Dodge City times. [volume], February 28, 1880, Image 3

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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
rmonal and Uterarr.
Sylvanns Cobb, Jr., has made
5200,000 by liis pen.
It is said that Turgenieff has been
forbidden by the authorities from carry
ing out a plan h had formed of spend
ing the winter in Ilus-ia for the purpose
of studying up the present situation.
Charles Darwin, the English scien
tist, has won the prize of 81,400 recent
ly offered at Turin for discoveries in the
physiologv of plants. He is receiving
the congratulations of all the scientific
men in Europe.
Mr. Larkin J. Mead, the American
sculptor, is married to a beautiful Ital
ian lady with whom Tie could not at first
acquaintance talk, neither knowing the
other's language. They have a charm
ing home in Florence. Mr. Mcadis.one
of the kindest of men anil most gener
ous of artlts, always sympathetic and
helpful to 3 ounger artists.
Herbert Spencer, the English phil
osopher, is 00 years old. Having been
privately cducatid, he was at first a
civil engineer.- His forehead is high
and he is quito bald. His faco is long,
and, although his features are not small,
he has an unpractical and almost ef
feminate appearance. His portraits re
present him as resting his head against
ins hand, in the Washington Irving
style.
Sir. W. I). Howells's home at Cam
bridge bears the quaint name of " llcil
top." The lower story is of brick and
the second of wood, entirely sheathed
in California redwood shingles. In
architecture it is a mixture of a Queen
Anne house and a Swiss chalet. Mr.
Howells's study is a largo and charming
room, with a wide tire-placc, filled at
this season with blazing logs, with a
pretty winter garden, under glass, open
ing out of it, and a ceiling divided in
ancient fashion by beams.
Srinice and Industry.
We sent last year to Europe 1,500,
000 hides.
A toy miker of Montrose, Pa.,
u-es 000,000 feet of bass-wood every
year.
Seven machines in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
produced, last year, over 1,003,315 kegs
of nails.
The grape islands of Lake Erie
have -1,0U0 acres of vines, and the
yield in 1879 was IG.000,000 pounds.
The wine production was 1,S2G,100
gallons.
An order that can not be filled in
less than one year has been received by
the Marlborough "Woolen Company.
Tho company will turnout SOO yards
a day.
It is said that the adhesiveness and
durability of a solution of 100 parts gum
arabic in 250 parts water may be in
creased by adding two parts of sulphate
of alumina.
Croer.s, dried and powdered, when
applied with chamois leather to nickel
plated goods, will restore their
brilliancy without injuring their sur
face. "Ectrlato " is the name of a
new red color derived from coal. It is
prophesied that cochineal has had its
day, and that the new color will take its
place.
Geese are raised for their feathers
in Texas. One goose ranch iu Western
Texas has overlXX) geese, whose feathers
nre plucked every two months, each one
a eragcing a ponud and a half a year.
A species of dwarf cactus, abundant
in Lower California, is rich in fiber,
said to be excellent for mattresses. It
is reported that an experimental ma
chine, costing only 8100, converts the
raw material into white, elasjc liber
with great rapidity, and promises la
reduce the cost and improve the quality
of such goods very materially.
Rhine pebbles mounted in silver,
and as brilliant as diamonds, are used
for the ornamental darts, arrows, and
daggers that are now thrust through the
loops and braids of elaborate coiffures.
Tho same showy white sto'nes are also
used for belt clasps, small buckles for
satin slippers, and for lizard brooches
that serve to pin a scarf of lace, or to
hold a bouquet on tho corsage.
A fact probably but little known is
that the United St'ates nickel five-cent
piece furnishes a key to metric measures
and weights. This coin is two centi
mereU in diameter, and its 'weight is
five grammes. Five of them placed in a
row will give tho length of the decimetre,
and two 01 them will wcign a ueca
gramme. As a kilolitre is a cubic meter,
the key to the measure of length is also
the key to measures of capacity.
Foreign Note.
It Is expected that the Cologne
Cathedral will be completed next Au
gust. Andaman Island widows wear the
skulls of their deceased husbands on
their shoulders. At a recent lecture on
ethnology at the lloyal College of Sur
geons in London, Prof. Flower showed
the skull of an Andamancse, to which
was attached an elegant webbed sling
by which it had been suspended to the
w'idow's neck.
At Crugawn, Mayo, Ireland, when
a process-server, aided by one hundred
police, attempted last month to serve
notice of ejectment, his progress was
arrested by three hundred women,
armed with heavy sticks. The women
were remonstrated with, bnt all argu
ments failed. Atlengththo police forced
their way through, with fixed bayonets,
several of tho women receiving thrusts,
and reached the house where theprocess
was to be served. Here again a crowd
of women opposed, and several were
wounded; tho process, was, however,
served.
The Austrian Empress's whole pas
sion is for dogs and horses. Her
Majesty always rises with the lark.
When the day lengthens she rises at G in
the morning and goes to hear mass in
tho private chapel near her apartments.
