instance. Prof. Tarnier,
however, the president of the academy,
resolved upon a much more directly eff
6cacious measure. He has offered to
the peasants of his native parish, Arch
subtitle, prize of one hundred francs
for each child born.
The Chinese government is strictly
opposed to obscene literature. A law
was recently promulgated to the follow
ing effect: ''Al government officials
who allow immoral books to be pub
lished within their respective jurisdic-
tons shall be discharged. Every pri-
vate person publishing such book
shall receive 100 blows and be banished
from his place of residence to distance
of 5000 lees. The seller of an obscene
book shall get 100 blows. Within thirty
days from the issue of this law all the
obscene books of the empire shall be
destroyed, beginning with those now in
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