Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-04-19

day morning against SUNDAY ausc-
ments, the exciting cause being pro-
posed Sunday excursion to Cincinnati.
There are four schools Of theology
in or near Chicago-Congregational.
Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist.
Their students annually hold q social
and religious reunion with the most
cordial goad fellowship. This year the
Methodists entertained the others.
superintendent Eliot, of the Boston
public schools, recommends an Interval
of two sessions between the offense of q
pupil and the "blows struck on the
hand with a rattan" permitted by Bay
State law. A still longer period would
be popular with Bostionan youth.
DIR. Shaw, the popular pastor of
the largest Presbyterian Church in
Rochester, N. Y, and one of the largest
in the country, says that women shall
pray at his prayer meetings, and he
would like to see any hodYtry to stop
them. The women Of his Church agree
with him.
Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
intends to enter the ministry again soon.
Mrs. Blackwell was the first ordained
minister among women in this country.
She was settled and ordained at South
Butler, in New York. Now after years
of broader experience she will resume
her old position.
Rev. DIR. Ingram, who died recently
in Shetland at the age Of 103, is said to
have been the Oldest minister in the
world. Four generations of the In
grams have lived in the same house in
Shetland, and they were long genera
lions, too. The deceased's father died
at the age of 100, and his grandfather
ct los.
! Among the English-speaking peo-
pie of the world Episcopslians rank
first in number, with 1880, 200; Meth
odists are next, with 14,0OO,O goo; and
then come Roman Catholics, with lS,-
5OO, 900; Presbyterians, with II, 0OO, 900 /;
Baptists, with 5000, 900; Congregation
alists, with 100000 and Cnitarians
with 100000. il0l WHICH,
Science and Industry.
"A vein of camel coal has been dis
covered near Rome, Ga TJGyIA
In Venezuela they are making f6dr
from unripe dried bananas.
Over $1,000 tons Of guaao have
been sold in Georgia this season.
-Forty-6ve gallons of water per
mile is used in the running Of an, prdi-
nary sized locomotive. illO dDAC
An Augusta (Ga.) man has sold
seven bushels of watermelon seed at the
rate of thirty-two dollars a bushel.
The consumption of corn husks in
the making of mattresses and the like
is becoming immense in al our large
cities.
The consumption of rubber by our
manufacturers continues as large as
ever, the imports amounting to. about
$4,000 pounds per annum, chiefly OBJ
tanned in South America. The price
ranges from 90 to so cents per pound.
An ingeniouskind of fire proof joist,
recently introduced, consists of a slip Of
wood five inches wide by five-eighths Of
! an inch thick belted between two Hanged
strips of quarter-inch iron, making a
beam quite as strong as those Of wood
ordinarily employed. nus u1i1o0
IT is stated that Minnesota miller
has invented an entirely new process OF
grinding wheat, which does away with
the millstones now in use and substi-
tutes therefore vertically running
granite disc in direct combination with
a circle segment of French burr. This
new process produces 80 per cent. Of
midding.
The Board Of Directors of the st.
Louis Faif Association have decided to
1 hold 3 two weeks Exposition prior to
the annual Fair in October. The Ex-
position will open on Sept. p and the
Fair on October6- Five thousand dol
| lars annropriated for military contests