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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-28
Science and Industry.

The City Council of Mobile have
decided not 10 tax any cotton factories
for ten years that may be erected in that
city.
The cotton blanket, quite common
in France and Germany, is made by
only one mill in the United States, the
Eagle and Phoenix. at Columbus, Ga.
Negotiations are in progress for a
track of land in Decatur County. Ca,
on which to settle a colony of French
immigrants from Germanized Alsace.
The Balloon Commission of the
French Government, styling itself
.'Commission pour les Communications
par Vole Aerienne." has become a stand
ing institution, and includes within its
province carrier pigeons, rs well as
aeronauts and balloons.
Great efforts are being made by the
Chinese to improve the administration
and develop the and trade Of
Formosa. The coal mines at Keeling
are now fitted with foreign machinery,
and it is said that a telegraph is to be
erected to connect the important towns
on the west coast.
There are now eight large vessels in
Mobile Bay loading with timber for
Europe, and four others have just clear
ed. They take on an average wood to
the value Of $4,000. Should the pro-
posed break-water be built in the lower
bay, so as to afford a shelter for vessels
while loading, this trade would at once
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-28


Mrs. Darlington says Ike has bought
a horse 50 spirituous that he always goes
of in a decanter.
AS the young Lady remarked about
the infant: "How sweet, but how bald
for enc so young"
An impudent adventurer having
married an hciress. a wit remarked that
the b~ridegroom's brass was outshone by
the brides tan.
An Irishman. who was asked why
he wore his stockings wrong-side out,
replied: because there was a hole ON
the other side
"A spinster lady of 50 remarked the
other day that she could go alone at six
months old. "Yes," said her hateful
young half-brother, .'and You have been
going alone ever since"
His Majesty the King Of Daiiomey
is toying to beg off from a part Of his
fine of 500 puncheons, and it does. in
fact. seem exorbitant. Why don't the
British commander just let him have
one good puncheon be done with it?
The New York Herald informs us
that an author of that city is writing a
book son Paper On what in the
mischief could he write it but on paper?
Cincinnati Enquirer. Well. he might
write on c%ompulsion, or on reflection,
or on Sunday.-St- LOUIS Repa6licam.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-28

During a drunken row, at Florence,
Neb., Constable Simpson was called in,
and, in the discharge Of his duty, shot
and fatally wounded a man named
Davis.
AT New Haven. Conn, Charles
Wells. of Galveston, Texas. was shot
dead while fleeing from the police, who
were attempting to arrest him and three
others quarreling in the street.
Charles III. Gilman, of Lowell. a
sewing machine agent, was murdered at
R~ockport, Mass, on the llth. VIM.
Williams, his assistant, has been arrested
on suspicion.
The body of Miss Nettie Russman,
a respectable young lady of Tiffin, Ohio,
was found in the river near that place
with marks of violence upon her person,
indicating murder.
F. Dupall and Perry Hamilton,
young men of Prairie du Chen, at
tempted suicide, the former by shooting
a shotgun oil in his own face. the latter
by leaping into a well. They both were
saved, but very much damaged.
"A fatal accident occurred on the
Tusearawas branch of the Cleveland
and Pittsburgh Road from Bayard to
New Philadelphia, Ohio, on the 9Th.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-28
school and Church.

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v;s;ted NV roI;@;nns wortars rnJar tho
direction If Mood
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rive churches IN 'ahiorhla nave
simultaneously Paid church depts
amounting 10 nearly Sioo'oov- ohe Oh
these' the hev- .. stone $ RAISED On TWO
successive sunday mornings s'o,ooo.
There are l,2OO,OO0 children in Ire
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-28

