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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09
Personal AND LITERARY.

1t appears that the total customs du-
ties levied on books imported into the
United States realize not less than $780,
900.
Thomas McElrath. business mana
ger of the New York Tribune during
Greelcy's regime, celebrated his golden
wedding recently.
A ''fine writer" i a man who, hay
ing good taste and 4 pure heart, can say
VIVA, he means in pure English. -Roches-
ter Erpress.
Mary Anderson has been upon the
stage siN years, never been in a court.
never sued or been sued, never had n
controversy. dispute or wrangic Thor
oIghly charming young woman.
Mr.. Sykes Thornton. an English
man who spent nearly $1,000, 900 in adj
vocating the legitimatizing marriage
with dead wife's sister, i dead. He
had married his wifc's sister.
-Govcrnor Tabor, of Colorado. man
ages Ia limp along at the head %; the
procession oE, that way. His daily in
come from one of his mines during
January WAS about $1,000
Rev. Phebc A. Hanaiord' Life of
Abraham Lincoln which had a sale of
10000 copies soon after the close of the
war. and was translated into German.
is 10 be rcpublishcd.
Thomas X. Beechcr. of Elmira. n
Y, > half-broiher of Henry Ward.
is decidedly eccentric in his habits He
is fond of beer and billiards. and does
not conceal the fact He writes slush
for the Saturday papers, and says he
has never read an account of his big
brothers trial.
Mrs Commodore Vanderbilt is
probably .hc richest unmarried woman
in the United States. Her aye i thir-
ty-siN, and she has a million for every
year. She has lived very quiet life
since the Commodore ; death, spending
most of her leisure in opening lovc-lct-
tiers and prosecuting the charities which
sine undertook. She frequently sits up
With her Secretary tall midnight an
swering the letters not the love-lettcrs.
The number Of proposals she has re-
ceiycd for her well-endowed hand since
the Commodore was taken from her
side is estimated by those who are near
est Ia her Ia be between 800 and 1000.
Many Of them are accompanied by pho
tographS, which wildly and vainly en-
deavcr To SET forth the charms of the
writers. She is not disposed Ia marry.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09
The Coutts Banking House.

The house of Coutts e. Co. has a very
interesting history. A very great bank
ing heiress is the Baroness Burdett-
Coutts, whose recent marriage with Mr..
Ashmead Coutts-Bartlett excited so
much attention. The kindly and popu-
lar Baroness is-or was until recently.
the head of the great banking firm of
Coutts II Co., and was popularity sup
posed to draw hundred thousand a
year from the business. Mr. Coutts
married for his second wife Miss Mellon,
the actress, to whom he left his entire
fortune about a million of money.
Mrs. Coutts, left widow, married the
Duke of st. Adams; but, in her mar
riage settlement, this vast fortune was
left entirely in her own power She
thought that she would best carry out
the wishes of her husband, who had
made the money, by bequeathing it to
his favorite granddaughter, Miss Angela
Burdett, daughter Of the famous Sir
Francis. An infinite amount of this
money "has wandered, heaven direct
ed, to the poor" Child's Bank was
once represented by lady who became
Countess of Westmoreland, and after
ward by her daughter, who became
Countess of Jersey. On certain state
occasions Lady Jersey dined with the
bank officials, and took the head of the
table. Old Coutts heard one day at
dinner party, from the manager of
city bank, that a nobleman had applied
to his house for the loan of thirty thous-
and pounds, and had been refused. At
10 O'Clock at night he started for the
peers house and saw his steward He
explained his business, and said that if
the nobleman would call upon him the
next morning he might have whatever
ne wanted. On the next morning, when
the noble lord called at the bank, Mr..
Coutts handed him thirty notes of
thousand pounds each. "What security
do you want?" asked the peer 81 shall
be satisfied with your note-of-hand,"
was the reply. This was given, and the
nobleman said, "I shall only want for
the present ten thousand pounds of the
money, SO will leave twenty thousand
pounds with you, and open an account"
Some time afterward the nobleman sold
an estate for two hundred thousand
pounds, which he deposited with Coutts.
Nor was this all. He told the anecdote
to his friends, and also to George Ill.
The King was 50 impressed with the
story that he himself deposited a large
sum with Mr. Coutts. The King with
drew his patronage, however, when Mr..
Coutts supported Sir Francis Burdett in
his contest for Middlesex with immense
sums, and transferred his account to
another banker, who failed; and we can
not help thinking that in this instance
his Majesty was served quite right
London Society.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09
Consul Baker, of Buenos Ayres,

