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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21

A story is told of Colonel Sigafus, the
old forty-niner millionaire, who is erect
ing magnificent castle on the heights
back of Tarrytown. who is said to have
moved to the East to introduce his heir
ess. lovely maiden of eighteen years.
to the blue society of the Hudson. The
Colonel takes an active part in the con-
struction of his house. With shovel OF
pick he may frequently be seen leading
y gang of workmen and explaining how
in the early days of California gold
mining he labored for the precious met
al. One day contractor presented .
demand for money. The Colonel, with
shovel in hand. had paid out all his small
change and did not wish to don his store
clothes and go to the city. Throwing
down his spade he strobe to his apart
ments over bis stable, and hastily cut
ting twenty thousand dollars Of coupons
from his Government bonds rode oil At
. furious rate toward the village. In
an hour he returned with huge pack
age strapped behind his saddle. The
contractor was awaiting him. The
package, done up with a rope, was un-
done, and bank bills of all dcnOmina-
tons, from one to thousand, were ex-
posed and the bill was paid.-M 7.
World.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Tennyson writes and signs al
her husbands letters.
The Smith family occupies fifteen
closely printed pages of the London d.
rectory this year.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes contra
diets the cable story that he is going to
England to lecture. and says he desires
to pass the remainder of his life in his
own country and by his own Preside.
Judge Tourgee says in his new
lecture that there are "a. 900 newspapers
to publish the news of the day, and
there are $50, 900 reporters in this coun-
try alone watching the world to record
its actions.
Not one of the six Congressman
from California was born in that State.
Tully IS a native of Tennessee, Glascock,
of Mississippi, Henley, of Indiana, Rose
Grams, of Ohio, Budd, of Wisconsin, and
Sumner, of Massachusetts,.
Chief George w. Melville
has received letter from the Governor
of Irkoutsk. couched in the most friend
ly terms. 1t says that the Car has re-
warded all those who aided MIR. Melville
and the other survivors of the Jeanette.
One of the most highly-prized arti-
Giles in the collection of Hartford
Comm book lover is a copy of Princes
Chronological History from 1920 to
$685." giving daily account of the
pilgrims for thirteen years. The volume
is not easily duplicated. even in public
libraries of long standing and MEANS
Boston Transcript.
j. NJ Hill, the theatrical manager,
is said to be so lucky that if he were to
leave his slippers at q hotel they would
be forwarded to him to the next town
with half-dozen pairs of silk stockings
in them. The only time he ever fell
down he is said to have picked up q
diamond pin.-M Y. Graphic.
--Horatio King, though now an old
man, is still hale and hearty; his eye i:
as bright, his step as firm and his heart
as young as when he sat in Buchanan's
Cabinet as Postmaster-General. Mr..
King enjoys the distinction of having
entered the Post-office Department as
clerk and working his way up to the
top Chicago Tribune.
MIR. Joseph Hay, one of Boston's
most venerated citizens, celebrated re.
Gently the ninety-fourth anniversary Of
his birth. in the house which he built in
1921, and where he has lived during
sixty-three years. He was member oil
Boston's Common Council in 1880, and
he has missed voting at only two cleo
tons in seventy years. Boston Herald.
IN. j. Morton. of the Boston Globe,
who lost his life in the City of Column
bus disaster, was one of the brightest
journalists in New England. He was OF
his way to Florida to spend several
months to avoid the dreadful disease.
consumption, the symptoms of which
had begun to appear. Some of toe best
articles in the Globe in the last few
years emanated from his brain.--Chicd.
90 Inter Ocean.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21
Confronted with His Villainy.

When Mr.. Popperman threw off. his
overcoat last evening his wife said:
my dear. this is your birthday.
Now. what kind of present would you
prefer?'
"Well. money"
That's just the kind of q present /
have for you," and Mrs. Popperman
took from beneath her apron a plethoric
bag, and emptied upon the table a pile
of jingling cons. There's your birth
day present"
The husband looked at the coins in
amazement, and then said:
"Why, my dear, the money is no
good. There is nothing here but lead
quarters and dimes with holes in EN-:
Here's quarter with hole IN it, and
the hole is bigger than the quarter.
What COMPOUNDED rascal palmed that
money on you? Oh! the scoundrels
there are in the worldr'
''Calm yourself, M DEAR" said Mrs.
Popperman. 'sThat money must all be
good. That's what you've given me
for pin money since we've been mar
ried. IN Y Morning Journal
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21
HUMOROUS.

