The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-08-01
HERE AND THERE.


Garnett, Kansas, voted $50, 200
bonds for the construction of water
works.
Our idea of happy man is one
who has to sit with his toes to a fire to
keep comfortable.-E1.
The growth of the population oi
Kansas during the last ten years is
estimated at sixty-seven per cent.
A Pennsylvania has just eloped
with his mother-in-law. There is nc
accounting for taste in tnatrimony.
Independence is to have a town
clock on the county court house, at
the expense of Montgomery county.
-ET.
The largest cornfield in northwest
Kansas is that of Robert Patterson of
Jewel county, 900 acres.-Florence
Herald.
"A Spartansburg, Pennsylvania man
eats his meals in Erie county and
sleeps in Crawford county, all III the
lame house.
4. A young woman OF Hutchinson is
learning the work of an undertaken
and funeral director, with the view of
adopting it as a profession.
The Concordia Daylight says that
gold was fouud in that city while dig
ging we'll. It is in sandstone for
nation sixty-five feet below the sur
face.
A girl named Amelia Waterworth,
employed by Mrs. Davidson of Dundas,
Ont, was accused of stealing So. She
at first denied the charge, but after
taking dose of rough on rats confess
sed and then died.
The mulch on all small fruits. un-
less we except the grape, should be
left on until after the plants have
fruited when it can be taken off and
thorough cultivation be given, destroy
ing the weeds and fning the soil tho r.
oughly.
AT tie Butler county farmers aili-
ance meeting, it was decided to estab-
lish q county paper, and proposition
was made to the Butler county Demo
crat by which it is to receive 81, 500
and become an alliance paper with a
guarantee of 1,5O0 new subscribers.
-Er.
Squire Worrel has been supplying
the market this week with as fine
peaches as ever were eaten by anyone.
He says he will have 1000 bushels
this year. His peaches are equal in
beauty to the pictures of those we
have seen in nurseryman's catalogue.
Garden City Democrat.
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Philadelphia for cutting mans hair
on the Lords day. That was right.
A barber WHO cuts hair Sunday morn
ing, with a shop tull of impatient GUS
toners, ought to be fined heavily.
The old lawmakers of Pennsylvania
had some very clear ideas of right and
wrong.
The Kansas wheat crop this year is
probably exceeded by one only in the
history of the state thus far. In 1884
we raised 48,00O,O0O bushels but it
brought us only 40 cents bushel. In
1890 we will raise about 5000, 900
bushels but it will bring us so cents
or 81 100000 more than the biggest
crop ever before Iaised.
An Indiana man has invented a
combined step-ladder, cot, ironing
board and chair. This will be great
When the neiehbors
send to borrow the step-ladder, it can
be in nSe in the laundry, or some mefii-
Der of a family may have gone to sleep
on it, with orders that he is not to be
disturbed under any circumstances.
a beet sugar manufactory, with a
of 400 tons a day,i siad to be
almost completed at Grand Island, Neb.
The beet has sixteen per cent of sugar,
and farmers realize $50 per acre at 81
per ton for the root. The diffusion pro-
cess of extracting the saccharine prin-
ciple is used. In a fourteen battery
circuit it is claimed that the remarka-
Dle result of 99.8 of the sugar can be
Scientific american.
A useful attribute of paper not
generally known is for preserving ice
IN a pitcher of water. Fill the pitcher
with ice and water and set it ON the
center of piece of paper; then gather
the paper up together at the top and |
place the ENDS tightly together, plac- !
ng = strong rabber band or tying with |
l string around the coil to hold it |
lose, SO as to exclude the air. A pit |
cher of ice water treated in this man
Ter has been known to stand over |
hight with scarcely pereeptible melt |
ng of the ice.