Consul Baker, of Buenos Ayres,
thinks ostrich raising would be a profit
able industry in the United States. If
we fill the vacant lots of America with
ostriches, we'd like 10 know how the
goats of the republic are going to get
anything to eat. There are scarcely
enough tomato cans and old corset
skeletons to go around now.-B'rling-
ton Hgrk,eHe.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

Il seems strange any one will suffer from
arrangements brought on by impure blood,
when SCovILLs' SARsAPARILLA AND SrILLIS.
GrA, or BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP, will restore
health TO the physical organization. 1t 10
pleasant to take, and the BEST BLOOD PuRI.
YIER ever discovered, curing Scrofula, Weak
ness Of the Kidneys Eryspelas, Malaria; all
Nervous disorders, Debility, Bilious COM
plants and all diseases Of the Blood, Liver,
Kidneys, Stomach, Skin, etc As health
remover, It ACTS LIKE CHARM.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

An Andover, Massachusetts, man
committed suicide by drinking pint of
ink. If he had used the pale, economi-
cal. watery fluid that is such passion
with some of our contributors, ne might
nave drank gallon of it and lived for
fifty years.-Burlington Haokeye.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

THE St Paul Mimi Globe, observes:
Things had gone wrong with him. and he
wanted to die; vet he had the whole house
darting around mighty lively, so we heard,
hunting for the St. Jacobs oil bottle, when
ths first twinge of rheumatism gathered him
up
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

II is said the only obstacle in the way of
Transporting live hogs from this country to
England j. the difficulty of feeding them on
the passage. WHY not feed them from the
trough Of the sea :->on,errllle Journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

WEAK lungs, splitting Of blood. consumption
and kindred affections, cured withoutp physician.
Adore for treatise, with two stamps, WoRLp's
DIsrENsARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo,
n
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

Dr.. X. V. Pierce: Dear .SI-I.ast fall my
daughter was in a decline and everybody
thought she was going into the consumption.
] got her bottle OF your Favoritc Prcscrp-
ton and it cured her. Mis-. MARY HINsoN.
OF all druggists. Mon.rose, Kan
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

"ADoLPHUs. let us leave the avenue And
stroll along the margin of the river Not
any, Evangeline. No more margins for me- D"
-idoiphus had been Specializing in futures
tt,.t week. -Coarier-JonrItai.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

Now WE Ii spring a pun on You. Lookout!
II you speak Of "a place where ships tie up
your remark is equivalent to a statement in
writing, because its a dock you meant We
nov swear OF on puns for a wear. Eoston Post.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

1t will be advisable for such as have any
fears Of badness to quit INDUCING in white
grub. since farmer has discovered that the
white grub eats of the roots Jus, below the
crown Rome Seiffl,9
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

Fog pIruTuEHiA. don't fail TO use DIR. l.. +.
TowNE's DiPHTnEgIa kiNG. The GREAT Pre-
yENTIvR and CURE. Sold by all druggists. Nor
rison, Plumner x Co. Chicago, Gen'i Agents
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

Ara curiosity shop: "Oh, the charming
little box, Antique, isn't it.'' No mad
anne, it is modern" &" What pity-it WAS
so prettyr'-Le Figaro.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

PEOPLE who study economy before every.
thing else, like the Cliinaman, prefer the
Charter Oak Range, because it saves fuel. lis
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

DEALERS are beginning to see that IL Is
better TO GO with the tide than 10 swim
against it. BY selling the Charter Oak Range
they are helped in selling other things. 10-4
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

The hotels are beginning to try the new
Charter Oak Hotel Range, because ofits great
cooking capacity and economy Of fuel. l2-5
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

THE New Worlds Dispeussry and Inyalids'
Hotel at Buffalo, " y, is now completed and
ready TO receive patients.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

PRINTING presses in Rocky Mountain
towns are usually run by water power" The
editorial departments are not. Not ssuslly-
or usually not = Forristorn Herald
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

TN the light Of this meuagerie.' cried the
tapir. Then the other beasts wanted TO put
him out.-Louisrll!e Courier-yourndL
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

YoU can swallow l.. f. Ransom Butter Color
and the effect viii not be different than from
eating same quantity Of butter.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09
SAMARITAN NERViNE
SAMARITAN NERVINE

Cures Alcoholism Drunkenness and the habit Of
Opium Eating 1he~e degrading habits by far he
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The drum kard drinks liquor not because likes IT, but
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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

DIR. ROGERS VEGETABLE WORN SYRUP in
etantly destroys worms and removes all the
secretions which cause them.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

BAKERS PAIN PASACEA cures pain In Man
and Beast Use externally and internally.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09
SAMARITAN NERVINE

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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-03-09

Prepared by c. WAKEFIELD & Co, bloomington, II
For Sale by All DRUGGISTS.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-22
Extracts from Prof. Swing.

