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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-23
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-Sothern, the actor, is writing a
book.
-Tennyson is preparing new vol
ume of poems.
Senator Gordon was once news
paper man.
-Beecher, Triton and Moulton are
all lecturing.
Henry NJ. Stanley calls himself a
"soldier Of journalism
Stanley will write history of his
African explorations, at London, before
returning to the United States.
The court sword worn by the poet
Schiller is now in possession of Bayard
Taylor. 1t was given him by Thacke-
ray.
The publishing houses of James Il.
Osgood & Co. and Hurd q Houghtop of
New York and the Riverside Press of
Cambridge have been consolidated.
Walt Whitman is preparing a new
book, containing prose and poetry,
which he intends to call Far and Near
at SO" He is now in his 18th year.
The copyright of the musical works
of Mendelssohn expired on the first of
January, the authors or composers
privilege being limited to 80 years after
death.
Mr.. Longfellow says if he were to re-
spond to all the requests sent to him for
his autograph and his portrait, he would
spend third of his income in photo
graphs and portraits.
-Coubert, the lately deceased paint
er, never used a brush, but laid on his
colors thickly with a palette knife. He
produced many delicate effects in this
way with few touches
Mrs. Southworth, Mrs Ann s. Ste
phens, and Mrs. Burnett, all novelists,
figure in Washington society Mrs
Denison, author OF THAT Husband OF
Mime is also resident of the Capital,
and, it is said, has just bought home
of the profits of her successful book.
Prof. Hall has christened his twin
discoveries, Mars satellites, s'Deimus -
and "Phebus." Homer mentions the
names in he fifteenth book of the Iliad,
where Mars is preparing TO descend to
the earth. Bryant renders the lines
thus: 9 He spake and summoned Fear
Oeimus) and Flight (Phebus) to yoke
his steeds and put his glorious armor
on"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-23

The new King of Italy took the title
OF Humbert the First. There have been
three Dukes OF Savoy of that name, but
never a King Humbert, either in the
Savoyan dynasty, or in the annals of
Sardinia
"A very clever mode of serving q
writ was lately adopted by London
attorney in the case OF a bright, partic-
ular operate star whom he couldn't
approach. He took Il stage box, and
after she had finished song threw a
bouquet. Ii was received with a fas-
cinating smile. Nesting amid the roses
was billet, but it did not prove to be
particularly doug. "Victoria, ex-
claimed the lady, as her eye caught that
name, when she tore il open behind the
scenes, "My names not Victoria; why,
what's this Victoria by the grace OF
God, greeting The Queens Bench
insisted that it was good service, and
she was arrested just as she was about
to play, when kindly peer paid the
money and saved her from sponging
house.
The negotiations between the En-
Blt>S NyutCu toA
the marriage of the Prince Imperial and
the Infanta Maria del-Pilar have been
renewed, and are likely now to have a
favorable issue. This is attributed to
the breach between King Al
fonso and his mother over
his espousing a daughter of the Mont
pensier. King Alfonso set his face
against all idea of an alliance between
his sister and the Bonapartes, and de-
cisively repealed all approaches from
Chislehurst on the subject. Queen Isa-
bella was then Indifferent on the subject,
but since her son is giving her daugh-
ter-ip-law whom she does not approve
she means to give him a brother-in-law
equally unwelcome.
King Victor Emanuel was especially
fond of fight. AT the battle of Goito,
in lS49, he charged, at the head of a
regiment, an Austrian battery, and
showed the same courage during the
eighteen hours strife at Novara. On
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-23

AT Lafayette, Ind, John Gallagher
was killed by coasting accident, and
another boy was dangerously injured in
the same pastime.
Lizzie Sullivan, aged s, of Spring
field, Mass, was fatally burned by her
clothes taking fire while lifting a cover
from hot stove, using her apron for
the purpose.
The 2-year-old daughter of a man
named Earl, farmer living near
St. Louis, Gratiot County, Mich, was
burned to death while her mother was
al a nelghbor's. The child's clothing
took fire while she was playing in the
ashes.
Thomas Valentine, aged %, was
running an upright saw in a saw-mill at
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-23