The cars ON the line between Mo-
dane-a station on the Swiss side of the
Mont Gems Tunnel-and Turin are lit
by gas, on an ingenius system devised
by NJ. Cambrelin, chief of the lighting
department of the Belgian lines, who has
for many years applied it to these latter
with very satisfactory results. Our rail-
roads are sadly behind in this respect.
We recently explained NJ. Monte
mats new pyrophone. which consists of
tubes of copper in which incandescent
pieces of charcoal inclosed in wire gauze
are introduced, TO create an upward cur
rent of air and so TO cause the pipes to
sound. Ii is now proposed to construct
an instrument on this principle on an
enormous scale for the French Exposi-
ton Of 1873, the tubes being large
enough TO receive small charcoal fur
naces. The inventor points out that his
device may be used rs a fog signal. as
ii produces a loud noise and requires
scarcely any machinery to operate it,
Scientific american.
"A denizen of Chicago is out with n
new project for using the tide u Il
ihotpr. Ills pfppo>itioH tilbfdct> the
construction on the sea shore of large
circular air-tight tanks Of masonry, the
bottom TO be on a level with low-water
mark, and the top on a level with high
water mark. The tank is to be con-
nected with the sea, by a canal which
enters below low-water line. With the
top Of the cover is connected a pipe,
strorg enough for the purpose, extend
ing from the tank as far As required,
one mile or LOCO miles long, running to
where the poweris required. This pipe
incloses the motive power in the form
of compressed arr, and the power in
the pipe a be tapped anywhere-near
the tank or far off is all the same-and
be used as steam is now used. The
rising of the water in the sea causes the
air in the tank to compress. To secure
a regular high pressure, the entrance
(mouth) Of the canal into the tank is
fixed with a gate, which is shut and
opened at intervals, in midway of the
tides.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-28
Art al the Bottom OF the Tiber.


A correspondent writing from Rome,
March %, says: ION Monday, the l2th,
the first blow Of the pick was struck in
the bed OF the Iiber, in pursuance Of
the long talked Of scheme of draining
and ~embanking the river. The number
of men thus far employed upon the
works, the cost Of which is estimated at
6O,OOo,OOo francs, amounts TO Il or So,
a proportion which, If continued. will
defer the completion OF the project to
A. ID. 2l5O. This gives US leisure to
take into consideration the probabilities
of discoveries being made in the bed Of
the river, in other words, whether the
chance of such discoveries is real or I'M
aginary. In the fever of research which,
during the last four centuries, has turn
ed up the soil of Rome, the bed of the
Tiber has certainlynot been spared, and
yet the discoveries have not come up to
the public expectation. Suchpoorresults,
Notwithstanding the magnilicence Of the
buildings which stood on the quays,
and parts Of which must have fallen into
the bed of the river, can be easily en-
planned from the muddy quality of the
water. The proportion of solid matter
to liquid, which, in ordinary eircum-
stances, is per cent, of ten, during the
floods, reaches an average of 10 to 81
per cent. The bed is consequently made
of quicksands of light mud. through
which heavy objects sink fast to "A great
depth. The central pier Of the tubular
bridge at st. Paola is sunk for more than
60 feet. In October, 1865, Il train of Il
trucks, loaded with stone. fell into the
river from the same bridge, stopping
navigation. When, a month a.terward,
the Government engineers went to clear
away the debris, not a fragment Of the
trucks, not a stone was found; all had
been swallowed up by the mire. How
is it possible, under such circumstances,
to think of finding works Of art At the
bottom Of old Father Tiber? Still,
there are some who hope for the re-
covery of the bodies of Maxentius
and his staff, all clad in gold ar
NOR, and expect to disinter the
seyen-branched candlestick. They seem
to forget the following passage Of Aure-
lius Victor: "Maxentius,'' he saws,
"endeayoring TO cross the bridge Of
boats, which had been constructed for
the use of his army, n little below Ponte
Monte, was thrown by his frightened
horse into the waters and eaten up by
the Iuicksands on account of the weight
of his cuirass. Constantine had great
difficulty in finding his corpse As re-
CARDS the Jewish treasures, no doubt the
golden table, the silver trumpets, and
the candlestick were deposited by Titus
and Vespasian in the newly built Tenn
pie of Peace. They escaped destruction
in the fire of 1872; and ~Procopius, in his
War of the Goths, a he had heard
they had been carried away by King
Alaric, who was buried with his treas
ures in the River Basentus, near Cosen-
"a. In that river, therefore, and not in
the Tiber, We ought TO look for them, If
the statement of Procopius was not con-
tradicted by himself in the War Of the
Vandals, where he says. on the best ies-
timony, that the Jewish trophies were
carried by Genseric to Carthage in the
year 455.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-28

