Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-01-25
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

BOOT Hill' is the suggestive name
of mound near Tascora, Tex, which
contains twenty-three nameless graves.
All the occupants of this little GENE
terry closed their lives rather suddenly
in fact, died with their boots on.
Cabbage has always been said to be
a cure for intoxication. The Egyptians
ate boiled cabbage before their other
food if they intended to drink wine
after dinner and some of the remedies
sold as preventive of intoxication on
the continent contain cabbage seed.
"A blind man, playing a hand-organ,
is often seen on the streets of Alexan-
dria, Ind. He strives to arouse the pity
of pedestrians by displaying on his
breast a card bearing these touching
words: Il am blind and the father of
eight children by horrible accident ;"
Two terrified women in the streets
OF Malaga, Spain, were rushing madly
from what appeared to be little ami
NAL confined by string held in mans
hand The animal seemed to be rush
ing toward the frightened women.
Their fright was caused by an American
toy-a mechanical mouse.
"A Boston beauty, while out with
her young man, a few evenings since,
ate nine plates of ice-cream at his ex-
pense. She then said that, when in
good condition, she could readily put
away dozen. He is a ten-dollar a
week clerk, and is now considering the
advisability of breaking off the match.
"A novel way of choosing partners
hpnnTY1n hn IN -
western towns At party sheet is
stretched across the room, the ladies
stand behind it and advance their feet
a few inches beyond the sheet. Each
gentleman picks out pair of shoes, and
the lady who stands in them is the one
he takes down to supper.
ID. w. Tryon, of New York, has re-
ceived the first prize, a gold medal, at
the sixth international art exhibition
in Munich. The successful picture was
1.-THE Rising Sum-" which won the
Palmer prize of $500 at the Chicago in
ter-state art exhibition, three years ago;
and this is the first time that an Ameri-
can artist has received a prize at the
Munich exhibition.
-Joseffy. the pianist, has been prac-
ticing nine hours day for the past
year, and those who have heard him
play recently say that he will astonish
his audiences in the grand tour which
he intends making this winter. Marie
Roze will retire from the operate stage
and will give lessons in Paris to En-
giish, French and American students in
operate singing and acting.
1t seems that peat has been perma-
nently adopted as fuel for the locomo-
motives on the INSTRUMENTATION rail
way in Sweden after a series of ex-
haustive tests to determine its relative
value as compared with coal In the
final tests locomotive pulled a train
at regulation speed, and up the steepest
gradients, steam being maintained at
full pressure, even with cold water fed
into the boiler.
Particularly stringent laws exist in
Switzerland for the protection of fruit
trees from animal and vegetable para
sites. No man is allowed to treat his
trees as he chooses, but strict watch
is kept over amateur as we'll as profess
sional horticulturists. Even the mistle-
toe, which frequently grows on apple
trees in that country, is regarded as a
possible pest, and proprietors are
obliged by the local authorities to free
their trees from it at stated intervals
"A cigar-store proprietor, troubled
by thieves, recently rugged up his place
with an electric battery circuit so ar
ranged as to ignite a flash light and
work the shutter on a camera when his
cigar cases were opened after certain
hnnr U q ha
robbers and brought them to punish
ment after all other attempts at captur-
ing them had failed He calls his in
vention the electro photo detective
thief-catcher and expects to find good