The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1893-01-26

sANO-BURos AND TUMBLE WEEDs.
Kansas 10 said to have 500 Insurance.
agents.
There Ii war among the -four men
At Eureka.
McPher.on county 10 again "agitat.
log" for = eourt house.
Lawrence recently had an lee
carnival An Ice time was chad ~
The Marion Record thinks ther.
cannot be too many churches la a
town.
A sarcastic man In Atchi-,n ba.
nsmed . street car horse Nancy
Hanks.
The editor Of the Fl Scott Lantern
wants TO be coal oil inspector. How
natural!
Kansas manufacturers received
$500 In bouBties this year for the
sugar they made.
A Sterling man has invented q
traction thresher engine which uses
gasoline for fuel.
Reform Is getting there. All the
saloons In Wichits have to close ut
IL O'Clock every night.
Ex-senator H. b. Kelly has been
admitted to the bar; that IL to say
he has become lawyer.
The Commercial bank q Goodland
has failed with assets twice the
amount OF Its liabilities.
During the last twelve years the
value Of farm land In Kansas has in
creased fully 25 per cent.
The editor OF the Fredonia Citizen,
after seeing q skirt dance for the
first time, thinks IL "tolerable,"
The "per cspiter" OF bank deposits
In Dickinson county IL $2s, aud the
county has q population OF 81, 600.
Mrs. Leases son In named "Charles
H." Does the al" stand for what
the lady told the farmers to raise?
The rumor that Johann Most Is
coming to Kansas IL not true, and
there never was any foundation for
IL.
The second dividend Of 20 per cent
has been declared by the receiver of
the defunet Second National Bank
Of Mcpherson.
An Ottawa county farmer CON-
plains that since the legislature
opened his hogs have acquired the
habit OF sucking the cows.
A Topeka real estate man and q
Lawrence merchant threaten to
leave the state on account OF legisla-
tive middle. Well, ta-ta!
The meanest man In Cloud coun-
ty, according to the unanimous YER
dict OF the populist party, IL the edi. |
tor Of the Concordla Empire.
One bad thing about Mr.. Hoch 90.
ing to the Legislature Is that his man,
Dan Lindsay, issues a "saIutatory"
each week In the Marion Record.
An Abilene man is so lazy that he
won't get out OF bed when somebody |
yells "fre!" He thinks it's only a |
scheme to awaken the nightwatch-
man.
As fish are now being hauled into
Minneapolis by the wagon load,
Governor Riddle has given Tom Cor
dry vacation In order TO feed up his
brains.
A horse shoe suspended over the
door OF an Atchison house for luck,
fell down recently, and striking a
child Of the head, caused doctor bills
that footed up to $50.
There 10 q marked Improvement In
the calamity papers that come to |
this table, which may be accounted |
for from the fact that the editors
have been down In Topeka for the
past three weeks.
1t is reported that George Collett
Of Ellsworth, and Warren Knaus Of |
had to sit at separate
tables at the recent Democratic edi-
torial banquet In Topeka, owing to |
the largeness Of their feet.
The Emporia Republican which |
has many queer fancies, suggests
that State Treasurer-eIect BiddIe
build . sub-treasury and get his AL |
lance friends to put up their wheat. |
corn etc., rs security for him.
State Journal: III Kansas can
produce 7I,OOO,OOO bushels of wheat
with scarcely one-twentieth Of its
wheat lands utilized, think OF it's
possibilities; and then think OF To-
peka with dam and fifty big -four
Ing mills.