Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-09-21
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF 0GNEHAE TN ERES1.
The total number of passengers,
employees and other persons not tres
passers, who suffered death or injury
on railroads in the United States, dur
ing the year ended June 80, 1891, was
1885, of whom about fve-sixths were
employees.
The shrek of the locomotive whis-
tie along the line of the Adirondack &
St Lawrence railroad, which pene-
trates the very heart of the Adiron-
dacks, has already frightened the deer
so that they have been seen in numbers
near the bordering villages.
Rev. DR.. A. j. Gordon, of Boston,
is a clever caricaturist, and often
sketches humorous trifles on bits of pa
per while awaiting flow of ideas. One
of his favorite designs represents yawn-
ing parishioners; but it is believed that
he could have found his models only in
| some other church than his own.
"A Brooklyn man, whose matrimo-
NAL relations were evidently not alto
gether pleasant, revenged himself by
hanging in the frst-story window
! placard and pair of drab trousers. On
! the card was printed: "a woman who
won't sew her husbands pants but
/ goes gossiping among the neighbors-"
-Emin Pasha was born of Jewish
/ parents in Silesia, in 1910, and his name
/ was Edward Schnitzer. According to
| the New York Sun he rendered services
to the Egyptian soldier, Ismail Pasha,
''who rewarded him by saying: Thou
art no more Schnitzer; thou art Eminp
an Arabic word meaning faithful; and
subsequently he became a pasha-"
"A large grower of small fruits says
he always makes most money in bad
years Careful culture tides him over
drought and other draw backs, and the
crops that result give much better
profit than those more easily grown in
other years, when every one has plenty.
Perhaps this idea will apply equally
well to some things besides fruit-N,
Y. Observer
Great Britain, France, Germany
and, in fact, many other foreign ma
tions are asking. and almost insisting,
that more space be granted for their
exhibits at the worlds fair Sir Henry
| Wood, of the British commission, is re-
ported to have declared that so great is
the interest in England that be believes
the English exhibit would fill half of
all the buildings if the space could be
secured.
The state capitol, at Albany, \. Y,
IS considered the costliest building of
modern times, its cost, up to date, hav-
ing been $4,000, 600. The capitol at
Washington, from 1878 to 1878, includ-
ing its furniture and annual alterations
and repairs, had cost less than $4,000
600. The most expensive city hall in
this country is that of Philadelphia,
and its tower will contain the largest
clock in the world.
Napoleon LIE Grande, Biddeford,
Me-, French Canadian, has a small
menagerie of his own, which is both
profitable and amusing. His big St
Bernard dog furnishes power for a
turning lathe by diligent work in a
treadmill, and also takes part with
other dogs in acrobatic exercises which
would win applause in Barnum's tent
lie Grande has clown dogs, leaping
greyhounds and buck deer broken to
harness.
"A living national flag was the
unique spectacle recently presented at
q grand gathering of Sunday school
children, held in the Auditorium at
Chicago. Over thousand children
We're grouped on the large platform,
those in The left-haud upper corner be-
ing dressed in various shades of blue,
while forty-four girls in white were
scattered among them Thirteen red
and white stripes were represented by
rows of girls clad In red and white; and
the effect, when the curtain rose, was
extremely pretty.
TO the treasury at Washington con
science-stricken citizens, from all parts
of the country. are constantly sending
some acknowledgment of hidden sins
One Correspondent writes: 'IncloseS