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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23
Webb's Death.

| DR.. c. W. Palmer, of Lockport, n.
Y, who was one of the physicians hold
| ing post-mortem examination on the
body of Captain Webb, furnishes the
| following account of it:
There was found marked rigor NOR
tbs. The body was in state of active
decomposition. All the tissues were
greatly distended by gases. There was
a scalp wound on top of the Uranium,
three and one-half inches in length, not
involving the bony structure. No bones
were found broken. There were sew
eral other local injuries of the body,
but unimportant as to the cause of
death. The scalp wound was evidently
produced after death.
The muscular texture was peculiar.
By a cut lonyitudinally with sharp
scalpel shreds of dessicated muscle
would be carried along with and collect
on the edge Of the scalpel. All the
blood presented distinctly red color
in some places remarkably red
showing that the blood was not deox;d-
lied by asphyXia in drowning, but that
death ensued prior to that condition.
None of the characteristic symptoms of
death from drowning were present,
neither was there any local injury suf-
ticient to necessarily produce death.
The muscles were pale and presented
the peculiar appearance for which we
could find no better name than Tx
desiccatiOn, the tilament being ragged
and broken and separating with remark
able facility. The examination on each
extremity and upon the-yarious portions
of the trunk and neck presented uni
fOrmly these conditions.
AS the result of our examination | am
led to the conclusion, and in this l am
seconded by my colleagues, that death
was caused not by asphyxia or drown
ing or by any local injury by the body
coming in contact with any hard sub
stance, but by the shock from the reac-
tionary force of the water in the whirl~
pool rapids coming in contact with the
submerged body with such force as to
instantly destroy the respiratory power,
and, in fact, all vital action by direct
pressure and force of contact shock
of sufficient intensity to paralyze the
nerve centers, partially desiccate the
tissues. and forestall any
probable sequel of death by drowning.
The cause of death in passing through
these rapids being thus constant, and
drowning or an injury received from
rocks, forces the conclusion that no liv-
ing body can, or ever will, pass through
the rapids alive; fact established of
no little Importance, and an ominous
warning to all future adventures.
The river bed at the whirlpool rapids
is much narrowed, and also suddenly
assumes greatly increased precipitancy.
The water strikes the unyielding rocky
banks with great violence, and by reac-
ton meets with such resistance as to
form in the center mountainous ridge |
Of encroaching waters from twenty to
thirty feet in height. Into this Captain
Webb was submerged after passing the
first breaker, and instantly subjected to
the immense pressure indicated upon
his body as the cause of mis- death.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23
Mrs. jones' Mistake.

"Maria," said Mr.. Jones. when his
wife tod him she was going out riding
that afternoon ,''it's going to be hot,
and I'll send up fan and japanese
parasol. You put the fan in the mar
fingale and spread it open. and fasten
the parasol in a loop behind the ear. y
Wont that be fly said Mrs. Jones,
''where did you see them?''
"At the sea-shore," snorted Jones,
'sthey are the toniest things OUT
After dinner the package came Mrs.
Jones opened it and found a gay paper
fan and paper parasol.
Bridget" asked Mrs. Jones, "what
is martingle?'
''Shure it's girth of some sort an.
swered Bridget, shortly.
"Oh, belt. Why of course it is. /
am to spread the fan in my belt and
put the parasol up and fasten it to my
head. Jeptha said so, the sweet
thing"
So Mrs. Jones drove old Tom in the
phaeton up one avenue and down
another, and was the observed of all
observers. She had fastened the handle
Oh the pdTdSOI lUtO ueE DOnneI Strings,
and as it was not very large it did not
obstruct the view, and people stared as
much they did at Jumbo. She felt that
she was setting the style and was more
than happy. But when she got home
Jones was awaiting her, the maddest
man in town.
You ought to be pasted on a tea
chest or used as a wall decoration"
he shrieked. Don't you know the
difference between horse and a
donkey?'
Il ought to- said Mrs. Jones,
meekly.
Eyes, you ought to; but you don't.
There you've gone out on the avenue
with horse umbrella and fan. Why
lidn't You wear the rest of the harness?
| tell you what it is, Maria, if you 60 on
his way you'll get your name in the
papers; see if you don't"
But the next day all of Mrs. Jones'
adv friends called to ask her where she
rot that perfectly lovely idea of the fan
ind parasol. and if the articles could be
purchased in the city.-Dstro1 Post and
Tribune.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23
A Remarkable Case.