The University of Michigan takes
the lead among American institutions
in following European customs and do
ing away with g commencement
Lieut. Flipper, the only colored
graduate OF West Point, is 10 be ap-
pointed military instructor of the color
ed branch of the Agricultural and Mill
tary College of Texas.
Pennsylvania people are clamoring
for the close Of their " teacher factory
as they term the Normal School, as
there are now l,200 teachers with GER
tiicates, but wit=out situations.
Peter Cooper is negotiating for the
purchase of Limestone Springs, near
Spartansburg, 5. c., when he will es-
tablish an institution similar in general
design to Cooper Institute in New York
Professor Peck, who is connected
with school in Homer, n. Y, has been
fined $3.50 for severely whippinga pupil.
AT one time the jury stood six in favor
of making tine amount $1,000 and six
for $500.
There are IS Baptist churches in
the Greek Nation, Indian Territory
Six of these churches are composed of
colored members, formerly slaves of the
Indians. but now enjoying civil rights
and social equality.
The teachers of the public schools
OF Baltimore have formed beneficial
association, whose object is to provide
certain benefits for the members in cases
of sickness and disability, and for their
families in cases of death. The St.
Louis teachers have just adopted SINH
lar plan.
The Southern Educational Conven-
ton met at Atlanta, Ga. on the eth.
One hundred and twenty delegates were
present. A memorial was adopted and
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-23

Sand Lake, Mich. He leaned over to
shift the belt, when he slipped and fell
against the saw, which cut his head and
one arm off.
Ira Hart and family, of Lordstown,
O., were crossing the railroad track at
West Warren in sleigh, when the ex-
press train ran into them, killing Mr..
Hart instantly and severely injuring his
wife and two daughters.
AT Providence, X. L., James F.
Leary was drowned by breaking through
the ice while skating, and a companion,
named Fred W. Uglow, was so terrified
by the accident that it brought on brain
fever from which he died q few days
afterward.
Miss Sallie Porter, an estimable
young lady of Cincinnati, while in q de-
lirium of fever wandered from her home
about midnight, barefooted and clad
only in her night clothing. She was
found dead about three hours afterward,
some distance from the house.
Suicidal: Geo. f. Biles, agent for
Warder, Mitchell & Co., of Chicago,
committed suicide at the Bond House,
Niles, Mich, by taking strychnine.
Biles had been drinking heavily for sew
eral days.-A youth named Boyle, Il
years of age, living on his fathers place,
near Sboplere, Wis, attempted suicide
by shooting himself with revolver.
When found he had dragged himself
under the barn, and was extricated with
great difficulty. Life was found not 10
be extinct, though his recov-
cry is very doubtful. No cause
is known for the act.-At
st. Paul, Mimi, Augustus S. Eckman,
draughtsman of the St. Paul and Du-
luth Railroad, hung himself with rope
swing in his yard. He was of intern
perate habits, and squandered his earn
ings, which caused trouble between
himself and wife.-Dr. T. X. Black, of
Batavia, Jefferson County, Ia, was
found dead in his office, having commit
ted suicide by shooting. A revolver
was in his right hand with blood flow
ing from the mouth. An examination
showed that the deceased had shot him
self in the mouth, the ball coming out at
the top of the head. Deceased was Il
young man about 20 years of age,
and highly respected. He was regarded
as fine physician, with a bright future
before him. No cause is assigned for
the act of Observation-Disclosures B.
Vitas, aged %, bank cashier of Og-
densburg, n. Y, and most respectfully
connected, shot himself at Montreal,
after three days debauch.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1878-02-23


