Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-12-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST.


-One Of the courts of New Jersey
has decided that q husband who drives
his wife from homo 10 guilty Of aban.
donment, and that the wife has the
right TO control the domestic affairs Of
the family, Notwithstanding the oppo-
sition Of the husband or any Of his
relativcs-and the woman In this case
was second wife, ut that
Tho Laterau council Of 1889 not
only condemned Arnold, Of Brescia, TO
be burned for heresy, but also forbade
the use Of the crossbow as being q
cruel weapon. For q time It's use was
discontinued In the European armies,
but IL was revived by Richard l., and
from his day steadily grew In favor
until supplanted by firearms.
Manager AL Sphinx, Of ''The Derby
Winner" has among the other noted
steeds In the troupe the smallest horse
In the world. Baby Ruth was foaled
In Houston, Tex, IL three years old,
nineteen inches high, and can stand
on an ordinary dinner plate. She In
remarkably pretty, and her owner.
Col. j. II. Wood, Of Texas, has been
offered and declined FIVE thousand dol
lars for her.
philadelphia has suffered greatly
lately from the caterpillar pest In her
parks and public squares, and now o
new pest has arrived there, which Is
proving much more troublesome to in
dividual citizens It isa spider, said
to be of "a new species" with re-
markably poisonous sting. II has APP
pearcd among the trees In nearly all
the public squares, and many citizens
have been bitten or stung by 1t. The
superintendent Of the Penn Treaty
square was SO badly stung on the hand
recently that It swelled to an enor-
mons size, and he was obliged to have
II treated by doctor.
Hitherto almost everything said of
the bicycle and its influence has been
In the wheels favor, but very seri-
Gus accusation against II comes from
Arizona. It Is accused there of being
q subverter OF patriotism, aud as re-
suit of its baleful influence the First
infantry of the national guard, sta
toned at Tucson, Is to be disbanded
and most Of its members dishonorably
DISCHARGED. The offense Of the guards.
men is that on last Fourth OF July they
failed to turn up to take part in the
official parade In honor Of the day, pre-
ferring to appear in the parade Of
bicycle club to which almost every
member belonged. The adjuta nt.gen-
eral has ordered court martial on the
officers
"A sealed tin case, which on being
opened was found to contain copy Of
Millions Paradise Lost" was picked
up in the lower part of the Pcnobscot
river. Maine, few days ago. Inquiry
disclosed the fact that in small town
up the river lives an old tinsmith OF
tastes and some odd ideas. and
that il Is his custom to enclose all sorts
OF excellent books in tin cans, tightly
soldered, and SO constructed as to float
easily. and set them adrift in the river
in the hope that they will be picked up
by residents of the many islands at the
mouth of the river, who are not kept
in close touch with culture, or else by
sailors. He thinks the regularity Of
the way in which the books reach the
readers helps to secure for them
Three half-breed Cherokee Indians,
man and wife and little girl, walked
into Kansas City the other day, the
woman barefooted, dragging small
cart on which was piled q
curious assortment of household
effects. The man said he was Bill
NTH, and that they were making
their way to the Indian territory, to
take up their abode in the Cherokee
nation. They had walked all the way
from Abbyville. Va, through West
vir rinia, Kentucky, Illinois and Mis-
souri,, n distance OF eleven hundred
nj lies, and were goinr to enter the
ma, ION by way of Coffevville, Kan, u
di- an,e of three hundred and fifty
m ~ more. The womin, her husband
; !. had hauled the cart the entire
distance.