An old man was arraigned before an
Arkansaw Court for some trifiing Of
Tense, and among the witnesses was an
old woman who, in giving her testimO-
ny, made such efforts to shield the old
man that the Judge asked:
Madam, have You known this man
very long?"
"Yes, sir,' the old woman replied.
Il have known him a very long time.
When was young girl this man used
to visit me. In fact. Judge, we were
sweethearts," and she twisted her apron
and looked down.
"Ah, l see.'' the Judge replied.
FUSED to be sweethearts, and think so
much of each other now because you
did not marry each other them"
You are mistaken, Judge, for we did
marry each other then, and are husband
and wife now"
''Indeed!' the Judge exclaimed,
''this is remarkable case. Liberate
the old fellow, Mr.. Officer. ''-Arkansaw
T'rdreller.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Elijah Cole, of Worthwhile, N. T..
six feet and half tall, and known as
the "Giant of the North Woods" died
recently, aged seventy years.
Samuel Francis Smith, D. D., the
author of our National hymn, my
Country, It's of Thee" now resides. at
the age of seventy-four, in Newtown
Center, Mass.
Senator Eugene Hale in the prsc-
tice of law has made s little fortune for
himself of about $4,000 to $780, 900.
His wife is said to have 81, 200, 900, and
with her mothers interest $1,5OO,0 900.
Boston Post.
Isaac Adams, the inventor of the
Adams power printing-press, died re-
Gently at Sandwich, N. H., where he
had resided for many years. He was
eighty-one years of age and quite
wealthy.
There is now no living member Of
the group pictured by Carpenters cele-
brated painting of Signing the Procla-
nation" Montgomery Blair was the
eighth and last.
Miss Louisa de la Rance. "Ouida,"
whites to the London Times in favor OF
making a copyright treaty with the
United States with the concurrence OF
publishers. She opposes any admission
into England of American reprints of
English works as ruinous to authors and
to literature.
MIR. Charles A. Dana, of the New
York Sun. puts on a white beaver about
fIvn ~ oft nd 60
lunch. He straddles one of the swing
ing seats at a counter, and, fitting his
hat gently back, mods Familiarity to the
waiter, and orders plate of soup. He
IS as modest rs if he did not have an in
come of $4,000 a month. Chicago
Iribnne.
DIR. Oliver S. Taylor, of Auburn.
N. Y, the one surviving member of
Dartmouth Colleges class of 1903, is.
now in his Tooth year of life. and enjoys
perfect health of mind and body. He
has never been sick but day and a
half. and has never had a headache.
The one slight attack of sickness occur
red some seventy-three years ago.-M.
Y. Post.
Rev. Newman Halls "COme to
Jesus has been printed in twenty Ian
guages and 100000 copies of it have
been sold Mr.. Hall is tall in stature,
not robust, genial in manner. and with
a face kindling with sympathy. His
home, called Ivy House. half hidden by
vines, is full of pictures and books
gathered from all parts of the wOrld.-~
Chicago News.
-Bayard Taylor used to say that OF
all men he had ever seen Hawthorne
was the most remarkable for possessing
eyes that flashed fire. the pupils being
so dilated as to render the
iris invisible. Gladstone has similar
eyes. and some of his friends attributed
to them Queen Victoria's lack of fond
ness for that statesman. Her Majesty,
they say, has on several occasions been
actually terrified by Gladstone's gaze.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23
The Unrivaled Express Rider.

