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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-08
lightning EOis.

Repeated inquiry IS made for direc-
tions for erecting lightning rods. We
have given detailed instructions on for
mer occasions. We repeat briefly the
essential requirements. ]. Make them
of round iron, tive-eights or three
fOurths of an inch in diameter. 2.
Give them few sharp iron points at
the top. 3. Have Them continuous
throughout. 4. Let them go several
feet down into the earth to soil which is
wet or moist in the dryest time. These
constitute the whole essentials. We
may add that round iron is best simply
because it is most easily handled;
square or hat would do, if as heavy.
Sharpened iron will remain sharp a.
long as the rod stands, and silver, cop
per or other points are only waste of
expense. A blacksmith can do all this
work, and make the rod into one piece
by. welding the joints. No matter how
long it is, it may be all in one piece.
and be dragged home on tho ground be-
hind wagon 1t may be fastened to
the house or barn with staples or in any
other way. pro. Getting wen above all
Glass insulators are perfectly worth
less Every man may erect his own
rod at a small cost. and it will Be -
good as the best if the above four essen
tials are observed. Country Gentleman.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-08
HUMOROUS.

The Shoe and Leather Reporter has
made the painful discovery that very
few brass bands can play as many airs
as drum major puts on.
When a clothing shop gets on fire
some of the clerks spring over coats
and some fall over coats, and nearly
every one pants when he gets out.
"A Pittsburgh chemist has found
opium in cigarettes. The same drug
has also been discovered in soothing
syrup. The dude has hard time of it.
Pittsburgh Post.
Yes sighed old Mrs. Gumbo.
'that accident was horrible. When
read about it, it exaggerated me so that
! couldn't decompose myself for several
hours" IN. Y. Mail.
"A boy writes to a paper that his
father has ''hit upon an important sub
iect and hit hard" From this it is in
ferred that the old gentleman has been
resorting to corporal punishment.
-Pomp: 'Cuff, can you tell me the
difference between an accident and a
misfortune?' Cuff: Selves it up,
Pomp.. Can you?" Pomp: eff you
should fall into the ribber, that would
be an accident; if somebody should pull
you out, that would be misfortune"
Mime. D'Arcy-''Why do you weep,
my poor woman3" Weeping woman
My son has just been hung" Mime.
D. Arcy-'. Happy mother!' Weeping
woman-'Happy!" Nine. Darcy :
Eyes. NV son is alive, but he is a dude. -
Philadelphia Call!
"A Wizard
Twas famous East Indian wizard
He could change COW to lizard,
A fish to a squirrel,
Or just by a twirl,
Make gold from black hens gizzard.
This clever East Indian wizard
Fell in with a Kansas blizzard;
They had set-tO,
And when they got through
He didn't know "a" from lizard.
Wide AtCnhe.
"A boy who. had been sent to carry
a silver card-basket to young lady as
bridal present was asked upon his re-
turn to the Office if he found the right
place. ''Oh. yes" .'See the girl her
self?' yes" Ibid she seem sur
prised?'' every much sou ''Say
anything?' "Why, yes; she told her
mother she presumed it was plated, but
would be good enough for her aunt out
in the country. "-DetroI Free Press.
.--''Mr. Billings said an Arkansas
clearinghouse mistress, addressing a
gentleman who had just taken his seat
at the table, "you make the thirteenth
at dinner. l hope you won't consider
me superstitious, but l wish that you
would leave Why" my dear mad
am," replied Billings, shave no fears
whatever. This Observation-Disclosures
business is q fraud" ''Yes, know"
continued the lady, ''but, as you owe
me for two weeks hoard, I'd rather you
wouldn't eat. quite agree with you
the thirteenth is fraud. "-Ark0nsda
Traveller.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-08
THE FELLOW THAT SHORES.

We Will singof the man that is known in the
land
Yes noted in nations AID chimes:
Tho his name 10 not great or paraded in
Or siided by laureate's rhymes:
Yet We bow to its powers, as We think OF the
hours
That memory often restores:
When We grumbled all night in an ill-humored
Becsuse Of that fellow that SHORES.
We have listened to rats. or the voice Of the
And the baying Of dogs at the moon;
The sound of the rain on the loose window
Or the mule as he plays his bassoon.
Dr. the babies that cry when the collie is nigh,
OF the man with the toothache who roars;
But they can not compete with the nuisance
complete,
OF the fellow beside you that SHORES.
he snores when the shade of twilight per
Or the midnight is solemn and glum:
When the morning is near and the stars dis
When the noontide siesta hath come.
He enores on his back till his visage is black,
On his side. on his breast, till he bores
All the people in town for blocks all around,
Till they curse at the fellow that snores.
shall we be blest with that beautiful rest
That the deaf may possess ana enjoy;
Or the silence complete mid the wrecks of q
Whore the diver his time doth employ?
sky
In balloons above oceans and shores?-
Oh the desert is bliss. tho the simoons may
II away from the fellow that snorcs.
-ROchestcr Onion.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-08
Culinary Waste Of Sugar.

