Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-08


bride, aclergyman performing the cere-
mOny. But on the first opportunity she
escaped.
The Augsburqer Zeitung says that
the luxury in which the Russian Gar in
dulges while with his army casts Otto
man magnificence into the shade.
Whenever he makes journey by rail
he requires a special ''court" train of
seventeen cars, furnished sumptuously.
The railway expenses alone of every trip
between Plojeschti and Bucharest were
5000 francs. For the tables Of the Car
and his suite, 1900 bottles of cham
payne were consumed every month and
the royal commissary is permitted to
fix the price of champagne, in camp, at
% francs bottle (s5) of Rhine wine at
20 francs, and Of Bordeaux at u francs.
A Paris correspondent of the New
York Tribune says that nowadays
when a young man Of the upper classes
becomes of manageable age, sharp
lookout is kept for an American heiress
by the managing mamma. He says: 1t
is no longer asked, as of yore, for En-
glish heiresses. l scarcely know for
what reason, but the British female is
rather at discount; and the enormous
demand is for American manageable
girls. A French mother walks into the
salon of her friends, whose "day" it
happens to be, and quietly, in kind of
half whisper, says to the mistress Of the
house, "Do you know Madame Sc-and-
so? She knows all the American col
ony. Couldn't you find me an Ameri-
can heiress?' There is no disguise
about the transaction; it is all very rel
atively frank and open.
The fortune of president MacSla-
hon of France was laid by thrifty an
cestor, a doctor, who won the favor of
bedridden old lady at Autun. She
quarreled with her relatives, and made
a deed conveying to him all her proper
ty, amounting to 100000 francs, ON
condition that he should maintain her
in style BETTING her rank during her
lifetime. The heirs-at-law disputed the
will, and the case was in dispute at the
time of the Revolution. All the con-
testants emigrated. The MacMahons
took advantage of the invitation Of Ma
poleon to the noblesse to return and
occupy theis estates. Those who did
not come back forfeited their claims,
and in this manner the title was con-
firmed in the family of the President.
Odds and Ends.
Prom the Burlington Hawkeye-l
The average baseball game is made
up on two parts base hits to eight parts
arnica.
The women of America firmly be-
lieve that the coming man is ''the man
under the bed"
"A scientific authority states that ga
single female house-fiy will produce in
one season 20,0S0,3 eggs Great
guns! What must the married ones
do?
You can't shoot prairie chickens in
Illinois till after the first of September,
and you can't shoot them then, unless
you can shoot o great deal better than
we can.
The potato-bug doesn't think of his
stomach all the time. He is passion
ately fond of the odor of exquisite how-
ers, and his favorite resort is in the
tuber rows.
There are 5000 known species of
fish. That is what makes man so
mad when he sits in the hot sun all
day and comes home at night with
three little bull-pOut. averaging three
inches in length.
1t cast a gloom over an entire church
fair the other night when the minister's
son walked up to the grabbing and prize
cake table, and demanded that the game
be explained to him before he bought
his chips.
The weather was so hot in Burling-
ton last week that the half-mile track
out at the fair grounds measured just 9