Wichita eagle., 1889-12-24
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| More than 1900 chattel mortgages were
Cancelled in Mcpherson county last month.
| Another Kansas man has disappeared.
| this time from Topeka. Hiuman has many
| rivals.
The Ashland Journal runs an alliance
column. This will become popular Win
Kansas papers.
Speaking of luck, Connections man
was killed recentlv. the next day after ne
had insured his life for $40, coo.
st. John boasts of lady mail carrier,
Miss Harrison acting in that capacity De-
tween that place and keniiwortn
A child with four legs has been born in
Indiana. This state is getting to step on
Kansas toes in more ways than one.
Bluff City has sold more town lots with
in the past six weeks than for two years
past. This is straw before the wind.
The Atchison Globe has announced its
SEX 1t says: We should dislike to be
girl; girl cannot follow street band.
1t is very slow kid who doesn't search
every nook and crany in the house. today
to find out what the folks are going to
give him.
The State Bar association meets at To-
peka January Z. There is little doubt OF
what 'bar" society will be loaded with
let the band play ''McGinty."
At the suggestion of Mr.. Wanamaker
the president has changed the color of the
white house livery, but the national sur
plus still shows no signs of decreasing.
'Dighton will rattle off an $4,000 opera
house by selling tickets at 81 each. You
may always depend on western Kansas to
get up something that was never heard OF
before.
Senator Ingalls, calls Senator Hiscock a
vascular chump" and the New York sun
feels called upon to speak of President
Harrison as ''a snuffy and common place
Hoosier."
Kansas took the first prize on exhibition
of products at the Southern exposition at
Montgomery, Ala, recently. That Is
what Kansas calls backhanded lick at
advertising.
Argonia and Dostsr both have now post
masters, and lots of fellows. who would
walk right in and make themselves at
home during the last administration have
to stay out now.
Memories are pleasant. 1t would be
nice to hear something about the Brown
Sequard elixir, the chinch bug or the
Salina Republicans wholesale grocery for
holiday recreation.
An Atchison lunch house has used 600
hams and p, 600 rolls is making sandwiches
this year and the people are at last getting
to understand how the thirty-dollar-a-
month young man can squirt around IN
cabs so much.
Topeka in an excess of nervousness see
the Santa F'e offices again proclaim that
the office of the chief medical department
will be removed TO Chicago january /,
and there is fear about one or two other
departp,aptS fotlcwiuu
The Meade Globe lovingly addresses its
contemporary, the Republican, as fol-
lows: There is not man, or woman, or
niger, or Hottentot, or Snake ludlan on
the face of the earth mean enough TO repre-
sent your dish rag sheet.
Slanderous item from the Atchson
Globe: Congressman Turner secured the
district to be consul of the United States
at Cadiz The raw diplomats first report
has just been received at the depart meht
of state, and it is so rocky that it Will not
be published in the official reports OF the
department.
The next legislature of Wyoming will
pass law making the killing of buffalo
a misdemeanOr. An act to this effect ls
not required to protect the butfaloes as
game, for the hunter would hunt the
mountains anC plains for Wild butfaloes in
vain. IL is intended to apply TO the men
loes that happen to stray off the reserva-
tion in the Vel owstone park, where a few
relics of the bygone race are preserved. A
dead buffalo brings its slayer 500 and the
temptation to kill them is a strong one for
the hunter.