Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-02-22

wooden leg caught fire, and the leg
too.
The original notes from which Lin.
coin wrote his second inaugural adj
dress are in the possession of Senator
Cullom, of Illinois.
| a recent find of a set of ivory pins.
little gateway and three balls indi-
Gates that the Egyptians played ten
pins quite 5000 years ago.
The capitol at Hartford, Conn.,, is
to be closed at night hereafter in or
der to prevent the clerks from using
the offices as bed chambers.
Mrs. F. K. Groves, who died at La
Crosse, Kan, recently, was a great
granddaughter of the famous Commo-
dore Hull, and also traced her lineage
direct to William the Silent" of Hol-
land.
Ulm's cathedral spire is to be used
for a meteorological station. 1t is
the highest church spire in the world,
being 531 feet above the ground. This
makes the signal station the highest
post erected by human hands, save the
Paris Biffel Tower.
The pen with which Governor Roose-
office was kept by the governor him
self. 1t was one which General Pal
mer had used during the civil war.
The bible ON which the oath was
taken was presented to Mrs. Roose-
welt.
The following rema rhable PROPOSE
ton is made by a North Carolina edi-
tor in recent issue of his paper: I'VE
will publish a ten-verse poem for q
load of wood; a three-column story
for "a load of groceries, and we will
cheerfully give space to obituaries Of
former subscribers at the rate of six
laying hens a column"
A Braddock (Pa) physician who il
interested in statistics of American
hero worship finds that he has per-
sonally ushered into the world five
Deweys, three Hobsons, one Schley
and one Miles, and that in the house
holds of his patients twenty dogs, sew
enteen cats and nine goats answer to
the names of the heroes of 1898.
Brigadier General T. H. Stanton,
Paymaster General of the army, who
next month, has long been known as
quet was originally bestowed upon
battles of the civil and Indian wars
on occasions when his duty did not re-
quire him to expose himself.
General Shafter owns a medal of
honor given him "for most distin-
guished gallantry in action at Nal
vern Hill, Va, August 6, 1862, while
serving as first lieutenant, Company I,
Seventh Michigan infantry, in com
mand of pioneers, volunta rily taking
active part in the battle, and, al
though wounded, remaining on the
field until the close of the engage
ment."
Representative Dingley's last por-
trait was in a group of the Anglo
American Commission, of which he
was a member. 1t was rejected as
unsuccessful. Mr.. Dingley became Sc
riously i'll few days after the sitting,
so Senator Fairbanks hastily notified
the photographer not to destroy the
rejected negative, but to print some
pictures from it in order that Mr..
Dingley's last likeness might be pre-
served.
Old Squire Bean, of Langtry, Texas,
is evidently character" He used
to he saloonkeeper, justice of the
peace, sheriff and everything else. His
custom was to hold court sitting on
his bar. He was specially proud of
his position as justice of the peace,
while his saloon brought in the mon
ey. The sign above his barroom door
read as follows: ~. Bean, cool beer
and justice"
Private Earl Agnew, a Minnesota
boy at Manila, says in a letter to his
parents: 1.-THE Inhabitants here are
not very modest. Some of them wear
simply smile, while the more bash
full of them wear a garter string"
This observing young man also notes
that during the dry season it only
rains six days in the week, but during
the rainy season it rains only once,
and that is all the time"
In the course of recent speech in
the New South Wales legislature Mr..
Fegan, an anti-liquor member, said:
whisky makes men genial for a
time" adding that this effect soon
wore off and left the drinker in a
worse mood than ever. The official
report next day made him say: "Whis-
ky makes me genial for time," and
Mr.. Fegan was subjected to so much |
chaff in consequence that he threat
ened to resign his seat.
The Toronto courts are about to be |
called upon to decide whether man
may legally perform his own wedding
ceremony. The case in point is that
of Rev. J. w. Pfohler, who ON October
IL, 1898, married himself to Lois
Markle. This is the first time that
man has performed the rite for him.
self in Canada, and both Pfohler and
his wife now want the validity of their
marriage established. 1t would have
been much cheaper for the divine to
have enlisted the services of another
clergyman in the first place.
General Miles is not the only com.
mander of our army who has been
called liar by a subordinate. Ninety
years ago General Winfield Scott, whc
was then a captain in the army, was
tried by court-martial for having said
at public table that he never saw
but two traitors-Generals Wilkinson
and Burr-and that General Wilkin-
son was a liar and scoundrel. He
was found guilty, and was suspended
for a year, notwfths landing the fact
that his utterance turned out to be
true.
The veterans who followed General
Joe Wheeler during the civil war are
talking of forming a permanent or