While it has food value in itself, the
same as starch, sugar is sought for its
sweetness rather than for its nourisf-
ment. Any process which diminishes
it's sweetness lessons it's value and is a
real loss even if its nourishing value re-
mains the same. 1t is misleading to tell
us that cane sugar is converted into
grare sugar in the process of digestion,
and that glucose is therefore as valua-
BILE for food as cane sugar. Sugar is
DOT primarily used for its food value
as a carbohydrate, for starch could COM
pletely take its place in this respect and
at much lower cost. A number of sug-
ars are known to the chemist, some of
which we consume in our food, but are
not sold in separate form at the grocery.
Thu; the peculiar sugar Mannite is
found in celery, onions, asparagus, etc.,
and sugar of milk is found only in the
milk OF animals. Cane sugar and grape
sugar or glucose are the only two sugars
found in commercial quantities which
are used in domestic life for sweetening
food and drink. Maple sugar is only q
variety of cane sugar and possesses the
SuluC plOPCl GlCSs Uut III duultlOu n
peculiar volatile principle which i'm
parts a peculiar and delicious taste to
new sugar, but which escapes on long
exposure to the air and can be retained
only by completely excluding the air
by canning. If maple syrup is imme-
diately soldered up in the cans the ''ma-
pie favor may be retained for long
time.
One marked difference between cane
and grape sugar is that grape sugar has
only forty per cent. of the sweetening
power of cane sugar. Pound for pound
the glucose is worth only two-fifths as
much as cane sugar. Cane sugar is
readily changed into grape sugar, but
no one has succeeded in changing grape
sugar into cane sugar. Since this
change of cane into grape sugar in
wolves loss of sixty per cent. of its
sweetness, it is very important to pre-
vent this change. There are two do
nestle agencies by which this change
is produced, the action of heat and Of
acids. By prolonged boiling the cane
sugar in part is changed into glucose,
and by the action Of heat and acids
this change is produced speedily. In
cooking acid fruits housekeepers un-
Willingly waste good part Of their
sugar. Anxious to get the fullest effects
of the sugar upon the sour fruits they
boil the two together, and thus convert
most of the cane sugar into grape
sugar.
Several years ago my assistant in
chemistry tested this matter by placing
one hundred parts Of ripe gooseberries
tn . stewpan with water to cover thems
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-08
The Bank Of England and the Nation
al Debt.

