Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-10-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


in India, where they have been in use
for more than 1000 years.
According to the oculists, poor win
dow glass is responsible for eye |
strain, on account of the faulty re-
fraction.
The carrier pigeon was in use by |
the state department of the Ottoman |
empire as early as the fourteenth |
century.
1t is said that in some of the farm
ing districts of China pigs are har-
messed to small wagons and made to
draw them.
One of the constituents of the best
quality of varnish is a resin known
as kauri, which is only found in New
Zealand.
1t takes thirty-seven specially-con-
structed and equipped steamers to
keep the submarine cables of the
world in repair.
The family of the Duke Robert of
A few weeks ago the eighteenth child
was born to him.
The debris left from coral made
into articles of jewelry, ETC., is crush
ed, scented and sold as a toothpow-
der at a high price by italian per-
runners.
L. H. Pray of North Conway, N. H,
has a United States note for the sum
of $50 which was issued May 10, 1776,
and the printing and signatures are
all legible.
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fair in Delaware which came over in
the Mayflower. The figures on it were
| colored an indigo blue with a dyepot,
in vogue at that time.
Valuable discoveries of amber have
been made in British Columbia,
which, it is claimed, will be able to
supply the pipe makers of the world
with amber for 100 years.
Bones of long-deceased Indians
have been taken out of the ground
near Providence, r. l., and it is now
recalled that the place was an Indian
burying ground over 100 years ago.
DR.. Martin Van Buren, Stevens, II
years old, is law student at the
State University of Kansas. He eX-
poets to graduate next spring. He
has already received degrees from
other colleges.
Mason A. Green of the Rutland Her.
aid has been chosen to write the biog-
raphy of Edward Bellamy. He was
Bellamy's associate in editing the
New Nation and his intimate friend
of many years.
A farmer near Richmond, Va, has
! . .oR n xyhioh no hos ~ 10
worm the tobacco plants in his field.
The dog does his work as We'll as "a
faborer and the owner saves the
wages of a farm hand.
DIR. G. Q. Cotton, the famous Amer
lean dentist who died in Rotterdam
some time ago, had pulled more than
a million teeth in the course of his
ractice, and was the first dentist to
use the Laughing gas" in practice.
A Georgia woman, thrown upon, her
own resources, has hit on, novel
plan for earning her daily bread. She
takes care of graves, assuming the
responsibility of keeping cemetery
lots in order with well-trimmed grass
and walks.
That Savage rifle that created such
a commotion and scandal in military
circles in New York state but short
time ago has turned up in Colorado.
The state authorities there have de-
cided to adopt it as the arm for the
state troops.
Charles D. Boynton of Paxton, 8
suburb of Worcester, Mass, has of
! fered his farm of 113 acres to Wor.
cester for a city park, possession tic
, be given after the death of himself
r and wife. Mr.. Boynton, who is 81
? years old, has lived on the property
, since 1927.
J. P. Webster, a wealthy farmer O.
Indiana, was arrested recently on th'
{ charge of torturing rats. After th'
, rats were captured Webster, it is al
legged, stuffed burning paper into TIN
; traps. He has retained well-knowl
, jiawyer and says he will fight the cas-
, to the supreme court.
Truly the women of the South ar
! progressing. Elktown, Nd, boast
! the only woman bank president i
the country. She is Mrs. Jacob Tome
and She has just been elected pres
dent of the National Bank of Elkto1
2 1 AdNfhS OSOh PlOSiuOhO VI tAAS Wv
National Bank of Port Deposit fo
I, some time.
= Among the Turks bath none
q forms an item in every marriage col
tract, the husband engaging to allo'
o his wife a certain sum for bathin
purposes. If it be withheld, she ha
e only to go before the cadi and tur
r her slipper upside down. If the con
- plaint be not then redressed, it
II ground for divorce.
g Minnesota, North Dakota and Sout
e. Dakota have produced this year croI
n the value of which is estimated to
10 $3.50, OOO, 900. The three states hay
g raised zoe, 1000, 900 bushels of whea
y 75,0OO, 900 bushels of corn, 10000 bus
l. els of oats, and several million busl
n els of barley, fax, potatoes. lars
"a crop of hay and several million do
* lars worth of hogs, cattle and horse
!. A Gay old Bridegroom.
A marriage license was issued
'e the 7th, by recorder Rush of Jeffe
son City, Mo-, to Philip Blank ar
1T Miss Mandalia Hickman both
Id Russellvi.le Colo. county. Blank
I02 wars of ACE and his bride is