White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1869-12-23
Gbinaanpiias.

barrel The circumstance was odd enough to be !
quite vivid in his memory, without the core
lative fact that his pork was going faster than
his family wants justified. Shortly after, he
vas accosted BY another citizen, who informed
citizen No / that the ring upon his 6aser be-
loneed to him, but when No. replied BY az
king him how the ring came to b found in his
pork barrel, No. 9 at once abandoned the dis
cussion. to see a man around the corner.
~ A salesman in dry goods store at
Kansas City, Missouri, the other day, observed
q pale, aitenasted. and. apparently sorrow-
strick en- woman concealiRg bundle of lace un-
der her shawl Very quickly and without at
tracing the attention of single eye in the
store, the salesman said to her: 81 am not
able 70 pay for the lace under your shawl or
you might keep it and welcome Please pus
il back, while walk to the other end of the
counter" Large tears came into the ~omen's
hsgeard eyes. her whole face expressed g;ati-
tude, and without 4 word she put the lace back
and walked out of the store.
UA Hossier namei Thomas Brand put some
powder in stove to clean out the pipe, and
the result was it cleaned cut the house.
u A pair o: twins were recently bern on
Pennsylvani. railroad train. Their mother
said it always madk her sick to ride in the cars
III A drunken Californian recently asked
companio ion to cut his throat. His acccmmoda-
ting friend borrowed knife, and the d:scour
aged miner was buried the next day.
u citizen of De. Meines has gun that is
pretty well advanced in years. 1t was used in
furnishing trapper with game. in that section
in 1894. The Register says: 'It has the
same old stock tha. it had forty years ago, and
throws its lead with the same unerriag certain
". 1t has twice crossed the plains. killed buf
falo and mountain goat, was carried through
the Indian country south Of Kansas, and in
spite of its splintered and patched surround
ings, is good for another half century's ser
vice.
uJohn Ingle, who has been postmaster
ever since Monroe's ADMINISTRATION at Saunders
vile, Vander6urgh County, Indiana, has resign.
cd, and the name of the Office has been chan
ged to Insle6eld. Mr.. Ingle served for forty
FIVE years, under eleven Presidents. WheF
first appointed. his ofice did larger business
than that at Evansville, and Shawnectowr
was the distributing Office for all that regior
of country in Indiana, Illinois ard Kentucky
Mr.. Ingle is eighty one years old.
u It is very edifying. it is touching. it il
beautiful, to see the alacrity. the holy virtne
with which the Sun, the World, the Herald
and journals Of that class, come to the defence
and guardianship of the religion of Christ
when it is in danger from such men as Rev
Mr.. Field and Mr. Beecher. 1t is always love
ly to see the devil going to church, with hi
tail tucked into his boot-legs. These journals
however, are not like the man in the conferenc,
meeting, who spoke of himself. with, tears, as "i
d-d humble Christian."-Harttord Courant.
u Some of our business men imagine the,
pay us quite respeot table sum for advertising
but we rather think they win open their eye'
when we tell them that the Chicago Tribune
asks and gets fneafy-f,ro thousand fpe hundred
and sirfy-f,se dAIioTs per column per year
What do you think of fthatl-Champion.
70 A colored man recently stole the altar
chairs from a Columbus church. but returned
the because they didn't match the rest Of bis
furniture.
T A centenary edition of the Waverly nov
eIs is to be published in Edinburg on the hund
reth anniversary Of the birth of Sir Walter
Scott.
II Here ia the way live Yankees settle in
the West: A man recently arrived in a town
in Minnesota. bought lot. built a house, and
set up bousek keeping within the space of forty
eight hour. and had son and heir born to
house.
u II is authoritatively announced that now,
when the Cardiff giant is alone at night, as
soon as he hears the church strike the mid
night hour, he removes his right hand from its
customary position, and placing the thumb on
ore end of his nose, vibrates his fingers in the
air.
u The New York Historical Society has
sword handle that once belonged to Marco
Bozzaris.
u A gentlemln from Iowa lately applied
for a patent, ard was informed that his "inven
tion" had been patented si1ty years ago.
~ The Latest description of Mr.. Greeley'-
neck tie: at looked as if had grown upon his
shrtcollar like fungus. and had been ripped
to pieces in hailstorm"
" handsome, tail and finely developed
girl, at recent masked ball in San Francisco,
who made herself particularly obiiging in the
ladies' dressing room. turns out to he beard
less young man about town, To the horr,r of a
corpuleht lady, whose corsets he had helped
lace. and m, my Others
u Robert Bonrcr claims that he paws more
money for advertising than any man in the
world.
G A fellow il Iadiana. put one end OF
gun barrel in the fire. and looked down the
muzzle TO see whether il was loaded. A CO.
roner'sj jury decided that his suspicious were
correct.
1T observation-disclosures is the big
name to Q small stream in Mount Vernon, N. Fl
IL 1t is claimed that Long John Wentworth
throws shadow twenty seven feet long, 10 a
clear day.
IL Tough ganders and petri6ed turkeys are
being shipped to Washington for the use of