Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-03-15

ctrS. El1ZdiD6Un SkeatS, VINO recently
died in London, at the age of eighty
seven, prided herself upon being the
mother of six policemen. She was
Pensioned by the Queen in 1889, and
Her Majesty personally interested
herself in Mrs. Skea'ts' welfare.
Apropos of the vigorous discussion
which has for some thine been in pro-
gress in scientific circles as to what
horseless carriages shall be called
correspondent of a New York daily
paper suggests the good old word
"go-eart." This term has the merit
of being short, fully descriptive and
thoroughly Anglo-Saxon.
Every year the people of London
drink 275.000.000 gallons of water
and 1853. 100000 galhons of ale. 1t has
been estimated THAT If this faitter
beverage were placed in Az gallon
casks and the casks placed end to-
end the line would be long enough
to extend more than a third of the
way around the earth at the equator.
Wellington. Kansas, built "a new Jail
last year, and the authorities deter
mined to name II after TIL first pris-
oner who might be confined in it.
This prisoner proved TO he "a woman
Mrs. Horton, and the institution was
promptly named Horton Jail" Now
vt has been proven that the woman
was innocent, and she proposes to sue
the Wellington authorities for dam.
ages.
1t is said that Dinah Muloch Crafk,
the famous authoress of John Hall
fax, Gentleman made a habit of
leaving AIT her bank the manuscript
of each of her stories as soon as it
was completed. Tt would remain
there perhaps six months, and then
she world call for it and see how the
story affected her after that lapse of
time. If it pleased her the manuscript
was sent to the publisher: otherwise
1T was rewritten or thrown away.
THE eclipse which has come over
Byronis fame is strikingly illustrated
by the report that of the $4,000
needed for the proposed monument at
Aberdeen only $4,000 has been SUBJ
scribed. and THAT it is probable that
THE project will be abandoned. I'm all
Great Britain there is no adequate
monument Ito THE poet who in the
opinion of his contemporaries was the
greatest English bard since Shakes
peare.
France has paid its last pension to
Napoleon Is soldiers. In 1869 law
was passed granting $50 a year to all
nOn-commiSSiOned officers and pri-
Yates who had served ten years in the
armies of the first republic or of the
first empire and had received a
wound. For the first year the pay
ments amounted to $500, 900; last year
the sum was $50. and the last recip-
dent is now dead at the age of los
years.
Underneath the fine metal screen of
the Battenberg Memorial Chapel in
Whippingham Church has been pla ced
a brass tablet, bearing in facsimile of
Queen Nictoria's own handwriting the
following words: 'This screen is
erected to the dear memory of her
beloved Son-in-law. Prince Henry OF
BaIttemburg, by Victoria, r. l., 1897
A beautifully worked sword has been
fiNed ON the tomb of the late Prince
Henry. These recent additions are
l both the work of Mr.. Gilbert. r. A.
"A recent visitor to Andersonville
where the Union soldiers were impris-
oned thirty-five years ago, says that
the eartlhwOrks and stOckahe are still
preserved, and that the wells dug by
THE prisoners are in as good condition
as if they had just been completed
Providence spring." so named be-
cause it seemed to have suddenly
burst from THE ground just at time
. when the soldiers were suffering for
water, is still the same, having kept
up a constant flow of pure, clear
water ever since.
Professor j. Walter Fewkes, of the
Unfted States Bureau of Ethnology.
has just returned from Northern Ari-
coma, where he had been since early
last summer with the Tulsa yam In
dfanN. Mr.. Fewkes' mission was to
study THE habits and customs and DO
serve the mode of living of this inter
estin9 tribe, and he had planned Ia
remaimamOng them during the winter
when nrany ceremonies and feaSts Of
scientific interest occur. He was
driven away, however, by AN cpl
demic of smallpox.
Private Andrew Spencer, of the
Twentieth Kansas. says in a letter
from Manila THAT every either native he
meets warftsto sell him "a brass whistle
purpOrting to be the celebra ted
gold whistle with which Aginaltlo pro.
vided himself when he assumed the
dictatorship. Il have had opportuni
ties TO buy at least three hundred
, of these WHISTLES" writes Spencer
land the natives appear to be greatly
, offended when l question the genuine
ness of the souvenirs. Zach one tells
different story about how he came
onto possession of this trophy, and the
prices asked range all the way from
ten cents to $30.''
Knox county, Ind, lays claim tc
having the youngest grandmother in
the state. if not in the United States
Her name is Mrs. James Burke, and
she is barely 80 years old She lives
at Deckers. Her daughter Bertha
married John Midkiff two years ago
and to them a little daughter was
born last week. The mother of the
child is not quite Is years old, while
the father io but 10. The combined
age of the father and mother is but
: one year older than the grandmother
and the COMBINED ages of the grand
father. grandmother. mother, father
and child Us only 100 years. vet this
represents three generations.
Il President McKinley's steward
whose name is Sinclair. is considered
a most careful buyer. He servet
President Cleveland eight years. an.