Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-16

lately q 12-ton locomotive (portable
engine) was harnessed to o piece of ar
til1ery weighing 4S tons, which it
d'Austerlitz.
We are now going to have silks
which will not be silks, and the French
have already baptized the newcomer as
stniili-so;e. It is process for coating
fiber of fax or cotton with liqui6ed silk,
giving it all the appearance of actual
silk at nominal cost
Mr.. j. M. Clark of Howell, Mich,
has lately built lot Of cars for prairie
road, with an arrangement for discon-
Meeting the gearing and running by
wind when it is favorable. After trial
of several weeks the cars have been pro-
nounced perfectly satisfactory. In an
ordinary, almost every day breeze they
can run Is miles an hour under sail.
Vanilla is q plant indigenous to
Florida. The " crackers" gather it in
great quantities and sell it to merchants
who send it North to mix with tobacco
in the manufacture of cigars and to be
ground up for smoking with stems and
other refuse. It is worth now "a cents
a pound. Before the reduction of the
tobacco tax it sold for cents.
The st. Louis Cotton Exchange
will offer S3,125 in premiums for ex-
hibits of the staple at the St. Louis Fair
next October. OF this amount, 1915 is
given in five premiums to each of the
three States Of Missouri, Arkansas, and
Texas. Three hundred dollars each is
given in three premiums to Mississippi,
Tennessee, and the Indian Territory. A
sweep-stake, open to any State or Ter
ritory, Of $500 is added.
The last notable application of
papier mache was in the manufacture of
q revolving dome for the astronomical
observatory of the Polytechnic Institute,
Troy. 1t only weighs ton and three
quarters, and can be revolved without
the assistance of any apparatus. The
paper is on light framing of wood, and
is fully as hard and rigid. The dome
has an internal diameter of 20 feet, and,
| if constructed in the usual manner,
would have weighed five or six tons,
and required powerful machinery to
move it.
school and Church.
The Bishop of London has $50, 900
a year and the use of two houses.
The eighteenth annual session of
the National Educational Association
has just been held at Philadelphia. The
opening address was delivered by Pres
ident John Hancock Of Dayton, Ohio.
The exercises were of great interest.
President McCosh has fears Of q
decline of the ministerial supply of the
Presbyterian Church. He says the three
younger classes in Princeton College
contain an unusually small number Of
students who intend to enter the minis
try. He thinks it time that the church
should be aroused.
Lucy Stone has been paying visit
to Wellesley College for women in Mas
sachusetts. She gives q little account
of what she saw there in the Woman's
Journal. At this college "the cocks
are men, the professors are women"
The visitors were invited to look at the
microscope work of the school. The
girls have more than so microscopes
constantly in use, and gave an exhibit
of animal, mineral and vegetable speci-
mems which was much to their credit.
They also have row-boats, each with its
own colors, captain and crew. The
girls are accustomed to exercise them
selves at their oars, on the lake, every
evening, and are said to look very rosy
and healthy.
According to recent and eminent
Roman Catholic authority, that church
is now the richest religious body in this
country. The ratio Of increase in its
pecuniary resources from 1850 to 1870
was 1928 per cent. Official statistics,
published in 1875, give the number of
its priests as 5,074, the number of stu