Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-10-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Denmark is small hamlet in Lin
coin county.
Mr.. Lofty is q humble and sincere
Christian In Scranton.
II Is not an uncommon thing at all tc
see 100 loads OF new corn on the streets
at Wichita.
Wichita has discovered that the jas
perite Is not u desirable material fol
country roads
An Atchison woman IL having quite {
tjms in finding house which will fl
her ~.ndow shades
Mr.. Hobbs OF Paols, has 800 which
says he can butcher 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 o goot
many people In Kansas who do no
know an auctioneer from O statesman
The chumiest chums in Atchison arr
two fellows who we're carrying revolver:
for each other couple OF months ago
Mr.. Loud figured as one OF the high
contracting parties In recent wedding
ut Topeka which the papers declared
was very quiet.
Mr.. Lampe is running for sheriff or
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. II is
hoped that his name will not prove any
barrier to his success.
Everybody knew that it would come
70 that finally. The women OF Leaven'
worth have begun to visit Benson, the
murderer OF Mrs. Mcttman.
A young woman entered the law de-
partment OF a Kansas university this
year. She finds Blackstone trifle
heavy after reading Z. P. Roe.
The class OF 81 ut Baker university
turned out three Presbyterian preach
ers. But they never assimilated be-
lief il election from President Quayle.
There are already twenty-three pa
ticnts at the Keely institute at Leav-
enworth, though it 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-
nation Of geography clubs In Hiawatha,
because not one person in that town in
tcr can define latitude and longitude or
can tell the difference between an
island and a peninsula.
over fifty schools in Kansas now pre-.
paro candidates for the freshman c'uss
Of tho state university, and still there
has been no movement set Oh foot to
connect Mt. Dread with the world he
low it by cable line.
Sol Miller: \ singular sort OF o man
died at Morril. Brown county, last
week. He was born in 1852, moved to
Iowa in 1855, was married in lS4l and
came to Kansas in 1874 and was q mem
bcr Of the Bunker church for forty
years.
Governor Humphrey has offered q
reward Of $3.50 for the apprehension of
tho person who murdered Hong Lee,
the Mongolian lalndryman al Peabody.
The people OF California will be sur
prised to sec Cinnamon quoted at that
figure in Kansas.
Tho feeling against Winfield il SO in
tense in Arkansas City that the people
OF the latter place will not pave their
sidewalks with Winfield stone, although
It IS about tho 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.
1t is drawn by horse between the
rows and cuts two rows at o time. 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 tree until she came
TO Kansas q week or two ago. A girl
who Is that green ought never to
think Of going away from home with
out her mother.
It is announced that molasses makes
q superior article Of fuel and that the
cottonwood tree possesses q greater
percentage Of saccharine matter than
sorghum or sugar beets. II that is the
case nobody ought ever to freeze to
death in Kansas again.