Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-08-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

AN eIepndht tuSk brought from Ia
bora, East Africa, measures nine and
a hait feet and weighs ninety-seyen
pounds.
London and liverpool are both at
the level OF the sea. Glasgow is thirty
feet above it. Manchester is fifty feet
and Birmingham 800 feet.
In India elephants over IL and up
to 40 years of age are deemed the
best to purchase, and will generally
work well until they are 80 years old.
Copenhagen's Round Tower. built
in the eleventh century and $50 feet
high, Is to he moved bodily a distance
of $50 feet to widen business street,
Germany contributes only 140 900
marks year in support of schools
in her colonies, while France and
England spend milIions in that direc.
ton.
In the libraries of Great Britain
collectively 60 or 65 per cent of all
the books taken out are novels. In
Manchester the figure is so, in Edin-
burgh so.
Simultaneous injections of essences
OF violets or other flowers, giving the
body the scent required. are reported
as recent Partisan freak OF fashion
imported from Russia.
The recent death Of Ii Hung
Chang's father-in-law, General Yang,
recalls the fact that that official was
condemned to death some years ago
for speculation on a large scale.
In Bielefield, Germany, there is Q
colony of epicures numbering about
1900. The colony was established in
1868, and patients from all parts Of
the world go there for treatment.
Retired chief gunners in the Brit
ish navy, who have received advan-
tageoas offers of service in the Ar
gentine fleet, have been forbidden by
the admiralty to accept the positions.
England is being driven by the con-
| tinuance of the South Wales coal
strike ito consider the desira bilty Of
the governments buying mines in Or
der to be sure of a supply in case of
war.
There will be held at Como, Italy,
during the summer of next year, a
silk manufacturers exhibition, in
which machinery and methods relat-
ing to the silk industry will be eX-
hibited.
In the Franco-German war France
lost as many as 10000 men, of whom
some $4,000 died of wounds received
in battle, $4,000 by sickness, acct
dents, suicide, etc, and 10000 in Ger
man prisons.
British railroads have combined to
stop Saturday half-holiday excursion
trains during the summer months on
the ground that they have their
hands full with the more prolitab BILE
regular traffic.
| Sha rks were almost unknown in the
Adriatic until the Suez canal was
and Pola Dire so infested with them
that the residents dare no longer
battle in the open sea.
Ornithologists tell us that when
feeding the stretch of the ostrich is
from 20 to % inches; when walking,
but not feeding, % inches; and when
terrified. liz feet to IA feet, or at the
rate of % miles and hour.
Apropos of Russia and its ideas Of
women's rights" it is odd to learn
that the Russian police are strictly
enforcing the law that no female
cyclist shall ride through the streets
of ST. Petersburg unless clad in hi
furcated garments.
In connection with the diamond
jubilee bound samples of almost al
the 1856 new languages in which
TRANSACTIONS of at least a portion oil
the Bible appeared for the first time
during the queens reign, were pre-
sented to the queen.
General Lawton, one of the heroe.
of Santiago, was once chasing the
noted Indian Chief Geronimo in the
Sierra NIadre mountains, and, will
his men, was forced to crawl on hi:
hands and knees for miles. They
were twenty-four hours without 6
drop of water.
Queen Victoria's official bagpipt
maker is dead. He also made bag
pipes for the households of the Prince
of Wales. of the Duke of Saxe-CoburE
and of the Duke OF Fife. His name
was Pipe-Major Duncan McDougall
and he represented the third genera
ton of a family that had made the
4 instruments at Perth.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyr
Observation-Disclosures appear.
in the British postoffice guide as the
name of post and telegraph offic,
in the island of Anglesey. 1t is sale
to mean 1.-The Church of St. Mary il
a hollow of white hazel near to The
rapid whirlpool and to ST. Disilio'.
Church near TO a red cave"
Sprottau, in Silesia, has a caution:
postmaster with a sense of good man
ners. Some drunken students in Bres
'au addressed postal card TO th'
Most Beautiful Girl in Sprottau,
with the statement: Beautiful I'M
known. we are drinking your health
till we can drink no longer" The
card was returned to Breslau will
The statement: There are many
beautiful girls in Sprottau, but beau
lty being a matter of individual taste
the postoffice cannot undertake t
deliver this communication"
Germany's twenty-one universitie:
had 1920 students during the sum
mer semester, Berlin, Munich anC
Leipzig being we'll in the lead. Pari:
alone with its 10000 students, half o.
all the university students in France
has as many as these three put to-
gether. OF the other French univer
sites. Lyons has 2,335 students, Bor
deaux 2,173, Toulouse, Montpelier
Lille. Rennes and Nancy about leo,
each, AK, Poitiers, Dion, Can ant
IGrenoble between 500 and 1,e0J, Will,
Besancon has only 197.
HnrbOr Mines TO be Removed.
Washington, August 17.-Genera
| XVilrnn chief nf enninaars has iSSne,