Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-01-13
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Under an old law making it illegal
to shoot at night sportsman recently
arrested in Paris for unlawful killing
of game drew from the court legal
definition of the days end. 1t was de-
cided that night began with the close Of
twilight, or when the sun had descend
ed six degrees below the horizon.
AN aluminium steamboat is running
on the lake of Zurich, in Switzerland
1t weighs only about half ton, or half
the weight of an ordinary boat of the
anne size. The vessel carries eight per-
sons, and with a two-horse power
petroleum engine, easily makes six
miles an hour.
"A very gloomy fad is now in vogue
In the gay Partisan capital in the shape
of small marble paper-weight sur
mounted by a silver tree, and dangling
from one of it's leafiess branches is the
form of a man, while just above his
head is perched raven. A tiny drawer
below contains the fragment of a rope
used at the execution of some offender
of the law.
The systematic replanting of the
Malagan forests is urged in Kew bull
letin, or gutta percha will disappear.
Fifty years ago gutta percha was I'M
known in Europe. Now the annual
consumption amounts to 1000, 600
pounds with a constantly increasing de-
mand, and the trees where it is OBJ
tanned in the East Indies cover a very
limited area and are being rapidly used
up.
-"Dotty" is used in England as
synonym for crazy, while "bosky" sig
nifies tipsy. You must be bosky or
dotty" is therefore the modern English,
or, at any rate, Londonese for You
must be drunk or crazy" 'Oh, say"
with a rising infection, is an exclama-
ton of establishment combined with I'M
belief. 1t is an equivalent of the ele-
CANT What are you giving us?" of this
country.
London BARRIERS have shorter hours
on Saturday than their professional
brethren of New York, and, as a rule,
do not work on Sunday at all. Most
shops close now at 5 p. M, the result
of the efforts of an early-closing asso-
citation, and scarcely any keep open
after seven. This could hardly be the
case if Englishmen were not more in
the habit of shaving themselves than
Americans are.
Since the discussion among The doc.
tors upon the value of music as an
agent for convalescence, a guild of
Saint Cecilia has been established in
London, with the aim of training musi-
clans to soothe patients nerves with
music, under the direction of the ply
stefan. Every member must possess a
sweet, gentle voice and delicate execu-
ton. Miss Florence Nightingale is
among the subscribers.
Renewed efforts are being made in
France to discover what has become of
the heart of Gambetta 1t was be-
queathed by the great statesman to his
friend and medical attendant, the late
Paul Bert, who subsequently proceeded,
as governor-general,t to Tonquin, where
he died of cholera. Paul Bert placed
the heart in silver urn and preserved
1t with the greatest veneration, but
since his death all trace of it has been
lost.
Tho armies of the world, or rather
Of the civilized nations, include s, 900, 900
men. These men, and almost as many
more who are required to wait upon
them In some form or other, are con-
Uumers and not producers of the worlds
supply of food Besides the loss of
their time and labor, they cost at least
$1,000 year each, and that amounts to
$4,000, 600, 900. In proportion to popula-
ton our army of $4,000 men is, by far,
! the smallest in the world