Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-11-30

liverpool has started the idea OF
giving concerts in the courtyards od
the worst quarters OF the city.

Admiral Dewey is . collector oi
butterflies, and is said to have one o,
the finest private collections in the
| United States.
Brussels has a tower clock which
has never been wound up by human
hands. By AN ingenious arrangement
the wind keeps it wound up.
The first passenger elevator in the
world was that erected in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York. It was
known as Tufts vertical railway"
1t should be added to the obituary
of DR.. ID. r. Dewey, who died in North
Adams, Mass, recently, that he did
not claim to be related to the ad-
F; miral.
Wyoming's woman superintendent
of public instruction, Estelle Peel
has so successfully managed the sale
OF public lands as to increase the
states income from 500 to $1,000 q
week. She is clever at driving good
bargains for the state.
This is from London Truth: What
q fortune you must make out Of the
quantity OF mustard that 10 eaten,''
lady once remar rked to Mr.. Colman.
mo, madam" he replied, "I only
make a fair competence out OF what
is eaten; but do make q fortune out
ef what is wasted"
III. Godin, French minister of pub
lie works, IN a circular addressed to
railway boards urges the construc-
tlon OF a larger number OF corridor
carriages, especially third class, Sc
that by 1900 all fast trains goinx long
distances may be exclusively com.
posed of such carriages.
This country stands at the head od
all other countries in the use, il not
i'm the manufacture, of soap. The
average expectations Of Americas
soap in year amount to 10000, ,o0e
pounds. The importa tons into the
United States of soap amount to 8,
oo0,U00 pounds, or one-tenth az much
The marriage of Miss Olive Far
rlngton Sampson, daughter of Ad
mirai William L. Sampson, will no,
take place until January next. Ii
was to have occurred last month, bu.
owing to the absence of Miss Samp-
sons parents in Havana it was post.
poned until the first week Of January.
In some parts Of Asia it is consid.
cred immodest for a woman to shov,
the ends of her fingers, while among
Mohammedan women Of Arabia, who
are closely veiled, exposing the back
OF the neck in an emergency is held
to be much greater breach Of de.
corum than displaying the face.-
Boston Traveller.
Charles A. Chopin, of Niles, Mich,
: bought some land near that place
many years ago, thinking that it con.
t tanned copper. When he discovered
that he was mistaken he tried In vain
for twenty years to sell it. Then he
found that it was rich in iron, and IL
1 has since made him one of the wealth.
: lest men in the state.
William R. Harper, head Of th,
University of Chicago, is said to be
. Americas hardest working college
, president. He teaches all the wear
: round, edits two magazines, admins
! ters the affairs of his great colonv
OF students and is also principal OF
the Chautauqua system and the
American Institute OF Sacred Etera.
8 ture.
Mayor Samuel NJ. Jones, Of Toledo.
:; o., is known as the golden rule
mayor" He owns a big factory IN
which the employees work but eight
i hours day and enjoy numerous hoi.
idays. The only rule he has posted
, up is: do unto others as IL Won
t were the others" At Christmass hs
! shares with the workmen the profits
8 of the past year.
!, Massa chusetts is the only state In
the Union in which the judges are
!. appointed to hold their office durinc
: good behavior. There are seven
states in which the judges are an
pointed by the governor, by and With
the advice and consent of the senate
! or OF the council; five in which they
. are elected by the legislature, and
: thirty-three in which they are elected
!, by the people.
: It is said that the rinderpest and
d other pests have so thoroughly de-
i stroyed the cattle in South Africa
that for years to come meat must Be
e sent in, largely from Australia,
!, where cattle and sheep are abundant,
= especially the latter. In eastern Ans.
;. tralia alone, according to the Meat
. Trades Journal, l00,0000O0 sheep
= now Craze on pastures which thirty
: years ago were deserts of soft sand.
Mr.. E. Menken, to whom Mr.. Glad.
stone was accustomed to give large
i orders for secondhand books, has
/ presented to the British Museum o
b series of booksellers catalogues WITH
T manuscript notes by the late states,
! man. In nearly every case the cata-
{ logue bears the note: PLEASE to send
= the marked lots with the usual dis
Z count (or subject to 10 per cent die
: COUNT for cash to w. E. Gladstone"
: Gentry county, Missouri, which
4 boasted the record of having taken
more premiums at the Worlds Fair
than any other single county In the
j. United States, is again a subject foz
3 congra tulations, having captured q
q large number of the best premiums
t at the recent big stock show at the
Omaha Exposition. 1t is claimed by
lexperts of high rank that the Omaha
8 exhibit of fancy stock was larger and
y better than the memorable one aI
!. Chicago.
4 The utilization of the byproducfs
!. OF manufacture once discarded a
!. waste is becoming an important fest
ure of industrial economy. For ex
ample, the phosphorus eliminatet