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THE TIAIES.
W. C. SHINK, Pobliiher.
DODGE CITY, - - KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
IVrMirml nml Literary.
Tlie fjueen lias "ranted the tlin-e
Misses Defoe, lineal descendents of the
author of "Kobinson Crusoe," pensions
of s.16 per annum each.
Funds arc being raised in Lexing
ton, Ky., to tran-port the remains of
Joel 1. llart, !lic scniptor, irom luut
to that city for burial. 'J'he expense
ttillbe$l,i&2.
The eilitorof the Jlailical (Paris)
lias lieen sentenced by the French Gov
enuneiit to two months' imprisonment
anil to pay a line of 2,000 francs for in
sulting the army. The editor of lioche
fort's. Lnxterne also received a similar
sentence for articles subversiv e of social
order.
At a complimentary reception given
to Ole Hull in Boston a. short time since,
the violinist pre-ented tlie committee on
the Xorse memorial a cheek for $2,000,
the result of recent concerts given in the
West. The monument which it is pro
posed to erect to the memnrv of the
early Xorse settlers will cost $1 (,000.
Miss Marie Waintvright, grand
daughter of the Bishop ot that name,
made herdcliut at Booth's Theater, in
New York, the other night, a-s .Juliet.
" The impression of the endeavor," says
the Time, "was that Miss Waintvright,
in seini eiitimental rides, would in due
season Ic an acquisition to the thea
ter." Judah 1. Benjamin, the Confederate
Secretary of State, is ono of the most
popular'lawyersin I.oiidcn, rnd has an
income of ov'er s'100,000 a 3 ear. He is
Gj, was born in St. Domingo, is a He
brew, went to Xcw Orleans after gradu
ating at Yale, was a Whig, then a Dem
ocratic United Stat Senator, and then
a Confederate.
Dr. J. Marion Sims has written a
liook to show that Dr. Crawford W.
Ixmg, of Georgia, was the real discov
erer of ana-sthetics, having antedated
Well-, Morton and Jackson by sacral
tears. Dr. sinu suggest, the appropri
ation bv Congrcs- of $100,000 to lie di
vided Letween the families of Long,
Wells, Morton and Jackson.
The Xew York Graphic, in a late
issue, ghes the portraits of fifteen prom
inent newspaper humorists, and a finer
looking lot of men could not be drawn
from atij other profusion. The follow
ing are the names: C.lt. Lewis, Detroit
Free l'rcas ; Miles T. Stanton, Xorwieh
llullctin; 1!. .T. Burdette, lSurlington
Jlairlx'ie; J. C. Goldsmitli, Xew York
Herald; A. E. .'meet, S.in Antonio Her
ald; E. M. Itewey, Worcester 1'ress;
Geo. L. Catlin, Xcw York Commercial
Atlvtrtiser ; Erwin Wood, Chicago Jour
nal; S. W. Small, Atlanta Constitution ;
.1. II. Williams, Xorristown Herald; G.
F. Babbitt, Boston I'ost; I. M. Gregory,
Koihester Democrat; X. lSurbank', Xctv
Orleans llcjmbUitm: G. 1). Bayard, late
of- the Brooklyn Argun; C. il. Clark
(Max Adeler'Philadelphia Jltillclin.
School nnd Church.
A bill for unifonnitv of tcxt-looks
was defeated in the Illinois House of
Itcprescntath es.
Yale expects in the autumn to re
ceive a numlier of Japanese students
from the Imperial College.
The Trustees of the Fifth Avenue
l'resbterian Church, in Xcw York, have
adopted a rule that no one shall Iks ad
mitted to the church after the sermon is
begun.
l'rof. Mose.s Coit Tvler. of the Uni-
ersity of Michigan, who has long been
a rcmbcrf the Congregational Church,
hat united with the Episcopal Church at
-vnn Arnor.
The Kmperor Alexander lias thank
ed the H0I3 Synod for finishing, after
twenty jcars of incessant labor, the
translation ol tp Bible into the Kus-ian
vernacular. This is the first translation
into HusMan approved bv the Czar and
the Church. The British and Foreign
Bible Society'-, translation is now pro
hibited in Kussia.
