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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01

THE seed of SOFA hispida, known as
"soy bean" or "Japan pea," is the
most concentrated vegetable food
known. 1t contains forty per cent. of
albuminoids and eighteen per cent. of
oil. The sofa grows in the Himalayas,
hat is principally cultivated in the north
of China, whence it is largely exported
to the southern districts. The seed is
pressed for its oil, and the cake, mixed
with substances less rich in heterogeneous
m alter, used as food for man and
beast.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01
AT Christ Church. on Easter Sunday,

AT Christ Church. on Easter Sunday,
the clergyman announced that the Of
fertory would be applied to reducing the
debt on the church. During the sing
ing of the music, whilst the collection
was being taken up, the tenor, who was
German, had solo, in which occur
red the words, "And the dead shall be
raised.r He succeeded in electrifying
the congregation by giving out at the
top of his voice, '.Und re debt shall be
raised in re twingling ov an eye.'
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01

ly practical man, and newcomer IN
the district, said:
al am greatly pleased with the pro-
ficiency that has been shown here to-
night in the art of English spelling, es-
pecially so far as the more difficult
words of the language are concerned.
But ! have sometimes noticed that,
while pupils and people in business find
very little difficulty in handling the
catchwords of the spelling-book, they
still stumble over the common and
practical words. l should like to pro-
nounce few of these words to the
class, if you please"
"Certainly, said the teacher.
"Jane, spell 'separate'-to place
apart"
"S-e-p-sep; e-sepe; r-a-t-e-rate
separate" said Jane.
Wrong" said the Director.
With blush, Jane took her seat.
"Georgie, how do You spell that
word?' asked the Director, with smile.
al should have spelled it as Jane
did," honestly replied George; "but,
as you say that is not right, l would put
two sr's' in it,
"Wrong again." said the Director.
"That is very common word, and
very commonly misspelled. Instead OF
having two 'r's,' we should have two
as Separate is the word
"You didn't say separate, said Geor-
gle, pouting. elf you had, l should
have spelled it correctly"
"That is possible" said the Director.
al pronounced it however, correctly.
only emphasize the a TO show that it is
an a and not an e. didn't expect to
get you down so easily as this. want
ed to pronounce a number of other
words. George, how do you spell
recommends
"Oh! / s'pose there's some catch
about that, Just as there was about the
other word, and don't know whether l
can make it out or not R-e-c-rec /;
c-o-m-com; e-n-d-end; reccOmend,' ~
said George, little impatiently.
BADLY missed" said the Director.
Jane spelled it with two "c's" and
two ms" and the Director called at
tention to the mistake, saying that many
people who pretend to be educated in
sist on putting in two "c's" in this
word. He closed his speech by suggest
ing that in the future more attention be
paid to the common words, such as must
be used in ordinary business CORE
spondence.
Altogether, the spelling-match was
very interesting to me, as it called to
mind similar ones in the East and North
many years ago.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01

The fungi, like animals, live upon
organic food, consisting of compli-
Gated combinations of carbon, which
they receive from other organisms and
assimilate. They inhale oxygen and
give out carbonic acid, like animals.
They also never form leaf-green, or
chlorophyll, which is so characteristic
of most other plants. In like manner
they never produce starch. Hence
many eminent botanists have repeated
ly proposed to remove the fungi COM
pletely out of the vegetable kingdom,
and establish one between that Of AMI
mails and plants.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01

How TO KEEP EGGs.-When eggs
are too cheap to sell at profit they
may be kept for months as fresh and
nice as when first laid in this way /:
Make a liquid by pouring eight gallons
of boiling water on one quart Of I'M
slaked lime and one quart of common
fine salt. When the two latter are dis
solved and cold, place your eggs into
this liquid in stone jars mot common
earthen) and have all the eggs covered
with the preparation, and Keep in as
cool place as possible.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01

If a druggist should turn farmer why
would he be likely to succeed better
than his neighbors? Because he would
be the farmer-cutest of them all.-Bai-
timore Erery SATURDAY..
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01

THE value of creosote as wood-pre-
sentative is being appreciated in this
country. Mr.. c. r. Andrews, of New
York City, has obtained the contract for
creosoting the flooring timber of the
East River bridge, New York, to the eX-
tent of some 1000, 900 feet or more.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01
WAR UPoN INsEcTs.-With the ap

