Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-24

A man from Cuba is arranging lee
tire tour through Kansas.
BY far the best advertised number OF
the next legislature Is Newt Ury Of
Fort Scott.
An lola woman has refused q gov
eminent position, although the salary
is S14O more than she was getting.
A Catholic Ochurch at Burlington is
to have a hew bell, made of the old one
which was broken some years ago.
A Hope man gives notice to the local
merchants that he will hereafter pros
ecute any one selling his sous tobacco.
A Kansas barber who has a crown of
thorns sticking in his Grecian temples
announces that he will now shave for
fiye per-
Is "hike" Kansas wordP One Kan
sas girl in writing to another recently
said that another girls dress "hikes"
up behind.
Joseph Dust, pioneer of Elk coun-
ty, over 60 years of age, is under arrest
charged with the violation of the age
consent law.
Somebody should study up some
grating treatment which will maLA
the sunfower either poorer weed or
better kindling.
A Jefferson county farmer made
1000 gallons of sorghum which he sold
at twenty cents gallon. There are
lots Of ways of making money on
Kansas farm.
A young couple at Larned bet 1000
kisses on the result of the election.
The bet is being paid as fast as time.
Already there has been trouble in the
counting, and they made new start
A western Kansas woman in plead
ing the cause of the new woman re-
marks that if the women do enter poll
tics some one will invent frst-class
DISTINGUISHING machine and save the
men.
A little Kansas boy recently dis
covered that, on the morning of the ar
rival of a little brother, a neighbors
family had also been fortunate in the
same way. pa" he said, "are they
twins?" II hope not, my son, said the
old man.
One Topeka woman wants the fugi-
tive slave law re-enacted and applied
to husbands who run away from their
families. A man who leaves his chill.
dren for the county to support certain
ly ought to be made support them
himself
Out in Lane county much of the
wheat now coming to market is of the
crop of 1895. The people out that way |
have learned to profit by the example |
of their Russian neighbors; they no
longer sell their crop until they are
sure of another.
1t is only in the Kansas society col
umns that the word "Mesdames" ever
appears. The reason for this is that at
IN early day capital Ms were scarce
in the offices and the prints put "Mes-
lanes" in front Of the names of all the
married women. The habit has thus
stuck.
The politicians always have some
hing to talk about, and now they
nave let up on the postoffice question
md taken into consideration the posi-
Die change in this judicial district by
he legislature. OF course this is a
natter in which the Republicans have
Nothing to say-that is, nothing that
counts, says the Hutchinson News.
A Shawnee county dog, of which
here are a large number, was seen
chewing away at some object recently
md upon investigation it was found
that he was making his breakfast upon
1 stick of dynamite and had it about
half eaten. The crowd that had con-
gregated did not kick him, nor did
they stand around to see him eat the
balance, and have kept a safe distance
from the dog since, expecting at any
time to see him go to dog heaven. The
log still survives, and is looked upon
from a safe distance-as being a very
mysterious dog. He is not in demand
IS yet by those who want to go hunt
ing.
The son of an Oxford township farm
er was adjudged insane recently by
The probate court His was a peculiar
case. He knew there was some trou-
BILE with his mind, but he imagined his
parents had mesmerized him and "hin-
1ered his mind, as he put it. He be-
came frantic over the delusion and
threatened to kill his mother, first
with a shotgun and then with butch
err knife because he thought she had