Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-02-28


Foreign Notes.
1t is expected that the Cologne
Cathedral will be completed next Au-
gust.
-Andaman Island widows wear the
skulls of their deceased husbands on
their shoulders At a recent lecture on
ethnology at the Royal College of Sur
gecns in London, Prof. Flower showed
the skull of an Andamanese, to which
was attached an elegant webbed sling
by which it had been suspended to the
widows neck.
At Crugawn, Mayo, Ireland, when
a process-server, aided by one hundred
police, attempted last month to serve
notice of ejectment, his progress was
arrested by three hundred women,
armed with heavy sticks. The women
were demonstrated with, but all argyll
ments failed. Atlength the police forced
their way through, with fixed bayonets,
several Of the women receiving thrusts,
and reached the house where the process
was to be served. Here again crowd
of women opposed, and several were
wounded; the process, was, however,
served.
The Austrian Empress's whole pas
sion is for dogs and horses. Her
Majesty always rises with the lark.
When the day lengthens she rises at 6 in
the morning and goes TO hear mass in
the private chapel near her apartments.
After the devotion of the first moments
of the day to religion she proceeds to the
stable and to the riding-school. Her
favorite horses know well her elastic
step and sweet, clear voice, and nothing
gives her such pleasure as when the
poor animals greet her presence with a
sort of affectionate neighing.
Although to-day there are as many
boards in the House of Commons as in
any assembly in the world, twenty-five
years ago there was but one. 1t be-
longed to Mr.. Mun;z, member for Bir-
mingham, who did service by persuade
ing the Government to adopt the
perforating machine in the manufacture
of postage stamps. Mr.. Muntz shaved
until he was 40 when his brother re-
turned from Germany with fine beard,
which the NJ. 2. determined to emulate.
"H B." the famous caricaturist, was
soon at 'sthe man with the beard" as
every one called Muntz, and represented
him in acartoon as ga Brummagem Nj.
p" In this portrait he carries a stout
stick, which has special prominence, the
reason being that an irrepressible prac-
teal joker, the Marquis of Waterford.
was supposed to have laid a wager that
he would shave NluntZ, hence the cudgel
to defend himself from DISARMAMENT.
Mr.. Muntz died very wealthy, in 1857.
School and Church.
The Free Baptists in North Caro-
lima number about % 600, OF whom ~
600 are colored.
The Congregationalists of Massa-
chusetts have 52S churches, 655 minis
tiers, and church membership of o.
7S7.
BY the will of Jacob Persinger of
Roanoke County, Va, recently admitted
to probate, Roanoke College will receive
about $4,000.
The Baltimore Methodists contem-
plate the establishment of a Centenary
Biblical Institute for the education of
the colored people.
"A lady writes to know what she
shall do with empty cans. There are
several solutions of the problem, but
the simplest one is to buy a goat.
The name of the new Irish Univer-
sity is to be the "Royal University Of
Ireland" The charter is now ready,
only awaiting the filling up of the
names of certain Senators. The first
Chancellor will be the Duke of Leinster.
The University of Michigan con-
ferred last year 1873 degrees on examin-
alton and four honorary degrees. The
whole number of students was 1876, OF