Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-03
lTEMsoF INTEREST.

iTEMSOF INTEREST.
The Nantichoke relief fund has reach
ed the sum of $4,000. Each widow I
to receive $125 per annum, in monthly
payments, go long as she remains wld
ow and the fund holds out.
A German Psychologist, who has beer
making experiments on "a large butcher
dog" declares that beer retards digestion
more than wine containing the same
quantity of alcohol.
IF de wedder grows much worse ano
de work harder all de time" said an Ala
bama colored man, 'dis niger vii
have call to preach"
The elevated railroad in New York If
about to dispense with $1,000 worth Of
oil lamps from the cars and substitute
electric lights.
A citizen of Bloomfield, Cal, has had
all the Cinnamon in that town arrested
owing to threats made by them against
his life.
A piece of gold weighing about eight
ounces was picked up by child at Cal
averitas, Cal, the other day, from pile
Of dirt
At Penobscot, Me-, poster announc-
ing church festival had the postscript;
''No flirting allowed"
After chasing fox all day, party OF
eleven hunters from West Rutland, Mass,
brought up at hole. The dogs howled,
and the hunters dug for two hours and a
half, and at last unearthed woodchuck.
A Buffalo woman has brought suit
against hair-dresser of that city, claim
ing $1,000 damages for failure to bleach
her hair and made her blonde. The
work was not properly done, and the
hair had to be cut Off
Boston experts criticise Howells' last
story, where he gives carefully elaborate
scene in police station, but represents
the captain as asking the young women
who makes complaint to him, what
her age, height, and weight are.
Parchment cards are used for visiting
cards in Paris, and the programme Of
some of the musical matinees given in
New York society have been on the same
stiff parchment, which has tendency tc
curl up and become unmanageable.
Mrs.J. has mania for going out, but
she insists upon taking coupe. 81
never see your wife on the street." re
marked a gentleman to her husband
"You stop the first coupe that you meet
and you'll find her." replied the brute.
In the Louisiana lowlands there lives
an old man whose object of affection il
this life is large gray goose. The goose
is never SO happy as when at his owners
feet, his long neck stretched upward and
his head resting against the old mans
knee.
The fearful mortality among the la.
borers on De Lesseps' canal indicated by
the statement that no less than five Gem
eteries are open, and that in one, of them
opened less than two years ago upward
of three thousand interments have taken
place.
1--WE go to press at 2 instead of to.
day." said Tennessee paper, Sin order
to attend to some business of importance
in the country" At precisely five min.
utes Of two heightened looking mer
with shot-guns called, and wanted te
know where the editor was.
Mr.. q. L. Becknell, who was postmas.
ter at East Weymouth, Mass, during
President Buchanan's administration
but who resigned at the expiration o
the latters term, has just received notice
of his reappointment at the hand of Post
master General Villas.
On February II, for the first time, ;
telegraph message was flashed from
Chiapas to Paso del Norte, the extreme.
of southern and northern Mexico, repre-
senting distance of 1880 miles. The
government is making efforts to rende
the service acceptable in every respect.
A Methodist preacher in north Louisi
ana has horse which possesses strong
reasoning powers or remarkable memory
On the first and third Sundays of tn,
month Mr.. Cadlan holds service in /;
town which is reached by taking the lief
fork of the road, while on the second ani
fourth Sundays the town in which HI
breaches is at the termination of thu
right fork of the road. The horse, with
out word or touch of the bride
never fails on the first and third Sunday!
to take the road to the left, and on tn
second and fourth Sundays that to thu
right.