Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-07-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

| burglar (Lo promising young pick
pocl1et)-'Say, pal, how are yer doin'?'
PickpOcket-"O, I'm gittin' me hand
In. N. Y. Journal
When hoarse, speak as little as pos
sible until the hoarseness is recovered
from, else the voice may be permanent
| ly lost, or difficulties of the throat pro
duced
AN apartment is so convenient, >
said Mrs. Trotter; ''when you see any.
one coming to call that you don't want
to see, all you have to do is to walk
down stairs while they are coming ur
In an elevator. IN. Y. Sun.
What do you think of your little
sister, Osgoodson?" inquired his father.
'She may improve upon more ex-
tended acquaintance" replied the little
Boston boy, regarding the new infant
critically, ''but at present she seems alb
surdly crude and immature
Prince Bismarck has one hundred
and three decorations. Fourteen are
set in diamonds of great value. He be-
longs to no English order The late
car of Russia gave him the order of st.
Andrew, the most important in Russia.
the order is worth $4,000.
The department of Agriculture is
about to Introduce to the people of the
United States new vegetable food re-
senbfing the Irish potato, but longer.
1t is the root of the Gala lily, which
grows readily and without much cult
walton in swampy land, yielding enor-
nous crops. 1t is commonly used in
Egypt and Japan, and Florida farmers
have begun to raise it for market
| To mark steel tools, just warm them
slightly and rub the steel with wax or
hard tallow until film gathers. Then
with needle scratch your name on the
wax, cutting through to the steel. A
little nitric acid poured on the marking
will quickly eat out the letters. Wipe
acid and wax off with warm, soft rag,
and the letters will be clearly etched
"A glass of water and napkin are
no longer the only accomplishments of
| drink of liquor in the small bar-rooms.
The fashion is now to hand to each
customer a small handful of water
crosses in a saucer. The bartenders
have suddenly discovered that there is
wonderful medicinal virtue in water
crosses, and they boast that it cures
half the ills to which man is heir
Russian tea is gradually making its
way in New York The Samovar is
scarcely ever seen in any restaurant,
though it is maintained in few Rus
sian households. The tea has been sold
for some years in the Hebrew quarter
OF the tenement house region, and an
importer who shares the shop of a far
East Side matchmaker reports the de-
mand growing. A few uptown grocers
keep the tea done up in black paper and
labeled In Russian characters.
Adhesive postage stamps were in
troduced in England fifty-two years ago,
and in this country one year later.
They were the invel ton of James Chal-
mers, printer of Dundee, Scotland.
The advance made in the business of
carrying letters is indicated from the
fact that so late as 1915 it cost eight
cents to carry letter of a prescribed
size and containing single sheet of pa
per distance of for miles.
Che of the vegetable curiosities of
Central Park, New : ork City, is maple
tree standing just west of the west side
tennis lawn. The tree is fully five feet
in diameter at the base, but instead of
rising as one trunk it splits into seven
teen distinct trees, of which sixteen are
alive, and several are at least ten inches
IN diameter. The seventeenth, trunk
four inches in diameter, is dead, having
persisted apparently from some defect
of nourishment Near this tree is
another maple split into eight trunks
-Bootblacling in New York costs all
the way from ten cents at the hotels to
two cents, or even less, in regions
where tiny lads compete for trade.
Washington square is the favorite re-
/ sort of small Italian boys, who tempt
ingly hold up three fingers to indicate
the price OF a shine and lower one in
the presence of an unwilling customer.
| The same thing is encountered on the
far east side, but no boy on anv fire.
| quented street dares to enter upon this
cutthroat career lest his competitors
| visit him with summary punishment.
In May, 1871, Gen. Greene COM
menced the siege of Fort Ninety-six, in
Abbeville district, South Carolina, with
less than a thousand regulars and few
raw militia. The garrison was command
| ed by Lieut.. Col. Cruger, of New York
loyalist. The siege continued from Nav
| % until June Is, when an unsuccessful
attempt was made to take the works bv
storm. The siege was raised on the fol-
lowing evening, and the Americans re-
| treated beyond the Saluda river Greene
lost $50 men during the siege.
&c -, fco4 =, NJ.
| to induce the legislature to donate that
states building at the worlds fair to
the Chicago organization known as the
Sons of New York, which is composed
of Chicagoans born in the Empire state.
| A wealthy citizen of the worlds fair
city, it is reported, has offered, if that
] should be done, to donate a site on
Michigan avenue, to which the building
may be removed after the fair and
where it would be used as club house.
-Fifty-five of the counties in Illinois
have been organized for exposition
work by the women members of the
state worlds fair board. The women
| of Sangamon county expect to prepare
a handsome volume, to be known as the
Lincoln Souvenir" to sell at the fair
IL Will eAnDrdce history Oh odnSanon
county, and include in addition, a story
| of Lincoln's social life The book will
be embellished by women artists. The
women of 10 Daviess county expect to
prepare similar volume in regard to
| General Grant. In Stevenson county
they are talking of writing history of
| the Black Hawk war. In Lawrence
| county the women claim to have dis
covered the original manuscript of ''The
Pigrim's Progress. They are investi-
eating the authenticity of the find, with
| view to taking the manuscript to the
fair.
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