Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-04-12

! KING CARLOS, of Portugal, possesses
sixteen Christian names, while his
younger brother answers TO no less than
thirty. He is . handsome, blonde
young man, who carries himself with
3 military air.
THERE is queerly matched couple at
Atlanta. The husband weighs one
hundred and. thirty pounds; and the
wife three hundred pounds. When
they were married. the man weighed
one hundred and fifty; and the woman,
one hundred and twenty.
A NEWARK, N. J., landlady under
took to detain the trunk of one of her
boarders until bill of three dollars for
wear and tear of sofa during q three
months courtship should be paid, but
a local justice of the peace suppressed
her effort.
An aged woman of Elmwood, near
Cincinnati, being taken i'll while out
driving, requested her driver to take
her to the Office of an undertaken whom
she knew well. He did so, and she
died soon after her arrival.
AT Auburn, Cal. a woman was
watching her hens which were scratch
ing in the garden, when she saw them
unearth bright object and try their
bills upon it. She took it into the
house and it proved to be a chunk Of
gold worth fifty-seven dollars.
ALTHOUGH the Yellowstone Park is
full OF springs and streams they contain
no fish. This is explained by the abund-
ance of lava, which obliterated life
when it was forced out, and has since
kept The fishes out by the fact that the
lava has produced waterfall in every
stream.
A PACIFIC coast paper has this item:
" A school teacher at Kootenay, B. O.,
recently saw personal in an Eastern
paper soliciting correspondence, etc.
He took flyer and received in return
a check for two hundred and fifty dol
lars to come to Minneapolis and get q
bride. The day of his marriage he will
also get bank book covering deposit
of ten thousand dollars subject to his
order.
The Sidney Herald reports that dur
ing severe storm at Louth, South Aus
tralia, chunks of ice as large as cricket
balls fell to the street. The Court
House, Royal hotel, telegraph hotel
and all buildings covered with iron
roofs, were perforated by the falling
hailstones. A number of dogs and
other animals about the town were
killed during the storm. Great damage
was done to window glass and vegeta-
ton. For several days the mercury
has been one hundred degrees in the
shade"
ISAAC HOFFMAN, of Carverton, Pa,
whose only means of locomotion is upon
his hands and knees, is one of the ia
nous hunters of that region. He has
never been able to walk. He can oper-
ate o mower, reaper or horse rake equal
to any one. As loader of hay or grain
he is hard to excel. He has often driven
one or two horses, and has no fears Of
their getting away. He assists in most
of the work about his fathers farm, and
as chopper of wood, none but those
who have witnessed his welding of the
ak would believe the amount he can cut
in a short time. During the last dozen
years of his life his chief enjoyment is
to travel over the hills with his gun and
dog, and as a marksman is pretty hard
to excel. In coming down o flight of
stairs he always comes down head fore
most. When he comes to a stream Of
water not more than four or five feet
wide, he actually springs over it like q
cat, aighting upon his knees or hips.