Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-11-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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The Mexicans are the most inordin.
ate smokers in the world. Even
women and children are habiuual
| smokers.
Lord Chief Justice Russell has
startled British propriety by kicking
| off the football at the first match of
the London Irish Club.
Venetian coins of 1870 and 1877.
bearing the name of Doge Aloya Mo-
cenago, have been found in Mashona.
Rand, in the interior of South Africa
A Denver justice of the peace, Rey-
nolds by name. has made himself par
ticularly popular with Colorado wo-
men. He always omitS the word
obey from 1.-The marriage service.
Frank W. Cushman, nominated fol
congress by the Republicans OF
Washington, was, in his early days, a
cowboy on "a Wyoming ranch and had
the reputation of being dead shot.
The Pooh Bah who is running
things in Guam for the United States
is a young spanish sailor, who is said
to have deserted from one of the
w'halers touching there some time
ago. He fills every job from the gov
ernor down to tax collector.
Anxious to be at the head of the
procession in everything, Chicago
now boasts the longest police beat
in the world" One patrolman has
| charge of bit of territory seven
square miles in area. 1t is at the
extreme western limits of the city
and includes few houses and CON
siderable unimproved prairie.
A deal of connection has been ere
ated in portions of Alabama because
THE judge of the federal court has
sentenced five men to Imprisonment
for life for indulging in the some
times murderous pastime known as
white Gaping. The victim this
time was a farmer who had testified
against the five men, who had been
conducting an Illicit whiskey still.
General Lee almost .precipitated a
serious run on a bank in Richmond,
Va, the other day. He paused in
front of the bank to speak with a
friend and a crowd immediately
formed around them. A timid depos-
itor fancied that run had been
begun and framtically demanded his
money. The example was followed,
and not for an hour or more was con-
idence restored.
There is Washington woman who
Is turning her skin in making excel
lent blackberry cordial into paying
business. This cordial is needed in
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the eight camps and stationary hos.
pitfalls which are looked after by the
District of Solumbia Red Cross com
mittee, and the committee has made
o --DOTal contract with this enterpris-
ing woman ito keep it supplied with
the amount of cordial needed.
Cape Horn is a great mass of rock
rising abruptly from the sea and
forming a small island. Upon one of
the Lodges of this rock stands cov-
cred barrel, the international letter
box of a region more than 500 miles
from anything that resembles civil.
cation. l is the custom of captains
passing round the Horn to send a
boat ashore at this point in the di,
rection of the vessel, and drop in
whatever it is desired shall go in the
ohher direction.
Portland, Ore, has what is believed
to be the only military company COM
posed of Cinnamon outside the Chi
.nese empire. It has thirty seven
members, all full-blooded Cinnamon
OF American birth, and came into be-
ing last June, when the war clouds
were rather murky. Its captain, Seid
Back, Jr., tried to enlist in the
United States engineer corps, but
was rejected because of defective
eyesight. The almond-eyed young
sters are full of the American spirit
and make good soldiers.
In a village near Frauenburg, Ger
many, there has been a curious sue
cession in office since the beginning
of the century. The schoolmaster
there, as IS common in Germany, is
at the same time organist and sexton
of the village church. For four gen
erations up to 1895 the Office had
been held by the son-in-law of the
previous holder. Then a married
ranger was appointed, but he los.
his wife and has just married the
widowed daughter of his predecessor
thus carrying out the village tradi-
ton in the fifth generation