All the gold in the world could be
welded into 23-foot cube.
Dynamite has the consistency of
and closely resembles brown sugar.
The timber of the oak is not of
much value until the tree is 100 years
old.
-Narrow-gauge railroads are grow
ing in favor, one-half the new roads
built in 1877 being of that class.
The Florida orange season has
proved unremunerative. The markets
were crowded with unripe fruits at first,
which forced down prices, and there
they have remained.
One hundred and forty-five thou
sand dollars has been taken in a few
months from White Hall gold mines, in
Spottsylvania County, Va.
Among the shipments last year
from the port of Wilmington, n. c.,
were 1880 bushels peanuts, l01, e32
pounds turpentine, 531 500 barrels rosln,
and sol bags asbestos.
"A Nevada engineer is perfecting a
plan of heating city by means of heat
generated in subterranean mines. The
plan contemplates a system of pipes for
distributing the heat throughout the
city. The same operation ventilates the
mines.
The coal production of the world
has increased'enormously since 1S45. In
that wear Great Britain produced 81,
500, 900 tons; in 1874, 125, 043.000 tons !;
Belgium, 1915, 4,960,077; in 1874, H.
669,00O. France, 1915, Ala, 6l7; 1874,
l6,949, 900. Prussia, 1915, 3,50O,OOO;
1874, Al ,754 500 In the United States
the production in 1874 was nearly ten
times that in 1915.
The State of Georgia lets out its
convicts for Sl4 year apiece TO COM
panies that furnish guards ard employ
the prisoners in mines or on farms. A
contract has Just been entered into be-
tween ex-Gov. Brown and the State by
which the former agrees to pay the lat :
ter 100000 in yearly installments of
S25, 200 for the use of all conyicts for
twenty years from April, 1879
A patent for COMPRISING tea was
lately brought to the notice Of the eX-
hibition of sanitary appliances in Man
chester, England. 1t congresses the
loose leaves of tea into one-third of their
original bulk, and, in breaking up the
fiber of the leaves, opens the small cells
which have been closed by the process
of driving, and which are not thorough
" opened when merely infused in boil
ing water. Ghe result is gain OF from
40 to 80 per cent in strength.
The " free oil pipe proposition,
which has excited great amount OF
discussion in Pennsylvania, is to build q
capacious conduit, through which the
crude product of the oil regions may
run to Baltimore. thence to be shipped
to Europe. This is bad news for Phila-
delphia, whittier much of the oil now
goes, and threatens the destruction of
the refinery industry in this country,
which now gives direct and indirect en-
ployment TO 200,0 men.
Haps and Mishaps.
IL. r.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-08
Lost HeI. Head.

8 A Boston letter says: Every one knows
that among all the rest of our schools for
women, there are ample means now for a
woman who seeks to become a physician
to make herself familiar with all the
principles of practice and all tho secrets
of medicine and surgery. A young
student who has pursued her studies up
to certain point in another city came to
Boston last winter and proceeded to visit
a certain dissecting room TO which she
had been invited. Mounting the stairs,
she at last comes to the landing, from
which opens the apartment where the
wonders Of the human frame are, materi-
ally all found out. Waiting to catch her
breath. perhaps TO catch her courage, she
overhears the following from the physi-
clan in attendance upon the class: "There
are not enough heads to go round. Some
of you must choose something else."~ The
listener turned pale and leaned against
the wall. She thought she wouldn't pay
her visit that day: She thought sic
would 60 home and perhaps study little
further and approach the 0issecting room
a. little more gradually. 5As>she turned to
carry this resolution into effect, size met
the janitor of the building, VIII" was evil
IDENTIFY, familiar with visitors and students
in this stage and state of mind, for he
said, encouragingly, "It you'll wait q
minute, miss, you'll be all right. Most
Of 'em feels this way sats the first start =
But "miss" didn't wait that day.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-08
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The sRenpile4s Man. |

0Blessed is the man who is penniless,
for he is never stricken-for dollar
The deadhead annnoyeth him not, neither
is be pursued by the book agent. He is
not grasped by the ightning7rod seller.
The lunch fend turneth away 'ffoh him.
The trinket vender passeth him by. He
is not asked to invest in church lotteries.
He hath no friends to treat" he, is poor
And hath no enimissl Whit lIes fiseth in
the morning his stomach is not rebellious
from overfeeding, neither does be- aclipk
and say, SLOW shall / get md of these
dimes3' When he eateth He is not vexed
by multitude of dishes. His lands will
never take unto them wings, neither will
the fire devour his water lots.
u He is not perplexed about taxes, neither
eareth he for the rise in lumber. He
hath no ties for money, therefore, caleth
not to demonetize; nevertheless ;aadime
will he not refuse, nor turn away from q
fve-center. Yea, . gerkin will be relish,
and ssorrA, the zoutwofksaof kssteelclad
biscuit. He loveth none shut.himself; he
is selfish; yea, fond Of hsii, CLAIMS and
vinegar asii he 81 ' asspis.. lie fS msfetS
hi( lair il 9 harrQom; he squatteth On 81
key while It Is day, and sleepcth in q
barrel at night u Where scent of whisky
,is, there. be: sis found; he snufeth the
lunch with frenzy, and crieth hal hal
4 the chink Of glasses. he liyeth like :
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-08
Not 4 Case Of Suicide.