The burglars pridc--If they hadn't
they could not have opened the window.
Chicago Tribune
The difference between a patent
non-tip-overable spittoon and an ed
itorial is said to be in the fact that the
one will right itself while the other
won't.
-''When q man gets a stitch in his
side while at church he is apt to lose
the thread of the discourse" o.
course; and when he gets Lemmed il
by a crowd of pretty girls, it seams
good. YOnkers Statesman.
"A little child of Rutland, VT, be.
coming wearied with the 1uarreling OF
two younger children over glass OF
milk, exclaimed: whats the use Oh
fighting forever over that milk? There
is whole cowful out in the barn. y
Troy Times.
a-"Fred, why Go you call me you1
duckie darling? Is it because tioated
into your affections so swimmingly?'
Hardly that, my dear! It's because,
as rule, you rarely advance toward
me but you are holding out big bill. I"
Chicago Times.
IFS that little man married." asked
WithcrspOon, looking at a five foOt-twC
man helping LADY upon the cars.
Eyes. Why?" 81 shouldn't think il
was consistent for short fellow like
him to enter the bonds of high-men. :"
N. Y. Mail.
A man who comes round every few
minutes begging for match is rather o
nuisance, but when he slides into o
crowd and asks: els there any mar
here who is mean enough to refuse tc
give me match?" there is nothing te
do but to hand one over at once.--Bos
ton Post.
Not Sub,
make me pun" said merry klng
To a jolly joker at his side.
Then give me subject-anything.
The pungent punSter quickly replied.
Make it on me, then" chuckled the King
AS he gently strOked his robe of fur.
L could make one that smi es would bring
But the King is not a subject, sir.
in July and August last year each
United States Senator consumed tor
and half of ice Altogether 100000
pounds were used up. When the next
polar expedition is organized, the crew
should be drafted from the United
States Senate. 1t would not only save
the country handsome sum of money,
but we should very soon have an open
polar sea.--Boston transcript.
"A Modest Little Girl" Mamma, /"
asked little girl, "does the sun 60 to
bed when it sets in the EVENING" -
suppose so," absent-mindedly replied
the mother. "What makes everything
so red? Does it blush because it has tc
90 to bed right out where everybody
can see it?;' II shouldn't be surprised.
my dear" "Well," continued the lit
tie girl, thoughtfully, elf l were in the
suns place / would cover myself up
with the clouds. ''-DctroH Post
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21
Why He Goes on Clutches.

Mr.. Gazely, travelling salesman fo1
the well-known liquor house of Gum
cane 4 Racket, now wears pair of
crutches, not for ornament, particular
ly, but mainly for use. Several days
ago Gazely, while en- route for a rural
seat of trade, fell in with a lot Of young
fellows, representing many trades and
professions. They exchanged cards,
TASKS and compliments. old Jokes and
wearisome stories. When Gazely ar
rived at the small town where he was
to transact business, if possible, he pro-
ceeded at once to the house whose wants
IN the whisky line he had ever supplied;
but upon entering the store he saw that
i change in proprietorship had taker
place. The proprietor came forward.
Good morning, sir.
"Good morning. / see that this place
has changed ownership. l used to dc
considerable business with your pred
ecessor and hope to merit your con-
tidence.''
Your name?'
Gazely handed him a card, not bis
own commercial pasteboard, but un.
fortunately the name and :wo-line ad
vertisement of q young undertaken he
had met on the train. The merchant
looked at the card for moment and
said:
II am thankful to say, sir, that need
nothing in your line
"But you soon will, hope" replied
Gazely.
The merchant knit his brows, dropped
stitch, picked it up and proceeded tc
knit while longer.
Il hope may not soon need your
services, sir. l don't know why you
say that my predecessor ever had any
dealings with you. for he is a young
mani
II know he's a young man. said
Gazely, looking sharply at the mer-
chant, "but what difference does that
make? He kept his cellar well stocked
with my goods, but that's neither here
nor there. I've got the best in the
market, and Just now we are selling at
strikingly low figures. You'll never
have chance to do better and advise
you to lay in stock at once. Now, for
your own individual use, can do the
nice thing by YOU
''Do you take me for fool?'
Certainly not. I'm only advising
you 20 buy in time. Such reasonable
figures will not be open to you many
days longer. can fix you up in nice
style, so that when your friends and
neighbors come in
You heartless scoundrel!" exclaimed
the merchant, wheeling Gazely around
and kicking him from the door. The
fall injured The young man. hence the
crutches. The mistake has been dis
covered, and both parties, young Gazely
In particular, are sorry that such a lu-
dicrous misunderstanding should have
occurred. Traveller.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21
The Peril Of Winter Fishing.