WAR UPON INsECTs.-With the APP
proach of spring the farmer and gar
dener will be compelled to renew the
war with various kinds of noxious in
sects, and it is well to make immediate
preparations for a fight by procuring a
supply of the insecticides in common
use The first that is usually needed is
ordinary flowers of sulphur, to scatter
about the poultry yard and house, and
especially in the nests where the fowls
are laying. There are very few species
of parasites infesting poultry that
can withstand the fumes of sulphur, and
there is no danger Of injuring the fowls
by scattering it about in liberal quanti-
ties. The nest Of every sitting hen
should be well busted with sulphur, and
when this is done the hen or her chicks
will seldom be troubled with any of the
numerous species of poultry lice that are
usually more or less abundant wherever
fowls of any kind are kept.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01

MOLAssEs SPONGE CAKE Two
cups of molasses, two eggs, two table
spoonfuls of soda, three-quarters of a
cup of butter, three-quarters of a cup
of cold water, five cups of flour.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01
ROBERT HEATH. of West Groton, Vt

was recently attacked by hog while
attending to litter of pigs, and was
trampled upon, his clothes torn, and
one hand frightfully chewed. His lie
was probably saved by his son-in-law,
who beat the Infatuated animal away.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01

SUGAR COOKIEs.-Onec cup of butter,
two cups of sugar, one cup of sour
milk, one teaspOonful saleratus, one
egg, and flour to roll out.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-05-01
A Cosntry SpeRing Match.

S0url :. went DIV inSltation, one night, 10
attend an old-fashioned spelling match.
The Ir,Juae's reformed photography
had not reached that section SO far as
being adopted was concerned. "Web-
ster's Elementary" was the standard,
and the old-fashioncd plan of standing
up around the room was still in vogue.
As often as word was missed, the pu-
pil missing ID took his seat, and the
spelling proceeded The district turned
out en- masse, and the interest was alb
sorbing This was the opportunity af-
forded the old people of seeing the prog
ress Of their children. They can
all understand sspellin -: and, as one
old fellow in homespan said TO me:
"They may talk about their algebra
and all the high and new-fangled studies,
but, for my part. am in tor the CON-
mon things. There is lots of these fellers
with college edicaiion who can't spell
worth a continental. l hold that II is
next To crime for a man who pretends
10 any thing in the way of learnin' not
to be able TO spell well; and its very
little credit TO such man to be able to
spell well, either It's one of them
things which should be taken for
granted, and the only way is to learn it
young. told our teacher this year
tina; we must have our spellin' matches
regular, and they have been v.ry inter-
esting TO every body"
BY this time the school was called TO
order by slight tap on the teachers
bell. " You may first choose sides, and
afterwards spell down. said the teach
er. William Young and Abram
Phelps may take their places on the
floor as Captains, and divide the
school"
These young men were only too glad
TO be selected, and arose Immediately
in their places. The first choice was
decided by the old-fashioned method
of "drawing cuts" The first person Sc
lected on each side was a young lady;
and l saw by the significant glances
that were cast about the room, and the
bushes which wreathed the faces of the
"girls" rs they took their places, as
well as by the approving smile of the
teacher, that the Captains were the low
ers Of the girls. Had l been in any
doubt, however, it would have been dis
PEELED by a whisper from my nearest
neighbor;
Them gals are not the best spoilers
here by long shot he said. The
boys they are waitin' on the gals, and
80 they choose them first SO that they
could stand up together" After mo-
ment's consultation in whispers between
the Captains and their "gals," the
choosing was resumed.
"Jane HOLSTER" said Abram Phelps.
George Williams" spoke up VIII
liam Young promptly
"There's the two best spoilers In the
decstrict, remarked my neighbcr.
" They can get away with almost any
OF 'enl. They hev each OF EN- spelled
the school down a time apiece, and to-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-25

launches; on the other a horse lying
struggling on its back, attacked by
leopard; all nearly the size of life. On
each side of the doorway is painted
respectively graceful doe and bear.
The other rooms are also very beau
tiful; one with specially elegant de-
sign on black ground; in another
small fresco representing a man pour
ing wine out Of an amphora into
large vessel. The bathrooms are large
and elegant, the cold bath spacious
and Of marble. In one room corner
is dedicated to the lares and penates,
and in the fresco decoration, among
the usual serpents, ETC., l noticed the
singular figure of a Bacchus or bac-
chante, entirely clothed with large
grapes. In one Of the mosaic pave
ments is head of Medusa, the colors
very bright and we'll preserved. As
some of the rooms are only excavated
to within two or three feet from the
floor, it is possible that many valua-
bic ornaments or statuettes may yet
be found, as everything indicates that
this splendid house belonged to some
rich citizen"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-25
A Sensational Item.