The second function of the bank is
the management of the National debt,
by which it relieves the Government of
all the clerical details attending the pur-
chase and transfer of stock and the pay
ment of dividends. No one would be
willing to lend money to Government
without an engagement for repayment
at a fixed time, nor without some ar
rangement enabling the lender to trans
fer his interest in the debt to any one
willing to purchase it, and it is a condi-
ton of every loan made to the British
Government that it shall be transfera-
BILE, and that the dividends shall always
be paid half-yearly at the Bank of En-
gland. The certainty of the fulfillment
of this condition has been one of the ele-
ments which have made the Government
stocks a favorite form of invest
ment. The National funded debt OF
the United Kingdom is now up
ward of f700, 100000 divisible in
to any number of accounts, and
any person whose name has once
been entered as holder of stock in the
bank book may sell all or any part OF
his stock at almost any time, and with.
out cost transfer it to as many different
persons as he chooses to deal with
through his broker. The broker is
necessary to the transaction, that the
bank may be sure that the transferer is
the person he represents himself to be,
and the only essential qualification OF
this agent is membership of the Stock
Exchange, and personal introduction
to the bank officials. There are several
hundred thousand of these accounts,
which, if more persons desired to in
vest their money in Government secu-
rites, might be multiplied tenfold, tho
only limit placed upon them being that
none shall be for less than one penny.
No matter how many separate accounts
are opened, the bank is bound to keep
them; and on every account a
separate order or warrant is
made out every half-year for
the payment of the dividend, from
which deduction has to be made for
the property tax and paid to the Gov
ernmcnt. The dividends are paid to
any one applying for them when they
are due, and more than half of them are
usually collected by the stockholders
private bankers, who transmit the
amount to their customers, or advise
them of it by the evening mail of divi-
dend day; thus all holders in Great
Britain may either receive their divi-
dends or hear that they have been col
lected for them on the same day, and
it is unusual for an error of even one
penny to be made in this vast opera
ton. If desired the dividend warrants
are sent by the bank to the stockholders
by post. For this service the bank re-
ceives from the Government about
100000 year, or f3OO for every
million of the National debt below six
hundred millions, and ESQ for every
million above six hundred millions.
W. II. Rideing, in Harper's Magazine.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Robert Bonner of the New YorA
Ledger, Is sixty-two and worth 81, OO0,-
900.
Several young ladies in Detroit will
start school Of journalism.-DetroA
Post.
Colonel Robert Beatty, aged eighty.
four years, of Union County, South
Carolina, has held the Office of Sheriff
in that county since 1885.
=" Toilet Secrets for Homely Wom-
en- is the title of q late book. 1t is
certainly not intended for American
women.-Chicago Herald.
Emancipation Proclamation Coggs-
we'll is the name of the assistant post
master at Wesleyville, o. He was born
on the day the proclamation was issued.
MIR. Childs, of the Philadelphia Led
ger, says he will leave his paper at his
death to the son of A. j. Drexel.
when l was young" he says, 'tMr.
Drexel came forward and offered to
put money into my paper and not to in
terfere in any way with it."
AT a recent distinguished" dinner
party in London, every lady present
was an American, including the hostess
of the occasion, Mrs. George Bentick,
and among the guests were such Ameri-
can representatives as Ladies Mande-
vile and Churchill, Mrs. Ronalds, and
of course, Miss Chamberlain.
Great as was Charles Keade's litera-
~ success, he had one grief. 1t was
that bo ho1 S,ooy 1nv,;ol ~ an borob;y> ~,
certain club. Il was proposed by Col
Inns and seconded by Dickens, but they
wouldn't have me, he often said. When
asked why he SO lamented the fact, the
hale old man replied: Because there
wasn't a-gas-light in the house. I do
like to read by good sperm candle"
Peter DeCorcey. aged ninety-eight,
has been in the Otter Tail Poor-house
in Minnesota, his descendants having
turned him out, except a grandson, who
became too poor to care for him. The
old man was a soldier in 1872. and has
now received land warrant for 16O
acres of land and Sc, 200 back pension.
How the family throng about him! But
he puts them aside as they put him, ex-
cept the grandson, to whom he has
given the land warrant and half the
money Chicago Ne,0s.
The oldest Government employee At
Washington is colored man named
Lindley Muse, who stands at the door
of the Office of the Secretary of the Navy
and takes in the cards of the callers to
Secretary Chandler. He has filed that
position for fifty-six years, having been
first appointed by Samuel Southland,
who was Secretary of the Navy under
the Administration of John Quincy
Adams. MIR. Muse has forgotten when
he was born, but thinks he is about
eighty years of age Washington Star;
"A Washington letter-writer thinks
that the popularity of Mrs. McElroy,
the Presidents sister, 'comes not
only from her natural tact and WON.
anly graces, but from the fact that
she has recognized and cultivated
the wives and daughters of resident
citizens more than the mistress of the
White House has ever done. AS the
sister of the President, claiming no off,
cial rank, she has been free to come and
90, to accept or decline social defer.
ence as she pleased, and she has dis
armed professional critics by going
everywhere she was invited. and man
aging to have good time. Chicago
Tribune,
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-08
The Last Of His Real Estate.

"You say that you are still gentle
man." said q sneering lawyer to wit
ness in the Quarter Sessions yesterday,
who had sworn that too great . fond
ness for stimulaats had brought him
from the enjoymant of good income
to the miseries Of . tramp. Perhaps
you are still . taxpsyer?
mo" answered the witness, 81 still
own . little property, but I haven't
paid taxes on it. -
"Ah! har' cried the lawyer. Don't
nav your taxes, Ell? Is it landed prop
srty!'
Yes"
"lndeed! Where 10 il? What is itp''
1T is . grave in cemetery
Philadelphia 1mea
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-08
A Modern Maple Sugar Grove.

