Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-12-22
Barton County Democrat.
WILL E STOKE. Editor and Publisher.
GREAT REND. KANSAS
CURRENT COMMENT.

GREAT BEND. {: KANSAS.
CURRENT COMMENT.
A miner in Denver, disheartened by
hard luck dug grave, intending to
get into it and blow his brains out.
About three feet down he struck a
lead of sylvanite and sold it to ten
derfoot for $4,000.
A revolution in bellmaking is at
hand. They will be tubular. 4 tubu-
lar bell of 2A inches in diameter and
with a range of one mile weighs 1910
pounds, while an old fashioned bell
with the same range would weigh Co.
600 pounds.
AS soon as it was discovered that the
present manner of baling hay was not
adapted to the exigencies Of war
times. necessity went to work and in
vented round bale, which can be
used for food, fuel, breastworks or
ammunition.
In an interview in New York Pad
erewslzi said the piano is capable of
greater orchestral effects than any
other instrument" He might add
that, in his hands, it produces greater
effects in the box Office than any or
chestra eXtant.
By a misplaced comma, paper in
Greedy county, Kan, raised a great
row. It said: 1.-TWO young men from
Leoti went with their girls to Trib-
une to attend the teachers insti-
girls got drunk" The comma be.
longed after girls. ~
According to the official returns
from France, the number of births in
that country last year was 1888,
and the deaths, s1O,O73, showing an
excess of births over deaths of only
33,S6O, while in 1897 the excess was
los, OS3, and in 1896, %, 700.
AS was the case thu year before
last, the Harvard Football association
has this year earned enough to pay
most of the expenses of the other
athletic associations of the university,
finishing the season with a surplus or
profit of more than $4,000.
The car has an income of 81, 900 an
hour, the sultan $3.50, the emperor of
Austria $500, the kaiser $3.50, the king
of Italy $3.50, Queen Victoria the
same, the French president $3.50, the
king of the Belgians $50 and the pres
ident of the United States $3.50 per
hour.
Some of the veteran regulars in the
Philippines say there is a marked sim
ilarity between the native Filipino
dialects and those of the American
Indians. The theory that this CONT
nent was populated from Asia is not
new and some of the scientists will
proceed to investigate the FILIPINO
languages.
The power of the Standard Oil COM
pany is conceded everywhere, but it's
overwhelming influence on the secur-
tiles market is far from being realized.
It is said to carry cash balance of
from $40,000,ooo to $6o,Ooo,o0O in gold
deposited either in the Deutsch Bank
of Berlin or the National City bank of
New York! The average man car
scarcely even comprehend this.
France is said to be the most i'm
portant as we'll as the most promis-
ing Protestant mission field. Congre-
cations of 200 members, not one of
whom was brought up in the even
gelical faith, and Sunday schools of
so children, who year ago had never
heard of the Bible, are common oc-
currence. No movement of such pro-
portions has been witnessed since the
time of the reformation.
Dover, Eng, has an electric railway
company which will hereafter carry
workingmen during the stipulated
hours at fare of a half-penny, or one
cent. 1t takes that action for the re-
mar;table reason that in the past it
has cleared on this part of it's traffic
$4,000 per year at the full penny, or
two-cent rate, and it considers that
the reduced fare viii yield the proper
dividend on it's bona fide investment.
The register of Cornell university
foP 1s99-1eOO, just published, shows 8
gain of 202 students over the figure:
in the first edition of last years reg
lister, the total to date being 2,24O
as against 2,O3s at this time last year
A corresponding increase in the fac
ulty brings the number of teachers a
Cornell university up from 2s1 las
year to 314 this year. just about one
half the enrolment is from New Yorl
state, which furnishes this year 1889
students.
Secretary Wilson expresses tn
opinion that $500, 0OO, 900 worth of tn
tropical fruits we annually import cal
be raised in Porto Rico, Hawaii, an,
the PHILIPPINES, to which countries tn
experiment station work is to be ex
tended. Moreover, he believes tina
much of the rubber and other prod
ucts we use in the United States ca
be furnished by our island posses
sions. Mr.. Wilson is opposed to tn