People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-02-27

curiosity.
The woman with the pretty rings
always has the greatest trouble with
her hair.
The Kansas City Times has been
sold to Wiley .. Cox, a banker of that
place, for $4,000.
These Venezuela and TranSvaal
troubles are making people brush up
on their geography.
Those whose advertisements you
see in this paper are worthy OF your
patronage. Encourage them with
your trade,
The order has been issued for the
meeting of the Kansas GAR. en-
campment at Beloit April q, to con-
tinue for four days.
According to the beliefs Of the
Arizona Indians, the Cliff DwellerS
built along the bluffs because they
feared another deluge.
1t is found necessary to enlist
10000 men for the navy. If this is
not done our nice young Annapolis
graduates would have no one to COM
mand.
Occasionally there is something in
a name. A man named Flood want
ed to be put on the water commission
in Boston and the mayor would not
have it.
ia horse could trOt a mile in
second, horse racing would cease.
hansen should take warning and only
90 a little further north than the
man before him.
DR.. Mabel Spencer, a Kansas City.
Kansas, woman, has been appointed
county physician of Riley county, the
first woman in Kansas to receive such
an appointment.
Miss Barton is now in Turkey and
will begin to rescue the ArmenianS.
For her courage and devotion to duty
Miss Barton deserves the plaudits of
an admiring world.
A real live ghost has been disCoy'
cred in Wichita. 1t sings Dutch
solos and is described as being nine
feet high, six feet broad, with feet
like an Indian canoe.
Pugilists may be pardOned, but thu
man who will spend his money ant
follow pugiliStS all over the uppe
side of the earth for the sake Of seeing
fight, ought to be chucked into al
insane asylum.
Paderewski has a magnificent touch
there can be no doubt Of that. Thir-
teen thousand five hundred dollars fol
two matinee recitals! There's moth
ing the matter with that sort of bel
office technique.
The Japs are now importing bicycles
and selling them for s12 apiece. Thi:
is serious for California, but not fol
Kansas. The railroads will put a
rate on bicycles that will settle the
JapS, and Kansas.
A noted lecturer says: Fewer
women commit suicide than men
This is because women makes less
protest against her circumstances OF
life, has more endurance under its ca.
lamities, and is more resigned"
The desire of the English parlia-
ment for the settlement of the Vene-
zuelan question by arbitration, is evi.
dence OF the fact that John Bulls
bump of caution is at least as well
developed as his bump Of pugnacity
The people of Kansas City do not
want partiSanShip cr religion injected
into the government of the city
schools, and the party that departs
from the established custom will
place a serious obstacle in the way Of
its success. .
A peddler Of piano polish is going
about the towns Of southern Kansas
with worse than worthless mixture
and an insult for ladies who refuse tC
buy from him. Turn loose the dogs
and unstrap the shotgun.-K. C
World.
The bicycle has come to stay, and
although the predominance of the
horse in sport is not destroyed, it i.
no longer undiSputed. The modern
machine, in quiet and orderly name
has steadily been growing in favor
and DOW it is bearing all before it.
1t is hardly in order for the Englisl
to laugh at the idea of Edison turninl
his attention to war when they hay
just putan Ashantee army to flight b
a night attack, in which Romal
candles, Sky.rOckets and a pande
monium of 1recrackers were the lead
ing features.
A girl baby born the other day il
KokOmO, Ind, is the fourteenth
daughter of 2 fourteenth daughter O