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THE TIMES.
W. C. SHINN, Publiiher.
DODGE CITY", - - KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
IVmonal and latrrnry.
'Hie lecture season haajiehlcd Hen
ry Ward liercher $42,600.
Mrs. Muloclx-Craik still wears the
qneerl) -fashioned gow n of 20 3 ears ago,
with its body pilhereil at the shoulders
to a point at the wait. When a-ked to
sing, she complies readilv, and giic
an cuu-inne uau.ui wiui awinjuu accom-iiaiiiment.
Alexander 1 1 Stephens writes to an
acquaintance that his obituaries aid
him materially in preparing his autobi
ography, as they 71-call many incidents
of his life long -mce forgotten, and bring
out lacu anu traits 01 cnaracieroi iui-u,
hitherto, he had been ignorant.
Father Hiacinthe is living very
quietly in Paris, Alme. Loyson is teach
ing young girl, ana tneir nou-ciioni is
lerj simply and economically arranged.
JIad.mie is le.-ci ilieil :us a tall, hand
some woman, with a frank smile, a
pleasant voice, a beautiful hand. She
wcarsacloc-fitlicg, blaik dress of some
soft stuT. An iron cros hangs on her
breast; its purple ribbon and the thin,
black net vail that drops from her high
comb are the only ornaments.
Mr. Ausburn Towner, of the Klmi
ra (X. V.) Adctrtitcr, has 11 rittcn an
entertaining no el, entitled "Cheilayne
of Kotono," reciting the trials of a Con
necticut colony that settled on lands in
what is known in our time as Luzerne
County, I'.i., that were claimed by the
Delaware I-and Company. The au
thor's hero, Cheilayne, was a Captain in
the Keiolutionary Army, w lioe services
made him a personal friend of Washing
ton. There is a great deal of historical
information, and a reasonable amount
of Ioe-making in the book.
Mrs. Catherine A. Warfield, well
known as the author of the " House
hold of Homeric," died at her home in
Kentucky May ii. Her death resulted
immediately from an operation for
tumor. The " Household of liouverie'
appeared about tfJ years ago, and 11 as
follow eil by many other novels, none of
which, however, attained the celebrity
of the first. " Feme Fleming," and its
sequel, "The Cardinal's Daughter,"
her latest productions, were published
only a few months ago.
licteher Harper, whose death oc
curred on the 2ith lilt., was the last of
the four brothers w ho founded the Xew
York publishing hou-e w hich bears their
name. Ho was born in lb05, anil lie
came a member of the firm as foreman
of the composing-room when 20 years of
age. His duties were soon enlarged,
how ei er", and in a few 1 ears he became
the life of the establishment, haing
great bu-iues sagacity and a spirit of
enterprise that contributed largely to its
succevs. The Magazine, Bazar and
II 'ccUi owe their popularity mainli to
his energy and tact, llisf.unih consist',
of a w ife and tw o sons.
'1 he popular imgazinc writer. Miss
Frances Hodgson, now Mrs. Harrett, was
born in Manche-ter, Kngland, 27 jear
ago. She came to this country at the
age of 13, and Ins since been wholly
American in her associations and expe
riences. At 1C lte liegan to writer tor
monci rathix than for fame producing
short stories chiefly, ami wilting "with
great rapiility. After some rears of this
Kinu 01 work, w Men, though doubtless
excellent practice, failed to win for her
any eniini en:ounigrmeat, she wrote
ami sent to kenbnes Monthly a little
Lancashire story, entitled " Surh Tim's
J rouble." 1 las won the 1.11 or of a dis.
cerning public. "That Lass of Low-
neV her last work, is a full-fled-red
1101 el, ami h is highly praised by the
mu, t tiiiicai niuuoniies.
Science and Intluatry.
A soldier connected with the Feder
al garrison at Columbia, S. C, has gone
into the silkworm business. He has now
about 60,000 worms, and is seeking his
discharge to embark more extensively
in the enterprise.
Last May the Fall Itiver manufac
turers seut an agent to Itrazil, and hav
ing learned the wants of that country
in regard to stvlesof cotton fabrics thev
The French mining engineer, Sinc-
olis, says that the silver mines of Colo-
ratio anil 01 orinwesieiii i,-..3 j;,
tindoubtetl evidences of great wealth.