In 1910 Major Houghton, proprietor
of the Boston Atlas newspaper, engaged
Mr.. Twichell to collect the votes of the
State on the day of election, SO that they
could be published in his paper on the
following morning. This feat, which
was regarded by many as impossible.
Mr.. Twichell accomplished by having
the returns brought by assistants, with
relays of horses. from every town of the
State to a central route. This was year
ly done for ten years. On one occasion,
after voting in Worcester and riding to
Greenfield, distance of fifty-fve miles,
where he was to receive returns in per-
son, he found that his messengers from
WilliamStOwn, Adams and the north
western part of the State, delayed by
the bad weather and travelling. had been
unable to leave Greenfield until two
hours after the appointed time. Mr..
Iwichell rode to " OrceSter in the face
of an easterly storm, but arrived ten
inmates after the engine, which started
at the hour appointed, had left. He
pushed forward on horseback forty-tive
miles farther, and reached Boston in
season for his dispatches to appear in
the morning atlas. Another re-
markable feat was performed by
Mr. Twichell in 1916. The lead.
ing newspapers of New York were Gag
er to secure dispatches expected to ar
rive at Boston by the foreign steamer in
January of that year. The Herald made
arrangements to carry its own dispatch
es from Boston to Norwich by railroad,
thence by boat to Long Island, and
across the island by mail to New York
City The Tribune and other papers of
New York and Philadelphia being cx-
cludei by the Herald from participating
in its arrangements with the railroad
and steamboat companies on this route,
Mr.. Twichell, who was
obliged to use horses for most of the
distance. He could obtain an engine to
run from Boston to Worcester only on
condition of its being fifteen minutes be-
hind the Herdlds train. From WOrces-
ter to Hartford, a distance of sixty-six
miles, he rode on horseback through a
deep snow in the remarkably short time
of three hours and twenty minutes;
thence from Hartford to New Haven by
railroad, thirty-siX miles; from New
Haven to New York, seventy-six miles,
by horse. and reached New York CITY
in season for the printing of the dis
patches before the arrival of those of the
Herald. Mr.. Twichell's remarkable
feat of Workmanship excited so much
interest that it was commemorated by a |
large and beautiful engraving entitled
- The unrivaled Express Rider Dos
ton Journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23
Foreigners in Paris.

From the "Annuaire de la Vile de
Paris for 1881, recently issued, we
learn how comparatively few residents
in Paris are Partisan born and bred.
Indeed. out of every 1000 inhabitants
only 1922 are born in the metropolis,
while 80 come from the other cOmmunes
of the department, 565 from the vari-
Gus departments or colonies, and Is
from foreign countries. Other Cont
mental capitals do not contain so many
foreigners as Paris, Berlin only pos
sessing Ii out of 1000 and Pesth but IA.
At the time of the census of 1881 there
were in Paris 1921 Belgians. 31,190
Germans, Il, ST. Italians, 2O,8l0 Swiss,
1879 English, $3.50 Dutch, 1927
Americans, 5,786 Russians, 1882
Austrians and 1916 Spaniards. The
German element has very largely in
creased since 1876, at which period they
only numbered 1904. 1t is most
abundant in the outer ACCOMPLISHMENTS of
the city, and particularly in the Nine
teenth. The Dutch and the Belgians
(the latter numbering but 1892 in
1870 are found indiscriminately
throughout Paris; the Swiss are power
full in the commercial localities; the
Italians, vino have almost doubled
since 1876, in the Eleventh and neigh
boring ACCOMPLISHMENTS, while the En-
glish chiefly inhabit the Eighth, Six
teenth and Seventeenth. Foreigners,
as whole, increased from 119, $40 in
1876 to 1870 in 1881, and formed
nearly fifth part of the total increase
of the city.-London Times
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23

! ticle of blood and other substances de.
| clared "treife'' by the Jewish law.
No blood of any animal is considered
fit food for any jew. but the heart, the
lungs. the liver and kidneys are
"Kosher'' if carefully "borsted.'
1t will be seen that the Intervention
of the Shochet secures to the orthodox
jew fiesh-food in an absolutely healthy
condition, the reason for the law having
been, in tact, nothing but n desire to
protect the children of Israel against
the many diseases so apt to re-
suit from the consumption of the meat
Of unhealthy animals.
1t is quite natural that "kosher"
meat should command higher price
than is ruling in the general meat mar
ket. The butcher has to pay cent
higher for the live cattle he buys on ac-
count of the trouble the slaughtering by
the Shochet causes in the slaughter
house, aside from that, the bOrsting"
requires vast amount of labor, not
counting the loss in weight caused by
the careful cleaning the meat receives
before it is put on sale.
If the butcher undertakes to corn
beef for his orthodox customers he has
to employ again extraordinary care.
The meat must first be soaked in fresh
water for an hour, then it has to be bed
ded in salt for half an hour, and then
washed again before it goes into
brine, in which it remains twenty-four
hours. But little corned beef is made
in consequence.
The rarest thing in "Kosher"
butcher-shop is a soup-bone. The de-
mand is very large but the supply linn
tied, as the dealers conscience and the
jealousy with which he guards his rep
utation prevents him from palming off
on his customers bones of even the
headquarters of Kosher animals I'M
less these headquarters had been pro-
orally compromises by reserving the
soup-bones for those of his customers
whose circumstances do not permit of
their buyin. the regular cuts of beef
The orthodox Jew looks upon his
butcher as 4 trusted person, and the
latter has rarely, if ever. been known to
betray. the trust imposed on him. He
is generally sincerely religious, has
learned lis trade from his father, and
is descended from a long line of butch
ers. Feeling conscious of the impor-
lance Of his position, he bears himself
with considerable dignity, looking upon
the rest of mankind rs people depend
ent entirely on him for protection
against the evils arising from the con-
of ''reifc'' food But he in
turn depends with implicit confidence
on the Shochet, who treasures the parch-
ment credentials of his high office with
anxious care.
There is at least one 'Kosher''
butcher in Chicago who has served his
people here for eighteen years. He is a
native of Russian Poland, as are all his
and by far the majority of
his customers. Only the most orthodox
Jews cling to the "Kosher" butcher;
those that are in the least degree in
clined to be liberal will generally
themselves from the |
Shochet sooner than from any of the
.orms of the worship OF their fathers.-
Chicago Tribune.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23
HUMOROUS.

