Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-08-23

tlflil thaU ever, NOTWITHSTANDING Inc
great consumption of them which has
been going on for 20 years and more.
Choice creamery butter from the
diaries of the United States is in excel
lent favor in the markets of England,
but Just at this particular flush and
warm season Of the year prices in the
English market leave no margin Of profit
for the producer.
The wear and tear of operating
railroads necessitates the use of strong
and heavy materials in cars. To take
them along rapidly the locomotives
must be very heavy and powerful.
Thus it is that in order to transport
people at railway speed tDo and half
toms of dead weight in rolling stock
must be drawn over the road for every
passenger carried.
The experiment of sailing cars,
rugged with canvas, on railroads. seems
to be new departure, and the success
attending their recent trial was well
marked. Mr.. John Mcmillan, the road
master of the Sioux City and St. Paul
road, has used one for two months.
The car gives perfect satisfaction, hay-
ing made, with moderate breeze, up
ward of eighteen miles per hour, and
with its "leg Of mutton 4" sail can sail
close up to the wind.
"A novelty in the way of railroad in
ventions is now at the depot of the At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad in
Petersburg, Va. It's what may be very
properly termed a railroad velocipede.
It's weight is about one hundred pounds,
and it is destined solely for the super
visor of the road, to enable him to trav-
ell from point to point for inspection OF
other purposes. The vehicle has three
wheels, two of which run on one rail oil
the track and one on the other. 1t hes
a seat for one man, though it might
well carry two. 1t is very easily op'
Grated, and is run on almost the exact
principle of the ordinary velecipede
With strong muscular man to move i
it will make speed of Is to is miles an
hour.
School and Church.
Gymnastics are now regarded as
necessary part OF education in thu
Italian schools.
The Rev. DIR. Alexander Clark, VIII
recently died, left his family in such cir
cumstances that a subscription is beinf
made to raise funds for them.
The Rev. DIR. Harris of Chicago
who was recently elected Episcopa
Bishop of the diocese of Michigan il
place of Bishop McCoskrey, will b
consecrated at Detroit on the 18th o
September.
The Wesleyan Conference o
Birmingham, England, hiss adopted {
report in favor of the Ecumenical Con
ference proposed by the American Yves
leyans, and appointed a committee t.
make arrangements.
superintendent Peaslee of Cincin
natl is echoing the complaint tina
throughout the country the publi
school pupils are ignorant of language
and says that of the thousands who en-
ter the high schools comparatively few
have ever heard the most familiar name
of the greatest poets and historians. HI
described proposed improvement II
school literature, which provides TO
giving the pupils first extracts and thel
biographical studies.
President Parker of the Obi
Teachers Association spoke at tn
Cleveland meeting in advocacy Of tn
establishment of school shops in cor
nectioa with the seventh and eight
year of the public school and with th
first and second years of the high schoo
He thought that boys could spend on
hour day during the school year-ths
is to say 200 hours-in the use of too
without diminishing in the least tn
requisite amount of mental and NOR
discipline.
Religious revivalism in England ha
taken curious form, outside the estal
lished church. The converts join wis
they call the Salvation Army, the leade