The ores are true silver ores, and the
mines are indentical with tho-c of Mex
ico, of which they are a continuation.
An inieiition has been patented
which mav produce almost as marked
an affect "as the cotton gin. It is a
wagon-like machine, called the picker,
and when driven through the ripened
fields picks clean every scrap of cotton,
and saves the labor of one hundred
hands.
A Sonoma, Cal., man has raised five
cork trees, which are now 25 to 30 feet
in height and from ten to twche inches
in diameter in the trunk. One coat of
cork. U inches thick, has been stripped
off. The tree re-embles the Hie oak in
foliage. The seeds were brought from
Spain 20 jears ago.
Wire ropes for mines, elevators and
the transmission of power are now be
ing made of the comparatively new al
loy, p)iophor bronze, i nesc ropes are
said to retain their pliability after long
use, andto resist the action of the cor
rosive waters found in the mines.
Iron ties, said to 1j more durable
than 11 ooden ties, andto afford a lietter
support to the rails, have been tried with
satisfaction on the Pacific ISailroad.
They are rather expensive, however,
and their general adoption is not very
probable until the tests haie been made
more thorough. The old objection to
the use of iron ties has been overcome
in this case by the introduction of an
elastic substance beneath the rails and
in the joint of a cross-bar which unites
the bed-plates.
While his countnnicn at home are
engaged in the attempt to lighten the
terrible inflictions suflerxd by the Chris
tians in Turkey, a Kussian in Paris, M.
I'aul Jablochkou uv name, lias unucr-
takeu to lighten the world at large by
the inicntion of an electric candle. The
English press generally prophesy great
results from the invention, "which
promises to supplant gas almost nhollj
as an illuminator of streets and the in
terior of large buildings. The material
of which the candle is made i a secret,
but it is known that "kaolin," the clay
from w Inch hard china is made, enters
largclj into the compound. Nothing is
said of the relatii e cost, but from the
1 cry important fact that 50 brilliant can
dles can le lighted from one ordinary
electric battery it is to be supposed that
economy is one of the valuable features
of M. Jablochkoft's great inicntion.
School anil Church.
Three-fourths of the applications
for postmasterships come from unsettled
clergymen.
The girls of the High School in
Lewi-ton, Me., will dress in American
prints on graduation day, at the request
of the Principal.
Of the 2S3 churches in lialtimore 52
are Methodist Episcopal, 27 other sorts
of Methodists, ;!t Protestant Episcopal,
22 Koman Catholic, 18 Lutheran, 17
Presbyterian, and 15 llaptist.
I!er. Charles A. Quick, editor of
the Epiteopal Itcconler, Philadelphia,
has withdraw n from the Protestant Epis
copal Church, and connected himself
with the Kcfonneil Episcopal organization.
Of the public school domain of Tex
as, there are said to be 20,000,000 acres
now in or to go into the market for the
next eight or ten jears at the minimum
price of SI. 50 per acre, which will make
a school fund 6f $.50,000,000.
'The Pilgrim Church, Lexington,
Ky., ho adopted the pay-as-von-go si s-
teni, and hands its pastor a check every
Monday morning for his week's salary.
There w ill be no deficiencies in that
church to be made tip 11 hen the annual
meeting comes round.
Dr. Jessup writes from Beirut to
the Xew York EvangelittthM the Chris
tian population of Syria is in great dan
ger from the outbreaks of Mohammedan
fanatacism. The Moslems " regard the
Christians as friends of Hussia, and
hence traitors to their country."
Women who apply for positions as
public school teachers in lioston are
asked, " Do you expect to be married
soon?" The object of the question is
to ascertain whether she will be likely
to devote herself to teaching, as married
w omen are not employed. The answer
report an increasing trade w hich bids often causes embarrassment to the ap
i air to double this year, I plicatU, because few w omen are without
matrimonial cxpcctations.howevcr slight
their chances miy be.
