Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-07-21

many, Denmark and Sweden.
Since Archbishop Bayley, of Balti-
more, went to Europe his disease has
developed into softening of the brain,
and he has been sent to monastery in
northern France There is little hope
that he will ever recover his mind, and
accordingly Bishop Gibbons, of Rich
mond, has been appointed his successor
by the Pope. tsl.it
Amherst College this year conferred
the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon a
Roman Catholic clergyman, Father
Hewitt, of New York. This is a new and
strange departure for Amherst, which
was founded by orthodox New England
COngregatiOnalists, and has ever since
been under the control of that denomi-
ton.
"A scientific expedition, consisting
of students and professors from Prince
ton College, New Jersey, starts on June
20 for the far West-the valley of the
Green River, branch of the Colorado,
being the field of explorations. The
primary object is to collect materials
for the college museum and secure val
liable material for the scientific school.
The trustees have contributed IS, OCo to-
ward defraying expenses.
Science and Industry.
Troy makes 100000 iron boot jacks
per year.
The area under wheat in Great Bri-
tain was % per cent less in 1876 than in
1869.
The amber trade in Prussia is par
alyzed by the war, Turkey being the chief
consumer.
"A German firm is manufacturing a
substance they term steel iron, in five
different varieties, SO that they can fur
nish steel upon iron, iron between two
layers of iron, steel core and iron skin,
or iron core and steel skin.
"A barrel of tannin extract is pro-
duced from a cord of hemlock bark, the
value of which is $50. A cord of alder,
it is now found, will yield the same
amount, while ton of sweet fern gives
S22 worth of the best tannin and 81 of
an inferior kind. In Maine the industry
of extracting tannin from ferns has al
ready attained considerable dimensions.
Mr.. Eli Wayland, an old citizen of
this county, and resident of Salisbury,
says the Perryville (Mo.) Forum, exhib-
tied in town on Thursday last the model
of an invention of his that he has Just
patented, and which is undoubtedly des-
tined to work reformation in the labor
of farming. 1t is device by which 10
different Implements may be combined
in one machine. 1t is seed-sower,
cOrn-planter, hay rake, roller, two one
horse plows, hoe, meadow-splitter, sui
ky-plow and commander.
New York handles about 5000 ALI
gator skins per annum The business
IS entirely in the hands Of a single firm,
who employ men to pursue the reptile
in the bayous of the Mississippi River,
and the work is usually done at night
by the aid of lanterns, the rifles used be-
ing aimed straight at the creatures eyes.
If the alligatOrs are too old or too young,
the ammunition used on them is thrown
away, for in such cases the skin is either
too horny or too small. A good size is
eight or nine feet, counting nothing be-
yOnd the thick part of the tail.
Mention is made of sample lump
of condensed milk, weighing some 1l2
pounds, which has been exhibited before
the Society of Arts in London, an inter-
esting experiment having also been
made ON the same during its exhibition
This mammoth piece of solidified fluid
was prepared according to the most APP
proved process, and had been exposed
to the action of the air for four years
and three months, yet its quality Of ex-
cellence had been so perfectly preserved
during all that period that in few min
utes it was resolved by churning into
good fresh butter.