|Iaris proposes TO hold IN the winter
of 1877, or during the period Of the Ex-
position, a grand book fair, modelled
after the famous one at Leipzig.
The King of Siam is only 81 years
old, and has nine wives already. But
people wed with the greatest Of Siam
ease in that county.
1t is claimed that the population of
Palestine is now double what it was ten
years ago. The principal migration of
Jews thither is from Russia.
One of the Chinese Ambassadors in
London has promised Miss Monroe. "A
pretty American actress, to build for
her a theater of ivory as wide as Lon
don.
An unknown young man Of so pre-
cipitated himself on the 9th of March
from the column of the Bastile in Paris.
The fall vas arrested by a projection,
but when the body was obtained. it was
found to be l~ifeless. The next day,a mar
jumped from the top of the Are de Tri-
omphe under peculiar circumstances.
He assembled the building in high spirits
with a friend, and, on reaching the sum-
init, said, as he approached the edge,
''Supposing l wereto jump" His com
panion told him to stop such nonsense,
and the young man retired and began
discussing the scenery. A few minutes
afterward, he again approached the
brink, saying, calmly, "Look, I'm go
ing to jump" He did so, and was tax
en- up a mass Of unacceptable flesh.
Nh. IL
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Arkansas has more newspapers in
proportion to population than any other
State in the Union.
-Dore Lyon, husband of the actress,
Kate ClaXton, has been declared Il bank
rupt-
-Fiske Mills, son of Clark Mills, the
sculptor, Is the unrequited lover OF Vim
ME Ream.
The rumor that ex-President Grant
would prepare 4 history of the war in
which he bore so distinguished Il part
may now be set down As a fact.
Miss Florence Davenport, youngest
daughter of the tragedian, +. l.. Dayen-
port. has made Il successful musical
debut in Philadelphia.
The author of CLONE, Sweet
Home never had a home: and Geo.
Mcdonald. who has eleven children. is
the author of ANNALS of Il Quiet Neigh
borhood."
Henri l,ochefort, the French Fadi-
cal pamphleteer. being lately in Alsace,
had news that he was likely to. be ar
rested by the German Government. and
only saved himself by instant and rapid
flight.
A sale took place lately in Paris of
4 marvellous collection of engravihgs.
They included 4 quantity of almanacs.
forming a regular succession Of histori-
cal annals. from 1916 to 1889. These
fetched 81 ,2G0. Thewhole sale realized
$685.
The first attempt to rival English
journalism in India, by a paper in Hin
dostance. is soon to be made in Bonn
bay. 1t is 10 be edited by native Moham-
medans, though probably a European
will be employed as an associate.
Andrew Young, formerly head
master OF the City School. Edinburgh,
Scotland. is the author Of There is a
Happy Land" The hymn was COM
posed in 1888. and has been translated
into every modern tongue.
William Wood, the publisher. died
on the 10th, in his sons home. in Sixty
first Street, y. Y. He retired from
business in 1865, and thereafter inter-
ested himself mainly in the affairs of
the Society OF Friends. OF which he was
a lifelong member. His father was an
English Quaker, who came to New
York and set up a small book store at
S62 Pearl Street in 1908. From this
grew the publishing house of William
Wood Il Son. William Wood was adj
mitted into the firm in 1922. Their
place of business was then at psi Pearl
Street. William becoming especially
Interested in medical books, soon won Il
great reputation for his firm in that
line. The place of business was change
several times, as the business grew,
until it was finally fixed at - Great
Jones Street. William Wood established
the Medical Record and the Amer1can
Journal OF Obstetrics. He was one of
the founders and original directors Of
the Mercantile Library.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-28
Odds and Ends.

Not an optical delusion-the Ugh
winds of spring.
-Clergymen, like brakemen, do a
good deal of coupling.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-28

As the train south from Bayard was
crossing the bridge near Malvern, the
bridge gave way. precipitating the en-
CINE into the creek, killing the fireman,
James Sharp, and seriously injuring the
engineer, George Dearborn.
Forbes j. Barr. aged Is years, was
watering stock on his fathers farm, six
miles south of Fort Wayne, Nd, on the
18th, when the valve or plunger at the
bottom Of the pump become disengaged.
He descended into the well to adjust the
plunger, was overcome by damps, and
before he could get assistance expired.
Aaron Wellbaum. while trying To rescue
Barr. was so badly poisoned by foul air
that it was half an hour before he could
be resuscitated.
William Manchester. a farmer, re-
siding : miles west of Linn, Ind, was
found ON the Sth, about . miles from
home. in his wagon, with his throat cut
from ear to ear, his horse being tied to
4 tree near the road. He had the APP
pearance of being dead several hours.
1t is supposed he had a large sum of
money in his possession. His pockets
were rifled. No clew has Yet been OBJ
tanned to tie murderers.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-04-28
TO

All communication for this paper should be
accompanied by the name of the author, not nee
essirily tor publication, but rs evidence of good
faith on the part of the writer: Write only on
one side OF the paper. BE particularly careful,
in giving names and dates, 10 have all letters or
figures plain and distinct.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-11-01
CONSUMPTION a Disease of Indoor Life.