There was a picnic in Eby's Grove,
near layton, Ohio, one day recently.
Some of the young men wandered down
the river In secluded nook they dis
covered a pile Of: female .clot hing, they
looked into the river for signs of life or
death but saw nothing. A newspaper
reporter of the party took down all the
surroundings, rummaged among the
clothes, and found there were several sets
or suits of them, little and big. In one
of the pockets love letter was found,
written by Hal to Julia. The clothing
was tendcrly bundled up and taken to
the picnic camp, stuffed und r a buggy
seat, and the party started home feeling
very sad. 1t did not occur to them at
once that it was a little strange young
woman and two or three little girls
should commit suicide all at once. It
was perhaps Julia and her little sisters
who had thus plunged into eternity. 1t
was very sad case all agreed--disap-
pointed love perhaps-and on the theory
of suicide the love letter. would be a
good thing for the account. The clothes
were taken to the police Office. The re-
porter was satisfied that he had good
thing. The account was read evidently,
for early in the morning an angry father
came raging into the police quarters de-
handing the clothes. His daughter had
taken walk on the river bank with two
or three little neighbor girls, and the
place being secluded and the temperature
warm, and the water inviting, they con-
cluded to take bath. Soon they heard
voices in the woods, and hid themselves
in the bushes. They huddled together
as quiet as mice until the intrudjng
young men had come and gone-gone
with their clothes. The only thing they
could do was to remain quietly where
they were until after dark and then steal
to their homes in the kindly shadows of
night. 49,. =
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-08
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The Kiss of Peace.

80, Fishwives and other market women
have long enjoyed q reputation for tru-
culence of speech and manner, not only
in England, but in most parts of the
world. A Russian Colonel, who has late
ly been appointed Chief Police Master of
one of the most popular towns of the Bal
tic Provinces, has hit upon a novel but
truly Oriental plan for the civilization of
these charitable DANES. He knew that
preaching moral hom'ly would be of no
use whatever where the hearers were two
women who were c,trsing one another at
the rate of 12O words minute, who were
only prevented from tearing one another's
faces by the strong arm of the police.
''You must be locked up in one and the
same cell until you have kissed each 9TH
err This was invasiablX the, sentence
of the new Magistrate in every case of
female brawl which was brought before
him. *a.*., =, s1f,a .egssa. s~,,ly;t .i3 70
He knew very well that although kiss
ing one another is habit with male
Russians, it j. not much. in use with the
women of Muscovy, least Of all with
fishwives. The excited ladies were thur
ried of. rallied for time louder than
ever, protested that they would die soon
er than give this humiliating sign. of re-
cancellations, and then, after q few hours,
confinement, called the gaoler, ana IN
formed him that they had kissed
As the conciliatory act was effected in
the dark, for the sake Of procuring liberty,
and without the presences Of witnesses,
the fishwives were informed that they
must repeat the kiss publicly sins The
open market. place. A small
fine was the taken from each, and they.
marched out into the mercantiles areopa-
gus, and Were then compelled, In the
midst Of their sisters in trade, TO kiss
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-08
4 CITY in Two states i.

A correspondent writes from Bristol to
the Phi1ddephSn Press: This is perhaps
the only city in the world that has two
mayors and two city governments, police,
etc., and IS taxed in Two states. The line
between Tennessee and Virginia is the
centre of Main street, and it gives rise
to many funny scenes; as, for example,
the runaway couple need no coach and
four, but, arm in arm, step across Main
street and. ARE 'wedded.;, The fugitive
commits a crime in Virginia, goes to the
payment on the other side of the street,
and talks detiantly to the officer on the
opposite side, who has a warrant for his
arrest. A misstep or a too bold DISPOSE
ton will sometimes, however, bring him
to grief Several instances have occurred
of a fugitive being hustled across the
line by party prepared, while in the act
of holding such a conversation, and they
tell Of man who detiantly perched him
self on pile of store boxes within six
feet OF the line, jeering at the officers on
the other side, but, unfortunately for
him, law. abiding citizens tilted the boxes
and when he reached the ground he was
in another state.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-08
Little Inlpatisnce.

