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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-09
A Good Word for the Mule.

1t seems little strange that so few
mules ARE used in this city and New En-
gland, as compared with other parts of
the country. In fact people have little
idea of the mules capacity. a Market
street livery man is attracting consider
able attention by driving fancy
matched pair attached to his family car
riage, common custom in Southern
cities. These came from Minnesota and
are rated there at $500, more than any
except the very best horses. At the
South $1,000 is not regarded as very
high for pair of the right kind. These
are good for their ten miles an hour on
the road, and they seem to have no idea
of what it is to misbehave. A Spring.
field man. who formerly had charge of
the repairs on long California tele-
graph line. says that he drove mule
that could make his mile in three min
utes without any trouble. The horse
railroad company have worked a pair
of little fellows for seven years, and dur
ing that time there have been only two
days when both of them were not able
to do full duty. The Superintendent
says that they can make two or three
more trips day than a. pair of horses.
and they eat but half as much Their
disposition is warranted as A No. /. ex-
cept that green driver will ruffle their
serenity now and then. The company
owns one other mule, which proudly
helps the Watershops car up the Central
street hill, and is rather gorgeous
spectacle with his white fly netting and
his stalwart negro driver. Aside from
these there is plebian pair of mules
which are condemned to draw an ice
cart about the city.-Springfeld (Mass.>
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-09
HUMOROUS.

-" Blessed are the piece makers. ,
said tie hired girl when she dropped .
fine French china dish on the bricl
pavement Cincinnati Merchant ant
Trareler.
Mrs. Homespun, who has n terrible
time every morning to get her young
brood out of their beds, says she car
not understand why children are calico
the rising generation.
speaking of umbrellas, schola,
says: 1.-The English name is borrowed
from the Italian ombreNa.'' This is
proof positive that there has been from
the start something borrowed about an
umbrella.
-Rhubarb pies, saws cookery item,
are improved by being baked in a slow
oven. SO there is one thing in this
world which is the better done for be.
ing done in slow-ovenly manner
The image.
-"Mamma,' said little boy, II gave
Carrie pretty good hint to go home to-
day" ''What did you do, nv sop?'
asked his mother. ''Oh, l filled her
mouth with mustard and called il
apple-sauce, and she took the hintr'-
Golden Days.
faye, there's the Rub,'-Bather
No. |: Il say, Charlie, | shall be glad
of a glass of ale when l get outside,
shan't you? By-the-bye. WHY is it
people get so thirsty after coming out
of the water?' Bather No. 2: IL
don't know, unless it is because they
rub themselves dry.'-FNn.
"A lecturer undertook to explain to
a village audience the word phenom-
enon. MAY be You don't know
what phenomenon is? Well, l will
tell you. You have seen cow. no
doubt? Well, COW is not phenom-
enon. You have seen an apple-tree?
Well, an apple-tree is not phenom-
enon. But when you see the cow 90
up the tree tail foremost, to pick the
apples, that is phenomenon.
"A gentleman sent his coachman
with favOrlte setter to have the animal
photographed. When the man re-
turned and presented the proof. his
master observed: This is good pict-
ure, Mike; but there is good deal
more OF you in it than of Flora"
''Yes, sOr,' returned the coachnan:
''but, We see, sOr, she was ristless, an |
tho't she'd be more cOntint if she knew
was there. '-Brooalya Eagle.
At wood-cutting contest in
Mexican County two women won the
lrst prize for cross-cut saving. 1t is
safe to wager that the aesthetic educa-
ion of these women has been fearfuIly
neglected. The probabilities are that
hey don't know thing about crochet
ng sky-blue dog on pink canvas, or
painting frightful things on plaques.
nut they may be pretty well up in the
accomplishment Of kicking a tramp off
he front stOOp. -Norrsto,cn Herald.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-09
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