To the young men and young women
of the day few laws of conduct can sur
pass in value this law of noble associa-
tions. Indeed, we may feel that that
young mind is secure from harm and
almost secure of success which has the
moral power and the will-power to seek
always the companionship of good per-
sons, and good books, and good amuse
ments, and good everything. When by
some means one has acquired taste
for all that is superior, that persons In
tellectual fortune is we'll fixed, for in
the wide field of this world it will find
many flower from which to extract
honey. Even poverty can not close all
ihe gates of acknowledgment, for ma
ture herself will become gallery, and
library, and hall of music to the
mind which has once lighted its flame
of admiration. The heart
once fully determined to see only things
language has half won the battle of
life. Gustavus III. of Sweden
all through his youth desired to do
great and good things. 1t must
he said of. Mr. Longfellow that all
through his youth he sought and loved
the true, and the good, and the beauti-
full. He transformed, and idealized,
and exalted all that environed him, and
by the time he was 10 the world turned
into poetry under his feet and over his
head and the poetry was not the raw
ings III a sibyl; nor the sighings of q
lover, but strange mingling of phi
iosophy end beauty. All things became
q lesson of life, and thus the reader of
this poet sees the greatest side of hui
man nature, and feels on closing the
volume that man is indeed child of
God. Many, measuring the
value to the age of these lofty writer's,
lament that the grave is calling them
away more rapidly than this mercenary
period is preparing worthy successors.
1t appears that in few years no great
poet will be living on earth. What will
literature and religion say or do in that
darkened day? The thoughts which
arise are two. The absence of q GER
tain form of genius does not imply the
decline of an epoch, for the laws of
such presence and absence are not full
ly known. Great men come and go in
groups. A mystery hangs over these
events like that which marked the COM
ing and going winds in the days Of
Jesus: "Thou canst not tell me whence
it cometh nor whittier it goeth." So
we can not tell whence comes these
clusters of statesmen, or orators, or
poets which appear at intervals to bless
society. They are liable to come and
go, and their absence for a generation
does not imply the intellectual future
of an age. Suddenly back may come
these inspired ones, and more enthu-
siastic from their mysterious rest.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-22
A Vast Amount of Amusement.

Quite an amusing scene occurred at
the preliminary test of the water works
last Saturday. John l.. Jewell and our
stalwart night Waterman, Ed Paquette,
undertook to handle the nozzle at one
hydrant. There was about 100 pounds
pressure upon the pipes when the water
was turned on the hose The force was
so great that it wrested the nozzle from
the pipemen, and in its gyrations it
struck Mr.. Paquette on the side of the
head, the first knockdown being scored
for the water works. Ed undertook to
get up, when the pipe came around
again and struck him on the hip, when
he to escape further attack, started off
on all tours. Just then the stream of
water struck him under the coat tail,
passed up his back, washed off his paper
DOLLAR, and, striking the back of his
head. split into two cataracts, complete
ly binding him. SO persistent was the
attack upon him that he began to think
it was n thing of life. The scene af-
forded a vast amount of amusement to
the bystanders.-C heboygdn Tribune.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-22

A correspondent writing from St.
Helen, Roscommon county, gives the
following interesting account of a des-
perate encounter between man and a
buck deer, held in the water at that
place. He says the hero of the occasion
was X. A. Barlow, book-keeper for Hen
ry Stephens x Co, lumbermen, of that
place, whereas, had he been q Nimrod
whose prowess was q watchword among
the dusky inhabitants of the pine-scented
forests, and had he had other hair
breadth escapes and blood -curdling adj
ventures, he might have been made the
subject of sketch that would have
brought him renown among the small
boys of the day. AS it was, he was only
Mr.. Barlow, a book-keeper, and when
on Wednesday last the sun toward even
tide sank slowly toward the horizon, he
laid aside his pen and office duster and
hied himself toward the ripping waters,
where, i'll the shelter of the evening
shade, he would cool his fevered brow
and dip his pedals in the cooling liquid.
Gaining courage as the shade of night
became greater, he descended on and
captured punt and started for greater
depth of water where, unchecked, he
could sport with the finny tribes in
their own element. Coming to the sur
face after q dive of unusual distance,
Mr. Barlow was astonished at seeing
approaching him buck of large pro-
portions, whose antlers spread over his
head like the branches of tree of the
forests. Startled almost out of his
boots, or rather out of the water, the
swimmer struck out for his boat and
there with paddle waged war upon
the animated buckskin. The animal,
nothing daunted, made for that floating
book-keeper, and, with dexterity
worthy of better cause, spilled every
thing into the water, swan for the shore
and disappeared in the woods. Mr.
Barlow was badly scared and very wet
when he returned to his lodgings that
night.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-22

