The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1891-06-11

Thirty-four years ago, Senator
Piumb-thsn plain Preston Bona
parte Piumb-lssaed the first num-
Der Of the Emporia Negs.
Out In Kiova The superintendent
Of the schools h paid sss . month.
The primary teacher gets as and
the iutsrmedists teachers as.
Emporis RepHblicdn: An infant
Wa recently born In OHIO which
weighed but two pounds. This IL
not Q drive ct the third party.
There has not been an insane case
before the probate court In Atehlsou
for three months, but the marriage
license business has not fallen OF
any.
The Agricultural college library
contains lI,GOO volumes. For lack
Of room about 1000 volumes are
practically inaccessible to the stud
ents.
Mr.. Ingalls, authorizes the AIehi-
son Globe TO state that the amour
cement Of his editorial connection
with the New York Truth IL ineor-
rect.
The sale Of farm machinery In
Kansas this season IL just about
double what Il Was last year. And
1t lie not being bought on tick"
either.
On his 5sth birthday . Winfield
man who IL the parent Of nve sons
all married - became the father Of
an only daughter. Maybe he isn't
proud.
Summer County Pr,ss: The Lesv-
enworth Times asks the Wichita
Edg,e to explain one Of its editorials,
and the Eagle acknowledges itself
up . stump.
wichita Eagle: As soon a. Gov
ernor Humphrey sees At TO appoint
Judge Horizons successor, he will
take . great weigh of most Of the Kan
sas politicians.
Six counties In Kansas have raised
their quota for the Worlds fair fund,
leaving only 100 to report. The last
county was Graham, where the coll
ored people run things.
There IL no use for SehWeinfurth
to go to Kansas. That state has an
article OF "heaven" that IL = mighty
sight better than anything that the
Rockford fraud can set up.
A farmer living near Thompson
brought . buffalo sucker TO Topeka
which he caught In his wheat field,
and for which he received $50.
Poor, drouth-stricken Kansas
The merchants in Butte county
keep infected ehineh dugs on and
advertise that every customer who
purchases 80 many dollars worth Of
good will be presented with . pack
age of infected ehinch bugs.
A Labette county man would have
died ths other day from the effects
Of q quart Of whisky which he
drank had Il not been for the rattle
snake poison which was In his sys-
tenn before he swallowed the liquor.
An ivy imported from Rome, Italy,
was planted the other day with due
observance by the seniors Of Baker
university. The spade used In break
ing the ground was turned over to
the juniors as . symbol Of authority.
An object Of interest and curiosity
ct Topeka is . bride who maintained
q correspondence with her husband
for fourteen years without seeing
him In all that time and without
carrying on . Irritation with any
man.
The Ellsworth Reporter says that
more sod will be broken In Ellis
worth county this year for wheat by
the old settlers that Was ever broken
In one year in the early history Of
the country by homesteaders and
timber-Olalmers.
A Geary county farmer who has
40 acres Of wheat, one-half good
and one-half only toierAble, eonclud-
es from the difference. and the
causes, that the Kansas farmer must
make up his mind 10 farm less land
and do better work.
An Alliance orator told tile farm
ers at Sedwlck that there was no
more reason Why they should be
Republicans because their fathers
were Republicans than that they
should be bachelors because their
fathers were bachelors.
An interpreter was necessary 1t .
marriage ceremony which perform
ed the other day by the probate
Judge Of Lsbette county. The bride
came all the way from Germany to
marry her husband and couldn't
even kiss him in English.
Manhattan NdtioRdlist: "a gen.
tlemsn Of this place, well known In
Kansas for the past thirty years,
called on Us last week for . copy Of
the white Cloud chief. This was
the name Of Sol Miller's paper the
fret time he Was on earth"
An impressive incident in connee-
ton with the celebration Of memoir
ial day In Paola, vas the introdue.
ton TO the evidence Of MIs. EiiEs-
beth Creager Of Linn county, who
II In Der s7th year and who gave
four sons for the defense Of her
country.
Atehison GiObe: An Osborne
county farmer who was In town this
morning tells the taliest wheat story.
He has q wheat field Q half mile
long. and the other day he placed .
newspaper on one edge Of Il. The
wheat IL 90 uniform In length. and
90 thick, the newspaper was blown
by the wind 10 the other aide Of the
field, sliding along on top Of the
wheat without once touching the
ground.