The Globe-republican., 1895-08-22

non which IS SAID TO Oe Sumc1e0C 10
supply . town of s,G9O inhabitants
| with fuel.
Already there have been thiFsy.three
applications for the chair of Latin lam
guage in the state university, made
vacant by the death of Prof. Robinson.
The board of charities met Saturday
and reappointed Superintendent Stew
art and also retained most of the old
teachers in the state institution at
Olathe.
The McLouth man who bought old
corn for speculative purposes, is out
| about $4,000. He was sure of a fail
ure in Kansas and put in his cash ac'
cordingly.
'The Weapons of Teacher" was a
subject discussed at the Chase county
normal, but opinion as to the best was
divided between a hickory pointer and
a hedge thorn switch.
An Abilene fellow hung his pretty
gold braided band coat out the window
to air, when fellow with long pole
came along and the band player now
toots in his shirt sleeves.
The report that marrying and Civ
! ing in marriage had ceased to be the
| principal industry of Baldwin is indig-
nantly denied, there being six we'd
dings scheduled for this month.
A mud hole was filed UP in North
Lawrence and street otherwise inn
proved, but in justice to the street
commissioner 1t is said he was away at
the time and knew nothing of it.
An Abilene swell purchased him a
| fine summer outfit in Kansas City
| when there but some one stole his va
| Use containing the purchases and he
is as common as people who buy their
clothes in Abilene.
A family named Drinkwater were
compelled to leave Dodge City and
60 to Chicago an account of the search
ty of drinking water in the former city.
Dodgeites don't drink water unless
compelled to.
From Oskaloosa comes the word that
wild plums are more plentiful than for
years, wild grapes are loading the
vines everywhere, and hazelnuts are
bending the bushes low with their
weight. 1t is a great fruit year.
There is an eccentric hen in Hopkins
which persists in going each day to
the top of a tall cottonwood tree in
the yard to lay. The children stand
under the tree with their aprons spread
to ''catch the precious missile as it
falls"
Hiawatha World: Rev. Mr.. Honnell,
who was famous in this section in the
early days as missionary among the
Indians, is fatally ill at the home of
his brother, T. C. Honnell, at Everest.
An operation was recently performed
on the sick man and he cannot recov-
er.
A Marion county farmer has discov-
cred a gypsum bed, sixteen feet deep
on his farm and he is trying to decide
whether the gypsum is worth more
than the crop growing above it. That
gypsum won't spoil and he might do
well to wait till his crop is harvested
and then get the mineral.
Mrs. James II. Brady has brought
suit against Colonel James ii. Brady of
the Kansas Land company of Topeka,
one of the leading real estate dealers
of the state. alleging abandonment.
They were married in Abilene nine
teen years ago and Brady made for.
tune out of railroad building
Prof. Ira Hicks says Kansas will en-
joy twenty years of unprecedented
prosperity on account of the good
rains that will fall during that period.
If that prophecy proves true, here is
another; Kansas will be the greatest
producer of any equal amount of ter
ritory the world has ever known.
A man in Ottawa who doesn't take
his home paper because he can get the
''Fireside Companion" paper twice
as big for half the money, sent a dollar
in answer to an advertisement of
scheme that was warranted to save
half the gas bills. He received a card
with this printed on it: Burn cam
dies"
The Lacrosse Clarion sees no reason
why a man should be ashamed to have
it known he has taken out a marriage
license. 1t SAYS he ought to be proud
that any woman would marry him.
A most brutal assault was commit
ted on the person of William Barkus,
well-known farmer living six miles
northwest of Atchison, Tuesday morn
ing, by tramp. For some time the
tramp in question had been stopping
in the Hayes Schoolhouse, two miles
from the Barkus home. The tramp
became sociable and began visiting in
the neighborhood. He became &C
quainted with Barkus and learned in
some way that he kept money about
the house, and on Tuesday morning
the stranger appeared and without the