Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-12-21
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| were property holders and had no
husba nds were entitled to vote.
While too theoretically combing her
hair the other day Louisville (Ky.)
woman broke her collar bone.
A Berlin matchmaker has invented
an instrument which will measure
time to the 1000th part of second.
An English physician relates in the
journal of Compare tive Pathology
that of 500 dogs to whom he admins
tered ch1oroform only one died, and
that was IAN aged, fat pug"
\ parliamentary paper just issued
in Belgium shows that there are in
that country NO fewer than 1873, 900
liquor Establishments OF various
kinds, or one to every twenty-nine of
the population.
On the cover of prairie wagon
which passed through Manhattan.
Kan, the other day was painted this
notice: Not bound for Missouri. Not
busted. Not going to wife's folks.
Just doing this to beat the railroads. !"
Some of the wooden churches of
Norway are fully 700 years old, and
are still in an excellent state of pre-
serVation. Their timbers have sue
cessfully resisted the frosty and al
most Arctic winters because they
have been repeatedly coated with tar.
An Austrian chemist who has been
making researches into the subject
declares that out of the 4,110 varie-
ties of flowers known and cultivated
in Europe scarcely 400 have any
odor; and of these nearly fifty have
an odor which is, if anything, disa-
greea BILE.
The Minnesota building at the
Transmississippi Exposition, which
was the most attra ctve of all the
state buildings, has been presented to
Omaha by Minnesota for permanent
erection in one of her cfty parks. A
Kansas man had offered 81 900 for it
with the idea of moving it to Topeka
for home, but his proposition was
declined.
The women of Smith Center, Kan,
have organized a Library Club, and
are resolved to build a house in which
to install it. With this end in view
they have established a store where
they offer for sale "Mrs. Waites'
bread, Mrs. Detweilers noodles, Mrs.
Smiths potato chips, Mrs. Slagle's
doughruts, Mrs. Ahlborns cookies,
Mrs. Dugan's cream puffs," etc.
| A remarkable collection of fourteen
autograph letters written by "Chi
nese" Gordon to Captain Stab during
the years 1S59-60 will shortly be sold
at auction in London. Captain Stab
was Hungarian officer who served
with Gordon in the British army DUR
ing the campaign in TIE Crimea. Gen
eral Gordon was greatly attached to
him.
The senate of the University of Hell
defberg has requested eight students
accused of challenging to fight duels
to leave the university for four col
| lege terms. The fact that a univer-
! sity of such standing has taken this
initiative is regarded in Germany as
likely to exert an important influence
in the direction Of the entire aboli-
ton of dueling.
Professor Baron has bequea thed TO
the city of Berlin the sum of 471 900
marks to found an educational insti-
tuition for. children, in which they are
to be reared On strictly vegetarian
diet. 1t is uncertain whethe the
common council will accept the be-
quest with this condition. as the
members of that body are nearly
equally divided in their views.
The music committee of a Devon
shire church recently advertised in
one of the London papers for an or
ganist and music teacher to instruct
the choir. Among the replies receiv-
ed was the following: "Gentlemen-
/ noticed your advertisement for an
organist and music teacher, either
lady or gentleman. Having been both
for several years, offer you my ser
vices
Queen Victoria is the owner of one
of the most remarkable articles ever
made in prison. The superintendent
of Agra Gaol, in India, two years ago
received an order to weave a carpet
of special design for Her Majesty.
Twenty-eight of the deftest convicts
of the establishment were put to work
ON it. The carpet measures II feet
by 40 feet, and it is estimated to con-
tain no fewer than fifty million
stitches.
The residents of Saco, Me-, appear
to be as guileless and innocent al
ltcW DOIu DtDtS. WO CduNdSS0TS LOT
crayon portraits recently cleaned out
the place, borrowing watches and en-
gagement rings from Six girls, money
from hackmen and porters, and 60
ing without paying their board bill.
Moreover, half the people in town
had ordered crayon portraits and
paid for them in advance. The local
paper describes the calnvassers as
dead game sports" Dead game
sports are evidently winners in Saco.
The law is sometimes very exacting
in demanding compliance with techni-
cahties. In Pittsburg a decision was
handed down the other day in the
case of a colored man convicted of the
murder of his wife to the effect that
he must be sentenced again, because
the judge had erred in emitting to ask
the prisoner before sentence was pro-
nounced if he had anything to say
why the death sentence should not be
declared. And yet st is safe to say
that if the prisoner bad been allowed
80 talk for half a day it would not
have made the slightest difference in
! the sentence.
The time of the day when the great
est number of dea tbs and births occur
h a question frequently heard, and
| which has been answered recently in
| the British Medical Journal by Pro
lessor Raseri. With the statistics of
a5,474 eases of death and 36,5I5 cases
Of birth, he has found that the MAXI