After the devotion of the first moments
of the day to religion she proceeds to the
stable and to the riding-school. Her
favorite horses know well her elastic
step and sweet, clear voice, and nothing
gives her such pleasure as when the
poor animals greet her presence with a
sort of affectionate neighing.
Although to-day there are as many
beards in tho House of Commons as in
any assembly in the world, twenty-five
years ago there was but one. It be
longed to Mr. Muntz, member for Bir
mingham, who did a service by persuad
ing the Government to adopt the
perforating machino in the manufacture
of postage stamps. Mr. Muntz shaved
until ho was 40 when his brother re
turned from Germany with a lino beard,
which the M. P. determined to emulate.
"II. B." the famous caricaturist, was
soon at "the man with the beard," as
every one calledMuntz,and represented
him in acartoonas "a Brummagem M.
P." In this portrait he carries a stout
stick, which has special prominence, the
reason being that an irrepressible prac
tical joker, the Marquis of Watcrfonl,
was supposed to have laid a wager that
he would shave Muntz, heneo the cudgel
to defend himself from disbarbament.
Mr. Muntz died very wealthy, in 1857.
School and Chnrch.
The Free
lina number
000 are colored,
The Congregationalists of Massa
chusetts have 528 churches, 055 minis
ters, and a church membership of 91,-
7Bi.
By the will of Jacob Pcrsinger of
Ito.Wko County, Va., recently admitted
to probate, Roanoke College will receive
about 810,000.
The Baltimore Methodists contem
plate the establishment of a Centenary
Biblical Institute for the education of
the colored people.
A lady writes to know what she
shall do with empty cans. There are
several solutions of the problem, bnt
the simplest one is to buy a goat.
The name of the new Irish Univer
sity is to be the " lloyal University of
Ireland." The charter is now ready,
only awaiting the filling up of the
names of certain Senators. The first
Chancellor will be the Duke of Leinster.
Tho University of "Michigan con
ferred last year 433 degrees on examin
ation and four honorary degrees. The
whole number of students was 1,370, of
whom 445 were in the Department of
Literature, Science, and Arts.
Tho University of Cincinnati has in
troduced the study of Arabic, with the
intention of making of it a three or four
years' course. The present class nuin
bers from ten to fourteen. The deter-
' ruination is to make the instruction as
thorough and, at the same time, as ex
tended as possible. ,
OnA 9 tlinMTflTnnlttoa wMili nfillAmk
authorities encounter Is to prevent the
Free Baptists in North Caro
ter about 22,000, of whom 7,-
students from looking into their books
during recitation where they have to re
peat verbatim, or from writing transla
tions and other aids in the books from
wnich they recite. The faculty of Yale
College, where this practico is known as
"skinning," have undertaken to put a
stop to it by making every man recite
from a book with a clean text furnished
by the faculty, a few copies only of
which are placed in the recitation-room.
Odds and Ends.
In mince-pie there is meat for re
pentance. High heals The charges of fash
ionable physicians.
We desire to be underrated only by
the tax-collector.
Fashionable women arc often very
brave; they do not fear to face pow
dsr. The farmer who doesn't take a
newspaper, says, the Detroit Free I'ress,
should not "bo privileged to take his
children into a graveyard to learn their
A B C's off the headstones.
The small boy who can ride a three
wheeled volocipedc in the hall and beat
a drum at the same time has qualities
calculated to make home happy wlicu
he is not well.
A bee's sting is only one-fourth of
an inch long, but when a man has just
had one stuck in him all the argument
in tho world won't make him believe
that it isn't over two feet long and hotter
than chain lightning.
A small boy.boasting of his father's
accompishments, said: "My father
can do almost any thing; he's a notary
public anil he's an apotnecary, anu can
mend teeth," and he Is a doctor, and can
mend wagons and things, and play the
fiddle; he's a jackass at all trades." j
The Queens of the world are in a
deplorable condition. The Queens of
Italy and Sweden are dangerously ill;
the Empress of Kussiaisvcrylow; the
new Queen of Spain has fallen into
epileptic fits on account of the attempt
to assassinate her hu-band; and poor
Queen Victoria, she is sicksty-too.
Why Alphonse and His Papa Died.
The death of the deeply-lamented
Alphonse, pet of the Parisians and para
gon of all orang-outangs, and of his
affectionate sire has been followed by a
sort of pilgrimage to tho scene of their
last appearance, where their mortal
remains have been " setup " artistically
by the best professors of the art of stuff
ing. One of the literary gentlemen who
was assisting at the melancholy scene
has described an interview which he had
on the spot with Cadet, the " inspector
of animals" at the.Iardin d' Acclima
tion, and has reproduced, for the edifi
cation of the public, the theory which
that worthy originated as tho cause of
death in the father and son. According
to this version of the affair tho catastro
phe was the result of nothing more nor
less than love and regret. The mother
of Alphonse had inspired both her com
panions with so warm an affection that
life became insupportable to both of
them when they were carried off, leav
ing her in tho ancestral forest.
