Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-09-04
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plished'' foreign lady, has opened
training schools in several Eastern
cities. where she is teaching women
how to shave.
SARAH WINNEMUccA will take up
her abode hereafter at Vancouver.
Washington Ter. where she will ba
pensioned at $500 per annrm. with
quarters and rations, for good conduct
as scout in the Bannock war.
The census enumerator Of Nevada
County, Cal, came across two ladies'
who were twins. One Of them placed
her age at twenty-eight years and the
other at twenty-five years Cause
one was married and one was single.
YOUNG authors should not be dis
heartened in view Of the facts that
Thackeray was not known as an ar-
thor until he was nearly forty; Scott
was fOrty-three when .Waverly" AID
peared; Defoe was fifty-eight before he
wrote his first novel; and other not
ables were equally tardy in gaining
celebrity.
some painters while at work on the
outside of q Methodist Episcopal
Church at Bladensburg. Md. recently
discovered holes i'm the weather. board
ing and many bees passing in and out
Some of the boarding was removed.
and between the joists was found q
solid mass of honey twelve feet in
length, sixteen inches wide and four
inches thick.
The highest monument in Great
Britain, ard possibly in Europe. is that
erected by his tenantry to the first
Duke of Sutherland. on the summit OF
Ben Vracgie. Sutherlandshire, 1,40O
feet above the sea. The pedestal is LOG
| feet high; the statue, from a model by
| Sir Francis Chantrey, thirty. 1t is
conspicuous landmark on both sides OF
Moray Firth.
New YORK society belle who has
strawberry-mark on the under side OF
+, her arm near the shoulder. offers one
of the hospital surgeons $1,000 If he
will remove it and graft the skin OF q
healthy white person upon it, She
saws il she got married her husband
wouldn't like the looks of it, and then,
too, she is kept from wearing the low
necked and short-sleeved party Gus
tune.
PRINCE BISMARCK has the true smok-
er's real affection for his pipe. He had
a special pet pipe, the bowl OF which
fell to pieces the other day. He showed
so much sorrow over this destruction OF
his old friend that his family carefully
collected the fragments and sent them
to Berlin to be put together. Inc
work was skillfully executed, and the
Prince is again enjoying the silent and
soothing companionship Of his favorife-
Miss HATTIE E. FARSswoKrH, who
has been Postmaster at Groton, Mass:
for thirteen wears, has resigned, and
the official examiner bears this testi-
mony to her fidelity: ''From expert
ence can safely say in our 36.oOo post
offices we have few Postmasters Who
can compare with the one ut Groton.
Mass. and in her retiring from the
office the Post-office Department loses
one whose place it will be difficult to
FILL"
INrrIAroRY steps are being taken to
establish circle Of observing stations
around the North Polar region. all to
be connected by telegraph. The pro-
posed points for stations are at upe,-
navik in West Greenland; at the mouth
of the Lena in Russia; Switzoersen'
Holland; on the new Siberian Islands;
Noyaya Zemlya; Point Barrow IN
/ Alaska; at some point on the Arctic
| coast Of Canada, and possibly at Other
J intermediate points. -;
The following is from fashion ar'i.
| Gle in the Cincinnati Enquirer a
. friend OF mine held 3 wad OF sometnihe
, in one hand, and it was not so large ou'
/ that she could close her fingers over II.
, asked her what it was. "A new pan
i Of stockings she said. .Stockings.
. l echoed, tremendously. She showed
} them, and stockings they surely were
, but Of such gossamer texture tnas .ns'
,vara ~ naxt 20 mn bulk or weight at all