Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-10-22
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The toughest game of poker in Kan
sas is said to be at Abilene. A man
who gets into it leaves all hope behind,
and when he gets out of it he leaves
all his cash behind.
Every time new lawyer locates at
Wyandotte the last one before him
laughs and thinks he has unloaded the
joke on another fellow. There are
now about $50 lawyers in the county
It is never really safe to leave Kan"
sas. A family recently moved from
Norton to Chicago, and their little
girl fell down an air shaft four full
stories, breaking both arms and one
leg and knocking out several teeth
To anybody but Kansas boy or girl
this would have meant sure death, as
it is the little girl will get well.
A Minnesota editor having intimated
that these stories about Kansas corn
stalks twelve feet high, with ears high
er than a man can reach, are not true,
a Jewell county editor rises up clad in
his robes of truth and says if the Min
nesota editor will come to Jewell coun-
ty he can see corn stalks IA feet high
where man six feet tall cannot reach
the end of the ear without jumping
from the ground.
What by some physicians is thought
to be diptheria and by others mem
branous Group, has suddenly made its
appearance in Fort Scott and already
two deaths have occurred and num-
Der of other cases are reported. IL is
the same form of disease that was pre-
valent here last winter and which
caused the death of number of small
children. Then, as now, the physi-
clans differed as to the disease but in
nearly every case it proved fatal and
it is to be hoped that some means of
checking it will be found before it
claims many victims.
Crops may be little short out in
Mead county, but the gloom of disas-
ter never can suppress the spirit of
gentle mirth which still dwells up in
that section in spontaneous profusion,
as the following proves: "Peter Hotz
is madden than a whole flock of wet
hens and all on account of some very
naughty" boys. Peter is fond of
milk shakes and the boys set out a
fine largo schooner overlooking with
the tactical fluid with live mud tur-
tie in the bottom and when Pete drain
ed the glass to the dregs and saw that
wiggling terradin scrambling over the
chunks of ice, the sun went down and
it got dark"
There is boy in Hiawatha who sells
papers on the street, runs errands and
does other odd jobs around town all
summer. In the winter he meets the
night trains and sells weinerwurst
sandwiches, piping hot, to the hungry
passengers. He keeps up his paper
business too. He's always busy doing
something to make nickel more if he
can. You don't often see him loiter-
ing on the street for he hasn't time
It's dollars to doughnuts that by The
time he's 30 he can buy and sell any
of his comrades if he keeps himself
out of bad habits. BY so he will be
classed as bloated aristotrat and will
be cussed by the fellows whom he has
left by the wayside. Such boys at
tract attention of business men. They
are the fellows who are given the odd
jobs. Why? Because they attend to
business They can be relied on at
times. You can depend upon it this
boy will make place for himself in
the business world.
A "cute" lady's man of Butler coun-
ty got rather gay. He said things
that did not please some of the girls,
and they held caucus and decided to
punish him. An invitation was sent
him requesting his presence at the
home of one of the girls on a certain
evening, where heightened party
would be given in his honor. He ar
rived at the fashionable hour. lie wa,
ushered into the parlor. He and g
half dozen girls were the only guests
The girls did not say word. They
began to giggle. They kept on gig
Cling. And still they giggled. TIL,
fellow at first tried to control himself
Then he grew sick with nervousness
Finally he tainted. 1t was with som,
difficulty that he was resusticated. H,
was then thrown on stretcher anC
taken home. For several days hi
usual plump features had a ragged
crawtish, pinching-bug look. 1t doe
not take much courage to go to war
but it takes lots of it to take up tn
battle of life again after having gon
through such an awful experience.
Three Ottawa girls ran away fror
home and went to the bad, that is, the
went to Paola.