The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-10-15

Miss Irish is q campaign speaker
Kansas City.
Leavenworth has experienced
''seige" of grasshoppera
Galena has a man who put up
stove without swearing. He is dea
mute.
There are so many hickory nuts j
Jefferson county this year that tn
people use them to kindle fires with
Miss Tressie Adams, who has bee
nominated for superintendent Q
Mitchell county, was known as tn
Scotch Princess when she was pup
at the Stockton academy.
Lieutenant A. G. Lott, who recent.
graduated at West Point, spent I
month among his boyhood friends a
Abilene without once putting on hi
bright uniform and shoulder straps
An advertisement in Norton papel
reads: ''Wanted-An elderly lady Il
keep house. Must be kind to twt
children" She can probably be a.
unkind as she chooses to the rest o.
the children.
A Barber county school achel
asked one of his pupils to define farm
i and one Of his bright boys gave the
! following: A farm is tract of land
covered by a mortgage and bounded by
a barb wire fence.
The corn crop of Kansas this year is
224, s45, 900 bushels The figures given
apply to lightweight counties and do
not include seventeen of those in the
southwest, where the total area plant
ed is but %, 300 acres.
George Darr and wife of Mcpherson
county celebrated the sixtieth ami
versary of their marriage the other
day and there were enough relatives
present to carry any township in the
county if they voted solid.
Women are the most inconsiderate
things on earth. A bride of few
months at Lacrosse left her husband
and went home to her ma simply be-
cause she found strange woman's
apron in one of his pockets.
If couple are able to prove enough
on each other to get divorce they
should never be permitted to marry
again. A couple were married at
Strong City the other day who had
been divorced less than three months.
Speaking of the invigorating effect
of Kansas climate we notice that G.
w. Ellis, who lives in Sumner county,
put in 16O acres of wheat by himself
last year and 200 this year. He is 60
years old and says he will retire from
business after this year.
At a recent Abilene wedding the
bride was ''gowned in a dainty white
with collars and elbow bands
Of white opal passamenterie." You
people who think that Kansas hasn't
any style about her, what have you
got to say to that, dunn We?
G. O. Virtue, who graduated from
The Kansas university some years ago,
has been engaged by Harvard college
20 deliver lectures on political econo-
ny, which is only another illustration |
If the fact that when you want the |
salt of the earth you must mine in
Kansas for it.
George George exhibited a chicken
It the Chase county fair last week |
which has been taking premiums right |
llong down there for fifteen years.
Fifteen year old birds may be some
hing of rarely in Chase county, but |
% man who has dined for years at a !
Topeka restaurant fifteen year old |
chicken seems like a picture of guile
ess happy youth.
A young man by the name of O'Brien
It Barber county, accidentally shot
himself Thursday evening. He had
ust returned from hunt, and in
,etting the gun out of the wagon,
nuzzle first, the weapon was discharg-
d and the consequence was he lost the
muscles and the aeshy part of an arm
rom the elbow to the shoulder.
While at Topeka last week. Dan
soyden met Ellis Day of Hiawatha,
Who served with him during the war
n the same company, +, Seventy-third
illinois. They had not seen each 9TH
r since the close of the war. Mr..
'oyden also visited the Soldiers home
t Lcavenworth, where he saw Benia-
ain Opdylse, another member, whom
e had not seen since the war. i
Crops may be little short ont in
lead county, but the gloom of disas-
er never can suppress the spirit of
emile mirth which still dwells up in /.