Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-26

AAS aoeS IL W warren mas DcQue8fas
ed to Harvard his rare library of
Sanskrit. collected at great expense
during years of study.
The Empress Eugene has given
500 toward the. fund for erecting a
monument to the late Empress of
Austria on the Riviera.
The sewers of Paris are now being
searched for treasures, owing to the
recent recovery by workmen of q
bundle containing $4,000 in securi-
ties.
Frau Embdenf Heine, sister of the
poet, was some time ago offered
$4,000 for her brothers Unpublished
manuscript. This lady is now 9s
years old
Some ancient Venetian coins have
been discovered in the banks of a
river of Mashonaland. They date back
TO 1870 and numismatists in England
are much interested in the find.
The mail carriers between Antrim.
N. d., and North Branch, which points
are TOUR miles apart, has had 124 DAYS
OF continuous sleighing thus far this
season, and there is still snow enough
to last few days longer.
Senator-elect Hayward of Nebraska.
wears upon his watch chain a valuable
chiids ring set with small diamond.
which he found on one of the streets
or Chlcago twenty years ago and fer
which he has never been able to dis
cover an owner.
queen Victoria accepted a curious
present the other day at Windsor Cas-
tie-a bit of the wooden post to which
olr Rudolf Slatin was chained when a
captive at Omdurman. 1t was pre-
sented by Sir Rudolf himself. who was
her majesty's guest.
The Paris municipal council has
Just had an odd document laid before
It.. 1t Is nothing more or less than
list OF the numerous articles found
TO be missing on the day after the
Dali given recently at the Hotel de
Vile by the councillors to their elect.
Charles Revere Curtis, who died ut
hockiand, Mass. recently, at the age
OF elghty-eight years, was the Oldest
descendant of Paul Revere, being q
son OF Sally Revere, the Revolutionary
hero's granddaughter. He was iden-
tined with the anti-slavery cause
when it was not altogether popular
even in Massachusetts,.
DR.. James H. Norman. editor Of
Outing, who was recently appointed
consul to Munich, has been identified
with magazine and publishing bust
ness In New York for q number of
years. Although born in Berlin and
educated in Germany, he has been =
citizen of the United States since 1854.
In 1885 DR.. Norman became editor Of
the Sartogian and in 1887 bought the
outing magazine, becoming it's editor
in chief.
Here is an obituary in the irresist-
ably entertaining style of The Delta
Light House: "DEATH.-Mrs. Mar.
garet Woods and Miss Amer johnson.
6oth distinguished citizens of our
eity' d!ed this week. Mrs. Woods
dropped dead instanta and Miss John.
son was only sick fortnight. Rela-
yves and friends of both, let us extend
10 you our sympathy in your loss.
mere are other deaths that should be
mentioned. but for the lack of names
we could not" '
=, About 1000 guests were invited, and
they made off between them
with six dozen silver snoons
besides 686 miscellaneous arti.
cies' such as plates. mustard pots.
mower vases and napkins. Several of
the dancers took their champagne
away by the bottle in preference to
consuming it on the spot. The re.
SUITS, however, are considered emf
nentiy satisfactory, the losses being
1ar less this year than on anv pre.
vious occasion.
Petit Bleu. a newspaper of Brussels
recently had a curious experience in
whicn 1t was shown that no one 10
indispensable in this world. The com.
posltors having struck the text ac.
comPanying the illustrations were
gotten out on the typewriter: then
the typewriter sheets and the conv
Ior the pictures were pasted on large
sheets of cardboard and the Whole
was reduced by photography to the
required size. From this negative n
pnoto-engraving was made from,
winch the paper was printed.
Superstitious people are making nm
tneir minds to keep away from Paris
next winter. 1t is foretold that the
elty Is to be almost totally DESTROYED
ny nre In December. A poet and seer
VINO lived in the middle ages. Cismo
hugglero, prophesied that Christina.
eve 1899, would see terrible fire In
arls: This prophecy has been made
Dy other people. Necton, who died in
l172, said: Paris will be entirely de.
stroyed, while two women pronhets
OF late years have declared that "De.
cember, 1899, will see Paris reduced
to ashes"
Professor Merkel, director of the
museum at Gottineen. "a
conducting an experiment of some In.
terest to anthropologists. He has
procured the head of peasant of
Lower Saxony. exhumed in the neigh
oorhood, and dating from the Seventh
OF Eighth century of our era. With
the assistance of sculptor he pro-
poses to build upon the skull LAYERS
OF tissue representing the vanished
flesh, following the method prescribed
oy Professor Kollmann. of Basic. It
is hoped thus to reconstruct a tolera-
bly, correct type of early Teutonic hu.
manity.
Manager Lehman, of the Kansas
Clty Orpheum. returned recently from
Chicago, where he went to consult
with Martin Beck, general representa-
tive of the Orpheum Company, and
Manager Rosenthal, of the Creighton
Orpheum at Omaha, in regard to the