The Boston Commercial Bulletin pre-
nounces the great loss of fishing vessels
during the past season ga horror of thu
sea even greater than the wreck of the
City of Columbus and says there is
"no need of the annual sacrifice of life
and property which is now made" 1t
furthermore declares that cit is more
hazardous to engage in Georges Banks
fishing than to work in a powder-mill. :"
The high rank of the Bulletin as a
commercial newspaper gives much
weight to its words on this SUBJ
ject, and the remedy it proposes de-
serves earnest consideration. 1t is bet
ter to "abolish winter fishing on
Georges" than to have yearly loss Of
more than one hundred lives, but it sug-
gests that the use of deeper vessels with
an improved outfit would remove much
of the peril CT the industry. The city of
Gloucester is chiefly interested in the
winter-fishing, and of its fleet sent out
in 1888 seventeen vessels and two hun
dred and nine fishermen never came
back. The record for 1884 may
be still more terrible. for already two
vessels are known to be lost and seven
more are supposed to be.
The Newfoundland seal industry is
said to be the greatest and most profit
able ocean fishery in the world, but the
introduction of steam-vessels for fishing
gives especial interest to the inquiry
whether winter-6shing is necessarily so
perilous that it ought to be prohibited,
for it is thought that steam-fshing
smacks will be extensively used to take
cod in the winter months. Steam
smacks can also be advantageously
used for mackerel-fshing catching more
fish and taking them to market much
more rapidly than sail-vessels. At pres
ent much ofthe fish eaten in winter is
taken from the water in the fall and
kept on ice until it passes from the mar
ket. The demand for fish fresh from the
sea is increasing SO fast that general in
terest attaches to the discussion of the
methods by which the perils of winter
fishing can he reduced.-M y Mail and
Express.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21
HONE, FARM AND GARDEN.

The highest and dryest ground q
the best for grapes.-C Chicago journal.
"A cows best work is done from hel
third to her tenth year. - Prairie
Farmer.
The want of pure and fresh water
accounts in many instances for the lack
OF eggs during the winter season.
Fowls require . constant supply Of
water, aud without it will not lay.-AL
bany Journal.
"A correspondent of the Ohio Farmer
says that peach trees raised from the
seed on the spot where they are to
grow, and budded there, live longer
and produce more fruit and are surel
bearers than those transplanted.
Lemon Pudding: quarters Of
a pound of grated bread. six ounces Of
suet, one-quarter of . pound of moist
sugar. the peel of a lemon grated. and
the juice. two eggs and little milk to
mix it. Boil three hours.-M Y. Her.
aid. /
"A frost-proof vegetable-house is de-
scribed rs made with walls fifteen inch
es thick, double-boarded, the space be-
tween the boards being filled with saw
dust. The ceiling is also boarded with
about ten inches of saw-dust between
the boards.-2roy Times. q
"A writer in Gardening Illustrated
says that if young shoots of the tomato
are taken of and propagated like bed
ding plants, they will make less ram
pant growth than seedlings, and be
more fruitful. Cuttings prove best for
pot culture; they are then to be kept
near the glass with . temperature of
about fifty degrees. They will make
fine plants by spring. =
An exchange suggests, if farmers
would go to their barn on . wet day
and spend their time in making an
eaves-trough for the barn or stable, and
thereby carry away the drip which
would otherwise fall on the manure
pile, causing waste of the elements OF
plant food contained therein. they will
make more money that day than they
could any fine day in the field.
Delicious hot cake for tea is made
by beating two eggs to froth, add to
them half cupful of sugar. Into one
cupful of sour cream beat half tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in EOiling
water. Stir it into the eggs and sugar.
Add pinch of salt and flour enough to
make it thick batter for griddle
cakes. Bake in ''gem pans or shallow
biscuit pans. and serve piping hot.-N
Y. Post.
Bitten milk is matter of frequent
occurrence every fall and winter, or
soon after the cows are off from graz
ing. 1t is caused first ty bitter herbs
in the hay, such as May-weed, Johns
wort, ETC., and also by the use of too
much over-ripe food, such as straw, corn
slower or late-cut hay. 1t never occurs
when cows are fed on good food and
are thriving or even holding their own,
and are kept comfortably warm. Dos
| ton Globe.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21
A Misunderstanding.

