The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1890-12-18

| Inc STATE treasurer mas fcCciNcu
from the United States treasury Q
draft for sI6O. O67. 81, being S per cent
Of tie sales Of public lands within
the state. The amount goes TO the
permanent school fund Of the state.
Some Of the students from Baker
university are accused Of jumping
their bills at the Lawrence restau-
rants. Thu practice Of obtaining pie
under false pretenses IL highly re-
voting TO public sentiment In Kan
sas.-BUtts.
Whatever Parnell's mistakes may
have been. the HIawsths World
finds that he has never been false
to Irishmen." This moves the
Emporia Republican to observe that
the World probably takes Mr.. O'Shes
for o Frenchmau.
Topeka has . stage struck youth
who 10 determined to leave friends
and home and travel over the
country with and Uncle Toms
Cabin company. There IL always
room for another donkey In q COM
bInatIon Of that kind.
There are more names on the pay
roll ct the Agricultural college at
Manhattan than ever before In the
history Of the institution. The in
crease IL due 10 the large force Of
student laborers employed In build
ing the walks about the college.
FIJI. Burgess, . popular and well
known railroad man Ia Kansas, died
OF typhoid fever ct Cleborns, Tex,
on Saturday. He was just entering
upon o career Of great promise and
his untImely death will be deeply
lamented by all who knew him.
George w. Martin Of the Fort
Scott Ners has bought . half In
terest in the Fort Scott Tribune and
the papers are to be consolidated.
Mr.. Martin will be the busIne %
manager and Mr.. J. B. Chapman
will have editorial control. The
paper will be called the Tribune.
Manchett, the Osborne county
man whom the Alliance elected to
the legislature after he had removed
to Washington, has returned to
Kansas, and says he will serve. He
wants to kill the vote Of the Ingalls,
member who was drawn by lot from
Mcpherson county the other day.
An Abilene woman who carried
some provisions to . poor family the
other day found Q man, Q woman,
three children and FIVE dogs all suf-
fering for food. This case furnishes
an impressive illustration Of the in
eQualitIes which prevail under the
existing social order In this country.
It appears that the row In the Rice
family has been exaggerated in the
ne wspapers. "BilI's" family wss
increased 9 short time ago by the
arrival Of q stalwart male infant,
The parents christened him John
aDd the "old man" sent over the en-
est baby carriage he could nnd In Fl.
Scott.
Prof. Cowgirl Of Sterling expresses
the belief that within Ave years the
sugar business In Kansas will be
q pronounced success. He says the
failure Of the mills which have gone
to the wall was due to mismanage-
ment. In some cases there was also
more or less rAscaIIty mixed mp with
the business.
Why will country newspapers
persist in putting into type long
"washington letters" compiled by
cheap clerks In patent ofiices and
sent out In exchange for advertising
the patent attorneys7 The matter
10 stale, uureadAble and hsckneyed
The same amount Of type-setting
might add . column OF live local |
news to the papers columus.-Aoi-
tene Reflector.
EmPorIa Republican: General
Rice made . speech at 0csla on the |
Improvement Of the Mississippi
river. when judgment day comes
aud the assembled nations walt In
silent awe the opening Of the great |
books, II General Rice IL not watch
ed pretty closely he will get up and
address the crowd on improving the
Mississippi river.
AtchIson GLOBE: Eugene Lett, an
AtchIson barter shaved President
In 1881. He was then en-
ployed In Kansas City, and one after
noon word came TO the shop 10 send
Q barber up to the Coates house to
shave q man. Lett was detailed 10
20, and when he stepped into the hO-
tel room he found Grover Cleveland
and his wife. Mrs. Cleveland helped
TO arrange . chair and the fat presi.
dent was shaved. He gave Lett 81.
Jacob Mcknight Of HutchInson
received an appointment from the
government recently ss examiner
Of national banks, and Alexander
Webb Of Missouri, who was APP
pointed eousul 81 Manila during
Mr.. Cleveiand's administration, has
resigned 20 make way for asueeessor
who, Il IL said, will come from the
state. Kansas 10 farins
much better at the hands Of the cd
since 70 has become o