Clean out the granary every year
u it will breed weevil in the old grain.
If you wish to have the best results
m cake-making, always use pulverized
Chicago journal
DO not prune, manure or cultivate
pear trees during the summer Guilt
vate and prune early in the spring and
apply fertilizers in the fall.-N Y.
Herald.
Sage tea, or any other beverage
made OF herbs, should be made in an
earthen vessel. and never in tin, as it
will turn black unless immediately
emptied out, and it may do so even then.
N. Y Post.
"A correspondent advises for the de.
structlOn of ants in gardens and green.
houses, when boiling water can not be
poured in their haunts, to place picked
bones about. These will soon be COW
| cred with the ants, which may be de-
stroyed with hot water.-BoStOfs Post.
No matter what any recipe SAYS,
half cup of butter is liberal allowance
tor one cup of sugar. That is the prop
er proportion to use in cake-making.
though sometimes one may use cup
and half of sugar with this quantity of
butter when you do not care for rich
cake Caicago Joarnal.
We gathered n quantity of rose
bugs. placed them in tomato can and
sprayed them with an emulsion of soap,
kerosene and water blown from bel.
lows. They died in fifteen minutes.
The same emulsion sprayed upon them
while upon grape-vines in the open air
seemed to do them no harm.-Rurdl
Nea0 Yorker.
"A delicious pound cake that is
made without using soda is highly
recommended: One pound of sugar
(either granulated or pulverized). half
Il pound of butter, eight eggs the
whites and yolks beaten separately,
ten ounces of flour; for favoring one
whole nutmeg, grated. This cake
should be baked for an hour and Il
quarter in n moderately hot Oyen-N.
Y. Post
Potato Scallops: Boil and mash
the potatoes soft with little milk or
cream. Beat up light with melted but
teri desscrtspoOnful for every half
pint OF the potatO-salt. and pepper to
taste. Fill some patty-pans or buttered
scallOp shells with the mixture, and
brown in the oven when you have
stamped pattern upon the top of
each. Glaze while hot. with butter,
and serve in the shells Toledo Blade.
The best farmer in Herkimer
County, N. T., raises large crops of
fine potatoes in soil almost pure sand.
He does it by using plenty of barn-yard
manure. and planting from six to eight
inches deep. A clay loan, deeply and
well worked, with plenty of stable
manure to enrich it and loosen it up,
meets to some extent the same condi-
tions. the soil being light at the surface.
and gradually becoming more packed
belOw.-M T. E1aminer.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-09
Oysters.

That is strange idea. so prevalent in
some communities, that oysters are
highly nutritious and easy of digestion.
1t is true that the raw oyster digests in
about the same time as cooked beef.
while stewing adds twenty per cent. to
the required time, for the reason that
they are rather rich in albumen, like
eggs, always rendered more indigestible
by thorough cooking. In the matter of
muscle food, oysters fall below all Of the
hsh and meats, or equal that of pork,
having about one-half of that of herring,
haiibut and trout, just one-half of
chicken. One-sixth of cheese, less than
one-fourth of Southern corn, not one
half of that of beans and pease, BEING
far inferior to beef.
Still they have long been popular
from the fact that some noted physi-
clan. who had studied his taste more
than this subject, once decided in their
favor, supposing that all might be as
fond OF them, and that fondness is about
the same as wholesomeness. As these.
with all fish,. become early putrescent in
hot weather, they must be Objectionable
after having been out IT The water for
any considerable time.--G Golden Rule.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-09
Secret Of Raising Turkeys.

One of our most successful breeders
remarks On this point: One great
secret OF raising turkeys is to take
care, and take care all summer: and
even then you can not raise them, for
sometimes they will not Law, or thew
will not hatch, or something will befall
them. Sometimes we raise turkeys
without much care, when the season is
specially favorable. but generally the
measure of care is the measure of sue
cess. A boy ten or twelve years old,
| with little direction from his father,
can easily take care of two hundred
turkeys, and he can not earn so much
money on the farm in any other way.
1t is an old maxim that if a thing is
worth doing it is worth doing well.
Some may think this constant care is
too much trouble to raise turkeys.
This is free country, and you can
omit any part, or the whole, of these
suggestions. If you know a better
course, by all means pursue it. This
painstaking has made Embarrassing
about as sure as any other branch of
farm industry. l have usually kept
from eight to ten turkeys as breeders,
and have raised from ninety-nine to
one hundred in summer In
1860 1 sold my turkeys for
twenty-seven cents a pound, amount
ing to S2SO4O. In 1869 | sold for
twenty-five to twenty-seven cents
pound, gross amount of sales, 1885, IL.
That year | kept an account of ex-
penses, and calculated the net profit ut
S2l3.5S. In 1870 | sold for twenty-five
cents pound; amount of sales, x311-
.32. In 1871 sold for eighteen cents
pound: gross amount of sales, 1886. 90.
l would rather raise turkeys and sell at
fifteen cents than to raise pork and sell
at ten cents pound. Perhaps in fatten-
ing pork you can save the manure bet
ter, but the turkey droppings, if gath
cred and saved every week and kept
dry are worth half as much as guano,
and are certainly worth cent
pound.
The turkey crop is steadily increas-
ing in value. not more by the increased
number of farmers who make this
speciality in their poultry raising, than
BY the increased attention and skill of
those who have long been in the bust
ness. Care in selecting stock for breed
ing brings ample rewards. The pros
pect was never better than now for the
extension of the business among the
farmers who have good range and
good markets. The average size of tur-
keys in the districts where the business
is made speciality is steadily increasing
and we look for still further improve
Farmer.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-09
CuriOSitieS Of the Cholera.