Il thought would take a run up and
see if you didn't want tc buy a sewing
machine" said the agent to Farmer
Grimes.
Il don't know as I do,' replied the
farmer; .'Pve got most of my spring
sowing done.
But won't you need it for sewing in
the SUMMER"
Look here, young Teller, we don't
sow in the summer. We cuts, an
gethers, an binds
''Oh. well. this machine gathers and
binds"
Mebbe you'll be telling me next
that your machine will haul in the
crap an put it in the barn. Don't come
around here with any of your big
sorAs.''
Don't be rufaed, my dear sir: I think
you do not understand me. Imean .
machine to sew cloth, not grain
"Ahem! You do, do your Then you'd
better so talk to the wimmin. It's a
good thing you didn't mean the other
kind. for if you'd kept on telling me
about your wonderful machine for
plantin' an reapin, you'd got me a rip-
pin and tearin' till I'd basted YOU. ~
2sras Siftings.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21

The death of a noted native OF
Rockbridge County, Va, is thus related
in Texas paper: ''Big-Foot Wallace,
the celebrated pioneer, veteran and In.
dian-fghter, is dead" The old mar
has been leading hermit life for years
past in the brus6iest part of Atascoss
County, Tex, and was found in bed
corpse. It is thought that he had been
dead two OF three days when found
There is no heir to the few cattle he
owned. and the contents of the cabin,
his rife, knife, saddle and various In
dian trophies and souvenirs win prob
ably 90 to the State"
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21
TO VENNOR.

Vennor, you miserable old frawd!
A settin' down an writing lies,
An maxim out as how
That your profet!
You awt to be ashamed!
A purity profiet you air
A-maKin' 'onest farmers think,
In Minnesoty. that they
Could raise green peas an cabbig
In Janivary, an Good feest
On cowcumbers an lettis,
An SIGH like gardin' sass.
An pillow, an hawl manuer,
An, in THAR shurt-sleeves,
Set around on fences.
A within an a tawkin' pOllvtix
Anvil winter. An here the merkry
Has got way down SO low
It's frose, an busted
NY forty-cent thermometer!
You miserable, contemplate.
Old frawd; you'd better quit
A-makin' almanac an go,
An hire out to seckshun boss
To shovel STOW!
You ask "ef your. to blame
Bekaws it's ben so cold?
Of course you air!
The wether-clurk wuZ mad,
Bekaws of your atryin'
To run the thing;
An fur the last six weeks
He's ben a turnin' of the crank,
An sendin' down
These ManitOby waves,
An awl the time he's ben a-laffin,
An pokin' fun at you;
While you, you miserable old frawd,
Hev ben posin'
AS weather-proffet,
An a-makin' of yourself
Redickius.
You tho't as how you'd git
Your name in histry,
Alongside Of Elishy's, ez proffet;
But it'll he remembered.
Along with your mild winter,
An broken, busted, old thermometers,
An frosted heals, an chilblains,
An handid down,
To fewcher generations,
Jest as a frawd!
Bekaws, that's what you are!
II. II. Leslie. in Chicago Inter Ocean.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21

shape OF heart, and generally peaked
in front. Sleeves to the elbow or of
light lace, if lace forms part of the
toilet. Gloves very long, Of unglazed
kid. pale gray, or black with black
dresses; straw colored. white, pearl
gray, or golden crust, with light even
ing or ball toilets; bracelets, as beauti-
full as possible, are worn over the
gloves. Brooklyn Eagle.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21