One of the finest maple-sugar camps
in the West is situated right here in
Detroit. The camp, which, when first
started, occupied one room in base
ment, has now extended over the entire
underground floor of large building. A
reporter, on visiting this maple grove,
found the horny-handed farmers hard
at work sugaring off. Great barrels OF
the poorest sort of Cuba sugar, damp,
dark and clammy, stood in the cellar,
like executed Cubans with their heads
off. Shallow copper tanks simmered
over coal fires.
Eyes, said the bronzed agricult-
uralist, "now is our busy season. We
use up several barrels of Muscovada
sugar day. We dump the sugar into
the pans and stir it up with hot water.
Then we add the sand and ground leaf
and twigs-"
Il don't twig," said the reporter.
"What ground leaf do you use and
why?''
"Oh. we get maple leaves and break
'em up. Nothing pleases a man so
much as to find bit of maple leaf or
snapped-off twigin his lump of maple
sugar.
"And the sand"'
"Oh, well. sand is cheap enough
and helps big in weighing out the
chunks. People are sort of educated
up to expecting sand in their maple
sugar"
"You use real maple sugar to give
the favor, SUPPOSED"
"Bless, you, no; that's the old way,
and it's expensive. No, we have fla
voring extracts in them carboys. and we
can turn out any brand of maple that s
called for"
The boy was ladling out the dark
looking fluid into molds that held about
pound each; some molds held five
pounds. Another poured the more
liquid stuff into cans labeled: "Pure
Vermont Maple Syrup; Beware of 1mi-
tations."
II suppose you sell most of it in the
city here?''
"No. very little. The greater part
goes to farmers in the country, who
bring it in again in farm-wagons and
sell It around the streets at houses where
the people will only have the pure arti-
Gle and who won't buy from the regular
stores.''
This is the real modern maple-sugsr
camp. None other are geuuine.-De-
lroit Free Press.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-08

D0Q y. CARSON q i. u00Pn
MISREPRESENTATION eAJaaAA
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-08

George Sumpter. Of Georgia. had
just finished cyclone pit in his back
yard when q black and angry cloud
arose in the west. He hustled his fam
lily into the pit and closed the trap
door. They went to bed and slept in
perfect security. although the storm
ragged furiously, but when they got up
in the morning the doors were found to
be swollen so that they could not be
opened from the inside at all. The
neighbors had to come and dig the fam
ily out-Sk Loxia-Glo6s keMocrab
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-05-08

i'm the nineteen private galleries of
New York are pictures worth S6, Co.,
OOn. V;nderbilt's form the most cost
u single eolIectioM--N T. Meas.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-03-01
Notice 10 LienhOIderS.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
IN undersigned has commenced an action in
the District Court of the Sixth Judicial District
of the State OF Nevada, in and for the County of
Lincoln, in which action the undersigned is
plaintiff and the Mayhower Silver Mining
Company, the Mayfower mine or mining claim
and II. Il Welles defendants, and which action
is brought to enforce q lien in favor of plaintiff
and against said defendants upon the following
described premises and property, situated in
Bristol Mining District, Lincoln county, Ne
vada, to wit: That certain mine and mining
claim known as and called by the name Of the
Mayfiower Mine and Mining claim, situate, ly-
Ing and being in the Bristol Mining District,
Lincoln County, State of Nevada. Said lien is
for the sum of seven hundred and six 4-100
(s70S.Oi) dollars, in gold coin of the United
states and is claimed under and by virtue of an
Act of the Legislature of the State of Nevada,
entitled ''An Act to secure liens to mechanics
and Others and to repesl all other Acts In rela.
ton thereto" approved March I'd, 1876. NOW,
therefore, all persons having holding or claim
ing liens upon said premises under the provis
ions of said Act are hereby notified to be and
appear before the said Court on the 18th day Of
February, A. D. 1883, the same being day of tht
regular January Term, 1888, at 10 o'clock o. m
Of that day, aud then and there exhibit theil
| saidliens and the proof hereof.
| js2Ttd ARCHIE McoUAIG
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-03-01
for a Patent
lto.7lS.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,

