Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04
Stockmen are paying twenty-three
cents for corn in Chautauqua county.

Prof. Dyche is going to Rice county
December goth, to tell the people there
how the north pole looked.
''Give me package of Nearer my
God, to Thee" said the youth with the
death head under his hat, and the man
behind the show case gave him a box
of cigarettes. This happened at Clay
Center and sounds like a joke but it
isn't.
Old man Lane refuses to print it
t'Will L. Walker" He puts it up
William L. Walker" or '.lV. T. Walk
en-" He argues no doubt that Mr..
Walkers ''voice changed" many years
ago, and he should no longer have o
boys name.
Dock Tennal, the kissing games edi-
tor of the Atchison Globe, SAYS that
an old widower broke into a 1G-year-
old party in East Atchison recently,
whereupon the clock stopped, the
chair upon which he sat brok 9 and the
fire in the stove went out.
Up at Concordia lady claims the
cause of the leaves turning red at this
season of the year is because they are
on account of their naked limbs She
should not worry, by spring nature
will decorate their limbs with bloom.
<er)s or have them leave again.
The brewery sidewalk just outside
OF the town limits of Atchison is to be
repaired by the city council before
winter sets in. Ordinarily when a
hole comes in an Atchison sidewalk it
comes to stay, but the brewery walk
ranks up with the walks in the vicin i.
of the homes of the town aldermen.
Charles Snyder of Holton snagged a
finger on fence barb. Blood poison
ing set in and the member was cut off.
But too late, the poison had spread to
the arm, and that was sacrif ced.
Still too late, the sufferer died. He
had lived in jackson county thirty
years and was the father of nineteen
children.
DIR. II. b. Callahan, one of the Oldest
physicians of Leavenworth, was found
dead seated in Il chair in his office Sat
urday forenoon. Heart disease was
Simultaneous, for the doctor had a news
paper in his hand and his feet were
resting in a comfortable posture Oh
the table
The Atchison Cha mpion reads a lect-
IRE on good manners to the LADY and
her grown daughter who make it a
practice to attend the Dunkard meet
ings and occupy front seats with
''rocks" in their pockets with which to
raise racket" 1t is certain she is a
lady" The Champion knows where
to draw the line
The talk about Wentworth, the al
legged Atchison healer, which is a re-
suit of the Schlatter craze, continues.
Wentworth's mail Monday contained
sixty-nine letters from different parts
of the country. Notwithstanding the
attention he is creating, he still re-
tains his position as Waterman of the
Thirteenth street railroad crossing.
The State University regents have
selected a new professor. His name is
Professor Holmes and he comes from
Baltimore, Md. He is not over 80 years
of age, but he has graduated from Ohio
Wesleyan and John Hopkins univer-
stiles. He will occupy the chair of
Latin in the university, which was
made vacant by the death of Prof. d.
II. Robinson last summer. He is sai9
to be fine linguist.
John A. Frederickson, of Extra, Ia,
was in Freeport recently visiting chris
tan Frederickson. Both are natives Of
Denmark, and crossed the Atlantic to
this side thirty-two years ago on the
same steamer or ship. They had not
seen each other until this meeting in
Freeport. Both fought for the flag OF
their adopted country ohm a. in the
One Hundred and Thirtieth Illinois in
fantry and Christian in the Ninth
Kansas cavalry.
Mary L. Wilkins has done some
thing new in the piece of work just
completed and given by her to The
Ladies' Home Journal for publication.
1t is series of ''Neighborhood Types"
These TYPES" are the most unique
characters, and are found in a sup
posed New England village; to the
portrayal of each type" Miss Wilkins
devotes a separate sketch. Thus she
pictures a striking male character in
1.-The Wise Man of the Village; one
of the most natural of children in
''The Village Runawar'; a familiar
figure in 1.-The Neat Woman of the
Town" with three other characters
equally as distinct. There are six
''types," and all are illustrated.
A well known German-American
citizen of Harmony Garden, a suburb
of Atchison, often talks to his dog.
Last week he was overheard to thus
address the animal: "Mein tog, there
is great difference from you und
me. Now, ven / gets up in the morn
ing has to wash mineself und dress
mineself und bring in der kindling be-
fore 1 con get a bit of breakfast. But
it's different NIT you. Youst as soon
as you git up all you has to do is to
stretch und den somebody gifts you a
breakfast. Veil you play all tay, but
l hav to work., work. all der vile, you
youst hat fun. Veil the time will come
already ven you hat to die, und den,
mein tog, dat is all off you, but it is
different NIT me, hat to go to hell
yet"
The leaves of the Kansas sunflower
| may be put to a new use. It has been
found out by actual experiment that
they make better filler for a cigar