Dodge City times., 1888-03-22
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Mrs. Mulligan, pension agent at
Chicago, reports 3G,50g pensioners on
her rolls. of which number two are
widows of soldiers e the revolution,
thirty-fve survivors The war of 1872
and 452 widows of veterans of that war.
Last year she dispersed nearly $1,000.
900.
1t is a curious fact that one out of
every nine persons you meet on Broad
way is a Hebrew. They number in
New York City about l20, 600, and with
their wealth and intelligence, if eya
organized politically as a party. would
exert strong, if not controlling in
fuence, on local politics.
The young folks Of West Deer Isle,
Me-, have organized the Tongue Guard
Society, whose object is to guard
against saying any ching Improper tc
or about any one. Each oGense is
punished by fine of one ceD, to be
placed in a box in the church, the fund
to 60 towards buying a circulating
library.
In the United States arsenal AT
Watertown, Mass. there is a machine
for testing the strength of iron and
steel substances, which is looked upon
as wonder of mechanical skill and
power. 1t can test to Il nicely, and
with equal ease, the tensile strength of
ponderous iron or steel bar, or of
wire, or even of a single hair.
1t is said that there are two sisters
living near Delta, whose ages are
between fifty and sixty years, who
have not seen each other in six
teen years They live only four
miles apart, and are on per-
fectly friendly terms. No cause what
ever is assigned for this seeming in-
difference (Ga) Citizen.
In the district court at Waco Tex.
Andrew Miller, IA negro preacher,
charged with the theft of cow, when
brought for trial, wished to open the
court with prayer. The judge re
quested the sheriff to take the prisoner
to the Judge private Office and let him
pray. After prayer the prisoner was
convicted of theft, rs charged in the
Indictment, and given two years in the
penitentiary.
The average watch is composed OF
l75 different pieces, comprising up
wards of 2,40O separate and distinct
operations in its manufacture. The
balance has $4,000 beats or vibrations
per hour, 12,960,0S0 in thirty days,
157, ,6SO,OO0 in one year; it travels one
and 43-1O0 inches with each vibration,
which is equal to 81 miles in twenty
four hours, 1929 miles in thirty days,
or 3,55S4 miles in one year
The latest ..fad'' among wealthy
families is to burn "driftwood' in open
CRATE fires. This wood is gathered
along the seacoast by Eastern parties,
packed in barrels and shipped through
the country. 1t is mostly wreckage.
A great part of it has once been the
material of ships bottoms, and was
sheathed with copper plates The cop
per salts have impregnated the wood,
and when burned it gives out most
beautiful green and peacock blue
flames
In parts of India wild elephants
give great deal of trouble to persons
employed in road improving. frightening
the native workmen and destroying
their work and knocking down their
houses. A herd will come along the
newly made road, and reaching "a
temporary bridge will send thei.
lightest member across to test it. Be
ing made to support bipeds only, it
will generally give way, whereupon
the herd will express its disapproval of
such workmanship by promptly de-
molishing it.
During VIOLENT thunder and light |
ming storm at Middleton, Fla. lately, |
an immense ball of fire was seen to fall
in the forest near he town. Searching
parties were sent out, and parties of
negroes found it, but they were too su-
perstitious to handle it. 1t struck n
big pine, demolishing it and splitting
the rock into two pieces. One weighed |
about two hundred pounds and the
other twenty-five. 1t sank into the !
Siouii Hcaii ciShO lecl. IL iDptaiS >
to be of iron ore covered with opaque
white cystals.
Turks Island, one of the West |
Indies, is only z miles long and II
miles wide. 1t contains $500 inhabit- |
ants, th:ee-fourths negroes The only |
product and export of the little island |
is salt and sponges. OF these it sends
out annually 100000 bushels and |
1900 bales of sponges. Two-thirds of
the salt goes to the United States and |
the rest to the Canadian provinces as
fishery salt. The best part of the salt
is piled up outdoors in stacks l5 to 20 |
feet high. 1t is pure, dazzling white
al trying to the eyes; Iii fact, so much |
so that those who work at the salt /
usually wear 0Ow0leS