The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1876-12-28

Die preventive OF COmmuDisn III <A'eAe.- INV
Shaftesbury Park Building Association in Lon
don is described at length, and there are some
surprising illustrations Of the kind OF honse
built (for the workingman) by this association
Clarence Cooks eighth paper on household
decoration contains the authors reasons for pre-
ferripp blue china to white, crate fires to fur
mace heat, and kerosene to gas, and deals also
with bedroom furniture.
Other illustrated articles are: sketch of john
Burroughs (with portrait) by Joel Benton "Liv-
erworts and Ferns" by Mrs. S. B. Herrick DAY
Dreams" poem of New England life by hanah
r. Hudson; DIR. Hollands ..Nieholas Minturn,"
in which there is shipwreck; and 'Papa HORNS
Tulip" by R. v. C. Meyers, an Extravaganza
with laughable silhouettes by Howard Pyle.
In light vein also are "My Friend Moses"
by John Habberton, author eff 'Helen's Babies"
a talk concerning Cheapness," by Charles Car
roll and "Ghosts," a short story by Miss Isabel
la T. Hopkins. "What our Churches cost u.s."
by james NJ. Wilton, shows, by comparison, the,
relative cheapness of church work. Mrs. Fanny
H odgson Burnett's serial. "That Lass O. Low
rie's," goes on, Uncle Sammy CraddOck finding
''friend i coort."
There are poems by r. ii. Stoddard, "H. H."
DR.. Holland, Charles de Kay, r. W. Glider, and
Constantine E. Brooks.
In "Topics of the Time" DIR. Holland discuss
es "The Chinese in San Francisco" "The Moral
Value of Physical Strength" and "The Disease
of Mendicancy." 'Tbe Old Cabinet" is about
"Charlotte Bronte," "Savage Life in the City,"
"Americau Au thors and English Critics." "Pic-
lures" and "Essipoff." "Home and Society" is
given up to the third of the "Letters to a Young
Mother" "Culture and Progress" has new
feature in a regular letter from London on EN-
glish Books"
The February Seribnr, it is announced, will
contain an article "Trout-Fishing in the
Rangeley Lakes" the second part of General
McClellans "Winter on the Nile," notable pa
per on s'White of Selborne," the first part of
short story by SAKE Holm, ETC., etc.
ENTERTAINING BoOKs-We have received from
the publishers, Dick & Fitzgerald, No Is Ann
Street, New York, three very entertaining little
books, very neatly and tastefully got up, in pa
per covers, follows:
How to Learn the Sense of 5000 French Words
in One Hour. This ingenious little book actual
ly accomplshes all that its title claims. 1t is a
in the French language, forming a large proper
tion of those used in ordinary conversation,
which are spelled exactly the same as in English,
or become the same by very slight and easily un-
derstood changes in their termination. Sent on
receipt of 25 cents.
Frosts Dramatic Proverbs and Cbarades: con-
tainlng collection of Original Proverbs and
Charades, some of which are for Dramatic per-
formance. and others arranged for Tableaux-Vi-
wants. Just the thing for popular amusements.
Price, 80 cents.
Dicks Recitations and Readings. We are sorry
did not receive the first part of this series if
Part 9, now before us, is a fair sample of the
whole series. Each part contains almost 200
pages of carefully compiled selections of humor-
GUS, pathetic, eloquent, patriotic, and sentiment
al pieces, in poetry and prose, exclusively design
ed for recitation or reading. Price, 30 cents.
70" The Rural NeU- Yorker now comes to us
with sixteen clean, neatly printed pages, embel-
lished with fine illustrations of scientific and
practical Agriculture aud Literature. For the
agriculturist and the family circle it is an indis
pensabe weekly visitor. Its Edtor-in-C Chief is
the celebrated Horticulturist, A. S. Fuller asso-
ciated with whom are E. s. ..Carmane and Y. A. |
Willard, while, special contributors, they are
assisted by such men William Robinson, |
Charles Downing, Charles V. Riley, Thoma
Meehan, James Wick, and many others of equal |
eminence in their respective scientific and prac-
teal specialities. 1t keeps its moral tone to |
that high standard which fits it for any family |
in the land. The mother can rely upon it to |
furnish household recipes for daily use, pleasant
for lais |
entertainments for the children. The father may |
look for the latest experiments and discoveries
in his daily avocations, accompanied by good
advice and carefully revised markets, embracing
nearly every product for sale. In addition to
this its publishers (the Rural Publishing Co, 7s
Duane st., New York, as an acknowledgements of
their late increased patronage, have reduced its
price to only $3.50 year. Send to them for a
specimen copy, which they will mail to you free
GREAT CRY AND LITTLE WooL.-The Watbepa
Reporter strains hard at a very small gnat, in
trying to defend Judge. Hubbard from an imag-
mary attack of the Chief We simply stated that
Judge Hubbard had gone home on Saturday, and
that last week the Court was being run by Y X
Stout, pro tenn. This information was given
ms by several members of the bar, and when we
Wrote tne ARTICLE III was true Dut IL appears
that Judge Hubbard returned, sometime during
the week, which we did not know at the time
our paper went to press-if, indie d. he had got
back at that time. And this is our unjust at
tack upon Judge Hubbard-onr kicking man
when he is down. We did what could to de-
Ieat Judge Hubbard, and, we believe, not with
,ut effect; but since the election, uether,h he
his friends truly say that we have shown
disposition to kick him when he is down. Those
who opposed his reelection, will not throw any
obstacle in his way in his private business, and
we think he will not suffer, unless the editor of
The Reporter, in fit of forgetfulness or of the
'orows, should cruelty withdraw his paternal
guardianship from him.
SOMETHING NEw.-The New York FamiIy Story
is an SPACE weekly, of five broad columns
o the page, published by Norman L. Munro &
o., "a Beekman Street, New York, at So a wear.
IT cents per copy. Every person who buys
'opy, commencing with No. l67, of December
18th, 1s76, will receive part of the works of
shakespeare with it, free, until they have the en-
are work. This is the Royal Octave Edition,