Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-12-15
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1HToN's cottage where he wrote "fara-
disc Lost ~ is to be purchased by means Of
fund and preserved as relic Of the great
poet
"SPoDoBs VoLAPUk'' appears now at the
head Of German, French and Italian bust
ness houses, meaning 1--WE correspond h
Volapuk."
RCssELL-SAGE, the Wall street magrate,
serves as central figure in play written
by his private secretary, and entitled
Puts and Calls"
JAMES N. BUNKER, son of the Siamese
twins, Eng and Chang, is an inmate Of the
Kansas penitentiary for perjury in seeking
divorce from his wife
THERE are three hundred and six mem
bers of the Tippecanoe Club, Indianapolis,
Ind, their average age being seventy-four
years and twenty-one days.
The Nashville ministers arc trying boy
colt against the Sunday newspapers. They
have entered into an agreement not to
furnish notices of church services to such
publications.
THERE are thirteen million six hundred
thousand copies of T. Dewitt Talmage's
sermons published each week in this coun-
try and six million IN other lands, many of
which are translated into other languages.
ZADKIEL, the great London astrologer,
predicts for the United States this year ''a
grave scandal concerning Cabinet or high
Government official who may have to suffer
Imprisonment. We arc to have high rate
of mortality from lung and kidney diseases,
and great prevalence of fraud, robbery
and crimes of violence.
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commissioner the other day for license
to run a shop for the sale of horse meat.
They said that they had carried On the bust
meat was good. Tine commissioner gave
would grant the License.
1T is reported that Prince Bismarck, in a
recent conversation with an eminent bank
er, expressed the conviction that the inter-
national situation would undergo pro
longed but peaceful solution. At the same
time Prince Bismarck considers it possible
that Russia may preserve the Bulgarian
question as an open sore with view to
future political chances.
THE United States Senate has passed the
resolution proposing to amend the cOnstitu-
ton 50 that the President shall be inaugu-
rated April 50 instead of March 4, and the
terms of Senators and members of the
House shall begin on the same day. The
amendment, to bone fit Mr. Cleveland, must
be ratified By the Legislatures of ct least
twenty-seven States within the next thir-
teen months.
A REPORT from Florida indicates that in a
small way the Government is making q
partial experiment in a Government tele-
graph. A line about q hundred miles in
length in that State, under control of the
War Department, is to be thrown open to
commercial messages at the rate of ten
cents each. and it is stated that the officers
in charge have been authorized to permit
the wires to run into any hotel along the
line where the hotel proprietor will furnish
bus own operator.
THE Pennsylvania railroad employs a
female ''chaperol,' Mrs. II. F. Bender, of
Philadelphia II is her duty to look after
unprotected ladies' who go upon tourist
trips. She posts herself beforehand about
the route and makes herself useful as an
imparter of information. she goes through
| train and introduces herself to the ladies,
and then tells them whc-c she can be found
if wanted. She ascertains the best places
for them to stop in at the towns visited,
where the finest views are, etc.