The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-02-13
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

9Ahc hcN Cou pipC iaCt'"N a. tuSS
mo is turning out about 300 pipes
day.
The town of Gridley rs wrapped in
solitude and checkers. The two go
together.
Hogs are up little in Chautauqua
county and buyers and sellers are get
ting together.
Ewing Herbert wants a chair of
good manners added to the Hiawatha
public schools.
Abilene is getting to be strong
town. Over there they boast of an
onion patch of one hundred acres.
Something over 200 men have sign
NeoshO county February 22.
Kansas teachers are in demand in
every quarter of the globe. We have
one in Egypt. one in Japan. two in
Africa. two in Burmah. three in China
and one among the Indians of Alaska.
Nothing new has happened in Tope-
ka since Charley McCabe's baby was
born. but that does not Justify the
daily din in the newspapers about the
youngster.
.6An old soldier. standing on the de-
pot platform at the LeavenwOrth Home
one day this week, was struck by a
bunch of mail thrown from passing
mail train aud had his leg broken.
Cashier James NJ. Ball of the bank
ing house of Condor & Co.. at Coffey
vile. was thrown to the floor violently
Saturday morning in the bank by
gas explosion and painfully burned.
The gas had accumulated in the vault
over night and when he opened the
door an explosion followed, wreclsing
the front of the building.
Two years ago a Brown county farm
er planted a few switches along a ra-
vine on his farm. and. as a result, now
has 30. 900 feet of lumber and several
hundred cords of wood in sight. This
is made upon the authority
of the Hlawatha World, which runs
iScriptura} verses at the head of its
editorial column.
Miss Lillian Bell who is getting
reputation as brilliant contributor
TO the Ladies' Home Journal, was at
one time resident of Cowley county.
1t is said her serial 4" Men as Lovers
lis purely COwiey county inspiration.
+snd one man at least. in that neck of
the woods. still remains bachelor on
account of Miss Bells charms.
junction City society is working on
the French phrase, bal pOudre. A
dance bearing that phrase was given
at Fort Riley last week, and junction
City wants to try one. junction City
is more honest than Topeka, where
200 men and women organized Sans
Pareil club three months ago. and no.
body thought for a moment to look up
the Interpretation.
Two handsome young fellows. whose
good manners and intelligent faces at
tracted attention at the Kansas Dav
meeting. were old Dan AnthOny's son,
Dan. and Lucien Bakers son. Bur-
goyne. The latter signs himsel E.
Burgoyne Baker. but he will get over
that when he gets older and also the
practice of shaking hands as if he had
hold ola pump handle.
The second term at the Kansas uni
versity has begun with a largely in
creased attendance in every depart
ment. Prof. ID. H. Holmes. the new
professor of Latin. elected to take the
place of Prof. ID. ii. Robinson. deceas-
ed. took charge of his department, and
Prof. f. II. Bailey. who has been in
Europe on leave of absence for the
last year retul ned and resumed his
duties.
The county commissioners of Allen
county will try the rock pile as
means of getting rid of the tramp
nuisance. Tramps like the Allen
county sheriff. One was heard to OBJ
serve to a comrade at Garrett the 9TH
er day, Il believe Twill go down and
get into the Allen county Jail. They
have natural gas down there. and l
have heard the sheriff feeds the BOYS
pretty WELL
Kansas to the front again. A bright
young dentist of Sedgwick county, be-
ing of an inventive turn of mind, has
been experimenting on woman's tom
que, (as we'll as her teeth and has
about completed an arrangement
whereby women can double their vel
ocity of speed in talking. The same
arrangement makes man speechless
and he sits spellbound while down
trOdden woman gets the last word.
Twenty-one young men, members of
the Sophomore class in the Ottawa
university. were expelled last week be-
cause they gave banquet to some of
the girls in the college. in a down town
restaurant, ut the unseemly hour of
1880. Twenty-three boys were mixed
up in the awful crime, but two of them
said they were sorry. apologized to the
faculty and promised to be good boys
in the future. The others were not 4
bit sorry and wouldn't say they were.