It take SO many hours to make 4 day!
1t takes so many days to make a year,
My seventh birthday seems SO far away,
And yet my eighth, they say, Is nowhere
near!
Tho robins nest out In the cherry-tree
HELD sEs four s%s, young birds'-naked' and weak
a month ago!-so fast they grew, you see,
There's not robin in the nest ut all!
They flew, full grown!- I'm no bigger now
Than when the nest was built that one can
, see. :.
How robins grow SO fast, and girls SO slow,
Is very strange indeed, it seems to me.
I wonder how twould seem to be seventeen,
And wear long dresses like my Cousin Sue.
She has watch,-the pretticst ever seen,
And winds it all herself should do.
s'pose shall be married too, some day,
As mamma was. I've seen her veil and
dress;
They're IN the bureau draw, laid away,
She's saving them for me to wear, ! guess.
I wonder who III have! Not Cousin Joe.
Nor teasing Glare! Maybe my Uncle Tim |!
My papa the incest man know;
But mammals very sure she can't spare him !!
joy Allison.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-08
Exciting Scene in a Church.

Yesterday morning scene occurred in
one of our uptown gchurches which was
ont ofthe usual order Of exercises. anu
Which for time caused no little excite
ment. The congregation had gathered,
and the opening services had been held
as usual, and as the pastor arose and an
,noanced his text a well-dressed, fine
looking man: a'stranger to the >c~nerega
tion, quietly walked up the middle aisle,
and, ascending the pulpit, notified the
astonished divine that be felt called upon
to do the preaching on the occasion. The
action was done SO quietly that non2 of
the congregation, although the proceed
ings was so unusual saw fit to interfere,
and it was not until after the services
that they were made aware of the CONVEX
satlon between the pastor and the strang-
er. The former calmly requested the
stranger to be seated until he had deliv-
cred his NESS &c, when they would dis
cuss the matter, when the latter quietly
did so, and during the sermon never
moved from his position. As the minis
ter proceeded to deliver an -cloquentser-
mon on the power Of sin over mankind,
and the workings of an awakened con-
science, the stranger became visibly
affected, and throughout his emotion
was literal illustration of the words Of
the minister. After the close of the SER
vices the stranger, with tears in his eyes,
begged the minister's pardon for his
strange proceedings, and stated that he
had been up all the previous night with a
man swhoswas sick, and az he came to
church nd 1aasaized with an irresistible
impulse to do as he did. He had been a
drinking man. but for three months had
not touched drop of anything strong.
He earnestly begged permission to make
an apology to the congregation for his
strange behavior and said it was the most
humiliating thing he had ever done. The
occurrence created quite an excitement
of quiet nature, especially among the
female portion of the congregation, and
the pastor was complimented on his
nerve in preaching with his usual force
with an apparently insane man seated be-
kind him.s II j E; e;
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1878-08-08
How Not R0re.


None of the books CT etiquette that we
have yet read give prescriptions which
will cure the tendency which most of US
have to bore other people. The reason
is that none Of US suspects he is or can
be bore under any possible combine
ton Of circumstances. The supposition
is so wild and absurd as to be discounte-
nanced ut once. And yet so often are we
bored by other people that it would only
be reasonable for US to conclude that we
too might sometimes place ourselves in
the same unenvlable light. To know
when to come and when to 90, when to
be silent and when to speak, what to say
and how to say it, to be properly aware
how to express those thousand little tones
and acts which endear one, it is difficult
to explain precisely how, is either a nat
ural gift or an art obtainable after long
years of training. Yet he who is not
master of these things will run the risk
some time or other Of being considered a
nuisance. We all ought to learn how not
to bore. We owe it to our neishbors as we'll
as to ourselves. It's knowledge we exact
from them. If they do not betray it we
f 81 personally aggrieved; and are apt TO
consider them, for time. our enemies.
One certain way of not boring is never
to give people to much of our company
This is a rule difficult to observe. There
are times when weare too ready to believe
that our friends want us more than they
really do. We take their protestations
literally, and when they, say they could
live with us for ever and day, we posi-
lively give them the day. This is great
mistake: Probably six hours of the day
would have been quite sufficient. But we
are unwilling to believe that our fascina-
tions>are SO weak as not to stand longer
trial, and yielding TO thar weak, prejudice
in our own favor we become unmitigable
bores. II would. be we'll ii we could hold
the hand glass up to our failings in this
respect and:se ourselves as we really are.