Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-10-22
PERSONAL I AND LITERARY.

Mary Anderson says the first thing
she ever played was 'hooky" from
!, school
The Prince of Wales is Colonel
in forty-one different regiments. A
man always has luck if born Prince.
Detroit Free Press. "a
Hugh Blaney, a Dublin wine mer-
chant, who recently died at the age OF
ninety-three, used to boast that he had
worn the same coat for sixty years
Lawrence E. Moones, of Cincin.
natl, and Miss Cora Lennox, of Day.
ton, O., were recently married, their
acquaintance and courtship having all
been lby telegraph. Both were opera
tors.
Literary activity in the United
States is on the increase, one thousand
more copyrights having been granted
during 1885 than at q corresponding
time in 1884. This increase is largely
due to the great number of articles
copyrighted by newspapers and maga-
zines. Chicago Herald
The late "H. H." (Mrs. Helen
Hunt, whose second husband was
William S. jackson, had many of the
traits ascribed to genius, but indiifer-
ence to her husband was not one of
them. They were very fond OF one an
other, and he was always her last court
of appeaL-N T. Graphic.
Josh Billings seated himself at a
table, threw his handkerchief across
one knee and lectured recently upon
the probabilities of Life II have
been trying for the past forty years to
find out at what time of life man is
most foolish, and wher l find out I'll
let you know" he told his audience
N. y. Tribune
-''He was a most peculiar fellow
about his clothes writes Washing
ington correspondent, speaking Of no
less person than the Father of his
Country, land some of his brass but
tons he had cast with his initials G. w.,
and around their top the legend, Long
live the President Such a button lies
before me as write.''
Edmund Clarence Stedman, who
made a love match when a mere boy,
running away with the pretty girl who
had fascinated him, has kept up the
romance ever since. and he is now, al
though comparatively young. grand
father. He does not, after the manner
of many singers, reveal all his poetry
to the outside world and preserve his
prose Tor indoors employment What
ever he writes his wife hears first, and
she is, he says, his gentlest and yet his
most exacting critic.-N. Y. Times.
When that heartless foe, Yellow
Jack, who proved more deadly than
Yankee bullets, slew General Hood
there were left eleven little Hood chill
dren without father or mother. Six OF
the eleven were twins. Two of the
eleven died, and nine still live-three
at New Orleans, one at Cohoma, Miss,
two at New York City, two at Wood
vile, Miss, and one at Scarsdale, n.
Y. Not only have the orphans good
homes, but fund of $4,000 raised for
them already has rolled. like the tradi-
tional SNOWFALL of the philosopher of
thrift, into lump worth 1928, Us
BOstoe Post.
Samuel Green, the second printer
in this country, was born in England in
1915; died at Cambridge, Mass, Janu-
airy l, 1902. He succeeded Day, the
first printer. in 1913. Mr. Green had
nineteen children, and his descendants
were a race of printers in New England
and in Maryland. He printed the
Psalter, translated into the Indian
language by Elliot the apostle, and
many other books. His son. Bar
tholomew, printed in April, 1904. the
first newspaper ever issued in America,
the Boston NeaOs Letter, which was con-
tinued by Green and his successors.-
Boston Budget.