DIR. Felix L. Oswald says in the No
vember Popular Science Monthly:
Among the natives OF Senegambis pull
monary affections are not only nearly but
absolutely unknown; yet a single year
PASSED in the oyer-crewded man-Pens and
teeraEe- bells OF the slave trader often
sufficed to develop the disease in that
most virulent form known as gallOping
consumption and the brutal planters of
the Spanish Antilles made a rule of never
buying an imported negro until they had
Tested his wind" /. e., trotted him up
hill and watched his respirations. If he
proved to be " rOarer," as turtmen term
it, they knew that the dungeon had done
its work and discounted his value
accordingly. eff perfectly sound man
is imprisoned for life" says Baron
d'Arblay, the Belgian philanthropist, {" his
lungs, as rule, will first show symptoms
of disease, and shorten his misery by a
hectic decline, unless he should commit
! suicide"
Oar home statistics show that the per
centage of deaths by consumption in each
state bears an exact proportion to the
| greater or smaller number of inhabitants
| who follow indoor occupations, and Is
highest in the factory districts of New
central states. In Great Britain the rate
increases with the latitude and attains Its
maximum height in Glasgow, where, a:
Sir Charles Brodie remarks, windows are
opened only one day for every two il
Birmingham, and every three and hal
in London but going farther north The
percentage suddenly sinks from twenty
three to eleven, and even to six, if We
cross the ffty-seventh parallel, which
marks the boundary between the manu-
featuring counties of central Scotland
and the pastoral regions of the north.
It is distressingly probable, then, to say
the least, that consumption, that mos
fearful scourge of the human race, is no
mysterious dispensation of Provi
dence," nor - product of our outrageOu
climate" but the direct consequence o
an outrageous violation of the laws O
Gnd
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-11-01

{" Haven't you got the Mofet regis
ter?" inquired the statesman.
ooh, yes, sir, with touch of sar-
casm.
Il thought didn't hear the bell =. "
duerlously remarked Virginia's treas
ruer.
'Oh, no, Mr. Hunter, you did not, ;"
very emphatically.
q Why ;" hesitatingly.
" Because you haven't paid me. Mr..
Hunter.
This produced laugh at the expense
of the distinguished treasurer and finan-
cier, who, after fumbling in his pocket
produced a douceur and planked it up
Whereupon the barkeeper with a consid,
cradle flourish, turned his crank, sounded
the gong aud announced, "another half
cent toward paying the debt of Vir-
ginia. +" Mr. Hunter beat hasty re-
treat
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-11-01
sane ror Beddiue cattle.

Sand, says a recent writer, if not the
best, is one of the best articles in use for
bedding cattle. It is 4 good deodOrizar
and keeps the stable sweet. AS the
cattle work 1t back into the trench under
their feet il mixes with the manure, and
thus divides it and makes it more suitable
for the use of plants. If the distance to
haul it is not too far, its very cheapness
ought to recommend its use. In barns
that have no cellars, were 1t used freely,
it would absorb large amount of urine
that is now wasted. Soil and muck are
dirty things 10 use in tie stable, but
sand is clean. Then, too, it is a nice
thing to use under hen roosts to receive
the drcopings, which can be easily raked
off and kept in barrels, and in spring
mixed with fine COW manure-one part OF
the former to two of the latter. This
being shoveled over two or three times,
makes a mass of rich manure. A large
handful of this in the hill will set corn
TO growing finely Flowers, too, grow
and blossom far better IN soil that has
an admixture of sand. So clsyey and
peaty soils are benefited by its cOmbiua-
tion with them and vice versa. When
spread on heavy soils in grass it produces
more effect than any chemical manure.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-11-01
The Cnntnre of Hrenas.