Among the graduates of the Auburn
Theological Seminary at the recent com
mencement was Moses Aaron Hopkins,
the first colored student who has com
pleted the course of study. He is a grad
uate of Lincoln University, and 10 1 ears
ago could neither read nor write. His
graduating address was on "The
Problem of Hace Heconciliation in the
South." Mr. Hopkins goes to Xorth
Carolina, where he will engage in
preaching.
A rrow ins restii eness of Methodist
ministers and churches under the opera
tion of the itinerant si stem is very per
ceptible. A Ilostim tlimch, failing to
obtain, at the present session of the Con
ference, a minister much desired, re
fused to open its doors to the pastor
appointed by the Bishop. At an inter
view of the members of the church with
the Bishop, there was very little ap
pearance of conces-ion on either side.
If np anil Mifthnps.
Linens Xorth, of Cayuga Falls.Ohio,
was fatally shot by the" accidental dis
charge of his gun 11 hile hunting.
Otto Hulman, 17 years of age,
while hunting squirrels, near Terre
Haute, Ind., shot himself in the neck
accidentally, and died in half an hour.
John Langdon, employed at a rolling-mill
in Jcrey City, 11 is engaged at
work when a red-Rot bar of iron
turned out from the rollers, encircled
his leg, and, tw isting upward, closed
around the lower part of the body,
burning him fatally.
A frightful accident occurred at
X'orth Westmorland, Ind., to a man
named James Laraman. While trying
to catch a lamp-chimney that had fallen
from a lamp, the latter was oicrtumed,
spilling the oil on him and setting his
clothes on tire. Laraman started for a
creek near bi, but before he could reach
it was overcome by the flames and
burned to death. Another man wit-nes-ed
the accident, and while trjing to
extinguish the flames was also terribly
burned.
Curiosities of suicide; Perry Lew
is, of Bradford County, Pa., saturated
his clothes with kero-ene and then set
himself on fire. 1 he pain was evident
ly greater than he anticipated, as he
made frantic efforts to extinguish the
flames, but without success. H. C.
Howe, for three years confidential clerk
of the Carbomlale Coal and Mining
Company, at Topeka, Kansas, 11 as ar
rested on the 31st for embezzling the
funds of the company, and immediately
shot and killed himself. He was a young
man ot excellent business ability, and
leaves a wife and three children". Sa
rah Kilian, aged 45, a servant at Hie
Gait House, Uiuisiille, threw her-clf
from the roof of the hotel, 80 feet high,
breaking her ncek. Cause, temporary
insaniti.
Foreign Noted.
The new memorial to Ijebisj at
Darmstadt will haie for its principal
feature a colossal bu-t of the great
chemist, executed hi the rising young
sculptor, George Ber-ch of Darmstadt,
who carried ofl the palm from nineteen
other competitors.
French comic journals are in de
spair. The present political situation
had opened to them 21 magnificent field
for satire ; and now they are officially
notiiieil that no illustrations likeiy to
proie obnoxious to any of the foreign
iiovernmcnts win be tolerated.
Lien the four-vcar-olds crv for
slrim stilnts Tim itttiur mnrnimr lit tin
Clara wanted to be adorned with her
new dress. " I haven't time to dress
I jou now," sa'd mamma; "go away and
play." Hut Clara contemplated the
busy needle in her mamma's "new
styles" fora moment,and philosophized,
""Well, if yon don't have time to take
care of us," what do you buy little girls
for?" Boston Traveller.
Two Turkish spies were recently
arrested in the llus-ian lines at Giurge
vo, and shot. One was profoundly in
different to his fate, and desired that his
eyes should not be bandaged. He re
ceived the platoon fire wuh a steady
gaze, and fell flat on his face as the balls
pierced him. Before the execution he
cast glances of supreme contempt upon
his companion, who was in mortal fear
and yelled pitcously. It w as necessary
to force him to the spot and tie him to a
stake. ,
Princess Demidoff, a loung Russian
lady wearing the full uniform of a hus
sar arid mounted on a magnificent
charger, rode at the head of a splendid
regiment of caialry through the out
skirts of Bucharest not long ago. She
is the daughter of an honorary Colonel
and proprietor of the regiment, who is
reportetl as spending $50,000 a year
ujon it. Xo Kussisn cavalry is so "well
mounted, the horses averaging 1C hands,
comprising chestnuts, whites, browns,
and bays re-pectii ely.