The Chinese- students have made
wonderful progress since the establish
ment of the educational headquarters at
Hartford. They show good abilities to
contend with American students. One
Chinese scholar has taken the1 second
Iirize for declamation in the Hartford
Iigh School, and another the first in
the South Hadlcv talis Hiirh School;
and now Lee Kwai I'au takes the first
prize for penmanship in the West Mid
dle l'ulilic ."school at iiantoru.
Judge l'illsbury, of Pontiac, III.,
has decided that the directors of a pub
lic school have a right to dictate what
books shall be studied and u-ed, and
can, therefore, order the Bible to be read
as a text book in connection with other
studies. This deei-ion was rendered in
a suit brought by a Konian Catholic,
who had intrucfed his son to par no
attention when the Bible was react in
the school, but to go on studying his
lessons. The lad was expelled, and the
action of the schoolmistress was justified
both by the trustees and the court.
The union of the two principal non
Kpiseopal Methodist bodies, in conten
tion at Baltimore, has been the principal
anniversary event. Bv a compromise
of suliordinatc tenets and matters of
iliscinline. the Methodist Church (so-
called and the Methodist Protestant
Church have become a United Church,
and will unquestionably gain immensely
by the move. The Joint Convention
appointed a number of committees on
the various matters which now need
special attention, and agreed to the
proposition of the late Methodist Epis
copal General Conference for an (Ecu
menical Conference of Methodism.
Science nml Industry.
Sixty thousand spindles are soon to ,
be in opercration at Columbus, Ga. '
Live lobsters arc the latest imported
cdiblo from the United States to Great
Britain. One steamer recently carried a
tank containinjr 700. A constant flow
of sea-water was Kept in the tank by
means of a small engine.
Twenty varieties of California
grapes hat e been painted from nature
ill as want scpaiaic paintings ip an au-
ist in that State. The Wine-Grow ers
Association of California is about to
issue chromos, exact reproductions of
the paintings, in book form.
The rapid extension of the cultiva
tion of peanuts is the ne now made of
them for the oil they contain. . Last sea
son' product reached 2,000,000 bu-liels,
valued at $3,000,000. The oil is in large
demand as a substitute for olive and al
mond oils, and keeps a much longer
time without becoming rancid.
The Martindale Zinc Works shut
down work on the 10th, throwing 120
men out of employment. I lie main rea
son for the stoppage of the works is the
low prices of zinc, which barely cot er
the cost of production. The company
has a large stock of metal on hand.
At the Paris School of Arts and
Trades experiments were lately made
with a paper alleged to be incombusti
ble. Sheets of it were expo-ed singly
to the fierce flames of a spirit lamp with"
out other effect than to slightly wither
it. When the paper was expo-ed in
bulk no effect was apparent. It was
thought very desirous for the manufac
ture of bank notes. The secret of the
manufacture rests with the experiment
er.
The Scientific American suggests
that it t ould lie an excellent plan for
persons contemplating building to have
models of their houses constructed in
paper or thin wood. Few people can
obtain a perfect idea of the aspect of any
propositi editicc Irom tlie architect's
drawings. Engineers very frequently
adojit this plan in building bridges ami
similar structures.
Ilnps anil Mifchnp.
Weslev J. Morrison, of Springvale,
Me., was sliot while leaving his door
way by the accidental di-charge of his
gun, the charge tearing away one side
of his face. Ho died in three hours.
The daughter of Charles llapp, re
siding at Cherubusco, Ind., while suffer
ing from ague, sent to a drug-store for
some quinine. The druggist made a
mistake, gat e her morphine, and death
ensued in six hours.
Xear Dubuque, Iowa.William Long,
tvhila milking in a barn, was killed by
lightning and the barn set on fire. Mrs.
Ixmg was very severely burned while
trying to rescue the body of her hus
band from the flames.
At Toleston, Ind., Mrs. John
Wilkes was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed while sitting at the front
door of her house. She had two chil
dren in her lap, both of t horn w ere unharmed.
Chaunccy Cheswcll, of Xcwmarket,
X. H., was at work on the machinery of
his mill, when the pointed tube of an oil
can was driven into his leg. His arms
and legs began to swell, and he finally
died from blood-poisoning.