San Francisco Post.l
The other afternoon, Just as the
thunder Of our new lightning press
began its private earthquake in the
basement, a youth of about ten sum-
mers, painting and exhausted, rushed
into the office and gasped, as he held
up the paper:
Here you are--red hot--Im in
time, amt II"
TOO late to get anything in this
issue-forms have all gone down" +"
replied the urbane manager. ANY
thing Important"
"Well, l should think so. We
wouldn't have it left out for anything.
Everybody will be looking for it"
Indeed Something remarkable
happened? Whole family murdered ?
City hall on fire2"
"Oh, no little thing like that. This
is something immense. How much
would it cost, mister, to stop the
press?
npouU 3S,VUV, salu the manager,
getting excited"
II don't think we've got that much
in the treasury" said the boy,
thopghtfgllyi but it really ought to
be DONE"
rs it anything very pressing" said
the manager, winking at the book
keeper; perhaps we could get out an
extra"
"Ahl that's just the thing-now
you're struck it. You see we played
the last game of the juvenile cham
pionship series to day, and the Yell
hards-that's our fellows-beat the
Greenknees by fourteen runs-here' Z
the official score.
And proudly handing over the rec
ord, he hurried home, to shake enough
out Of his savings bank to buy foul
copies.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-25
BY CABLE.

LONDON, June 25.-In the house of
commons, Mr.. Parnell moved the sec
ond reading of his new Irish relief
bill, the object Of which was to ap-
point commission for the relief of
the distress, to consist of chairman,
two secretaries, and the principal or
CARNATIONS engaged in the relief of
distress in ireland for the last six
months; and 100000 of the Irish
church funds surplus be handed over
to the commission, to be appropriated
as they deem fit. Mr.. Forster, chief
secretary for Ireland, said he could
not assent to a bill which proposed to
adopt an entirely new principle. He
believed the governments course,
aided by private charities, would be
sufficient to meet the evil He re
gretted, he said, that there had been
fever in some of the distressed dis
tricts, but there was no evidence that
it could be traced to famine, and it
was confined to very few places. The
reports he had received from Ireland
to-day, he said, were reassuring.
A Times dispatch from Dublin says:
at an influential meeting of the Irish
land commission, Lord DOuoughmore
presiding, numerous communications
were read, urging that active meas
ures be taken to have Forsters COM
pensation for disturbance bill rejected.
A memorial was adopted praying the
government to withdraw the bill. 1t
was also resolved to have petitions
against the bill from all parts of Ire
land sent to both houses of parlia-
ment.
A Times financial article says that
DO fresh news from Buenos Ayres has
been received here, but kilograms are
stated to have reached Paris announc-
ing that the provincial forces had re.
turned within the city.
MADRID, June 25.-The Morocco
conference is not making good prog
ress, and will probably terminate its
labors next week.
VIENNA, June 25.-Political cores
pondence letters from Paris and Phil
lipOllis, agree that Aleko Pasha, who
is going to Oonstantinople on Satur-
day, will not return to his post as
governor of eastern Romelia.
DUBLIN, June 25.-At a meeting Of
the committee Of the Mansion house
relief fund to-day it was stated
authoritatively that the fund afforded
only three weeks supply, and it is
only to charitable organizations that
the people can look to be saved from
famine in the next few months.
| LONDON, June 25.-Private dis
patches from Buenos Ayres, June
22nd, state that fighting is going on
and many have been killed and
wounded.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-25
River TeIegrams.