X. q. Jennings, F. r. A. S.. writes
to the Pdll.MaU Gazette, "to call at
tentiOn to the attack of cholera on
Southern and Western Europe now
due. Such visitations come with more
regularity than most people imagine.
1t is remarkable that every attack on
Egypt is followed by an extension TO
England. Such cholera is not of the
true Asiatic type; it makes its appear
ance first in the Hadjiz, on the tropic of
Cancer, in the neighborhood of Mecca.
some times the year before, some
times the same year, in which it ap-
pears in Egypt. In 1881 it broke out
at Mecca, the same year appeared in
Egypt, and travelled in a northwest di-
rection to England. In 1887, six wears
after, it appeared in England again,
having started from Hadjiz in 1885.
In 1913, eleven years after, it broke out
at Mecca, appeared in Egypt. and
reached England the same year. In
1854, six years after, it was in En-
gland again, having broken out at
Mecca two years before, and spread to
Egypt. In 1865, eleven years after, it
broke out at Mecca, spread to Egypt.
and reached England the same wear.
In 1871, six years after, it broke out
near Mecca, but extended as far as the
north of France only In 1882, eleven
years after, another attack on Europe
fell due. 1t will be observed that
these outbreaks occur every six and
eleven years alternately; great out
break happening every seventeen years,
as 1881, l84S, 1865 and 1883. In every
instance in which Egypt has been at
tackled, Southern and Western Europe
have suffered. There has been
some delay in regard to the
of the present attack:
but that is reason for believing
hat the advance will be rapid. In the
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-09

L
II believe you advertise good fish.
!ng?"
'Yes, sir
''Where is it?''
''Over in the lake. We never fish on
dry land here
But l have been over there all day
and never had bite
''Of course not. If you want to fish
come here in June. This is July, and
the fish won't bite. Sorry, but you are
q month too late
AT THE NEAREST RAILROAD STATION
''How far is it over to Rosebush
Lake,"
Sixteen miles, SIR
''Why, was told that it was only
half mile from this station! This is a
pretty state of affairs. declare! How
do you get over there?''
81 have never been there. sir. Ipre-
sumo you can hire farmers team or
walk it,
Its a dead swindlen'
"Well?"
"And I'm fool for leaving home"
Yes"
L
arertainly. Only sixteen hours to
wait for it. Sit down in the freight
house and make yourself comfortable.
TOO PREVIOUS.
''See here, landlord, didn't you adj
veriise an entire absence of flies and
mosquitoes at this placer
Certainly, sir; but those advertise
ments were prepared in March. and l
assure you in the most solemn manner
that we weren't troubled in the least
until the last of May. If you had only
come up here in April you would have
had glorious time"
AN OFF YEAR.
''HOt! Why, it's five degrees hotter
here than at home! l thought this was
one of the coolest places in the coun-
try?'
My dear sir, this is an off year, YOU
know. Every year but this we have
had to keep up fires in July, and we
shall probably have to next year again.
1t Is sort of an extra season, you see.'
''But where are those cool breezes
you advertised"
''Oh, they are over on the other side
OF the lake to-day. You see, this is
only one side of the lake. and we can't
expect to monopolize all the breeze
there is. We must divide up and give
the other resorts some of it.
CAME IN HANDY.
''See here, landlord, you advertised 4
big. four-stOry hotel, with grove,
fountains, bathing, boating. etc, and l
arrive here to find a shanty stuck in the
pine woods and the nearest lake mile |
away. Explain yourself, STRIP
with the greatest of pleasure. The |
cut of the hotel was one left on the
printer hands, and he worked it in to
fill out the column. l ought to have
in the advertisement that it |
was cut of Il hotel at Long Branch,
but | neglected to. Come right in
beautiful scenery, woods full Of snakes.
rates down to four dollars per day and
children charged full prices
DOG CHEAP.
Landlord, this bill is downright ex-
,OrtiOn.n
''How is thato''
''Why, | can stop at the Grand Pa
'ific for less than you have charged
mel"
Eyes, sir, but is the Grand Pacific
lmong the hills? Is it surrounded by
Zines? Has it 4 boiling spring? Can
-ou walk over precipice within two
hundred feet of the Grand Pacific?
barge two dollars day for the preci-
'ice, another for the hills and the
pring, and if twelve shillings day for
otel rates are not dog cheap then l
lon't know how to please you. Why,
ir. if the Fifth Avenue Hotel was on
he brink of precipice two hundred
eet high, you couldn't stop there for
light dollars dayr' Detroit Free
ress.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-09
Especial Marks OF Trunk SmaSherS.

