The Iola register., 1891-07-24
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.

KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.
Prof. Ephraim Miller of the State
University Is publishing text boo k
on trigonometry.
K. 2. Star: Tia Kansas Democrats
have so far recov cred from last years
wreck as to move for post-mortem
inquiry.
Thomas +. Dewey the Abiline litter
ateT is publishing an interesting Sc
ries of articles on "Fixed Forms of
Verse" In the Topeka Lance.
The Lincoln Republican names
twenty-seven men who went offon the
Alliance craze last fall, who are back
in The ranks and will vote the Repub-
lican ticket this fall.
A Southern paper says that 1T Is
going to be hot enough down ther "to
roast the nose off a brass monkey"
The st. Joseph Herald advised jerry
Simpson to hurry home as soon as pos
sible.
X. C.. Star: An lola man who was
supposed to have been fatally injured
by stroke from base ball bat is re-
covering, and will be married next
week. The significance of this Incl
dent is clearly obvious.
Some ofour Kansans abroad this sum-
mer are combining missionary work
with pleasure. DIR. Cordley of Law
renee addressed the Internal tional Con-
gressional Council i'm London last
week on the subject of "anti-Liquor
Laws"
4 grasshopper sat on railroad rail,
| A million or more of his friends within hail,
And he said as he kicked his neighbor's OF heel
1.-The word is, tomorrow, TO Kansas! Right
The other replied, most sulky and slow,
''For my part, stay In Colorado
| Forgive my bad accent but will not go
Where falls on all insects the pitiless Snow,
The blanket militia, the spry POpenoe-
No Kansas, tomorrow, for this hopper, NoH'
| Laurence Record.
DIR. Chase, of Irving, Kansas, evil
IDENTIFY doesn't do "his aims before
men to be seen of them" The Topeka
Journal says that he has presented al
different times 23O volumes to the
State University library without any
explanation, the giver being discover.
ed only through the bills of lading. A
recent gift contained series of French
geographical books, of nine octave
each volume costing seven dollars.
If Miss Irene Colt, the young womar
who finally forced her way into YALE
college, had been as eager for knOwl
edge as she evidently is for nOtOriety
she would have sought place on tht
pupil roster of Vassar or Wellesley, Ol
some of the women's colleges that rank
with the highest i'm the land as regarC
curriculum and efficiency. But that j!
the trouble with certain class of am
bilious women; they mistake tn,
sphere i'm which they may contest will
men without compromising the WON
anIy inspirations and aspirations t.
excel Wichita Eagle.
Tut, tut!'
X. C.. Star: The president of th'
Kansas Loan and Trust company a
Topeka says that farm lands ar
worth twenty-five per cent more nov
than they were last year and that hi
company has sold more land in the las
ninety days than it has sold before il
three years. The following instance
of the growing activity in real estate
are cited: Three hundred and twent,
acres of land i'm Sumner county hav'
just sold for $4,000, and this year,
crop is reserved by the former owner
This piece of land has been held fo
two years and last year would not sci
at any price. Forty acres o
land with only small cabin OIL it hav'
just sold in Morris county for 81, 100
One hundred acres of land il
Ellsworth county have this summel
been sold for $50 per acre. There wer'
no buildings and the only improve
ments were fences. On
hundred and twenty-three acres il
Leavenworth county which was offer
ed in $50 for s., 900, in 80 for s., 400, bu
could not be sold at either price, ha'
this year brought $500 in cash, anc
the commission for the sale additional
Four hundred of "wild" lant
i'm the Western section of the Stat,
has sold for more than twice what wa!
loaned OH it and brought good figur'
Three hundred acres of very
rough land i'm Ellsworth county
brought S., ,OO2, and the loan on it wa
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