Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-05-31
PERSONAL AND lMPeRsoNAL.

Gordon Mckay, who has announced
his intention of leaving the great for.
tune which his shoe machines have
brought him to Harvard university, is
said. while machinist in the employ
of the Boston & Maine Railroad Co., to
have once estimated before it's con-
struction within ten pounds of what
locomotive weighed when completed
and with coal, water and men on board.
Alexander the Great, the conqueror
of the world, died when he was 80
years old. Maurice of Saxouy, the
greatest captain and statesman of his
time. died at the same age. The duke
of Wetmar. one of Adolphus' generals,
died at the age of So, while Gustavus
Adolphus died when he was So Pas
cal, the great French writer, and Raph-
ael, the great Italian artist, both died
at 81.
"A little dispute in a Tacoma BARRIERS
shop led to a serious result A Gus
toner said to the barber that the sham
pooing fluid he was applying to the
patrons head was nothing but soap
and water. The barber declared that
the chief ingredient was alcohol 'Pll
bet it won't take fire." said the Gus
toner. The barber applied match to
the mans hair and in an instant it was
ablaze
This is the official report of Senator
Edward Murphy, Jr., as student at
the college in Fordham: "He left St
Johns college, Fordham, while in the
third grammar class, the class just be-
low the freshman. The records of the
college show that he was we'll up
on the prize list In the studies of Latin,
Greek and mathematics, and in pro
fciency,' which is the special college
term for general class standing He
was weak in the study of religious in
struction and kindred hnes.''
Mrs Clara Abbott Poor, of Law
renee, now In her Goth year, Is the
daughter of Caleb Abbott, of Andover,
Mass, who was a soldier from Andover,
Mass, in the revolutionary war He
served throughout the entire war, was
at Bunker Hill, where he had brother
killed, at Saratoga, and at the terrible
damp winter camp of Valley Forge.
Fifty years after the battle Mr.. Abbott,
with some 900 of his surviving COM
rades, attended and took part in the
ceremonies of laying the cornerstone
of Bunker Hill monument
"A smoker usually considers himself
free of the deck on a passenger steamer
at sea, but the lookout does not want
him in the forward part of the ship at
night A passenger who was smoking
a free-burning cigar in front of the
wheel house of coastwise vessel one
evening was startled by an angry
growl from the captain: Don't burn
a cigar like that out there. You've got
4 fire like masthead light 1t inter
feres with seeing" Fifteen minutes
later the captain was out there smok-
ing the same kind of cigar But, then,
he was captain.
MIR. Gladstone is counted an alb
stemious man in the matter of indul-
gence In wines, yet his daily allowance
is respectable one from an American
point of view. For luncheon he drinks
two glasses of white wine and one of
port, and for dinner he invariably has
claret and port The port he sips with
the cheese and dessert of his dinner,
dispensing with coffee, which keeps
him awake. When he dimes out he
drinks about three glasses of cham
pagne. This is a mild allowance as
compared with that of Pitt and other
"four-bottle" prime ministers, but, like
Mercutio's wound, twill serve.