Where's that trunk been?" said a
reporter yeste. day. pointing to a dis
mantled hulk that had evidently put in
to refit from the sea of summer travel
Il should think that handle was
yanked off somewhere up the Northern
Central. There's a man at Elmira.
think it is, whom we always know BY
the way he leaves his handles always
tears 'em out on the same end of one
side. When trunk is split along the
back it's pretty sure to have been along
the Connecticut coast. The Stonington
transfer splits trunks like buzz-saw,
but when you get a trunk stove in at
both ends, with the hinges off and the
lock collapsed, you can be pretty sure
it's been into Canada. There's where
they do smash baggage. You see they
get so burned mad handling the chests
of drawers and wash-stands and wood
boxes that pass for baggage in that
country that they view every trunk as
a natural enemy, and they single out
the good ones like sharp-shooters lay for
officers"
Whats your particular private
mark?' asked the reporter.
"Oh, we don't smash baggage here.
Baggage smashin', like the shakes in
Jersey, is always in the next town. But
amt got no grudge against these sum-
mer Saratogas. anyway said the bag
yageman, looking in kindly way at
The model village of two-story wooden
houses about Philadelphia Times.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-09

Takes things easy-the man who
isn't watched.-N 7. Ne,cs,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-09

President Arthur has four sisters.
who are Baptists.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-09
Summer Resort Quotations.
GOOD FISHING.

II believe you advertise good fish
hg?"
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-01

A WONDERFUL MAP.-At the school of
the mobiles in Toxic, Japan, is a physical
map of that country 300 or 400 feet long,
in the court behind the school building.
This map, or model, is made of turf and
rock, aud is bordered with pebbles, which
look at little distance so much like water.
Every inlet, river aud mountain is repro.
drced IL this model with q fidelity to de-
tail which is simply worderful. Latitude
and longitude are indicated by telegraph
wires, and tablets chow the position Of the
cities. Ingenious devices are employed in
illustrating botanical studies also. For
example, the pine IS illustrated by pict.
ure showing the cone, leaf and dissected
flower, set IN frame which shows the bark
and longitudinal and transverse sections of
the wood.
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gTAsa,

Bodies ACCOMPLISHMENTS snowslide.
SALT LAKE, January 3lst.-The bodies of
Willot and Burgess have been recovered from
the fnowslide in American Fork canyon.
They were found by miners after long and
severe struggle through tho snow. The men
have no relatives or friends here
Yesterday slide Jumped over the hoisting
works and tramway of the Jacob Lawrence
mine, Little Cottonwood. but did little in-
jury. It has been Bnowipg for nearly two
days in the mountai g. The snow is wet and
heavy, and is calculated to cause numerous
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BRITIsl, COLUMBIA.
Coal Mine opened.

VICTORIA, January 31st.-Mr. Toomy, Of
San Francisco, returned from Qlatsino, at
the northern end Of Vancouver island, yes-
tsrday. lie reports that at the depth Of
twenty.four feet a seam Of coal was struck,
but not of sufficient thickness Co be worked.
l. is only tweDiy-six inches through, but
what was tested was found to coke perfectly,
and to be of superior quality. Fire clay was
then entered, and the bore was still in it
wheu Mr.. Toomy left.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
New Life

is given by using BRowN's
IRON BITTERs. In the
Winter it strengthens and
warns the system; in the
Spring it enriches the blood
and conquers disease; in the
Summer it gives tone to the
nerves and digestive organs;
in the Fall it enables the
system to stand the shock
of sudden changes.
In no way can disease be
so surely prevented as by
keeping the system in per
feet condition. Browns
IRON BITTERs ensures per-
feet health through the
changing seasons, it disarms
the danger from impure
water and miasmatic air,
and it prevents Consufnp-
ton, Kidney and Liver Dis
ease, &c.
II. S. Berlin, Esq, Of the
well-known firm of H. S.
Berlin & Co., Attorneys, LIE
Droit Building, Washing
ton, D. c., writes, Dec. 9Th,
1881:
Cenhtmen.' I take pleas
ure in stating that have used
Browns Iron Bitters for ma
laria and nervous troubles,
caused by overwork, with
excellent results.
Beware of limitations.
Ask for BRowN's IRON BIT
TIERS, and insist On having
it. Don't be imposed on
with something recon-
mended as "jNSt as S700d."
The genuine is made only
by the Brown Chemical Co.
Baltimore, Nd.
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The TRIM ROBBERS.