6TATk1 hANO 01EASAp
Eureka. Nevada. March iS' lss2;
IN J. Smith and George Morton, whose post
office address is Tempiute, Lincoln County, Ne
vada, hiss this day fled his application for =
patent for fifteen hundred linear feet OF tho
Legal Tender mine, or vein bearing silver,
with surface ground six hundred feetin width,
situated in Tempiute Mining District, County
of Lincoln and State Of Nevada, and desigr r.ted
by the field notes and ofacial plat on ME In this
office as lot number 58, located on unsuryeyed
land. The exterior boundsries Of said otNoe
being as follows, to wit:
Beginning at . post marked No l. 8 8survey
No. So, the same being post No OF b survey
No sc and 81, lots "a" whence 8 mineral
monument No s, on Coyote Peak. bears IL deg
N 81 deg W 600 feet, to post marked No 2, 9
survey No SO; thence I'd course. N deg 1900
feet to post marked No 8, . survey NO b8;
thence, sd course, 8 81 deg Z 600 feet, to post
marked No 4 u 8 survey No So, the same being
post No Of 8 survey No 81, lot "a" Sterling
lode, and thence, 4th course, 8 deg W 1900
feet to post No I, the place Of beginning. Con
tanning 20 63-10o acres. Magnetic variation
degrees 80 min east.
The location Of this mine isrecorded in the
Recorder ONCE Of Tempiute Mining District
in book"B," page 200, Of the records OF eeio
district. This claim 10 bounded on the east ~
| the Startling. Any sndsll person sclsiming 81
versely any portion Of aid Lega Tender MINI
| or surface ground are required to fle their I'D
verse claims with the Register Of the United
States Land Once at Eureka, in the State Of No
| vada, during the sixty says period OF publica
tion hereof, or they will be barred by virtue
the provisions Of the Statute.
r. H. .HINOKLEY. Regists
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-03-01
Application for a Patent
No. 762
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE. e.,

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE.
Eureka, Nevada, February eth. A: 2 1858
NOTICE IL HEREBY GIVEN ThAr y;
cinnati, Ohio, has this day hled his application
for 4 patent for hfteen hundred linear feet OF
the Illinois mine or vein bearing gold and silver
with surface ground six hundred fess IN wiatn
situated in FAhrsnagat Lake Mining Uisulct
desienated BY the neld notes and ofacisl plat
on fle in this once - lot No. 40 and ss, In
township 8, South Range, 80 East OF Mount Dia
bio meridian. The exterior boundarisa OF said
lot No. 40 and SO being - follows. to VII:
No S = sousn pos Il
R, 50 E, bears 53h deg 2 s43 feet; thence.
running, LIST course, 8 81 deg W 1900 feet 20
most marked No 2, o Survey No 40 and 50;
thence, I'D course. N % deg 500 feet 20
post marked No g. Survey No ~, 10 .nc ~ no,i ss
marked No 1, q Survey No 40 and 80: thences
4th course, s2S deg 900 feet to post No !, the
place of beginning. Containing20 70 90. l00 acres.
Courses expressed from the true meridian VIII
a magnetic variation of 18 deg East Of Pshrana
pat Lake mining district
The location Of this mine ID recorded IN tne
Recorders office of Lincoln county, Nevaos'
This claim Is bounded by NO known claims.
Any and all persons claiming adversely any
portion of said "Illinois' mine or surtacs
ground are required to hle their adverse claim;
ONCE at Eureka. in the State Of Nevada, durinf
the sixty days period Of publication hereof, o.
they will be barred by virtue Of the provision'
- '' ~ FIJI. HrNCKLEY, Register,
1t is hereby ordered that the foregoing motto,
| of application for patent be published for thu
period of ten consecutive weeks In the Piocn'
RECORD, . weekly newspaper, published
Phoebe, Lincoln county, Nevada.
f17.1ot. FIJI. HINcKLEY, Register.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-03-01
NOTICE.

N1oTIcE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT APpIi.
IN CATION for patents for Town Lots, be-
ginning at post marked No. I, eE corner
Of the Town Of Bristol: Thence mineral
monument No. bsars TAN degress = a, $40
feet; mineral monument No. 2 standing ct
the northeast corner Of Sixth and Main streets.
in the Town Of Bristol, bears n soh degrees "
1,6e0 feet.
post marked No. ., corner Town Of Bristol;
thence, 2d course. N 1ok degrees W 7,oA0 feet
to post marked No. :, NV corner Town Of Bris-
tol; thence. Sd course, N 70h degrees \ 3,e40
feet TO post marked No. 4, NE corner Town OF
Bristol; and thsnce, lth course, 3 1871 degrees
2,elo feet to post No. !, the place Of beginning,
containing one hundred and nxty acres, and bs
ing the Townsits Of Bristol, Lincoln County,
State Of Nevada, must b. made 10 the under
signed on or before the 11th day Of Tsbgnary.
4. D. 1854, or b forsvsr barred. H. Compiled
Laws Of the State Of Nevada, ,. 4lS. vol. 4,
section $3.50. act approved February 9oth. 1855.
Application must be nled With A. J. Nlair
Bristol, Nevada. 9a91 iiv sA
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