Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-02-15

acter il Will show up in the way he
shuffies pack of cards-New York
Press.
There have been fifty-fve United
States senator's from the state of New
York in 10 years, the first elected
having been Philip Schuyler and Ru-
fus King, who were chosen ON July
l6. 1889.
SIBERIA. which has hitherto made
no extensive display at any worlds
,air. will have a large exhibit at the
fariS exposition in 1900. The new
railway ana the lands it has opened
VIII DC fully represented
The highest assessed niece of land
m Eostca-a lot at the northwest cor
aer OF Washington and Winter
streets. continuing 1855 square feet
was Sold the other day for S452. OOo.
or at the rate Of $3.50 per square foot.
ihiS was sl75,950 more than its as
sessed value.
On the roof of brewery at Maid
stone is 10 he seen one of the most
remarkable weather vanes in Eng.
land. 1t represents an old brown Jug
and glass. 'tne jug. which is made of
copper, stands three feet six inches
in height. and is three feet in diam
eter. 1t is capable of holding 1OS gal
Ions.
Admiral schIey is very proud of the
tut dress uniform which he wears OH
certain occasions. At a reception in
WASH heton the other night lady
asked him ii it were a new one. No.
incsed! he exclaimed; Il have worn
| ms uniform for the past twenty
years. 1t has been baptised several
times"
Hon. Albert J. Beveridge. who has
just been elected a United States sem
ator from lndiana, is a genuine self
made man. lie began as a farmers
boy, worked his way through college,
figured as 4 bay orator of no mean
talent and has made himself prosper.
Gus by strict attention to his own
business.
Hiram Walker, of Walkersville,
Can. (opposite DetroiO, who has Just
died ait the age of eighty-two years,
owned and operated distilery from
which the Canadian government de-
rived an annual revenue of about S20.-
Ov0,UO0. Walker was native of
Douglass, Mass, and began life as
farmers boy.
The pope is reported to have order
ed researches to be made in the IL
brary and secret archives of the Vat
lean for records OF Cola di Rienzi, the
| noted Tribune of Rome, who. in 1347.
when the pope withdrew to Avignon,
made himself master OF Rome until
1857. Cola di RienZi was an ancestor
of the pope, his mother having been
descendant in direct line from him.
Secretary Hay, who was formerly
accessible to newspaper men at all
hours of the day and night, has
changed his habits OF late, having
found that like other good-natured
people he was imposed upon by over
Jealous newsga therers. He has now
given Instructions to his butler to adj
NIT no reporters to his home after
his return from the state department..
''Why not drop the frnitIess contro-
very over the ending of the present
century" suggests The New York
Herald. "and take up for discussion
the far more live question as to
whether the coming year. 1900, should
be written MClM or MDCCCC? The be-
wildering number of C's in the latter
would seem to make the former pref
cradle, its 'brevity giving it the soul
of wit
Miss Alice Hamilton, of Tarrytown,
New York, who has been adiudged
mentally incompetent 10 manage her.
self or her $4,000 income. is grand
daughter of Alexander Hamilton. of
Revolutionary fame. She is siNty-one
years old, and has been sent to
sanitarium at Pleasantville. n. Y.
She labors under the delusion that
she and all her relatives and friends
are dead.
The British board Of agriculture
has issued an order prohibiting the
expectation of horses that by reason
of age, infirmity, illness, injury, fla.
tigue or any other cause" may be
unable to stand the voyage without
suffering. Last year 26,890 decrepii
horses were exported the greater
part OF this number having been sent
to Antwerp. presumably to be cut UP
for food purposes.
Andreas Peterson, the violinist,
who recently died at Hull, England.
was protege of Jenny Lind, and in
timately acquainted with many of the
best-Inown musicians. He was for
twenty-siX years music-master at
Rugby school and first vioinist in
Halle's orchestra, and performed il
every great European city. He could
play almost every instrument, and
could speak eight languages fluently.
Lord Wolseley's opinion of newspa-
per correspondents seems to have I'M
dergone a marked change during the
past sixteen years. The Westminster
Gazette quotes him as follows: "Sol
dier's Pocket-Book, 1882 Those
curses to armies-newspap CORE
spondents.' ST. James Hall. Deem
Der IA, fS98.-'The story pf the Sou
dan fighting as told by those admira
bic newspaper correspondents in the
various newspapers.
Legislative luxury in New Hamp-
shire has progressed to the point of
using aircushions On some of the seats
in the house. In the old days, when
John P. Hale. a new representative
from Dover. proposed that the seats
Of the house should be cushioned for
the comfort of the legislators, one of
the statesmen of that period crushed
the scheme with the remark that 'if
the gentleman from Dover is so ten
der he should give way to more sea-
soned material"
You're very observing man,
Blanks. Why is 1T that the multiform
joke about the plumber making such
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