Full Details OF Their Capture-A Utah
Sheriff Tells the Story-A wearisOme
Desperation of Two OF the Ban
dts Arrival of ELECTROMAGNETIC
vance on the stockade-Final Surrender
OF The Remainder of the Gang.
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REYADA.
The stnte Prison wnrdenshIp.

CARSON, January 3lst-The Republicans
met to night. and agreed to caucus on Friday
for State Prison Warden. An attempt to
pass the Lieutenant. Governors bill out Of
order failed.
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wAsn.NGroN rrnRIroRY.
Leg Broken-NeasIes. Not Small pox-
Guarv-efArp,

SnOW-st0rn.
DAYTON, January 3Oth.-Geo. W. Hahn,
travelling for a San Fran cisco firm, was COM
ing to Dayton in private conveyance in the
dark last night, when tie vehicle upset, the
trunks and wagon falling upon him in a
gulch, where he laid some time in the water.
His right leg was broken below the knee.
The reported case of smallpox turns out
to be bad case of messle', which was qua.
rantined.
It commenced showing at II o'clock last
night, and is still falling. It has reached a
depth of eight inches, but is melting little.
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PACIFIC SLOPE.

Excitement In Truckee Temperance
lecture 10 Young Men-Fire In Colusa
County Another Coal Mine on vaDcou-
YER Isiand-A Dear Mute Receivers HIS
VOice-KiIIed by Falling Tree Shoot
Ing Affair In Los Angeles COunty-Man's
legs Gut OF by Traia-Rtc.
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Iy countries where malaria is prevalent, or
where the climate Is subject TO sudden
chsnges-should be found in every house
Browns Iron Bitters.
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3HORTEAND-

DERsoSs WISHING LESSONS IN rHoNoe.
r,ply, OF Lady Teacher, call at No. 1913 P
treet is4.1n1m
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Oregon.

WE, THE UNDERSIGNED DRUGGISTS, take
pleasure in certifying that We have sold WIS FAIRS
BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY for many years
and know it to be one OF the oldest as well as one
Of the most reliable preparations in the market for
the cure of COUGHS, COLDS, and THROAT AM
LUNG COMPLAINTS. We know of no article that
gives more general satisfaction to those who use it,
and we do not hesitate to recommend it. July, 1882
JOHN A. CHILD, Portland, Oregon.
c. A. PLUMMER, Portland, Oregon.
S. G. SKIDMoRE & CO., Portland, Oregon.
L. BLUMAUER & CO., Portland, Oregon.
PLUMMER s. BYERLY, Portland, Oregon
FoSHAY & MASON, albany, Oregon.
T. W. LANGDoN & CO., Albany Oregon.
BELT g. co. Salem, Oregon.
d. w. MATHEWS, Salem, Oregon.
WALDh0N & COVlLLAUD, The Dalles, Oregon,
SNIPES & KINERSLEY, The Dalles, Oregon
c. E. DUNHAM. The nalles, Oregon.
GEG. II. H0LBROOK, The Daes Oregon
GEO. A. HARDING, Oregon City, Oregon.
W. E. DEMENT,, Astoria, Oregon.
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STAR MILLS ARD MALT HOUSE.
NEUBOURG d Lagos.

NyoS. so, So AND 54 FIFTH ST. SACRAMENTO
1S dealers in Produce and Brewers Supplies, Man
ufacturers Of Malt and all kinds Of Meals Oatmeal
oornmeal, Cracked Wheat, Graham Flour, Buck
wheat Flour, etc New Grain Bags for sale. Agents
or Buckeve Mills ur Narysvilie. au17.ln
The subscriber desires call lawyers aaihors
-Dd business men generally throughout the Nest the facilities
Of tie VALLEY PRESS for doing thoroughly good printing.
lie viii maintain tie eminent reputation long attached The
house Ihe c Of eliza and peyc. printing Is greatsf
ta-5 test which IL disarae y snd hand. Address
= A. Wa ER. 81 ST. sseTansn.5. Cal.
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Oregon has 324 pensioners, who receiv,
S36, 22l annually.