includes the kind of influenza commonly
called hay fever" Five observers reported
"hay fever"
Beside those tabulated above, the
following named diseases were reported
each by one observer: Diabetes, men
nights, sore-throat, pharyngitis and
catarrh.
For the week ending Sept. 9, 1882,
the reports indicate that dysentery and
typho-malarial fever considerably in
creased, that erysipelas and influenza
increased, and that diarrhea and tonsil
tits decreased in area of prevalence.
At the State Capitol, during the week
ending Sept. 9, the prevailing winds
were southwest; and, compared with the
preceding week. the average tempera-
ture was lower, the average absolute
and the relative humidity and the aver
age day and night ozone were less.
Including reports by regular observ-
ers and by others, diphtheria was re-
ported present during the week ending
Sept. 9, and since at seventeen places,
scarlet fever at eleven places, measles at
four places, and smallpox at three
places, as follows: In Berlin township.
Ionia county, Sept. g; at Grand Rapids
Cast case discharged Sept 12); at Ionia,
Sept Is.
For the week ending Sept 8, the San
itary Inspector reports three cases of
whooping-cough among immigrants ar
irving at Detroit.
HENRY B. BAKER, Secretary.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-22

A sCHooL-BoY's congress has been
held at Bordeaux. Victor Hugo was
honorary President. The colleges and
schools represented included those of
Paris, Bordeaux, Versailles, Abb, An
gouleme, Nice, Marseilles, Mines, Mont
pelier, Perigueux, Barbezieux, Beziers,
La Rochelle, Nancy, Toulouse, Poitiers,
Agen and other French towns. A num-
Der of sittings were held. Resolutions
were adopted in abundance. One de-
clared that Victor Hugo's works should
be assimilated to those of Corneille and
Racine, and made classic Other reso-
lutions protested that the study of
Greek and Latin should not be compul-
sorry; that change should be made in
the mode of hearing the charges
brought again st pupils, which should be
heard before different and more i'm
partial tribunal; that the food and fur
niture in the schools should be of q
better kind; that the school Libraries
should be improved and provided with
all the French and foreign classics for
the use of day pupils and boarders;
that military instruction should be
given in all schools as it now is in
Paris; that absolute equality should be
established between the colleges, the
lyceums and the schools, by making the
course of education quite gratuitous,
and by creating several establishments
of higher education, admission to which
would be solely by competition; that
the boarders should be allowed one days
holiday every week, and the mode of
punishment known as keeping in sup
pressed" After this ample expression
of opinion, the congress adjourned for
one year.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-22
Newton Cases Find.


The Marshall Statesman makes a
frantic attempt to induce all young men
to become farmers by telling the follow
ing: Newton Case, while blowing in
a field near the Emerald mills last week,
saw something glitter in newly-turned
furrow, and was surprised to find that
the glittering object was gold watch.
The cases were as bright as those of
new watch, but all the steel parts, in
Guiding bearings, were rusted away.
The dial was marked with two streaks
of iron rust, showing that the watch
stopped about four minutes to 6, but in
what year nobody thereabout can tell.
1t is an oldfashioned cylinder escape
ment watch, and various theories re-
garding its presence in the field are adj
vanced. Some maintain that it must
have been dropped by an old-timer be-
fore the timber was cleared away, as its
style of movement is of pioneer char
acter. Others think it was stolen from
a house on the Territorial road robbed n
short time since, and was dropped by
the thief, who was traced across the
field where the watch was found. Eu-
gene Wyckoff has the watch in his pos
session
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-22
n Printers Mistake.

A Kalamazoo paper relates an in
stance in which an aged couple (the
husband being sc and the wife 79) had
child born to them recently. IL turns
out, however. to be a printers mistake
The writer of the paragraph had writ
ten the word borne, and the printer had
dropped the final e. What the printer
meant is plain enough, but what the
writer of the paragraph meant will only
be known Mt the judgment day, for he
doesn't know himself now.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-22

A New YORK newspaper man lately
discovered an elderly man in Madison
Square Park, surrounded by a number
of children, with whom he was playing.
Thinking he recognized him, the re-
porter babe him good evening. He re-
-ceived no response, and when he ex-
pressed surprise the old man wrote the
following upon card and handed it to
him: Il have not spoken to adults in
two years. Were | to speak now there
would be crowd of 500 here in five
minutes to hear me-" The card was
signed George Francis Train" 1t is
said he may be found on any pleasant
evening in the park playing with chill
dren, but will have nothing to do with
grown people, neither speaking to nor
noticing them.