Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-11-14
PASTE AND SCISSORS.

Mrs. Mackay has a string Of Hawless
diamonds two yards long.
Washington Is the only city Of any
size In this country that possesses no
factories.
According to the Norwegian papers.
Henrik Ibsen will visit this country
next year.
Iowa has no statute providing for
the prevention Of prize-ights or pun
islling the participants
A Chinese newspaper published In
San Francisco has been sued for libel
By negro and an Indian.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. began Greek
ut 20, and now she has just read the
plays Of Sophocles 10 the original.
For his fifty lectures in this country.
according 10 the London Chronicle.
Sir Edward Arnold will receive sum
"equal to years salary Of Lord Sails
bury. .--.-4r>1----..---<=E-
H,.aiue aud Proctor are the only
members OF the Cabinet who do not
smoke, while Foster has the pre'emi-
nence of being the most inveterate
smoker Of the official family.
The history of the world In Arabic
is being written by Mahmond Fehmy
Pasha, q companion OF Arab 10 exile
in Ceylon. He hopes to finish 1t this
year. 1t will be in i've large volumes.
The Hawaiian race has been steadily
dwindling in numbers during the pres
ent century, and the latest census
gives it population Of but 40, 900, or
a decrease Of one-half within O CEN
fury.
General Maury is the third distin-
guished Confederate officer to have
desk in the War Records Office in
Washington. The other two are Gen.
eral Marcus Wright and General
George Field.
George Haven Putnam has just re-
ceiyed his Cross of the Legion OF
Honor, conferred by the French Gov
eminent in acknowledgement of his
part ip bringing about the enactment
of an International Copyright law.
The way in which the English Ian
guage is spoken here by the Italians
who learn it differs widely from the
way in which it is spoken by for
eigners of other races from the Eu-
ropean continent. The Italians add
unnecessary vowels to many English
words.
Queen Victoria has two beautiful
little gold watches by Breguet that are
supposed to be 100 years old. They
have silver dials and are about the
size of q two-shilling piece. One Is q
blind mans watch. the other is re-
peater. Both 60 perfectly and are in
constant use.
Germany proposes to hold Worlds
Fair in 1896 to counteracL the effect OF
Chicago's Exposition In 1893. Amer
ica," SAYS one Of its projectors, Mr..
Won Siemens, the great electrician,
America Is not only shutting us out
by her tariff, but she threatens our
South American trade aud even that OF
Africa and Asia. II America keeps on
her present course. we shall have to go
to commercial war. We will retaliate."
One of the latest occupations is that
of an ingenious London woman who
advertises in all the papers that she
will gladly take charge Of valuable
plants or palms while their owners are
out Of town. For this she Of course
exacts q small fee, not sufficient to
make her service available only to the
wealthy, but amply enough in the ag-
gregate to provide her with a COM
Portable income and make her indie
pendent.
A Pennsylvania lawyer was retained
for the defendant in q SANDER case.
The plaintiffs case was so clear that 1t
was no use attempting to dispute the
facts; 80 the defendants counsel called
witnesses to prove that his client was
such q notorious liar that no one In his
neighborbood would believe q word he
said, and he put 1t to the jury that
nothing such q man could say would
iujure any one. The verdict was for
the defendant