Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-10
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Her little majesty of Holland is a
merry, good-natured child, and has al
ready shown signs of a superior intel
lect. She looks forward eagerly to her
visit in Berlin, as she will then have six
little military princes to play with. 1t
is likely that she will be betrothed to
one of them during her stay.
The tiles. about the fireplace in the
dining-room of Gov. Russell's home in
Cambridge are each ornamented by
picture of one of the old houses occu-
pied by the ancestors of the governor
and his wife. AS Mrs. Russell is de-
scendant of Gov. John Hancock, the
tile, representing the noted Hancock
house on Beacon street in Boston nat
urally has the place of honor.
An Englishman stopping at Bos-
ton hotel was kept awake by a COM
pound of disagreeable noises, and upon
his return to England he told the story
to Mr.. Browning. He said that he en-
dured the annoyances as long as posi-
bic, and then calleda servant to explain
it, which he did. 'T'Oh, sab! that is the
Browning club, just reading Browning,
sab! That is all, sah!''
- -It.is stated that the allowance made
to Cardinal Melchers by Prince Bis
marcl will have to be paid him during
his life, as it was on this understanding
that he resigned the see of Cologne. In
number of other cases the recipients
of pensions from the Guelph fund have
acquired vested rights to them. These
amounts will be deducted from the
money paid to the duke of Cumberland
The new American Society of Au-
thors," which has been set up in this
country, is organized upon the model of
an English society of authors, which has
been doing service for some time past
by promoting intercourse among book
writers, and. by giving them informa-
ton concerning copyright laws, the
ways of publishers, and the means of
securing popularity. Few of the sue
cessful authors of this country have yet
joined the American society
-Howling Bear, an Indian prophet of
evil, predicts that within two years the
people of the whole country will be suf-
fering for food, and there will be gen
eral famine over the country, when all
the people will be without corn or
wheat and the animals will die for want
of grass. He says that he has been told
by the Great Spirit to prepare for the
time when his people will be hungry.
and he is now advising them to lay up
the famine comes.
Gen. Custer believed in having mar
tial music on all possible occasions. He
would have the band out at five o'clock
in the morning and the last thing in
the evening One day when a regiment
had just come into camp Gen. Custer
ordered the band out. The men were
tired and reported that they had lost
the mouthpiecee .to. their Instruments
Very. we'll" said the general, you
may take pickaxes and sbovels and help
repair the roads. You may find the
missing mouthpieces while you are
working" 1t is unnecessary TO state
that the band played soon after
The famous novelist, William Black.
is described as tightly-built, 1.-THE of
limb, strong in the arm, capable of
great physical endurance, yet below the
medium height. Short. black hair, a
thick. brown mustache, dark hazel
eye. firm mouth, square forehead
Black gives you the idea of compact
strength small parcel, SO to speak.
well packed. You might sooner take
him for an artillery officer who had
seen service, yachtsman, or a man
who had spent most of his life in out
door sports and pastimes than set him
down as an author, and particularly as
a novelist.