The following mode of tying hyenas in
their den, as practiced in Afghanistan, is
given by Arthur Connolly, in his Over
land Journal, in the words of an Afghan
chief, the ShirkarOe Synd DaOnd:
" When you have tracked the beast to
his den you take a rope with two slip
knots upon it in your right hand, and
with your left holding felt cloak before
you, you go boldly but quietly in. The
animal does not know the nature of the
danger, and, therefore, reCires to the back
of the den, but you may always tell
where his head is by the glare of his eyes
You keep moving gradually toward him
on your knees, and when you are within
distance throw the cloak over his head,
close with him and take care he does not
free himself. The beast is so frightened
that he covers back, and though he may
bite the felt, he cannot turn his neck
round 20 hurt you, so you quietly feel
fer his fore legs, slip the knots over them,
and then with one strong pull draw them
tight up to the back of his neck and tie
them there. The beast is now your own,
and yeu can do what you like with him
We generally take those we catch home
to the krail, and hunt them on the plain
with brides in their mouths, that sur
dogs may be taught not TO fear the Drutes
when they meet them wild. ="
Hyenas are also taken alive by the
Arabs by very similar method, except
that a wooden gag is used instead of a
felt cloak. The similarity in the mode
of capture in two such distant countries
as Algeria and Afghanistan, and by two
races 30 different, IS remarkable. From
the fact that the Afghans consider that
the feat requires great presence of mind,
and an instance being given of a man
having died of bite in q clumsy attempt,
we may infer that the Afghan hycna is
more powerful or more ferocious than his
African COngener.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-11-01
Fall and Winter Fashions.

RETICULEs.-The oId-fashioned reti-
Guile is in style again, made of silk or
velvet to match the costume, and hung
on the wrist by handsome cords.
COLLARs.-BrOad collars of pale blue,
rose or cTeam-cOlored foulard are made
to wear with dark dresses. The wide
Anne of Austria cuffs covering the
sleeves are of the same fOulard. These
make handsome facing for duchesse and
other point lace, though the cOlOTed col
lars and cuffs are also worn.
The HAIR.-The Recamier style of
hair-dressing is a fayOrite autumn mode
In this the hair is combed up from the
nape of the neck, and a pOuf of curls is
placed at the top of the head. The hair
in front is also combed upward, but the
fringe over the forehead remains, and
may hang cut straight across like a
child's or be arranged in light frizzes.
BONNETs -The hair is dressed very
softly and with reference to the shape of
the hat. For the cEoWnless floral bon
nets, or those with feather fronts to be
worn on dressy occasions, the couture is
high soft loops and puffs on top of the
head. For the close shapes the back
hair is arranged in a fiat chatelaine loop
very low on the nape of the neck, or else
the chatelaine is braided in wide basket
braids of seven strands or more. The
materials for the new b0nnets are plush
or velvet trimmed with satin. The
| feathers and flowers suTpass those of any
| former season. The bird-of-paradise
with its golden plumage, is the choice
| for expensive bOnnets.
HATS.-Felt is especially liked for
round hats, its only rival being velvet.
Helmet-shaped hats, like those worn by
gentlemen during the summer, are of.
tered for young ladies. Their only trim
ming is a wide gailoon band and slen
| der wing. Another jaunty shape comes
far down over the brow, with a square
visor-shaped front, while the back and
sides are rolled closely against the crown
! this is the jockey hat, and is most suit.
able for young girls in their teens; the
! feathers, which are two short Ostrich
| plumes, are set back of the crown, anC
made to curl down on the front.
WRAPs.-LOng slender sacques viii
! again be favOriJe wraps for fall and win
| ter. Those for general use are Of medium
| length, made of the new rough cloths
| double. breasted, buttoned their entire
length, and with coat flaps behind. Thest
are shown in smooth cloths of various
light gray shades, and moreover, o
clear blue and of scarlet. For the latte
the trimming is rows of applique EN-
brOidery in shaded colors. More dressy
sacque cloaks are long enough to enveIoI
the whole figure, which they tit closely
and have side draperies in the way 0
capes or flowing sleeves. These come il
black repped silk, plush cloths, and th,
knotted curled, rough surfaces that ar,
woven or fine camePs hair. Circulars 0
clinging shapes are shown for carriag
wraps. Nantes as long as the sacqut
cloaks or as small as fichus, in scarf-Shape
like Dolmans, and as round capes, ar
shown, and the materials are as varied a
the styles.-HaJper's Ba-ar.