Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-10-15

Galena has man who put up
stove without swearing. He is deaf
mute.
There are so many hickory nuts in
jefferson county this year that the
people use them to kindle fires with
Miss Tressie Adams, who has been
nominated for superintendent OF
Mitchell county, was known as the
Scotch Princess when she was 9 pupil
at the Stockton academy.
Lieutenant A. G. Lott, who recently
graduated at West Point, spent
month among his bOyhood friends at
Abilene without once putting on his
bright uniform and shoulder straps
An advertisement in a Norton paper
reads: "Wanted-An elderly lady to
keep house. Must be kind to two
children" She can probably be as
unkind as she chooses to the rest OF
the children.
A Barber county school acher
asked one of his pupils to define farm
and one of his bright boys gave the
following: A farm is a tract Of land
covered by mortgage and bounded by
barb wire fence.
The corn crop of Kansas this year is
224, s45, 600 bushels. The figures given
apply to lightweight counties and do
not include seventeen of those in the
southwest, where the total area plant
ed is but $500 acres.
George Darr and wife of Mcpherson
county celebrated the sixtieth ami
versary of their marriage the other
day and there were enough relatives
present to carry any township in the
county if they voted solid.
Women are the most inconsiderate
things on earth. A bride of few
months at Lacrosse left her husband
and went home to her ma simply be-
cause she found strange woman's
apron in one of his pockets.
If a couple are able to prove enough
ON each other to get divorce they
should never be permitted to marry
again. A couple were married at
Strong City the other day who had
been divorced less than three months
Speaking of the invigorating effect
of Kansas climate we notice that G.
w. Ellis, who lives in Sumner county,
put in 100 acres of wheat by himself
last year and 200 this year. He is go
years old and says he will retire from
business after this year.
At a recent Abilene wedding the
bride was "gowned in a dainty white
organdie, with collars and elbow bands
of white opal passamenterie. You
people who think that Kansas hasn't
any style about her, what have you
got to say to that, dunn We?
G. o. Virtue, who graduated from
the Kansas university some years ago,
has been engaged by Harvard college
to deliver lectures on political econO-
my, which is only another illustration
of the fact that when you want the
salt of the earth you must mine in
Kansas for it.
George George exhibited a chicken
at the Chase county fair last week
which has been taking premiums right
along down there for fifteen years.
Fifteen year old birds may be some
thing of a rarely in Chase county, but
to q man who has dined for years at g
Topeka restaurant a fifteen year ole
chicken seems like picture of guile
less happy youth.
A young man by the name of OBrier
of Barber county, accidentally shot
himself Thursday evening. He haC
Just returned from a hunt, and il
getting the gun out of the wagon
muzzle first, the weapon was discharg
ed and the consequence was he lost thu
muscles and the Aeshy part of an arm
from the elbow to the shoulder.
, While at Topeka last week, Dar
; Boyden met Ellis Day of Hiawatha
, who served with him during the wa
/ in the same company, B, Seventy-thirt
Illinois. They had not seen each 9th
err since the close of the war. Mr.
3 Boyden also visited the Soldiers HON
4 at Leavenworth, where he saw Benja
min Opdyke, another member, whom
n he had not seen since the war.
> Crops may be little short out i
e Mead county, but the gloom of disas
y ter never can suppress the spirit o
y gentle mirth which still dwells up i
n that section in spontaneous profusion
IL as the following proves: Peter Hot
q is madden than a whole flock of we
e hens and all on account of some yer
IL naughty" boys. Peter is fond {