Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-03-22


sister-in-law between 1907 and 1882
are to be sold at auction in London.
In ile S't..i.e of Maine there are sew
'I:tetn sp,Dl fdcapr;es, and the white
orch frees of 9lr.st Common wealth. an
Ilaliy supplyth material for 800 ,0OO,-
40 slsools. on which are subsequently,
49,. J.. al. 51.JC9. Ct Zoo yards OF
hr, .id.
Representative Clayton of Ala
oana. CON i Il new Md duri.iy the
ie1Siie on ;lc inliipihe hppropa ION
IN uhe House til" u.lr,r day. Instead
of turning regrttiuIiy to the setting
sun, saai he III his speech, II prefer
20 cast my eyes to the rising sun,
with all its glorisus golden gor1leur."
President Mckinley's visit to
Massachusetts, as a guest Of the
Boston Home Market Club recalls
the tact that his first speech in New
England was made sixteen Years ago,
when. at Lowell. he opposed Benja-
MIN f. Butler's candidacy fer Gov
ernor OF the State. 1T was then he
met Charles \. Stott. vice president
Oh THE Home Market Club
lem years ago "a young woman OF
studeiat In writing prize essay, and
was defeated. Last week she received
oy mail from the successful ossa visit n
money order for $11, representing $40
orlncIpal and 81 interest, with the ex--
pFanaitFon THAT the prize WINNER lind
ola Suarlzed the composition, and, hav-
ing joined the church, wished to make
restitution.
A movement has been inaugura'ted
TO have the first ann ual reunion of the
Rough Riders of the Latte war held ait
I'll Paso, Tex, because that CITY furn-
SHE'D a great number of the riders.
Governor ROOSEVELT has notified ex-
Governor Prince, of New Mexico. that
he will visit that Territory this wear
and while down in the great South
west the effort viii be made to hold
the reunion.
One of the Western, soldiers at Ma.
Mia writes that he went into a. store
to buy "a to0tih brush, and the store
keeper took down everything i'm THE
shop before he could be made ito
understand what his customer
wanted: After the brush had been
found the soldier learned that its ma
tive name was ''taipoknos tampulse,"
and now he is afraid to use it for
fear 1T might break his teeth.
Nine. Modjeska, THE actres. is one
OF the few people who cam, do two en-
tirely Opposite things ait the same mo-
ment. In one of her plays she sits
upon THE stage apparently writing
fei'ter that causes her the greatest
grief and agony-the tears running
down her cheeks and sobs shaking
her whole frame-and ON THE paper
that lies before her she draws funny
carica'tures of persons she knows.
The Commissioners of Waiter Supply
OFT THE city of Ney York figure tn
the maximum daily supply of the sys-
tenn i'm ManIha'ttan and the Bronx is
100000, 900 gallons. The reserve held
in storage is 44.2OO, 100000 gallons,
which ait the present rate Of consump-
tRon would be su ficient fer the two
boroughs for 1872 days, without the
natural flow of the rivers from which
the supply is drawn. During 1893
the average daily consumption of the
old city of New York was 243, 0OO, 900
gallons. or 121 gallons per capita.
"A Japanese paper says that a sol
der of gigantic stature and enormous
strength recently had the honor OF
being presented TO the emperor. He
is Private Yamashitia. of the Third
Regime MT of Nagoya field artillery.
He enlisted inDecember last. and is
now twenty-five Years of age. Hi.
muscular strength is so great that he
can carry field piece ON his should
ers and Climb up a mountain when
horses are net available. Yamashita
regularly receives two mems nations,
and his uniforms are made to order.
In. the Hotel Everett. one of New
York's oldest hcS'te berries. a custom
adopted fifty years back is still in
vogue. 1t is THAT of placing the read
ing of The Thermometer immediately
under dhe date line of the register.
This is the duty of THE clerk who
takes the early morning watch. Years
back, before GCtha ms centre was a
myriad of hotels. thermometers were
not so plentiful. and nearly all the
hotels adopted this custom of telling
their patrons ihe condition of THE at
| mosphere: burt the Everett is the only
| one to continue the prac.ice now.
The English shipbuilding firm of
Short Bros. has lately made report
ON the results of a seven Years eN-
perijence of the eight hour day. Form
erly the men began work ait 6 o'clock
in the morning. took half an hour at
moon for DINNER. and quit work at
O'Clock; burt is said that the day was
so long that many employees lest much
time from breaking down under the
strain. They now go to work at 7.3C
a. NJ. take half am hour for dinner
and quit at p. NJ. and the firm
maintains that ON these shortened
hours more work is done per individ
ual, and THE general operation of the
plant is much more economical.
CarelessneSS on the part of
Americans in preparing their mail
for foreign countries has induced the
British Government to make a special
investigation. and as a result post.
masters i'm the United States are now
requested to give as much publicity
as possible to the fact, supposed to
be we'll known, that the postage rate
on letters for foreign sountriss is
five cents for each half-ounce or
fractions thereof Persons of all
classes disregard the requirements in
this respect and affiX only a frac-
ton of the postage on foreign mail,
at times neglectiDg to affiX any post
age whatever. The matter was
brought TO the attention of the Brit
ish Government by the large number