Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-12-17
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Is going TO have a new steeple.
The Chase band has quit business al
though it had both money and wind.
Wellington society people have been
greatly stuck up since they had q tafy
pull.
When news is scarce in Atchison the
reporter discovers "the bones of q
dead man."
An Olathe man is advertising for 10
cents the knowledge of how to make
whisky without still.
The contest music for the Hutchin-
son Musical Jubilee for next year has
already been given out.
Ed Howe says that you can always
please a woman after she has passed
forty by saying she is slender.
Tom Scates warns the western Kan
sas boys that he is after the registers
place at the Dodge City land office.
The wife of the late Judge Dundy
loaned the money with which the press
Of the Atchison Globe was purchaseg.
The consolidation of counties pro-
posed in western Kansas would lead to
some old fashioned county seat fights.
Lawrence is going to give Governor
Leedy a public reception. Lawrence
has her eye peeled for an appropria-
ton.
There is boy in Ell Dorado who does
all the marketing for the family, and
he is going to turn out to be second
Jay Gould.
What is more glorious to our people
than to have autumn weather up to
Christmas. Such is invariably the case
In Kansas.
Mort Albaugh thinks that person
ally it is good thing for both Ingalls,
and Burton that they cannot go to the
United States senate.
The Kansas Agora has gone into the
hands of receiver. Kansas is literary,
but the people outside the state are it's
writer's best customers.
A Kansas woman recently discovered
that taffeta lining would rustic like
silk, and as long as she preserved her
Secret she was the envy of her town.
While it is said that the wheat crop
Of Wichita county was this year fail
ure, one hundred cars of it have been
shipped already from Leoti, the county
seat
Charles Harger, has an article in the
North American Review on "a Prob
lem Of Aridity." 1t has been solved at
the next town, Junction City, by
monthly fines.
Some Of the papers are complaining
because Professor Dyche makes money
on the side. If the papers have some
sense they will leave Dyche alone. He
deserves all he can get,
Most of the Kansas papers have with
drawn their foolish protests against
cards of thanks" and are printing
them. The little graces OF life are too
few and far between to license the des-
Itruction Of any of them.
An old fashioned man who makes
his wife get up and start the morning
fires lives in Lawrence, and he heats
his house with furnace which blew
off a lot of gas the other morning and
knocked the good woman against the
wall.
Topeka ought to have the right to
use the State house for any local pur-
pose She already occupies one side Of
the grounds with an unsightly build
ing, used for library, and ought to
have part of the unused ground for
base ball or foot ball purposes.
A fakir struck Kingman the other
day selling tooth wash. He would cast
out long rope and ask everybody to
take hold, and he would give them an
electric shock. When everybody had
hold he would yell: This is the big
best line Of suckers ever caught" A
Ringman man got hold of the rope and
took 1t away from the fakir in revenge.
Two tramps in a neighboring town
hit upon a novel plan to get some
whishey. They went into saloon
with a gallon jug and had it filed
with liquor and offered a dollar in
payment Of course the bartender re-
fused the money and emptied the
liquor back into the barrel and the
tramps took the jug and departed.
Later they were seen to break the jug
over a stone and squeeze out over a
pint of liquor from the sponges which
they had placed on the inside of the
jug.
The payroll of the Rock Island rail.
road at Caldwell last month was the
largest since the road was built into
that town