Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-28
SCELLANEOUS.


apiece FOR the heirs. and they have
gone home satisfied. The lawyers got
about Sll. 900 each.
Collector have little bill here,
sir, that would like to have" Man
OF the words Yes. please lay it down
in that easy chair, sir" Easy chairT'
Eyes. It's been running so long it
must be tired. BingbGmtoa Republican.
Two old sports accustomed to catch
the granger ut poker are playing
against one another 'I'll call you.
What ye got?" -Four aces" whats
yer outside card? I've got four aces
myself. San Francisco Chronicle.
A Maine doctor. who is now in
California. writes from that State that
in the town where he is staying. which
Is near Los Angeles. there is twice as
much sickness as in any town that he
has any knowledge of in the State Of
Maine of its size.
Startling. - He (rapturously) -
'And now that's all settled, darling.
what kind OF an engagement ring
would YOU like?' She-"O, gold this
time, | hope, dearest. I'm quite sick
OF wearing imitation engagement
rings" Tableau!-T'mes.
AT a recent hall in New York many
guests had no appetite for the game,
because limitations of living beasts and
birds were also on the table. Under
meath q bic plate of salmon was a
miniature lake OF real water, in which
goldfish and tadpoles swan about and
little frogs disported.
A Kentucky rural paper boasts of
subscriber who rides twenty miles on
horseback every week to get his paper.
1t is supposed the subscriber sent
poem to the editor several years ago
and 'can hardly wait until he gets the
paper to see if his poem has been pub
Ished. -NorriStoUD Herald.
in cold weather horse-car drivers
and policemen put newspapers to
queer use. They bFtton them under
their coats or shirts, against their
chests, and assert that nothing is 50
warming. A trick many drivers have
is, that Of wrapping newspapers around
their stockings before they put their
boots on.
According to the Hon. William |.
Bowditch, one-tenth of all the taxes
In Massachusetts are paid by the
women. In Rockford, ILL.,, the women
pay two-thirds of the taxes. In some
towns the percentage is large, but for
all OF that these very women are not by
law citizens, and have no voice in the
administration of public affairs.
"A rubber ball, two inches smaller
than the pipe, was placed in one end Of
a new natural gas main in McKeesport,
and five pounds pressure suddenly
turned ON. The ball turned several
sharp corners, passed through two T
joints up six feet to the top of the reru-
lator and landed at the other end of
the main, mile distant, in forty.fys
seconds, actual time.
An Iowa woman thoughtfaf,v mt
two dozen eggs in her nice, warm bad
to keep them from freezing while .he
spent the afternoon and evening with a
friend Returning late at night, she
disrobed and plunged in. Shriekp
Wen, the one she lifted up her voice
with caused the cat to dash through the
window in terror, and reused the neigh.
bors. The eggs did not freeze.-Ez-
change.
The annual loss caused by insects j.
the United States is estimated at about
$3.50, 0OO,0 zoo, shat on cotton alone being
Sl5, 000,0OO The insects increase.wiy,
the advance of civilization, on acco>mx
doubtless, of the greater abund>. nce a
the food furnished them. Eysrv 80
table product and every vs-tietv Of fr1nt
and flowers are ATTENDED by special
parasites, each of which tbrives On its
respective food-plar, +
"A man in %" Iegeville, Ark. hearda
eommotion "A his chicken-house, and
Went 20 investigate He found q big
o"4 Creating havoc among the fowlA
re seized the owl by the leg with tho
hand with its talons In trying to free
himself with the left hand this was
caught by the owls hooked beak, hold
ing him helpless and defenseless. He
shouted for help, and his wife came.
She took an axe and cut off the birds
head and feet before the man could re-
lease his hands
"A big gray gander, which made
friends with j. K. White. who runs a
ferryboat on Chucsy river, near Jones'
boro, Tenn, about year ago, has be-
come remarkably attached to him 1t
goes to church with him. and remains
on the outside till the meeting is over,
then returns with him. 1t also accom-
panies him to the post-office, distance
of mile and half. 1t seldom goes
to the water alone, but when Mr.. White
is ferrying it swims by the side of the
boat. 1t doesn't keep the company of
any living thing save Mr.. White, to
whom it seems entirely devoted.
They tell down East of poor fell
low who owned remarkably fat hog,
and who also owed a rich man. The
hog was about all the property the poor
debtor had worth levying On, and the
law exempted mans only pig. One
day the creditor meeting the debtor
said, ''You need another pig, let me
send you nice little one" The poor
man was astonished. Why, owe for
the hog I've got now," he stammered.
.tNnEer mind Won need another ono