PITTsBURG, June 25.-River 2 feet
| inch, and falling. Weather cloudy
and warm, with indications of rain.
EVANSVILLE, June 25.-Port list
Up: Granite State, am. Down
Wyoming, 4 am; Fashion, $50 am.
Weather clear and hot; wind south
mercury Is to "a degrees barometer
29l inches, and falling. River 16 $40
feet, and falling.
CAIRO, ILL, June 25.-Arrived-
Mary Houston, New Orleans, am;
City Of Alton, Z am; Scudder, St.
Louis, II am; James D. Parker,
Memphis, noon. Departed = Mary
Houston, Cincinnati, I ami City Of
Alton, st. Louis, s AM James D.
Parker, Cincinnati, noon. Weather
fair and warm.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-25
AN ELEPHANT ON A SPREE.
How 'LittIe Betsy" Drank Two
Buckets OfWhisIky.

Recollections of Menagerie Man
| saw little Betsy as drunk as fid-
Ter one time, and she was a funny
sight. We were showing late in the
fall, in Indiana, in severe weather.
Some monkeys and birds and snakes
had frozen, and Betsy showed that
she was suffering greatly from the
cold. Long John went to Manager
Older and said to him: You'd bet
ter get some whisky for Betsy, or
she'll freeze" "How much?" "Her
ears are just beginning to freeze; get
three buckets" /" Well, they knew
that was two for Betsy and one for
Long John; but when it came to ele-
plants he was boss, aud the whisky
was got, as he ordered. You should
have seen the tavern keepers eyes
stand out when they ordered
three buckets Of whisky
for two drinks. Betsy drank all they
gave her, and got staving drunk.
Shed stagger, and roll over, and pick
herself up, and pick Long John up
and toss him on her back, and sort Of
laugh, and he'd laugh, and it was nip
and tuck between them which was
the drunker Elephants are very
fond Of whisky, or any sort of liquor,
especially if it has lots of red pepper
in it, and they are not only fond of
getting drunk themselves, but they
are very considerate of drunken men.
| never yet knew of an elephant
hurting a man. That Long John,
when he was staggering drunk, would
go right up to Sultan or Canada, when
nobody else dared to 20 near them,
and would fool around them, and
swing on their tusks, and toss Their
trunks about, and go to sleep right
down by their feet, and they would
not only not do him any harm, but
wouldn't let anybody else go near him
until he chose to wake up. And
any real drunken man can do pretty
much what he pleases with an ele-
phant.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-25

NATIONAL board of health Turner,
who writes MD. after bis name, and
whose headquarters are at Washing
ton City, where the board of health
business is not very popular, and yel-
low fever is scarcer than board Of
health cash, has been ventilating
himself. 1t is to be hoped he feels
relieved after the airing his talking
trap has enjoyed. The doctor says he
thinks there is to be a recurrence of
the yellow fever in the Mississippi
7alley this year, but that
Z Memphis, mayhap, will escape
visitation of the scourge owing to the
sanitary improvements made through
the recommendations of the national
health officials. The people herea-
bouts will doubtless thank the astute
doctor for this horoscope revelation,
so favorable to this community. II
he could manage to work up public
feeling and yellow jack so that con
gress would make liberal appropria-
tions to the health boards depleted
treasury, it would be a feather in his
cap and help the salary account of his
stipendiaries. The chances are that
the doctors opinions are as valueless
as his impotent doses, and that the
next congress will send his forces
and himself to browse upon their
talents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-25
The boy and the Propession.


What would a procession be with
out the attending escort of boys?
Did you ever see a procession with no
bows leading the advance or following
along by tic side Oft? Never, unless
it was a funeral PROCESSION; But
there is another procession that ne
doesn't take stock in. His prouGccsstt
position is right alongside of the
drum major, and he would feel that a
kick from that gorgeous parsonage or
thump from his staff with the big
gilded knob, would be the highest
honor he could receive. The next
most desirable position is next to
the man who blows the bass
drum, which he will hold for
squares at the imminent risk of having
his brains knocked out by the big
drum-stick. And you can't tire the
boys out, either, no matter how pro
tracted the march may be. A few
may lag along the line, cheerfully trip
ping up a soldier now and then, but
their places are quickly filled up at
the head of the column. There they
60, some white, some black, some
barefooted, some without jackets and
others bareheaded. They are ire
pressible, and it doesn't do any good
for the marshal to shake his sword at
them and order them away, or for po-
licemen to threaten. They are the
self-appointed advance guard of the
procession, and cannot be discharged
or dispersed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-25
No Pension Wanted.
Detroit Free Press,I