"A clergyman said that he addressed
his congregation of ladies and gentle
men as brethren. because the brethren
embraced the ladies.
-" There is tied in the affairs OF
men which leads on to fortune" re-
marked q young man after marrying
an heircss.- Cincinnati Merchant and
Irareler.
"A four-year-old child, visiting, saw
,, bellows used to blow an open fire, and
informed her mother that 'they shovel
wind into the fire at Aunt Augustus"
The Household.
"A Boston schoolgirl can not be
made to speak of overalls. She prefers
to call them super-Omnes. Now let
some of those wild Western sheets again
sheer at our culture, if they dare!-Bos-
tom Transcript.
One of the lOveliest spectacles in
this world is to watch the expression of
rapture that passes over the face of the
dude as he sucks lemon up through a
straw, roll his eyes and rubs his ears to-
gether at the back of his head. Golden
Days.
The fair thing: "Now, Mr.. Over
charge, what will it cost to have hot
and cold water put all through my
house. "Well, I can't give a very
close estimate until the job IS COM
pleted. will do the fair thing by you,
though" So the plumber went to
work and three months latter he owned
the house.-Detroit Post.
"A musical journal discusses Music
as Healing Art If man were to be
treated to a serenade by couple of
bagpipers, he would have to be pretty
i'll if the inspiring strains didn't infuse
enough strength into his system inside
of five minutes to cause him to jump
out of bed and look around for q shot
gun.-Scotch Fun.
john Bull (who is asked toward
the Cottage Home for Over-worked
School Board Children): ''Confound it!
my hands never out of my pocket.
First have to pay for their education,
and because that has made 'em so queer
am now asked to pay the doctors
billr'--Funny Folks.
Ella Wheeler says, in a poem, that
it was o at the twilight hour" when "a
dream came to my stern hearts bolted
door-a sad-faced dream. robed in the
garb of woe.' If she eats ice cream
and a pickle just before retiring, rs
many girls do, sucn dreams will surely
come lOafing around her stern hearts
bolted door, and she's lucky if they dent
crawl about her head and frigh:en
the wits out of her almost. -Norristo,cn
Herald.
Take that par of shoes from I'll.
der your coat" demanded a merchant
of an old negro, cor I'll have you ar
rested" who's got par Of sh,es
un'er his coat?'' "You have; 1 saw
you when you picled them up" lis
desc de shoes?'' producing them.)
'.Yes; hand them here ''Why didp't
you tell me da was de shoes, sted ob
gettin' me fused roun' heah? Holler at
! man ease he doan un'erstan' yer
Wust town l ebber seed. White folks
ramps on de niggers like da was foot
Og. "-ArkdnsdW Traveller.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23
Picked Up a Meteor.

Mr.. Gordon, a druggist at the High
lands, has in his possession one of the
latest arrivals of those mysterious visi-
tants from interstellar space known as
meteors. At about eleven o'clock last
Thursday night, as he and friend
were walking at the corner of Oriole
and Rill streets, West Roxbury. his at
tention was called to Kissing, hustling
sound. like that of same projectile pass
ing rapidly overhead. Before he could
ascertain what it was there came a
cracking of the boughs of some pine
trees close at hand, followed by heavy
thud on the messy ground.
He found an iron-like stony slug.
about the size of an egg, weighing
nearly a pound. 1t was quite deeply
imbedded in the springy bed of moss
and pine spills, and, as it bore marks
unlike those on any terrestrial pebble,
and was the only object of any kind in
that vicinity that could possibly pro-
duce such sound, he feels sure that it
is 3 small-sized star that has been
stopped in its flight.
1t is an irregular slug of partially
oxydized iron, and its surface is covered
with small openings, making it look
Ike rusty worm-eaten coal clinker
Boston Globe.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23
shrines decorated, to honor these name.

