The Globe-republican., 1896-08-06

The hogs of Elk county consumed
300 pounds Of cholera cure last week,
and died.
They say nothing is quite as fierce
as Harvey county girls hate for an
institute girl.
The teachers of Lyon county have
perfected an organization to be con-
Quoted as training school
The man who has a hose in front of
his house to play with these hot even
ings has big start of the man who
has not.
The Kansas Interstate Coal and
Feed company of Kansas City, Kans.,
has been incorporated with capital
of IS, 900.
A swell wedding occurred in Cove
county last week and the happy couple
were presented with dozen towels
and a bar of soap.
It cost Sis, 112.14 to run Shawnee
county last year. This does not in
clude spoilers or the cost of Gyp
Woods magic lantern.
A Topeka man appeared on the street
the other day with a placard which
read: II will hot pot any man who
mentions politics to me-"
Carrie Wooden of Cowley county
tried to commit suicide the other day,
failed and now has decided to keep her
moatal coil in an unruff1ed condition.
In Kansas town a woman has re-
Gently been charged with living with .
man who was not her husband, and
the financial question has been sus-
pended in that place.
Many extravagant stories are being
told of Kansas corn, but the Atchison
Champion vouches for the truth of the
statement that this year Kansas far
mers do back up to stalks and scratch
their backs.
Atchison Globe: "Among old stu.
dents of the State University it is con-
sidered bond of friendship to have
courted the same college widow while
at Lawrence. Five of the Atchison
ex-university students have kissed the
Same girl" Well, what of it? No
doubt they were not the only oneA
The first steam laundry made its ap-
pearance recently in western Kansas
town. One man who put boiled shirt
in and took it out two days later, said
to the proprietor: my wife can beat
you washing and when it comes to
pulling the shirts to pieces I've got
threshing-machine that will knock
that machine of yours all hollow
The canyons, who will establish
zinc smelter in Allen county, already
have shipped twenty-four cars of ore
there, and connection has been made
with the natural gas main. There are
deposits of fire clay near there, and
the canyons will give them u thorough
test as soon as they get their furnaces
in shape. a great deal of fire clay is
used IN zinc smelling.
At late meeting of the executive
council the Governor offered a resolu-
ticn requiring an inventory to be taken
of all property in the State house,
and making each officer personally re-
sponsible for the property used in his
department. The resolution was I'M
animously adopted, and Captain Booth
of the Secretarys Office, is now listing
the property.
w. T. Little and J. s. Chick, Kansas
City contractors, haAing been working
their men ten hours a day on the State
house grounds, Labor Commissioner
Bird called upon them and informed
them that under tie Kansas law eight
hours constituted a days work. The
contractors notified their men that in
the future they would be required to
work only eight hours.
a Kansas man, in attempting to tell
his Eastern friends how fast Western
cities grow, says he went off hunting,
and, night coming on, he went to sleep
in tree to be out of the way of the
wolves. He was awakened next morn
ing by some wOrSmen. who told him to
get down and finish his nap on the
court house steps, as they wanted to
turn the tree into flag pole for the
hotel across the way. He got down,
and whilo rubbing his eyes was nearly
run over by street car aud got his
feet tangled in an electric wire.
One of the features attached to the
Kansas penitentiary is that the State
owns a mine and operates it through
the convictS 1t is 80 feet deep and
the first move is always to put new
convicts into it. They dread this or
deal as one might dread being passed
into the Internal regions, but after a