Hon. William l. Bowditcb, in re-
cent speech at q woman-suffrage meet
ing, said that the average pay of work
ing women in Boston was 1924 year,
which, after subtracting the necessities
Of life. left surplus Of four dollars
Boston Herald.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-02-21

WOFu rs trimming CnIS WINTER, anu Is
both stylish and elegant.
Crest refinement in the details of the
toilet is q sure sign of good taste.
Stockings should always be colored, I'M
less they are worn with entirely white
evening toilets. For the daytime they
are of cashmere, wool or silk bourette,
matched to the dress or its trimmings,
and either plain or striped, to wear
with the semi low shoe or the high
boot, sixteen to twenty small buttons,
patent leather-pointed tip and low heel.
For the evening the stocking is of col
ored silk, open worked or embroidered
on the instep, and worn with the low
satin or bronze kid shoe, plain or en-
broidered with beads.
All plaid tissues, chess-b board patterns
and checks of all dimensions are lighted
up with fine streaks of brilliant color
ing, stripes wide or narrow. of two
colors, or two shades of one color, cloth
trimmed with velvet or plush. Auverg-
nant velvet. or ribbed velveteen, are
the materials principally employed for
children's winter dresses. Upon ribbed
velveteen are spilled bands of I'M
bleached embroidery, or better still,
deep lace borders, worked in CROCHET,
with unbleached cotton pockets. sleeve
revers, and deep collar matched to the
embroidery or lace-such are the Only
triwmings becoming s young child s
dress
Fashions are more varied than ever
this winter. Evening dresses arc made
of either light or dark shades. with q
train as often as not, but quite plain
one. without any sort of trimming. es-
pecially when the material is rich one.
This train. as has been already limited.
can be made top ut on and off at pleas
ure. Bodices are cut low in q round.
square, or oval shape, seldom in the
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-20

The Hebrew citizens Of Jacksonville are al =
reauy making extensive preparations for their
annul Fnrlm 0all, which takes place at Metro
pOllIan Hall On Tuesday evening March H.
An open boat, twenty-five feet long. schoon-
er rugged, and manned by Capt. Brodest W.
johnson and two men. had lust made the run
from Nassau TO Key West in ifty-fOu hours.
Dr.. J. \. Niles died at his home in Jackson
vile about TO O'Clock Monday after a brief
illness. DR.. Niles was 63 years of age, and
had been resident Of the city for number of
years.
Within the last week or two the store Of Mr..
DuckWall at BraidentOWn, Manatee county,
mas been entered twice by robbers, taking
therefrOm money and goods to considerable
amount.
\ fire occurred a few days ago at Nashua
NeighbOrhoOd, in Welaka. and some 1000
orange trees were burned, having been set out
in the woods where the grass had not been
burned for some years.
The jacksonville Board Of Trade has been
permanently organized with Hon. George F..
Drew as President, and J. +. Hart J. NJ
schumacher NJ. A. Dzialynski and John d.
Burbrldge as governors.
The efforts Of the parties interested to get
up $4,000 stock TO establish gas works at Pa
latka has failed. The parties themselves took
citizens. but now the project has come to a
halt.
&. NJ. Clinton, Of Crescent CITY. went to
jacksonville to visit his daughter and while
ln the suburbs Of that city was knocked down
10y a highway roDber and his money taken
from him. Mr.. Clinton, being man of grit
hung on to the rascal and yelled for help. An
Oihcer VINO was not asleep rushed to the res
cue and secured the thief, but the money was
gone. The r0bber threw il away. Mr. 'Clin-
ton was badly bruised about the face
Some unusually fine discoveries have been
made In the last two weeks by relic hunters
IN a mound on Mr.. J. Owens ten-acre orange
field at West ApOpka. and yet not half the
mound has been dug up. 4 correspondent of
the Tavares Herald was shown several gold
and silver ornaments, beads, peculiarly
shaped smooth stones, full-sized earthen pots,
etc, found lately. Nearly all the articles dis
covered were found by parties living at a
distance, and there is no doubt that some
quite valuable articles have gone never 10 re
turn-at least to Mr.. Owens.