The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1891-05-14

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city and vas dedicated last Sun
day.
The Atshison Patriot, which con.
siders the saloon . necessary
adjunct 20 modern elviliEation,
speaks Of The grand jury as "relIe
Of barbarism."
Atehison Patriot: A newspaper
r. published weekly at Mcpherson
without the use Of plates, and Il
looks ss much out Of style ~ . we'd.
ding dress twenty years yld.
The pupils Of the AtehisOn high
school want school 90 begin at
o'clock In the morning and "let out''
at o'clock 90 that they can play
lawn tennis In the afternoon.
IL has been predicted for . good
many years that the Office Of state
printer would let somebody into the
soup. but nobody ever supposed that
the victim would be . Baker.
The chipch bugs have had the
audaeIty to set up In business In
Douglas county, right under the
nose and eyes Of Prof. SuoS.
Whom the Gods would destroy they
first make mad.
A wolf was found within . few
hundred yards Of the Agricultural
College building at Manhattan the
other day, and yet that Institution
IL far from being La . destitute con-
| dltion.
Hundreds Of people were unable
to find seats at Sells ten.eent circus
at Atehison the other night. The
men wore their ulsters and the
women their blanket shawls.
Everybody ate hot peanuts and had
. good time.
When . man or . woman becomes
too tough TO be tolerated In 81.
Joseph they move to AtehIson.
Dolph Thomas, the eldest son Of
the late Chester Thomas, IL much
like his lamented father, though, nf
course not n much so.
Several Topeka dry goods men
have received In their correspond
ence with . Boston house, . small
card bearing this motto: "Blaine,
1872"
Last month wss the wettest April
that Kansas has experienced In
twenty-four years. The chickens
are mostly ducks In that state this
season.
Emporia Republican: Represen-
tatiye Rice Of Fort Scott IL In favor
Of an extra session Of the legislature.
Aud yet at heart Mr.. Rice l. not q
bad man.
"Oid John SPeer" has planted Ia
FInney county this spring 10000
forest trees, and he expects to live
20 see them grow big enough to
make sswlogs.
or ninety-nine Gases on the May
docket Of the district court in Norton
county not one IL for . criminal pro-
ceeding. II takes whisky to fill up
jails and penitentiaries.
Newton Republican: According
20 the Topeka Journal the women Of
that town had profound secret"
which they "cleverly kept" The
Journal seems to be vergiDg toward
sensationallsm.
The green velvet turf 1t the
Soldiers home, near LeavenwOrth,
II to he embeliished this season with
badges OF the different army corps
In flowers and foliage plants. That
IL some OF Governor Andy Smiths
work.
The lola Register announces Its
unbelIef In the scheme adopted to
raise funds for . Kansas exhibit,
and IL sure that an extra session Of
the legislature will be required TO
accomplish the resalt. IL begins TO
look little that way.
Kansas woman has established
. novel charity by which she has
proven that tramPs do not all abhor
soap. She keeps . piece OF soap on
Q board BY the river side, near her
house, and three-fourths Of the
gentlemen Of the road" who pass
that way stop and wash.themselyes.
-Nep York Press.
The oldest person In Topeka h
Mrs. Catherine Roberts, mother OF
Byron Roberts, . well known poll
tieian. Though she lacks only few
years Of being . eentenariAn she IL
In possession Of all Of her faculties
and takes an Intelligent interest not
only In what Is going on about her
but In the affairs Of the outside
world.
Topeka Journal: Here IL some
thing that can only happen In Kan
sas. A Kansas farmer stored aUay
100 bushels Of corn. Soon after stOr-
ing Il be sold seventy-five busheld
aud realized $50. A year later he
sold fifteen bushels . realized $50.
And last week be exchanged the re-
m aining ten bushels for $50.
Lawrence Record: The death 81
o young man In Lyon county By q
stroke OF lightning from an alsomsi
cloudless sky was certainly very re-
markabie, but o case Of the same
Kind occurred in 1850 on the prairie
mid way between Clinton and Bloom.
iugton In this county. A youns
man was riding on . gslloP when
bolt was seen by residents near By
10 dart straight downward from {
eloudless sky. The horse and bill
rider were found very shortly afisi
with . small round hole passing
through the head and body Of tn
man, and thence through the hore
, into the ground.
Topeka Democrat: Prof. Snow
, more confident that ever that Tn
/, ehIneh bug can be successfully ami
/, hilated. He has numerous letter
Iron different sections where th