Dodge City times., 1890-05-09
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| 1nce tne war mas Deen . v0lunteel
,oldier.
The seven hundredth female ply.
sician in Russia has passed her exami
nation.
A jeweler at Suisum. CAL, has made
a clock that will run $50 days without
winding a second time.
A working philanthropist at Grass
Valley, Cal, saws wood for poor women
OF that place free Of charge.
There is about $75, ,OOO. 900 of En-
glish, SIS, 600. 900 of German and $751;
600. 900 Of American capital now en-
ployed in Mexico.
In his later years Robert Browning
had head that painters loved to study.
A great many portraits of him have
been made recently.
The Shah of Persia is having q geo
graphical globe made upon which the
different countries of the world will be
represented by precious stones.
Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has
given up some of his foolish habits.
He no longer wears corsets and only
paints his face on occasions of state.
A Philadelphia woman wrote with .
lead pencil on piece of brown paper:
Il give my bank book to Mrs. Reichart." :"
and it was will which the lawyers
could not break.
The Duke of Palmetto, a peer of
Portugal, has offered the whole of the
money derived from his property dur
ing the year for the purpose Of estab-
fishing coast defenses.
Sims Reeve, the once famous tenor,
is living in London, at the age of 20.
1t is said that while his voice is ap-
parently unimpaired. he does not wish
to sing in public any more.
Great heavens. what a man for q
center rushr' was the exclamation of /.
Rugby football player on seeing the
Rev. Phillips Brooks. of Boston. walk
up the aisle in Westminster Abbey.
Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson denies
the statement that he began life as .
bootblack. II have always been too
lazy to black my own boots" he re-
marks, Ito say nothing of other peo-
ple's."
Trains on the Pennsylvania limited
have the market quotations posted. q
stenographer and typewriter render
gratuitous service to the passengers,
and waiting maid is provided for the
ladies.
John D. Rockefeller, who is now
worth at least 500. 600, 600, says the
first money he ever had was % cents,
which he earned by working for q
farmer, so that he could 60 to the
circus.
Oscar Tuttle, of Santa Cruz. Cal,
was splitting kindling wood when he
tackled large piece of redwood. He
found Scent piece of 1850 lodged in
the center of the limb. 1t was black
ened by the sap.
The recent influenza killed more peo-
pie in Paris than the last two vista
tions of cholera. But the news that
the dreaded Asiatic pest has made 8, 600
victims at Bussorah is making London
and Paris very uneasy, all the same.
1t is said that for four years after the
fight at Chickamauga the battlefield
shone like bright moonlight. even on
the darkest nights. The light came
from the phosphorescent exhalation of
the decaying bones of the heaped-up
dead.
Miss Kennedy, a San Francisco
school ma'am who was dismissed by
the school committee in 1887 without
any assigned cause, has been REIN
stated by a decision of the Supreme
Court. with 5000 for pay in the in
terval.
The St. Louis Republic makes the
statement that Captain Jack Haynes,
the engineer in charge of the engine at
the Pagan Building. is one hundred
and two years old. He is a Tenn
esseean by birth and doesn't look to be
over sixty-ive.
The Mexicans have no confidence. in
young doctor until he has had Q
couple of years practice. Then they
make an inventory of his patients, and
if he has cured more than be has killed
they recognize him, no matter whether
he has a diploma or not.
The Art Union of London, which for
years has upheld the dignity of line en-
cravings, has at last given way before
the change Of taste, and issues for 1890
to its members portfolio containing
set of etchings, eight in number. mostly
English landscapes.
The date palm is successfully culti-
waited in Hillsborough County, Florida.
The trees come into bearing in six
years, and one cultivatOr has trees
which bring him in from IS to $l5 each.
They produce good crops every year,
without regard to the weather.
Mrs. Stanley Brown (Molly GarfelO
is living in Washington with her hus-
band, and is very sensible, interest
ing young woman. She does not go
into society much. but at the Cabinet
receptions at Secretary Windom's-her
fathers Secretary of the Treasury
she is often seen.
The New York courts are a little
puzzled as to what to do with the
Italians, who commit murders on the
very smallest provocatiOn. Generally
these murders are for some trivial mat
er-such as a harsh word spoken-and
they are almost always murders of fel-
low country men or women.
A French tribunal has recently de.
cided that castor oil, not being 4 phar-
maceutical product. may be sold by
grocers. The decision suggests the
query whether the retail stores of this
city. which deal in pharmaceutical pro-
ducts. such as quinine, coca wine, iron,
ETC.. are doing this legitimately.
Spurgeon has had printed 2,100 Of
his sermons since their appearance be-
gan in 1855. His thirty-fifth volume of
them has just been issued. The index
alone fills thirty-two large pages. They
have been circulated not only wherever
English is spoken but have been trans
lated into many foreign languages.
Billy McGarrahan. the famous pro-
prietor of the Panoche Grande Mexican
land grant. is on hand at Washington
again, pert and clipper as ever. For
more than a score of years he has
pushed his claim at every session with
a persistence and determination as
tonishing to those familiar with his dis
appointments.