Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


raJah of Nahan.
Single eyeglasses worn by women
as the form taken by the latest Lon
don fashionable insanity.
The Japanese dentists perform all
their operations in tooth drawing
with the thumb and forefnger of the
hand.
All of the New Testament has been
translated for the first time into one
OF the Australian native dialects by
two German missionaries.
King Charles LIS pale blue silk I'M
dershirt, worn by him on the scaffold
and stained with his blood, brought
$1,022 ait auction in London recently.
CatuHe MendeZ has been commits
stoned by the French government to
write a report ON the progress of
French poetry for the 1900 exhibition.
Some absent-minded friend sent Sec
rotary of War Alger two live Ameri-
can eagles all the way from Oregon to
Washington and forgot to pay the ex-
press charges of $48.
The Commercial Club of St. Paul,
Mimi, has presented suitably in
scrlbed silver loving cup ITO Captain
Sigsbee in com nemoration of his
Spanish war exploits.
by donning a miners suit, descend
ing into the pit of a mine at Leus,
France, and talking to the miners,
President Faure succeeded in prevent
ing strike the other day.
Edwin Lord Weeks, the American
painter who has been made a cheva-
!ier of the Legion Of Honor of France.
is a Bostonian by birth, but he has
Lived for twenty years i'm Paris.
Queen Victoria has conferred ON the
Twenty6rst Lancers, who made the
charge at Omdurman, the designation
of "nhe Empress of India's Lancers."
They were known officially as the
"Dumpties."
Sultan Abdul Hamid of Turkey is
said to have recently taken to pistol
practice, his intent being ITO prepare
himself for self-defence in case he is
attacked. He has a morbid fear of
assassination.
Municipal honors have palled on
the British peers. Only two, the Earl
of Sandwich and Lord Forester, have
accepted mayoralties this year; three
years ago the office of mayor was
filled by eleven peers.
General Wood, the American COM
mander, says new sanitary regula-
tions have resulted in making Sam
tfago as clean as any southern sea-
coast town. There hasn't been a MUIR
der in the town since American occu-
patton.
Gambling in any form has been pro-
hibited ait Santiago by Commander
Wood. A penalty of $1,000 is attach
ed to attractions of the ruling, and
strict observance is being enforced,
to the amazement of Spaniards and
natives.
Admiral Dewey has been reading
the accounts of Hobson's osculatory
experiences: He writes to a friend as
follows: "The clippings you send do
not seem possible. The threats you
make persuade me to remain forever
in MANILA
President Faure's daily mail is said
to contain on the average 760 letters,
of which $50 are begging letters, $50
petitions on political matters, 100 pc
against officials, 80 anonymous insults
and 20 threats of life.
Two croccodfles in a circus at
Bayeux, France, got into a fight in
which a hind leg of one of the beasts
was badly lacerated. A veterinary
surgeon was called in, who amputated
the leg successfully, the crocodile be-
ing as lively as ever.
Major Count Stolberg Wernigerode,
who killed sergeant with a blow of
his sabre last fall on account of a
hitch in the camp cooking, has been
sentenced by court martial to be dis
missed from the German army and to
be imprisoned for forty months.
Joseph L. Stickney, the war CORE
spondent who stood beside Admiral
Dewey on the flagship Olympia dur
ing the battle of Manila bay in May,
has returned to Chicago and an
nounces himself vigorous opponent
of the annexation of the Philippines.
Lieutenant Richmond P. Hobson, he
of Merrimac fame, is said Ito have
earned $4,000 in writing articles for
magazines since his leap to fame, and
it is reported that he has used the
money in paying off a mortgage ON
the home of his parents in Alabama.
Japan with a population of 45,000,-
900 has 220 towns that have more than
100, 900 inhabitants. In 1886 the num-
Der of such towns was lit. Osaka has
increased from 100000 to $4,000 in
habitants in ten years, Yokohama
from $4,000 to 10000, Kobe from 3d.
900 to $4,000. Toxic has now a popu-
lation of 100000.
Count Michele Stefano de- Rossi,
who died recently at Rocca di Papa,
made seismology a science
by his observations and work ON
earthquakes and the instruments he |
devised to measure tAem. He was |
brother of the late Giambattista de- |
Rossi, the greatest authority of the |
century on Christian antiquities.
The license for stage plays, granted
TO the Cripplegate Institute, is the
first such permission ever given by
the lord chamberlain office to
nlace within the limits of the city OF
London. Tie old City Of London
rheater stood outside the boundaries,
while in Shakespeare's time the lord
had nothing to do with
The theaters.
According to the annual report OF
the commissioner of navigation at
the end of the current fiscal year,
june 80, 1899. New York will take