49, NAN ~ ANeofl
He didn't look a bit like a patriot,
as he stood rubbing bis back on a
corner wall, but it isn't everybody
who can tell a patriot at first sight.
They were talking about pensions,
and all at once he woke up and
said
WAS | in the army? You bet
was Didn't | have charge of one Of
the big guns in the trenches at York
town? Didn't stand in the mud all
day and sleep in a pond all night, and
wasn't it that which twisted my legs
out of shape with the rhumatics ? And
yet have | applied for pension ? Has
any one seen me insidiously stretching
forth a hand to grab at the vitals Of
this distressed country. Not stretch
Not a grab /"
No one had anything to say, and
presently he went on:
I'm the army-humph Who saved
the day at Malvern Hill? Who
killed seventeen Of the enemy with
his own hand? Who was decorated
with sixteen medals and a cross BY
General Mcclellan? And yet does
any assassin charge me with making
midnight visits to pension agents to
swear that the hardships of the tented
field have left me with only one lung
and no liver at all2 Hang a soldier
who wouldn't t sacrifice his liver for his
glorious country"
He burned up five or six matches in
vain effort to light the stump of a
cigar and then growled out:
VI may look seedy now, but who led
the second corps at Fair Cakes? Who
captured three flags from the enemy
with his own hand? Who was shot in
four places and left for dead? And
yet do go whining around after the
financial Yitals of this glorious repub.
lie? Not whinel When reach out
my hand and ask Uncle Sam to come
down, it will be when l have forgot
ton the teachings of patriotic moth
er and the hraveryQfa veteran father.
"Were you wounded2" inquired one
OF the group.
"Was |? OIL no. | didn't get hit
seventeen different times in three
years. l am not carrying half an
acre Of scars down to nv grave to at
test my devotion to my countryl And
vet, what man dares charge me with a
desire to skulk into the barn and rob
the treasury cow Of her feed-the feed
she needs for her daily existenceP"
Wont you show Us some of your
scars2" inquired two or three ab once.
mo, sir! / never show EN- except
at re unions There is no reunion
here. This is simply a gathering Of
two bummers, q pGlitician, a lame
man, a niger, and a soldier whp bas
been in fOrty.six different battles
received seventeen wounds aud dosen't
want a pension, You wouldn't know
the scar of a cannon ball from that Of
an old woodsaw, and you'd g
off and say / got run through a thrash
ing machine am now going inside
to drink alone to the prosperity O
this great and glorious union, and i
won't do any of you any good to stand
around the door |"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-25
Attachment Notice.

Before j. 7. Elliott, ]. P for Shelby county,
IN this cause an attachment having been
4 sued out under section 3455 Of the Code Of
Tennessee, and returned levied upon the
property of defendant and affidavit having
been. made that the defendant is indebted
to the plaintiff in the sum of IS, due by
account, and that the claim is just, ana
State Of Tennessee; il is therefore ordered thas
said defendant make his personal appear
ance before me on the Slst day of July, 1880,
AZ my office, No. SlS SeeQld street, Memphis,
Tennessee, and 6eieRd said attachment suit
within the. lime prescribed by law, or the
sams will be proceeded with ex-parte; and
that a copy OF this order be published ones
This the oath day of June, lseC.
,oo,oA,,oro Ia ELLfOTT, up.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-25
History and Strawberry Picking,


It's a curious fact that the packing
Of strawberries, raspberries and simi-
lar fruits on the system of putting all
the choicest fruit on the top and the
spoilt fruit underneath is one of hon
orable antiquity, for it was alluded to
in the form Of political apologize by
Queen Elizabeth about three centu-
ries ago. Speaking of her ministers
this good queen said: When first
chosen by me all goes well, for they
do put forth their best virtues like
the large strawberries in market bas-
kets, but by and by small vices and
faults appear in them like the littler
fruits hidden beneath the big"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-06-25

Latin and the Faubourg st. Antoine
would indeed be destitute of the mer-
est rudiments of political prudence.
1t is to the credit OF Gambetta and
Freycinet that they have recognized
the tendency of public opinion in
France, and have anticipated one of
the most certain demands of the SOW
ereign people at the elections which
cannot be long postponed.