Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-03-20
QUEER, QUAINT. AND INTERESTING.

Hay is selling in Burlington, Kan, at
81 per ton.
They are talking of Worlds fair at
Berlin in 1897.
Sponges have recently been found in
Gibraltar Pass. on Puget Sound.
A bug is killing off the pines and wor-
rying the turpentine men Of Georgia
White county, Arkansas. claims girl
9years of age who weighs $50 pounds
Beer bottled in 1898 by an English
firm was recently tested and pronounced
hearty.
The new doorkeeper of the Kentucky
House is seven feet high and weighs EGO
pounds
A member'sI.seat in the Chicago Board
of Trade has dwindled in value from
1900 to $500.
Hereafter Australia is to make the am
munition for her army. which hitherto
has all come from England.
A. s. Clough, of Prescott. Ariz drives
a team of mules that are 80 and IS years
old. They are still good workers.
Luther H. Leber, of New York, pho
tographed the bottom of an oil well,
!, 700 feet below..the surface at Warren.
The biggest wild turkey ever seen in
the Chickasaw Nation. was shot only
short time ago 1t weighed 40 pounds.
Green roses of delicate petals and per-
fectly formed are among the familiar,
old fashioned flowers in many New Or
leans gardens
Charles King, of Middletown, Mass,
is 100 years of age. He had IA children.
His wife died at 90, and a brother lived
to the age Of no
An English paper says that syndicate
is being formed in that country for the
purchase from this government of the
forest land Of Alaska.
Statistics show that the average an
nual increase of the passenger traffic of
the elevated and street railways of New
York is 20, OO0, 900, and it is a great prob
lem how to provide for it
The Chemical bank, of New York, de-
clares dividend of Is per cent monthly,
or 800 per cent. annually. The par value
is 500 per share. Capital $500, 900. Sur
plus s., 052, 900. The last sale of stock
brought 81, 500 per share.
J. w. Walker has discovered on the
south side of Pine mountain, Georgia,
nearly 200 feet above the famous corun-
dunn mine, site where the ancient in
habitants of that region manufactured
their tale vessels for cooking.
Buddhist teachers put women much
lower in the scale Of morality than men,
and they maintain that the sins of one
woman are equal to the sins of 8, 600 of
the worst men that ever lived. There
are zoe, 000. 900 women in the world, and
none of these have any other hope Of
Immortality than this.
The grandmother of Mra George Shil-
laber, of San Francisco, has crossed the
century line, but still writes astonishing
letters to her children, in which she talks
about her girlhood days Her mind Is
clear, she wears no glasses, and she sews
and knits the same as she did fifty years
ago
William Kiser, who has reached HE
105th year. still lives ON the old planta-
ton near Richmond, Va, where his sis
ter, Mrs Margaret Arnold, was born.
She is liz years Of ago. Another sister,
Mra Elizabeth billiard, is living in Lynn
county. Iowa, aged 116 Stin another
sister, Mira John Bailey. lives in Dakota,
aged ITO years
The engineer in charge Of the elevator
engine at the Fagin building, St Louis,
Il in perfect health, full Of fun, and does |
q full days work. yet be b 102 he A.
tributes his long life to the absence Of |
worry. He was . soldier under jackson |
at New Orleans, and was q passenger on |
the first steamboat ON the Mississippi |
His name Is John Haynes
Great Luck-.I vs. in great luck.
How vas doe2" wy, / find $500 yes
terday, belonging to dot miser. Marx.
und ven gif it back to him din morning
he nefer sharge M no interest for der
no Of det monish Tor twenty-four
hosrA AJAX vas estting shildish-