It was in yain that M. Cadet was con
fronted with the verdict of the learned
men who had assisted at the post mor
tem examination, and held a sort of
coroner's inquest over tho body of Al
phonse. These gentlemen had been
pleased to declare that the cause of
death was a pulmonary disease brought
on by tho rigor of a climate never fa
vorable at the best of times to tho health
of tho monkey tribes, and most unusual
ly trying to them during this particular
winter. But the inspector of animals
was also present at the inquiry, and ob
served the operations of tho surgeons,
and he declares that there were neither
tubercles in the lungs nor symptoms of
disease orinjury in any vital organ. He
then cites the gestures, looks, cries, or
language as he would call it, of his two
friends, both when they arrived and up
to the time of their death, compares
them accurately with the actions and be
havior that human beings display when
afflicted by grief, and concludes with a
positive assurance that had it, not been
for the absence of mamma tho pair
would even now be alive. Cadet is a
believer not in tho Pythagorean doctrine
of the migration of souls, but the theo
ry still more flattering to the animal
world, that they are endowed with rea
sonable and immortal souls. London
Globe.
j The WaT'Shlp f tke Fatnre.
I The acuto German mind has already
I perceived the folly of building Impreg
nable ships. Tho learned Prof. Locwcn
thal has become convinced that instead
' of building ships which can not be
pierced by the guns now in use, wo
I should build ships which would offer the
least possible resistance to cannon-balls,
j He claims that the frigate of the future
will bo so constructed that the balls of
tho enemy will pass directly through
! her without inflicting any damage, and
that she will attack her enemy, not with
: guns, but with torpedoes.
I Herr Locwenthal selects for the ma
terial of his newly-invented war vessel
India rubber of one foot in thickness.
The whole hull to be made of India
, rubber, strengthened Mow the watcr-
line with a light steel frame. Tho ves
1 sel will be driven by an ordinary steam
engine, and will have no masts. " At the
1 bow will be a projecting spar, to which
the torpedo will be allixeil, and tho en
tire crew, including the helmsman, will
be on the lower deck out of the range of
, shot. AVhen a cannon ball strikes the
I India-rubber ship, it will pass directly
1 through it above the heads of the crew,
, and the hole made by it will instantly
, close. Pajing no attention to such f utilo
attacks, the India-rubber vessel will
steam toward her adversary and explode
1 ber torpedo. The doomed vessel will
1 instantly sink, while her elastic destroyer
will be driven hundreds ol yards uacK
wards by the recoil following the explo
sion. Such a vessel, savs the inventor.
could easily destroy all the navies of the
world, and after her work was done she
I could be made as strong as ever with
the aid of two or three bottles of cement.
Kew York Times.
I How He'd Do It.
Several men were gathered at tho
door of a blacksmith-shop on Cass
Avenue tho other morning, when a
school boy not over nine years of age
came along with tears in his eyes, and
one of tho group asked :
"What's the matter, boy fall down ?"
"X-iw, but I've got a hard 'rithmctie
lesson and I expect to get 1-licktd'"
was the answer.
" Let me see, I used to b a king-bee
on fractions."
Tho man took the book, turned to the
page, and read :
ItULr. 1 Kind the tout common multiple
of the denominators of the fraction-! fur the
least common denominator. PUiilc this
least common denominator by each denom
inator ami multiply both terms ut the frac
tions by the ipuoiient obtained by each de
nominator. He read the rule aloud and asked if
any one could understand it. All shook
their heads, and then he continued:
"Well, now, I think I should goto
work and discover the least uncommon
agitator. I would then evolve a parallel
according to the intrinsic deviator and
punctuate the thermometer."
"So would I!" answered every niin
in chorus, and one of them added:
" I've worked 'em out that way a thou
sand times!"
Not one of the men, all of whom we r
in business and had made money, could
even understand the working of the rule,
much less work, examples by it, and yet
it was expected that a nine-year old boy
should go to the blackboard and do every
sum off-hand. Dttroit Free l'rets.
0m
Baked Bed-sjfArrEK. Dress the fish
as for boiling, score it on one side, sea
son it with salt and pepper, place small
strips of fat salt pork in tho cut?, and
lay it in a baking-pan on a bed of the
following vegetables pared and sliced .
one onion, one turnip, half a carrot, a
bay leaf, a sprig each of parsley and
some sweet herb, and six cloes; add
half a pint of water, put the pan in the
oven and bake the fish fifteen minutes to
a pound. To make the sanee for the
fish take it np on a hot dish without
breaking, pour the contents of the pan
into a stout sieve and rub them through
it with a potato-masher, season it with
salt and pepDer to tate and add a glass
of Madeira wine to it ; serve it" in a gravy
dish with the fish, which look well gar
nished withome fresh parsley or slices
of lemon.
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Tea Cakes; Two cupfuls of sugar,
one cupful of butter, one egg, five cup
fuls' of flgur, one cupful of sour milk, a
teaspoonful of lemon extract, and a tea
spoonful of soda. Knead hard as bis
cuits, and roll about a quarterof an inch
thick; cut out with a fancy cooky cutter
and bake quick. They are very good
and look nicely on the table.