The Globe-republican., 1895-09-26

change in school books.
j. A. Bronaugh, of Virden, Illinois,
is in Kansas, buying corn to ship east.
The food damages amount to half
million dollars in NeoshO county alone.
A Topeka drug store was sold the
other day, the front end went for
$500; the back end for 81. 400.
Ed Howe says a woman will never
get used to boomers. because she
can't put them on over her head.
Six deaths occurred at Hanover last.
week from typhoid fever, and many Of
! the citizens are suffering from that
| disease.
A grain dealer in Baltimore has
| figured it out that it will require $780,
600 freight cars to haul the corn crop
of Kansas.
The Lawrence World roasts Chal-
linor for his two edged report on the
| conduct of the State University. and
then admits that the report was true.
When Archdeacon Brady ventured
| into the Girard Press in a controversy
with Carrie Stearns Smith about 1.-The
new woman" he looked into the muZ-
zle of gun that was loaded.
The southern department of the new
appellate court has 1 900 new cases on
its docket and the northern depart
ment 700, in addition to the cases GER
tilted down from the supreme court.
The Topeka lawyers seem to be at a
loss to know what technical charge to
make against DIR. Fraker. Falling in
the water and taking to the woods do
not seem to be crimes under the law.
T. w. Eckert, of Cowley county.
gives two columns of space to the
pretty little ''Captainess'' of the Sal
walton Army, and yet Mr.. Eckert has
never been considered much of a ladies
man either.
Ross Gilluly. who has a good ''sit''
in the Office of the state board of rail-:
road commissioners, realizes the un-.
certainty of life in Topeka after one.
has retired from Office, and has bought
a home in Oskaloosa.
Ed Greer says that Cuba is so close
ito Florida that the inhabitants of the
latter place as they lie these warm
nights on their pillows frequently
mistake the whizzing bullets for mos
quitos.
There will be formal dedica tan Of
the new physics building at the Kan
sas university about October LIST. An
address will be delivered by a profess
or of the Chicago university. The.
building will be open for a reception
and inspection in the evening.
Warden Bruce Lynch prldes himself
on being one of the best dressed men,
in Kansas since he began to wear
clothes built by Emmett. of COffeyville
notoriety, who has become distin-
guished sartoriai artist during his So
jOurn at Lansing.
The youthful editor of Cowley
county paper said he read of man
committing suicide with large cork
screw. There is nothing particularly
odd about this, many lives GO out by
the corkscrew route every year, but
there is usually bottle accompaniment.
A Rush county congregation has hit
upon a novel plan to pay the preacher.
They will rent a quarter section of
land and SOW it to wheat. The mem
bers are to furnish the seed, teams,
ETC., and do the work free. The gross
proceeds, after the rent is paid, will,
they think, provide preaching every
Sunday.
The Howard Courant gives the fol-
lowing words ct warning to old maids;
next year will be leap year. After
that it will be eight years before we
have another one. Girls who are
friendly toward bashful fellows should
make next year count. as eight years
takes considerable lustre from the
features of most young women.
George Alger says that farmer near
Olathe found stock of corn with four
perfect ears on it. aud marked it with
his walking stick. He told his family
about it, ana they all went out to in
spect this evidence of the fertility of
johnson county soil. They easily
found the place and to their great as
constituent saw that in the meantime
an ear of corn had grown on the walk
ing stick.
There was wedding in high life at
the State Capitol last week. The To-
peka Mail and the Kansas Breeze were
united, and hereafter will gallop along
together. A better newspaper pair
never plighted troth in Kansas. Chang
ing the figure, it will be three big
shows under one tent, hereafter. Ar
thur Capper. Tom McNeal and Frank
Montgomery constitute combination
hard to beat on this mundane sphere.
Mrs. Jennie S. Parr of Pittsburg
with the aid of the police found in