Mrs. Gilpin, wife of Alfred Gilpin,
hardware merchant, of Appleton, Wis.,
was burned to death in her own house a
few nights ago. Mrs. Gilpin was alone
in the house at the time the fire broke
out, and from the fact that portions of a
lamp were found under her remains it
is supposed that she .fell down stairs,
and, the lamp being broken, caused the
lire.
Clans Brock.aged T3,a fanner living
10 miles from Omaha, Xcb., hung him
self in his barn. C. Y. Tiffany, a rail
way conductor, cut his throat with a
penknife and bled to death in the station-house
at Omaha. He had been on
a spree. John Seiunbcl, a Terre Haute,
Ind., brewer, cut his throat from ear to
ear. Henry Smith, of Detroit, Mich.,
shot himself on account of domestic
troubles. At Eat Monmouth, Me.,
William Gatchell, 18 years old, first shot
himself twice through the head, and
then, to make his taking-oil" sure,
threw himself into a pond
Sarah Cole, of Waterbury, Ct., 20 years
old, committed suicide by taking poi
son. She was to have been married in
tw o weeks, and no cause for the act is
assigned. Henry Stcinbachcr, a gold
clriin manufacturer, shot himself in the
head, at his residence in Brooklyn, X.
Y., it is supposed on account of the
death of his wife, who also committed
suicide a few days previous. A respect
able merchant of Xew Castle, Pa., be
came possessed of the insane notion the
other day that ho had committed a mur
der and was pursued by officers, and to
effectually escape his persecutors he fa
tally cut liis own throat.
Foreign Noten.
Sir John LintornArabin Simmons,
the man spoken of as the active com
mander of the British forces in case of
war, is only 60 years of age rather
jonng for "a Lieutenant-General. He
serteil in the Crimean war, anil after
ward in Asia Minor, and is thoroughly
familiar with the seat of war as tt ell in
Asia as in Eupope.
A Bussiaii commissariat officer at
Odessa was detected adulterating Hour
about to be sent to the ami-, with lime
and other substances. He was immedi
ately tried, and shot within twenty-four
hours after the discovery took place.
Tlie Iiussian Government trust that this
suinmaiy execution will put a stop to
these practices, w Inch cau-ed so much
suffering to the Uusi.iu soldiers during
the Crimean war.
Lordly Dudley is in treaty for liaron
Albert Grant's house at Kensington,
London, but between the price asked
and the sum offered there is a trilling
difference of .50,000. The building is
almost fit for a royal palace, and, with
the seven acres of pleasure ground, is
freehold property. To et cry bed-room
and each of lho twelve best bed-rooms
is about the size of an ordinary drawing
room in Mayfair there is a largo bath
room, with hot and cold water laid on.
In the garden there are a rink, an Amer
ican bowling-alley, a lake, seteral foun
tains, a large plat of ground adapted for
lawn tennis, another for archery, ami
a third for croquet; to say nothing of
an orangery, a boat-house and hot
houses. Ijrd Dudley offers 200,000
for this suburban palace, which, if not
sold by private contract liefore tho first
week in June, will be put up to public
auction.
Odd nml nd.
Cleanly but economical persons dis
like hot weather, becau-e they arc una
ble to make a paper collar last longer
than one week
Since the introduction of the horse
power and thresher, "there is no such
word as flail" in the bright lexicon of
the agricultural youth.
Somebody says always face the per
son you arc talking to". It is evident
that this writer never stood in front of
the man who comes into the office as
soon as he gets sober to have his name
kept out of the police report. Only a
man with his nose on the back of liis
head could do it.
Xative clergymen in the Sandwich
Islands go barefoot winter and summer,
and are therefore not inflicted about
Christinas time with 23 pairs of worked
slippers, of assorted sizes, presented by
young lady members of their congrega
tions. This exemption more than com
pensates them for three-or four toe nails
knocked off during the year.
