Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-09-11
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A farmer in Washington territory ha.
successfully grown figs this year in the
open air.
, Thirteen milk dealers were fined $2s
, each Monday at Buffalo for selling
watered milk
Boston horse-car drivers are petition.
ing for seats SO that they may sit down
while driving.
II Cinnamon are to establish new town
near Yrska, Cal, TO be settled EXCLUSIVELY
by Mongolians.
| Judge Simrall has been nominated fol
congress by the republicans of the Third
Mississippi district
i More state lands were sold in Nevada
during July than were sold in twelve
months previous.
A couple of corn-stalks on exhibition
in store at Fresno, CAL, measure over
fourteen feet in height.
A truck-driver was fined $40 in New
York recently for running lady's dress
by his careless driving.
Charts of the Pleiades show, as visible
to the direct eye, 625 stars, but the pho
tographer reveals 1.421.
An 11-year-old colored girl gave birth
to two-and- half pound baby boy at
East Dallas, Tex, one day last week.
The old-fashioned low phseton is once
more coming into popularity at Long
Branch. The dog-ca is out of fashion.
Ju6son W. Ewing, we'll known in the
southern part Of Connecticut as the
Temperance detective" died recently at
New Haven.
A resident of Trebein, O., owns q
mastodon tooth which is fourteen inches
long, ten inches broad, and twenty
seven inches in circumference and weighs
thirteen pounds.
Miss Hattie Hadsen was Watching q
game of baseball in Pittsfeld, Mass,
when q foul ball struck her in the side,
crushed her ribs, and injured her 80
that she may die.
A Woodstock, N. B., physician took
some virus from the arm of q child
which he had vacinated. The father of
the child sued for the value of the vac
cine matter and got verdict for $3.50.
Thomas Garrett, of Baldwin county,
Alabama, is said to be the Oldest voter
in this country. He is 119 years, old
and cast his first vote for president in
1895, for John Adams. He is q demo-
crat.
A valuable setter dog died lately at
Otis, Mass, aged 20 years. In accompa-
nying bis owner on his travels the dog
had crossed tho Atlantic sixteen times,
and had journeyed over City thousand
miles.
Anew and insiduous drink has been
introduced by some Englishman, and is
becoming popular in New York bar
rooms. It consists Of three parts cherry
and one part vermouth, and is called
''bamboo."
Kingish are reported very plentiful in
the Greenwich, Conn, waters. These
fish appeared there first abous seven
years ago, but only for a short time,
and since then until the present time
have not been caught in that vicinity.
A German cigar-maker of Buffalo has
offered to go through the whirlpool
rapids at Niagara sitting on common
beer keg if the railroads will make up
purse of $500 to be given to him il he
comes out alive or to his widow If he be
killed.
keep out of this waiter millin
patche," is signboard nailed to farm
fence little east of Brighton, Cal.
Some wag turned the board over and
wrote thereon: "Take one" and the
poor farmer has been almost bankrupt in
consequence.
The old-fashioned game Of draughts,
or checkers, as most of ne call il, has
taken a new hold on New England, and
summer resorts from Greenwich up to
Bar Harbor have the fever. Chess is too
difficult game for the New England
intellect.
Fall River, Mass, has become q hot
bed of gambling resorts. They are
open night and day, and yong men are
daily being victimized. Citizens are
taking steps to form law and order as
ISOLATION for the purpose OF waging an
aggressive warfare against the swindlers.
An original Interpretation was made
by an Albany coroner. A witness said:
He was very thirst!-kept calling for
water repeatedly" In order to abndge
the sentence the coroner said to the
clerk; HE was troubled with severe
drouth," and so it went down on the min
utes.
A few months ago signs were hung up
in the Avenue B cars, in New York City,
which read: 'sThese csrs viii not stop
while passing the bridge" They were
changed to: "These cars will not stop on
tie bridge" After while they were
changed again to: "These cars will not