Dodge City times., 1890-05-16

I sSeseA, oAAN eh OPPOSSN w thS iClt.
"Well, to the chagrin of the boys
that wanted me to work, the mule took
to the right. The vote then stood one
In my favor"
A little weazened Scotchman, of Aus
tralia, named Mclean, has probably
the largest 13-year-old boy in the world.
He is six feet six inches in height, and
weighs about 22O pounds.
A pamphlet has just been published
in which it is attempted to show that
the first inventor of the phonograph
was not Mr.. Edison, but Frenchman,
the late NJ. Charles Cros.
Inventor Edison's 16-year-old daugh-
ter is said to be almost marvelously
bright. She is described as a fair
musician, q good draughtsman, and
she speaks four languages.
The widow of the late King Luis of
Portugal receives yearly allowance of
$64, 900, which will be reduced one-hah
If she lives abroad. Of course she has
decided to remain in Lisbon.
The Mining and Engineering Journal
says that only two pounds of tin have
been discovered in Dakota, yet 81, ,OOO,-
600 of capital has been raised for the
purpose of working the mines.
Sam Jones delivered a sermon re.
Gently in Virginia in which he said:
"John the Baptist was the bravest type
of Christian know of. He jumped on
Herod and paved his feathers out"
The Duke of Northumberland re-
Gently presented to the Astor Library
four volumes of the annals of his an
eestors, one of whom. Lord Percy.
served in the attack on Bunker Hill and
the storming of Washington Heights.
There is report at Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, that Krupp. the great German
gun-maker. oontemplates setting up
an establishment in Pennsylvania, so
that in case of a war in Europe he can
supply guns to any nation that wants
them.
People in West Gloucester, Me-, say
that the spirit of hermit who lived on
the shores of Sabbath Day Point thirty
years ago, and was drowned in its wa
ters, still fingers about the lake, where
Its hoarse laugh may occasionally be
heard.
Mrs. Crawford, the well-known Paris
correspondent of the London Daily
Neus and Mr.. Labouchere's Truth, is
the only lady member of the celebrated
Golden Club, and one of the most
prominent characters of contemporary
Partisan history.
The late ex-Gov. Dewey of Wisconsin
left with his will sketch in which he
traced his ancestry back to 1858, when
Thomas Due arrived in Massachusetts,
from Dover, England. Thus do we
see how the family got more than its
Due in the matter of name.
An individual who was clerk in the
India House with Charles Lamb and
John Stuart Mill. has just died at Vent
nor, England, after having enjoyed
. handsome pension for tifty-four years.
He had been allowed to retire, ''in con-
sequence of broken health, in 1885.
A number of princes received prizes
ut the Paris exposition. The due d.
Aumale obtained his for the Zucco
wine which he makes on his land in
Scilly; the king of Holland received .
prize for his beer from the Royal brew
cry, and Cardinal Lavigerie won great
prize for Algerian wine.
The tallest smokestack in the United
States was finished recently. 1t will
be connected with forty boilers of the
four new mills of the Fall River Iron
Company. 1t is $50 feet in height, and
cost 340,O Two chimneys in Glas-
Cow, Scotland. are higher. one being
454 feet and the other 435 feet.
Swimming baths are becoming pop
ular additions to English schools. The
school board contends that it is quite as
important for q boy to learn to swim
- for girl to learn the art of cookery
and claims that the swimming bath
adds to the comfort of the scholars and
assists in the work of education.
Assaults by privates upon their su-
perior officers are said to be on the IN
crease in the British army. At Ports
mouth in one week there we're no few
q than four cases of the sort tried
BY district court-martial. Three OF
the cases occurred abroad. the prison.
srs being brought home with their reg
tments.
The salt industry in southern Kansas
= assuming majestic proportions: II
b said that the salt taken up at Well
ington, in that state, is the purest in
the world. A dozen great salt plants
are in active operation and others will
soon be established. In few years all
The salt used for ordinary purposes
west Of the Mississippi River will prob
ably b supplied by Kansas.
Great Britain mined almost 10000.
600 more tons of coal. iron, and other
minerals last year than in 1887, and
employed 10 600 more men in the
work, but fewer lives were lost in the
orocess. The total number of fatal 90
eideuts WAS 665, and Of deaths occa-
sioned thereby go, being an increase
~ -. = ~ s~sc;1euta Int a decraaao