The Emperor of Brazil visited the
Silpetriere Hospital in Paris, the other
day, to witness experiments of Dr.
Burg's system of restoring sensibility to
parahze'd limbs by the application of
metals. For nearly'two hours he watch
ed with attention in the hospital wards
the Professor running bodkins through
the flesh of arms and legs in u hich there
was no feeling, and saw, a few minutes
after the application of copper or gold,
according to the idiosyncrasy of the pa
tient, the slightest prick draw blood and
produce screams. He 11 a particularly
struck by the case of a girl, certified to
haie had her arm Useless some days
previous, w ho 11 as now able to lift heavy
w eiirius.
Vegetine!
EEV. J. P. LUDLOW WHITES:
13 BALTIC STIKT, Bioaklts., X. T I
n.B.STT.EN, -v.ni.wa.
Dtftr Sir I rom pereonil Tx-neflt rrcetrM br 1U ufc
M ell as from personal knowledge of Utne vbOM
cere thereby hare seemrd a.mon miraculous, I can
ttHwtleartlly anil lincerely recommend thVfOK
TINfc. fsr the complaint which It I claimed to
nrc JAML i. UiPLUW,
Late Pastor Calvary Baptutcborcn,
Sacramento, CaL
VEGETINE.
SHE EESTS WELL.
f MR.II.R Stttesb:
ixar Mr I hare been lick two yeara with, the Utct
complaint, anddarlur that time bare iaken a ereat
many (LiTrrect medleinea, bat none or then did me
any fiood. lu rmle nlsht. and had no appetite.
t Since tallng the EGETINt I rvi rtl and rehab.
of food. Can recommend the VEoFTINL for whit
U baa done for roe. Youra rmirctrollr,
! WltneMof theabore- Mas. ALLlLLT 11CEE3L
Me. OtOIIGE M. YALGTIAS. .
1 Medford, iiau.
VEGETINE.
GOOD FOE THE 0HILDEEN.
Bostox Home, U Ttl Stbekt.I
liosrox, April, 1ST8. f
htar Atr W e feel thit the children In onr home
bare been (rreatly benefited by the rOETIXE yov
hare o Mcdly jrUeo us from time to tlme,eapeciaUv
thoae troubled 1th the Scrotal.
"With re pert.
II u. N WOKMELL, MiiTOB.
VEGETINE.
EEV. 0. T. WALKEE SAYS:
I feel bound to ezpren with irr Mgnatnre the hlsk
TaJoe I place unon j onr tuETl.St. My family ban
card It fur the Iat two years. In nerronj debility U
la Invaluable, and I recommend it to all who may need
an invigorating. renoraUnir tonic.
O. T. WALKEE.
Formerly Paitor of Uoa doln bqnare Church,
ttofiton.
VEGETINE.
NOTHING EQUAL TO IT.
., Sorrn Salt. Miss, Sot. It, iSX
Ma. H Jt Etxtkxi:
Dear Sir I nave been tronbled with Scromhv
Cancer and Llrer Complaint for three yean. Noth
ing errr did me any pood until 1 commenced cslnc the
EtiKTlNE. I am now petti djt alorg firtt-ratf, and
till DMnsr the tOLTINE. 1 consider there la noth
ing eqcal to tt for such complaint. Can heartily rec
ommcndlttoeTerybody. oun truly.
Mil. LIZZIE M. PACKARD,
5o. 16 La grange Street, South balem. Matt.
VEGETINE.
EECOMMEND IT HEAETILY.
ME.STKTK.. Serrano...
Iwr&r-I baTC taken eeTeralbottlei ofroarVEG
ETlNh, and am eocTlnced It U a Tblnable remedy
for Dytpepala, Kidney Complaint, and General De
bility of the lyitem. I can heartily recommend U to
ail luCerera from the above complaints.
ouri respectful y,
111 il UhliOE PARKER.
VEGETINE.
peepared nr
H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.
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