The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-05-07
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

In Kansas the straw hat shows
which way the wind blows.
Caterpillars are destroying fruit
prospects in eastern Kansas.
A Valley Falls boy has broken one
of his legs nineteen times
One-half pay was the length of the
term of district court in Morton coun-
ty.
Cowley county wheat is now devel-
oping an aggravated case of the big
head.
A Leavenworth man has written a
book which entirely settles the money
question.
The man who lives in Southern Kan
sas never prays ''Thy kingdom come.
He is satisfied where he is.
The burglar recently shot in Atchi-
son was trying to break into a joint.
That explains the desperate work OF
the policeman.
Sol Miller wants to know what has
become of the old-fashioned woman
who made one chicken ''dO" for a
large family by cooking dumplings
with it.
Webb McNall's Cripple Creek com
pany has money in the treasury to
pay for advertising. That is evidence
enough that the company has struck
pay dirt.
The Abilene Reflector which is usual
ly fair congratulates Topeka for send
ing aid to the cyclone sufferers. 1t
makes no mention of Leavenworth
which sent more than Topeka.
A Leavenworth man who has disa-
greeable wife experimental with her
until he found that she could not live
In high attitudes, and then discovered
that his best chance to make a living
for her is above timber line.
John ID. Knox of Topeka, who dur
ing the boom was bigger man than
old Mulyane, is now giving fifteen
cent lectures in Kansas. Kansas is a
state of changes. Ingalls, who crowd
ed the Senate, now charges fifty cents.
It's all very strange.
The Santa Fe hospital at Topeka,
said to be the finest railroad hospital
in the world, was formally accepted
Tuesday by General Manager Frey as
chairman of the board of trustees, and
the building is now the property of
the Hospital ASSOCIATION.
Clay Valentine who is slow of speech
is blessing the man who invented the
new lapel button bearing the inscrlp-
ton IF you love me, grin" Dell
says a young man who can't propose
now is fit subject only for red-head-
ed old maids and grass widows
The Lawrence World has discovered
the meanest man on record. He
charged 4 widow neighbor one peck of
corn for the nse of rooster for one
week, which he loaned her in order
that she might raise chickens and eggs
to keep her children from starving.
Colonel Harry Smith, who has been
drawn from the regular army to make
real soldiers of the Kansas militia, was
in Atchison visiting his wife when the
governor called the troops to arms
Monday night and SO missed the OPP
portunity OF his life.
The prohibitory act provides a sal
airy of SIS per annum for every 1000
inhabitants, to be paid to probate
Judges for services rendered under
such act. No services of that charac-
ter are rendered by the probate Judge
of jackson county, there being no
liquor permits taken out by druggists
there, but the county commissioners
pay 500 quarter. just the same, and
the Signal, very properly, is making .
fuss about it
A Lawrence man who has five good
looking daughters of manageable age
has nailed up in mis- parlor, where they
can be seen and read. the following
set of rules for the consideration and
government of young gentleman call
ers: II. Young men callers are ex
pected to break away not later than 10
o'clock. .. Don't get gay, for some
one is liable to come into the room at
any moment. 3. Do not make bluff
at marriage unless you intend to make
the bluff good. 4. Young men who
keep company with my daughters will
confer a favor by giving them to un-
derstand at the start whether they
mean business, or are merely calling to
pass away the time. In the latter
event the girls can keep a lookout for
some one who means business. S.
Young men will please not consider
these rules offensive, as they are meant
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