shrines decorated, to honor these name
less heroes: but many saint whose
name stands high on the muster-ron Of
the noble army of martyrs, and whose
memory lives in costly silver and i'm
perishable marble, might fairly yield
his place to the ''witnesses" of Nam
paminarina. Of all that doomed band
one only escaped with life from that
Golgotha. This was a young girl.
who walked quietly to the place of exc
cution. saying that there was no need
to bind or carry her, for she was quite
ready to 90. Hopes were entertained
that she might be induced to recant,
and with this view orders were pri-
vately given to the native officers who
superintendent the butchery to reserve
her TO the last. She was set close to
the edge of the precipice and held there
by the cxecutioners while the slaughter
proceeded. One by one her fellow
martyrs were crushed into shapeless
hideousness before her eyes till she
alone was left. But the brave girl new
err tiinched. To all offers of life she re-
piled simply: al will not give up my
faith: let me 90 to my friends" Infu-
rated by her steadfast calmness the
chief of the ruffians who directed the
massacre struck her savagely on the
face and babe her take the oath of alb
jurgation and do homage to the gods
of the country or die forthwith. But
her answer was still the same: II will
follow my friends '.She is an idiot.
and knows not what she says"' roared
the baffled savage; ''take her away"
She was accordingly removed from the
spot and dragged away to a distant part
of the island, where she survived to re-
count, years later, all the details of
scene worthy to be commemorated in
words of fire like those wherewith the
greatest Englishman of the seventeenth
century branded the Piedmontese mas
sacre.-London Cor. N. Y Times.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23

The question has often been asked:
''Why do horses wear blinkersy' We
can not answer the question. It seems
to us that they are useless, ugly. and,
TO some extent, injurious to the eye
sight. The most beautiful feature of
The horse is its eye. If it were not Ibid
from our gaze," it would serve to de-
note sickness, pain OF pleasure" Many
time would a driver spare the whip
On seeing the animals imploring eye.
The argument in favor of blinkers is,
we believe, that horses ale afraid of
passing carriages. This objection. if
valid, is of little weight. as such timid-
ity would soon be overcome. We trust,
now the cruel bearing rein has been cast
aside, that blinkers will be abandoned
"a course which would. we feel assured,
be attended with advantage to both man
and horse.-Lancst.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23
GOODBYE OR HOWDEDO.

Say goodbye or howdy-do-
What's the odds betwixt the two?
Comm -goin'-every day
Best friends first to go away
Grasp of hands You druther hold
Than their weight i'm solid gold,
Slips their grip while greetin' you.
Say goodbye or hOwdy-do!
HOwdy-do, and then goodbye
Mixes jest like laugh and cry:
Deaths and births, and worst and best,
Tangled their contrariest;
Ev'ry jinglin' weddin'-bell
Skeearin' up some funeralknell.
Here's my song. and there's your sigh,
Howdy-dO, and then, goodbye.
Say goodbye or howdy-1o-
Jest the same to me and yOu:
faint worth while to make no fuss
Cause the jobs put up on us.
Some ones runnin' this concern
That's got notbin' else to learn
II He's willin', well pull through,
Say goodbye or howdy-dol
j. ". Rilcy, in Indianapolis Journal.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23

John Rafferty, walked up to the
priest in st. Bernard Church, Cohoes,
n. Y, the other day. and announcing
himself as Pope Plus TX. ordered the
priest to stop the service. A police
sergeant escorted the Pope to the lock-
np.-Ir0y Times.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23

AT the great fishery celebration in
London the stall for the sale of Ameri-
can inventions and American drink was
presided over by Lady Waterlow, wife
of Sir Sidney Waterlow, NJ. P. for
Gravesend. Governor of the Irish So
ciety, and Lord Mayor of London in
1928. Lady Waterlow's maiden name
was Margaret Hamilton, and she was
reared at Napa, Cal. She was assisted
by Mrs. Paget, Miss Chamberlin, and
several other Americans.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23

The leaves from early cabbages may
be fed to cows and chickens. They
should be given to COWS directly after
milking. about . peck ct q time.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23

"A castor-oil plant placed in room
infested with flies will Immediately ex
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-08-23

The good dye young-if their mus
tache happens to be white.