The Globe-republican., 1896-06-11
kANsss ITEMS OF INHERENT.

Russell is troubled by dry thunde
storms.
Another "wet goods store has bee
opened at Moundridge.
Four men recently left Lyon count
or England with four hundred hea
If cattle.
Madison has a woman barber. an
al the other artists had to leave town
driven ont
"Sister Alice is the churchhood ap
sxpounder of Chase.
A man hauled / 900 bushels of oat
TO Concordia and his best O:fer wa!
nine cents a bushel
Mound City is compelled to pay .
dollar hundred for ice, and the peo
pie are making great FUSES about it.
A wolf came within 300 yards OF
Paola one day last week. and a chat
tel mortgage deal er shot it with rife.
1t is told on good authority that
Kansas suffers more from flood than
from Grouth taking a run of ten years.
The Dickinson county farmers want
the railroad commissioners to recog-
nize Kaffir corn as a marketa bic prod
net and add it to the grain schedule of
rates.
Superintendent Nudge of the Santa
Fe SAYS the reason passenger trains at
Wellington were reduced was because
the travel appeared to have taken to
the Rock Island.
It is generally conceded all over
Kansas now that the thing to do when
Cyclone approaches is to rush for the
cellar and pull the other fellow out of
the southwest corner.
When you see a man digging in his
back yard at night he is not hunting
treasure trove. He is digging a cy-
clone cellar and he doesn't want his
neighbors to know it.
A school teachers position in Atch-
ison that pays SIS per month pays 500
in Topeka. but then look at the differ
ence in the kind of children to be
Taught. That is something.
Item in a Kansas newspaper: "John
Hicks went into his storm cave with
his family last night" A year ago a
man would have fought the editor for
that squib. Now it is taken as mat
ter of course.
Beer tickets are no longer sold in
Topeka six for o quarter. The price
is now five cents glass straight.
Should the sheriff make another raid
and reduce competition, the price
would advance to ten cents.
The Globe says there are family
of girls in Atchison ready for adoption
by any kindly disposed person, among
whom are girls big enough to marry
and girls small enough to raise as
pets. Their names have been sent to
Mayor LOOMS of COwley county.
In response to public demand the
new president of the Kansas Woman
Suffrage society has quit katie" and
returned to the good old name, Kate.
Katie is all right for summer girl
but it don't fit woman who is in the
saddle to enfranchlse her SEX
An Argonia man has chicken with
four legs. When it moves forward
it uses two of the legs, but when it
goes in the opposite direction, instead
of turning around. it merely reverses
itself like locomotive, by putting
the other two legs into operation.
A woman went into an Atchison
bank Wednesday and said she wanted
to borrow s.. Just for fun the CASH
Ter asked what security she could offer.
whereupon she produced a SEQ gold
piece which she said she would leave
1t the bank. The security was ample
and she secured the loan.
C. c. Blair of Glen Elder, deputy
clerk of Mitchell county, has invented
q wheat drill, which he will have pa
tented. The machine is entirely differ
ent from drills now in use. 1t has
two revolving disc instead of the hoe
or shoe. The discs open the ground
always at an even depth and prevents
clogging. The side carriage wheels
are eliminated. and the weight of the
arill rests ON the discs.
While some men were digging a
grave at the Indian Hill cemetery at
Chapman Wednesday afternoon, they
unearthed an Indian grave and found
an old a hint-lock rifle. tomahawk,
bracelets and the bones of a supposed
Indian. Sixty years ago two tribes of
Indians had battle on this hill and
from this event the hill got its name.