Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-07-18
MISSING LINKS.

MISSING LINKS.
Over eleven thousand live lobstefp
were shipped from Passport Ne. in one
day. 50
Gen, Buffers hitherto crooked eye =
said to b now perfectly straight and
some people believe he has it on -.
A German photographer picturing
the light Of cannon ball moving L.
800 feet . second exposed his plate the
10. 000th part of second.
It is reported that II. 900 negroes
have left North Carolina in the last
fifteen month"; The estimate is said to
be based on careful investigation.
Two monuments to Mazzini are to
be inaugurated this year in Italy. one in
Genoa. his birthplace. and the other
in Rome. his burial place. on the JAM
iculum Hill.
The kangaroo is being successfully
propagated in England. and there is
some likelihood of this curious animal
taking its place among the most famil-
lar domestic animals Of that country.
Erastus Wiman says it is the $1,000
or $4,000 Canadians who annually come
over into New England. in spite of the
law. that enables the farmers of that
region to till all their land,
The Louisville Courier Journal thinks
the best way to redeem Eastern Ken
lucky from its perverse lawlessness is
to give it two normal schools. The
State Legislature has the proposition
in hand.
Henry Warren of New Haven, who
Sc Is papers on Connecticut railroad
trains. is doubtless the Nestor of news
boys. He is in his 82d year. and has
the further distinction OF third set of
teeth, now well through.
County Andrassy in his will declared
in an Introductory passage that il was
his conviction that the maintenance of
great landed estates is essential to the
continued prosperity of the country.
For this reason he entailed his estates.
President Dwight. of Yale. saws the
permanent fund Of the university must
be increased $500, 900 if the institution
is to subserve her mission and the
needs of the times. The total amount
of gifts for the last calendar year was
$716. 900.
The Roumanian Queen, Carmen Syl-
va. is an illustrious epicure. She has
invented several dishes, and sometimes
cooks one for the King with her own
hands. She tries them on her royal
lord and if he survives she knows they
are all right.
Grasshopper-like vehicles comfort
ably trundling over the smooth page
ments of Washington are called the
herdic. For years the herdic has been
a well-patronized form of conveyance
in that city. 1t is so called from its in
ventor, Peter Herdic, a Pennsylvania
Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, G.
C. B., to whom the Captain of the
Chesapeake surrendered of
Boston Harbor June 1. 1918, is still
living and senior Admiral of the fleet.
Wallis was born in Halifax. N.
S.. April II. 1891, and is therefore in
his Tooth year.
Secretary Blaine owns farm of 400
acres near Elizabeth, Pa. He also
owns the coal under 1. 100 acres of sur
land. Mr.. Blaine purchased
part of this land over twenty years ago.
He has not mined any coal there since
1875. He seldom visits his farm, and
It is said that he would like to sell it.
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky says:
"a dude is simply the creation of
peculiar conditions of society. and he
may belong to any locality and be diff
disguised. For instance, l
know places in Kentucky where a man
who would put on $40 suit of store
clothes and a white shirt would be re-
garded as bowling swell"
Here is little Bible silhouette done
BY that master-hand Sam Jones: My
IDEAL of man is John the Baptist. who
Jumped on a king and stomped the
very feathers out of him. When he
was put in jail he said he would stav
there until the ants carried him out
through the keyhole before he would
modify anything that he had said"
The Helena Journal announces that
it will publish serially the early history
of the Flathead Indians and of the ear
ly missions in the Flathead country and
Bitter Root Valley. The material of
the history is from notes, transmitted
through DE Smit, by young English
named Cox. who visited the
Northwest in the ship Beaver. fitted out
in 1911 by John Jacob Astor.
President Clover of the Kansas Farm
ers' Alliance, says: What we need
now is some statesmen of the George
Abe Lincoln. Ben Wade.
Jefferson. and Andrew jack
son style. Mouth legislation and tele-
scope farming is what has brought the
country to its present condition.
'Brigadier' skins are the thinncst cloth
ing a shivering family was ever wrapped
up in"
The lecture field is to DO recruited
by talker on theme no less National
than the interior of the Washington
Capitol. The man is Jake" Kennedy. |
for the last few years the most success
full guide in that great bu ing. He
was formerly a Wall street broker. He
knows every story that ever found
place in the Capital. and when he hasn't
a story wherewith to amuse his patrons
he invents one.
To free and above-board country
like this. the secrecy observed in the
war and navy departments of foreign
powers is to say the least quite inter
esting. For instance, Russia is about
to spend 81, 600. 900 on long desired
naval station in the Baltic. To keep
Germany from knowing the plans,
and otherwise. not German
will be employed in the works nor be
allowed to visit the locality.
Chief-Justice Fuller looks a good