Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-02
Things Worth Knowing.

SIXTY languages are spoken in the
empire governed by the car of Russia.
The German custom of having
trees was not introduced in
Vienna till 1917.
The money invested in British home
railways exceeds the national debt by
62O,OOO,OOO.
Last year the figure of Germany's
merchant marine tonnage exceeded
a million by $4,000.
By the year 1900 Japan will have to
pay S25,OOO,OOO year as interest on
it national debt.
SIS your wife literary" ayes;
every time step out of the house at
night she says, Quo Vadis'?"-Chi-
cago Record.
Millions are poured into our colleges
and universities to educate the brains
of America, while almost nothing is
done to educate the heart.
Dulwich, now a populus district of
London, still has toll gate across one
Of its main streets, at which tolls are
collected regularly.
Iceland's geysers never shoot their
water higher than 100 feet, while
some of our Yellowstone geysers go
more than three times as high.
The German reichstag is said to be
the cheapest of all the the parliaments
of Europe. Its total expenses for the
current year have been only about
$4,000.
She-Mamma is in the next room.
He-Do you suppose she would know
it if should kiss you?
She-Oh, no; she is very deaf.-De-
troit Free Press.
Tommy" said his mamma one day,
slip up stairs quietly and see if papa
is asleep" Tommy soon returned and
said: Eyes, mamma, he's all asleep
but his nose. "-Pittsburg Chronicle.
Old Lady-'Didn't 1 tell you never
to come here again?' Up-to-date
Tramp-''I hope you will pardon me-
madam, but it's the fault of my sec.
rotary; he has neglected to strike your
name from my visiting list"
A Misunderstood ing. tic
cross-eyed clerk -"An' how yez' any
irish eggs, sor?' Clerk-"Plenty
Just look this way, ma am" Bridget
(loftily)-"Shure, an OH not look
thot way if OF never how any,
Judge.
what are the holes for?" asked
little Edna, looking at the porous
plaster that her mother was preparing
to adjust to Willie's back.
ITS funny you don't know that
Sis" interposed Willie. They're to
let the pain out, of course. Rich
mond Dispatch.
Acting for M. E1isee Reclus, the
noted geographer, M. Hourst of the
French navy has applied to the city Of
Paris for permission to begin the con
struction of the colossal terrestrial
globe intended to be one of the at
fractions of the next universal exhi
bition.
An Argentine report says: "Har
vesting is now about completed in the
north, and reports are generally favor.
able as to yield, and though estimates
are still unreliable it is thought that
1 100000 tons of wheat, about 10000,
900 blu. will be available for export
from two Republics"
Benevolent Old Gentleman pointing
a moral to village school children
"Now, why do 1 take all the trouble
to leave my home and come over here
and speak to you thus? Can any boy
tell me?" Bright Child (innocently
PLEASE, sur, P'r'aps yeow loikes t.
ear yourself taak, sur" -Tit-Bits
The Objection-"Give me the mar
who sings at his work." exclaimed the
CHEEKY citizen. "He is the person
whose temperament has my sympathy
and approval, every time" "Yes,'
replied Mr.. Bitters, 81 don't object te
a man who sings at his work, so long
as he confines himself to that. Wha1
annoys me is to have him come in ant
insist on singing at my work.
Washington Star.
For several weeks the newspaper.
have been reporting with more or les.
detail and claim to certainty the
Find" of an ancient battle-ground If
the Choctaw Nation, in Indian terri
tory, where ''some 1000 years ago
over 100000 men were slain" TIL,
account says further:
''The bones were dug up literally b,
the carload when the railroad wa.
built through, and large quantities O.
stone axes, arrow heads, javelins, anc
pieces of pottery were found. TIL,
skulls were found to be broken as b,
blunt weapons or pierced by spears O,
arrows. The arrow heads are foune
inside of skulls or sticking into tn,
other bones of the body. In parts O.
the battle-ground the bodies ar.
placed in circles, with feet together