The following story is told by
Hartford clergyman: On his way home
from the church he found him-elf be
hind three ladies engaged in a lively
discussion over the music of the f erriec;
one condemning the soprano and the
other the tenor, while the third stoutly
defended both. As the discussion be
came warm the third lady sought to
pour oil on the troubled water.-, ami, in
the words of the clergyman, "did so to
perfection by a judicious and truthful
remark to which all of them at once as
sented; she simply said: Well, it wai
a miserable sermon, anyhow!' '"
Tinr NOT TO J-VS-.
" Try not to pas V the old man said
" I call; luy t-.d,n.;'ltud nu that led."
A ti-:ir stood In the Munll innn'iM'vi,
,nd Irom his lips e-caiK.-ilt " -Ushlgh"
llruw poker.
.Veir York CwnmfrriaL
Next hand "Old man, I rai-e jou ten."
" I call ;ili-p!ny jour list again."
" Two pairs." '"XotuooiL" lloaMedthen
"Of Jacks." Which in hi- sleet i hud been
Draw poker.
HVrcwter Prat
" Beware the lmh-tail flush's power.
Hew are theuetchtnf aces four!"
This -w as the sharper's lat good night.
And bluffed the others out ot sight
Draw poker.
TottJo ntaJe.
The game was o'er. The victim rose.
" 1 in lo-t ne suiu; 1 11 seei. rcposcr
He reaehi-d his home bereit o "sand;"
Hut.Iookt lllswilel And in her hand
Draw jioker! t
in
In a Kojal Harem.
We were introduced to Madame AalL
a very intelligent-looking, amiable little
ladv","who sal.imed us in Turki-h style
by putting her hand to herforehcad and
lier Heart, gam a variety 01 pretty wel
comes; by means of the inteqiretress,
and taking us by the hand introduced
us succcssitcly" to all the high and
might' lemale magnates 01 me lanu.
We were exceedingly disappointed in
the toilets of these ladies; with the ex
ception of their undervests of Broussa
gauze, they were nearly all dressed in
J.uropean fauncs ot various kinds,
full trowscrs, slippers, an over-dress
more like the soutane of a Komish
priest thanany other canncM the train
of which they slip under a belt when
they walk, in the same manner that he
does". Instead of the long braided
tresses which we had expected to see
falling to their feet, their hair was cut
short, and surmounted by an embroider
ed gauze handkerchief "put on like a
turban; but to compensate for the lack
of Oriental splendor in the rest of their
dress, their jewels far outstripped our im
agination. This being the only manner
in tt Inch Turkish females can safely in-
e-t money, and often all that is left o
them at the ileatli or sudden disgrace ot
their husbands, they seize evert- oppor
tunity to enrich their store, ami the dis
play is certainly dazzling.
Madame Aali's turban was surmount
ed by a wreath of enormous pansics
composed of diamonds, tt hich complete
ly encircled her head; and in the midst
ot the pansics rose, mounted 011 an os
cillating wire, a bird, the size of
a humming-bird, which was one
mass of diamonds with flashing ruby
eves. Ear-rings and necklace matched
tfiis diadem in magnificence. Most of
the other ladies were literally blazing
with jewels, with the exception of the
wealthiest and most nobly born among
them, an Egyptian Princess married to
one of the "Pashas, who, w hethcr from
hating lost ancar relatitc,orfroiuwear
incssaud contempt of the gewgaws, had
bedi7ened her numerous attemlant slavei
with jewels worth a king's ransom, and
herself remained unadorned. One younjj
married lady, about fifteen, was dressed
in a French" muslin of a brilliant corn
color, and next under it she had donned
a crinoline, which articles were then
worn very large, so that tho effect of
the steels, clearly defined leneath the
scant folds of the transparent muslin,
was ludicrous in the extremo; but the
others looked at her with admiration,
as she paraded her French organdie
and hoop-skirt before then: her girlish
face surmounted with a real coronet
of magnificent gems. If the Moslems
were harmonious ic their dress before
the time of Mahmoud, as they must
have been from the accounts of travel
ers, ita character has disappeared from
tlie effect of his European innovations.
for the scarlet fez looks as out of place
with the straight-collared coat and
modern towsers of the men, as the short
hair and French fabric do on the wom
en. ScrHncs for June.
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