The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-08-22
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The first shoNsof the season fell il
5 Denver, Colorado, Monday night. ..
One of the best men dominated b,
the Peoples party is a woman.-Sal,a'
Republican. ,.
~ Resident Harrison celebrated hi
J, 5sth birthday Wednesday, with his
family at Cape May. -.
Samuel Merritt, probably the wealth
lest man in Oakland, California, died
Sunday aged SO years. -.
The late Colonel Spencer, of New
York, it is. SAID, defended no less than
eightyzf6dt fhHrderers, of whom all
but four got of.
The French aerohaut, Balsanon, and
Herinite, the astronomer, are preparing
/ to make a balloon expedition to the
north pole from Spitzbergen.
| DAVIS Dalton, an American, has
accomplished the feat of swimming
the English channel from Grisney to
Folkehston on his back in twenty-three
and one-half hours.
Bridget Doady, the Mineral Point,
I rf'A1ftoiioAnS N1lts WIS D6-
lieved to be the oldest person in the
United States, died the other day.
She was l2O years of age at the time of
| her death.
Approximate census estimates place
| the number of persons within ths ;psle
DG:the churches at about one-third of
the entire pppa5ation. It is possible
that a little MORE home missionary
work would be in order.
Seven thousand persons have been
| employed in getting out Mr.. Stanley's
new book and more than 500 tons of
paper have already been used in Eng
land. The English edition alone re-
quired 24O tons of paper.
Capt. Tillman, the leader of farmers
movement in South Carolina, is 43
years of age. blind of one eye, pays
taxes Oh I,SO0 acres of land, runs
twenty plows, and has q diary supplied
by forty Thoroughbred Jersey cows.
There is large farm in Mississippi in
which there is only one whip, and that
is not used. The owner will not per-
NIT the whip to be used on any of the
stock, and tie farm does we'll and the
animals work with will without feel
ing the lash.
The Missouri Pacific express was
held up Monday night near Sedalia,
Missouri, by d gang of masked robbers
aud about S3S, 900 in money was secur-
ed. 1t occurred on the scene where
the james End Ycungets committed
the great robbery of 1876.
Frank MacLennan thinks school of
agriculture should be. establish in Kan
sas in order to teach the farmers not
to plant cantaloupes and squash in
the same field. The school could do
some valuable work. too, in teaching
Topeka editors the difference between |
and squashes.
A Muscotah gentleman has a hen
which laid a brood of unmatched chick |
ems beneath a sidewalk. Soon it be-
came too hot for the hen as the sun |
sh0ne brightly on her nest and she left |
it, This did not discourage the embryo |
chicks in the least, however, for they |
persevered and as reward were in due |
tins Matched out beneath the warming |
rays of that luminous orb. The ques- |
tIO1 HOW Is, WuICl 10 bhcH hOtucI-i
the hen or the sum- Muscotdh Record. |
Frank Fl. Howard, who brought six |
teen stands of bees to this county last |
spring, has thirty-0ne stands now, the
increase being from swarms. He has |
taken a little over eleven hundred |
pounds of honey, which he sells at Is |
cepts per pound. The honey is made /
almost exclusively from alfalfa bloom
and is very fine. If he gets his late
swarms through the winter honey can
be taken from them all next summer, /
besides swarm from each. And at |
this rate of increase, or from the sue
cess Mr.. Howard has made this year
there is no better bee country than the
alfalfa country.-Ei'lney County Demo l
crat. -.-s 60