The Iola register., 1891-10-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

coin county.
Mr.. Lofty Is a humble and sincere
Christian in Scranton.
1t Is not an uncommon thing at all to
see 100 loads OF new corn on the streets
at Wichita
Wichita has discovered that the 'jas-
perite is not desirable material for
country roads
| An Atchison woman IL having quite a
time in finding house which will fit
her window shades sWEuD
Mr.. Hobbs of Paola. has 800 which
says he can butcher a beef In less time
than any other man in Kansas.
The cat which is addicted to the &C.
centricity of adopting young rabbits
has finally brought up at Concordia.
Wichita Eagle: There are a good
many people in Kansas who do not
know an auctioneer from statesman.
The chumiest chums in Atchison are
two fellows who were carrying revolvers
for each other couple OF months ago.
Mr.. Loud figured as one of the high
contracting parties in recent wedding
at Topeka which the papers declared
was very quiet.
Mr.. Lampe is running for sheriff on
the democratic ticket in Greenwood
county. The republicans believe they
can blow him out.
Mr.. Barrier entered the Presbyter-
ian college at Emporia last week. 1t is
hoped that his name will not prove any
barrier to his success.
Everybody knew that it would come
to that finally. The women of Leaven-
worth have begun to visit Benson, the
murderer OF Mrs. Mettman.
A young woman entered the law de-
| partment of a Kansas university this
heavy after reading E. p. Roe.
The class of 81 at Baker university
turned out three Presbyterian preach
ers. But they never assimilated be-
lief Ia election from President Quayle
There are already twenty-three pa
tients at the Keely institute at Leav-
enworth, though il is only fair to say
that only twenty-five of them are resi-
dents Of that city.
When an Emporia woman goes to
the trouble to decorate her house with
flowers and light her yard with Chinese
lanterns for an evening company the
papers call it an informal reception"
Every little while Topeka experiences
an epidemic of suicides. And yet
there are people living in that town
who have been there since the place
was laid out who have never killed
themselves,
Ewing Herbert suggests the organi-
cation of geography clubs in Hiawatha,
because not one person in that town in
ten can define latitude aud longitude or
can tell the difference between an
island and peninsula.
Over fifty schools in Kansas now pre-.
pare candidates for the freshman class
of the state university, and still there
has been no movement set on foot to
connect Mt. Dread with the world be-
low it by cable line.
Sol Miller: A singular sort OF a man
died at Morril. Brown county. last
week. He was born in 1882, moved to
Iowa in 1855, was married in 1Sil and
came TO Kansas in 1874 and was a men,
Der Of the Bunker church for forty
years.
Governor Humphrey has offered
reward Of $3.50 for the apprehension OF
the person who murdered Hong Lee,
the Mongolian laGndryman at Peabody.
The people of California will be sur
prised to see Cinnamon quoted at that
figure in Kansas.
The feeling against Winfield is so in
tense in Arkansas City that the people
of the latter place will not pave their
Si6aualus 18th Win f;ald ctopa o1thoprb
it is about the best material for that
purpose which can be found in Kansas
or anywhere else.
An Emporia man has invented a
corncutter consisting OF an ordinary
sled with sloping knives on the sides.
Dis drawn by a horse between The
rows and cuts two rows at a tif'a. 1t
will cut l75 shocks fourteen hills
square in one day.
A young woman from Philadelphia is
visiting in Atchison who never saw ap-
pies growing on a tree until she came
to Kansas a week or two ago. A girl
who is that green ought never to
think of going away from home with
out her mother.
1t is announced that molasses makes
superior article of fuel and that tho
cottonwood tree possesses grea:
percentage of saccharine matter than
ssrghum or sugar beets. If that is the
case nobody ought ever to freeze to
death in Kansas again.
Colonel D. r. Anthony OF the Leav-
enwOrth Times, is spending few weeks
very agreeably at his old home in
Adams, Mass. He takes delight in rid
ing about the country and visiting the
people that he knew thirty years ago.
In his absence the Times is under the
management OF his san, Dan, who is a
fine specimen Of Kansas manhood,
standing six feet Ind four inches in his
stocking feet.
The following specimen stanzas are
taken from & yereai poem of seventeen
verses. which a Mcpherson county
farmer kindly coE:r:buted to the Kan
sas City Star:
The Kansas wheat is garnered
In bins both wide and deep,
The Kansas farmer sweetly smiles
When thinking Of his wheat
The Kansas corn is IN the shock,
The shocks don't look fcrlorn,
The Kansas farmer sweetly smiles
When thinking OF his corn.
The Kansas oats are very good,
Despite alliance croaks,
The Kansas farmer sweetly smiles
When thinking of his oats.
The broomcorn on the Kansas farm
Is baled and shipped away.
The Swedish farmer sweetly smilei
When counting o'er his pay.
The growing diversity of agricultu-
raj in Kansas and the amplitude of the
crops this year must serve as The Stars
apology for not printing the remainder
of the poem.
PENSIONS.