Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-03-08
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Gen. Jrbal A. Early says it Is not
true that he is going TO prepare school
history Of the War of the Rebellion, as
stated on the authority of Southern
newspaper.
joaquin Miller has written a play
for Kitty Blanchard, called "49. Miss
Blanchard, however, is somewhat du-
bious about playing it, rs she fears
that those figures may be taken as her
age.
The Vatican is to have its own
journal, published in Italian, French,
English, German and Spanish. All the
papal briefs and allOcutiOns IN the orig
ipal text, but with TRANSACTIONS, will ap-
pear in it.
The exiled editor of the suppressed
German socialistic paper, The 7ocSia Of
the German Empire, has founded in
Switzerland an -" association for the
protection and aid of the politically per-
secuted"
Sarah Helen Whitman left behind
her the materials for prose volume,
which will include little monograph,
edgar Poe and His Critics." that was
first published in 1860 as defense of
the dead poet.
The Emperor of Germany has sane
toned the publication of the political
correspondence of Frederick the Great.
1t will comprise about 80 volumes, of
which one or two will appear every
year.
The official list of German books
published during last year has just been
issued bv the Leipsic Booksellers Asso-
citation. The total number of novelties,
together with new editions, was 1892,
against 1924 in the preceding year.
The State Library at Albany, n. Y,
has received copy OF the celebrated
Caxton Memorial Bible, which was
printed, bound and lettered in II hours
at the Oxford University Press, on the
occasion of the opening of the Caxton
celebration in 1877.
Paris has AZ daily papers, % of
them being published in the morning.
The large papers have circulation
every day of $50 200, and of that circu-
lation 100000 advocate Republican poll
tics. The smaller sheets have daily
circulation OF over million, three
quarters of which is Republican.
-Tennyson is extremely fond of
smoking the long clay pipe called the
"churchwardep.' The venerable poet
has a rough deal box holding about 90
pounds of tobacco, and in an upper
chamber, with this box near and long
churchwarden " in hand, he will talk
by the hour TO chosen cronies.
The Berliner Fremdenblah says that
the late Prince Henry of the Neither
lands has lef. no will. His immense
fortune will therefore go to his brother
and sister, the King of Holland and the
Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar. His
widow is entitled to yearly allo vance
of 10000 thalers, and to the Chateau of
Weissenstein as Il residence. The Crown
of the Netherlands will have to MAIN
tain this residence in repair.
"A Kentucky man has been looking
over the editorial stock of Cincinnati,
and he declares that Murat Halstead of
the Commercial is the handsomest and
the ablest; Deacon Smith of the Gazette
the crookedest in the legs and the
straightest in the morals; Col. A. c..
Sands of the Times the biggest around
the middle and the shrewdest; Johnny
Mclean of the Enquirer the sharpest-
nOsed for news and the quickest to get
it, and A. Minor Griswold of tbs Sdtur-
day Night the funniest and the surest on
telling what's in bottle from the smell
of the cork.
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