The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-11-06
STATE NEWS AND NoTEs.

hanras last year nhu tOo,OJb nOIses.
EmPoria has three Quaker meeting
houses.
The broom factory at Wellington
IL said TO he n sweeping success.
The electric railroad nj Atchlson
carries school children at 81 3 month.
A colored woman died at AtchisOn
the ether day at the age Of 100 years.
Among the prosperous industries
ut Wellington are three cigar facio-
ries.
There are seventy-five BARRIERS In
AtchisOn, according to the census Of
the AtchisOn Globe.
The Kansas Academy OF Sciences
is holding Its twenty-third annual
meeting at Lawrence.
Kansas this year raised about p
Isl COO bushels Of potatoes, less than
one third OF last years crop.
The tooth Of mastodon, discovered
in Il sand pit near Lawrence. has
been presented to the state Univer-
siiy.
There are two sides to every ques-
tion. says the Minneapolis Messen-
ger, 1.-The right side and the wrong
side"
The Santa Fe Is arranging Il 50
that its passengers can travel from
~ Louis to Los Angeles without be-
lag walked up.
Jay Gould visited Hutchinson the
other day, hut a careful inventory OF
the salt wells there shows that none
Of them are missing.-Butts.
The site for the city Of Leaven-
worth a. selected June IL, 1854, and
the town company was organized al
Weston, Mo-, the following day.
The prisoners at the I,savenworth
county jail have just completed n
new wash house aud are making
other improvements about the build
ing.
u IL understood that Chancellor
snow Of the State University, 10 fig
uring gu a new bacillus which will
knock the siufiin' out Of the Hesslan
fly. butts.
A machine has been invented for
milking cows. That Is very FORUM
ate, considering the interest which
tine farmers wives are beginning 10
take in politics.-Butts.
The farmers Of Kansas will find u
sort Of tough TO go back To work again
after the election IL over. II Is so
much easier TO talk politics than TO
husk corn and chop wOOd.-Butts.
a class in journalism has been or
gained nj the state ilniYeTsIIy. II
IL turns out ~ many good newspaper
men ~ the Lawrence Journal has
done, II will prove valuable feature.
Butts.
The Pirates of PsnZancS entertain
ment ut Atchison Melted the Wo-
me.I's Exchange 81 .sD. An amateur
opera Is perfectly Iustifiable when II
L. produced In the interest OF charity.
There are plenty Of corn fields In
Atchison aud Doniphan counties
that will yield sixty bushels to the
acre, the dry season and the PeO-
pies party TO the contrary notwith-
standing. -BItts.
4 colOred msn brought In four live
possums 10 Iseayeuworth, the other
day, in a box, and offered the whole
business, box aud all, for IS cents.
He couldn't find q buyer and went
home, fully determined 10 avenge
himself by voting the Democratic
tirket.
Cedarvale Star: w. J. Howell
had fourteen acres Of cotton on 3. J.
Edwards farm. II WAS on upland
that was broke out last year and
this was the first crop raised on the
land. "Wednesday he had hauled
six loads, weighing 500 pounds,
with three yet TO haul, which will
give him $3.50 pounds Of cotton,
sold at $40 per hundred pounds In
the seed, netting t3l5.3O or tlI65 an
acre. This, too, from upland that
could not have brought ~ IS an acre
II IL had been in corn this year.