The Globe-republican., 1895-12-19

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTERES1.
Jerry Blacks swell Assembly clul
has quit. There was not enough mel
to 60 round.
Johnny Royce confesses that h
still makes love to Mrs. Royce, al
though he has been her husband TO
fifteen years.
A former Galena preacher is nov
. floor walker in a Kansas City dr.!
goods store-still keeping an eye out
for sinners.
Abilene people going to Africa to d.
missionary work is like the famous
Thompson colt which swan the rive
to get drink.
The religions revival at Usage Cit.
has become SO redhot that society ha!
suspended gaiety and literary clubs
quit meeting.
It is said that Major Drumhlller
deputy oil inspector, is kept SO busy il
his official duties that he has given NJ
all his outside work.
Counterfeit ten dollar bills are II
ci rculation at Clay Center. At leas,
there is ten dollar bill in town and
people are suspicious.
The Rev. R. L. March holds out a
new hope to sinners. In q recent
lecture on "Hell" he said there was a
chance for reform after death.
The last lnsta. lment of the Hot
Springs trip was printed by the North
Central editors last week, and hereaf-
ter it will be safe and profitable to
open their papers.
A weather prophet, who does bust
ness at Hewins, predicts snow on thir-
ty-one different days this winter. This
is encouraging to men who have put
in large plants of wheat.
The ice twill bear up" all over Kan
sas and the boys and girls have aban-
doned other pleasures for skating.
Great Scott! What fun that is! More
properly stated, what fun it was.
In the Ossawatomie asylum dining
room George McCune was struck upon
the head and his skull fractured by a
vegetable dish in the hands of Charles
Mold, a patient. McCu ne may die
A Kansan man is captain of the Yale
foot ball team. A Kansas man made
the first speech in this Congress. A
Kansas man is going to the north pole.
look at the man, look at the man,
look at the Kansas man."
The case of the four Gores-father
two sons and a nephew-of Lebanon,
who hunted down and killed their
neighbor, James Amis, last week,
causes the papers to cry out for a
speedy trial and conviction and swift
hanging.
There is a woman in Atchison who
can lay in the shade, all the latter day
healers. She can cure a burn in an
instant, by simply blowing her breath
upon it. A local paper says there are
many citizens living in her neighbor-
hood who can testify to the fact.
Ike Richardson of Montgomery
county has a camphor bottle that was
his mothers sixty years ago. 1t has
the American eagle and spears on one
side and a log cabin on the other side.
He also has a pair of shOemaker's
pinchers that his father used making
shoes fifty years ago.
The Topeka Lance, which again as
to be the organ of local swell
dom. says that since Jerry Blacks
marriage he has appeared at dinners
wearing Tuxedo instead of the reg
ulation coat with his dress suit. with
the complimentary high collar and
black satin tie. and his friends are
at the change wrought in
him.
An Eastern paper says Dragging has
brought Kansas into sorry strait
again. She has been astonishing the
world for some time telling about her
400 million bushels corn crop of this
year, but now the crop is gathered and
measured she finds herself compelled
to sell her 200 million bushels. the ac-
tual crop, Mt the low price set by her
inflated estimate of 400 million bush
els.
Captain Joseph Randolph of Atchi-
son visited Troy last week for the first
time in many years. He is now al
most 20 years of age, but is still hear
ty and spry. He settled in Marion
township in the spring of 1884,, and in
the early days held the offices of sher-
if and county commissioner. Nearly
all the old settlers who came when he
did are under the ground. The fine
farm that he owned on the Missouri
bottom has almost entirely gone into
the river.
The Congregational society of Atch-
ison proposes to rebuild its church.
The present house was built in the
early eos and given to the society by
Samuel C Pomeroy, then a United
States senator and sharing the throne
with Jim Lane. The most scholarly
pastor who has regularly occupied its
pulpit was Francis T. Ingalls,, q broth
er of John James Ingalls,, who became
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