The Globe-republican., 1896-08-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Miss Force is school teacher in Eli
county.
Pratt county has hen which or ows
and lays eggs.
A formerly of Kansas boy is a pro
fessor in Yale College.
A dark cloud hangs over COwley
county in the shape of a colored col
lcgc.
Miss Sweat is a teacher IN Smith
county, and if she is teaching now
She probably does.
The old settlers of Mcpherson coun-
ty will get together for an old fash
Toned time October 10th.
Madison Galogiy YEARLY carries it
around with as he fights Russian this
ties on Sheridan county farm.
A Topeka man committed suicide
this week and the note left for his
wife stated as a reason for the rash
act that he was SO everlasting bash
full" He must have felt very lonesome
in Topeka.
While the Abilene orators were talk
ing about the hopeless condition of the
agricultural classes, j. j. Overstreet
was counting over a wad of 5000
which he had just received for eighty
head of 2 and 3-year-old steers down
in Comanche county.
An Atchison lady made her washer
woman a present of shirt waist and
was surprised the next day to see the
woman's husband wearing it as he
marched in the Salvation Army parade.
The woman was busy washing to sup
port the family and hadn't time to
wear the waist.
Out in Stockton when they wish to
convey the knowledge that a man is
awful sick they say he is too sick to
attend the meetings of his secret socie-
ty. Frank Borin has been forbidden
to 60 out at night to his society for
three weeks and the people look upon
him as one already dead.
Burglars broke into the Missouri Pa
cific passenger depot at Fort Scott
Saturday night and by working the
com bination of the safe opened it and
secured over 5000 in money and checks,
and carried off the steel money box.
Three houses were also robbed and
money and jewelry OBJ
tanned.
Sol Miller has been known for fifty
years as ''Old Linen Pants" and now
that linen pants have come in fashion
again the old boss is congratulating
himself on being strictly in style. He
is also doing considerable growing over
the fact that he has always shaved
smooth, system of wearing the face
which has also become popular.
Mr.. Hagar, who is roasting in the
Greenwood county Jail and figuring on
how ne is going to get the stuff to pay
that $500 fine for selling the vintage of
'4s contrary to the statutes in such
cases made and provided, is said to be
satisfied that there is considerable hog
wash in this talk about prohibition be-
ing perfect failure.
A minister out in Mitchell county
preaching from the text, on rendering
unto Caesar, requested all the congrc-
cation who paid their debts to rise.
The rising was general. A second
call was made for those who didn't
pay their debts, and one solitary per-
son arose, who explained that ne was
a country editor and could not pay be-
cause the rest of the congregation
owed him on subscription.
A Douglas county man fell dead the
other day in the harvest field. We
have always maintained that harvest
fields We're dangerous and should be
avoided. In fact, we have resisted the
temptation to work in harvest fields
for more than forty years, and in con-
sequence we are still alive: while that
pocr Douglass county man who would
persist has eoppers on his eyes and
wears shirt without any back in it.
Andrew Terrell, 9-year-old bow
from Concordia, was taken to DR.. Ma
hee of Topeka of Topeka recently to
have his eyes operated upon. He had
been born blind The operation was
an entire success. Two days later the
baudages were removed and the bow
looked out from Dr.. Magee's window
upon busy Kansas avenue, and people
who stood by say that if euer ecstacy
was written upon human countenance
ii was in that boys face during the
brief mfment the doctor allowed him
10 gain his first view of the world
md he,-an To &p;Sb xl,ss $780,. "a