Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-18
KANSAS TOPICS.

It is said that every dog has his day,
but what about Mr.. Canine, of Mcpherson
county?
with apparent indifference to the rapid
extinction of his species, Mr.. Buffalo, of
Strong City, is seeking divorce.
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If there is anything in that metaphor
about glass houses, Mr.. Shyrock, of Fort
Scott, ought to know it.
e Nellie webb isgthe name of an Atchison
girl who is getting rich teaching whist at
the rate, of IS for twelve lessons.
The Great Bend Tribune declares that II
it is true Mars is inhabited with people
just like ourselves, it is mighty tough on
the mortgage companies.
The difference between the sensitiveness
of man and woman is aptly illustrated in
the case of that Abilene man who intends
to sue for damages the person who started
the story that he was about to be operated
upon by the doctors. A woman would rather
get such a story in the papers about her
than half-column account of her pink
tea.
The Wichita Eagle wants to know wheth-
er hikes is a native Kansas word and
cites the case of a Kansas girl who wrote
to her chum that her new dress hikes
up behind.
'1t may always be depended upon," says
the Atchison Globe, that the man who
goes around posing as a Jolly saint, and
giving presents to the public, is tyrant
and miser at home. Our heart bleeds
for Mrs. Santa Claus"
ut Is to be hoped" says the Abilene
Reflector, that Ed Little will stay in town
as much as possible. Two men from Clay
and one from Cloud were here to-day to
see him about jobs, and it all makes busi-
ness for the hotels. Ed was in hiding from
them most of the day"
A big, two-fsted Pop went into a shoe
shop at Hutchinson where three or four
Grand Army men were loafing the other
day and declared that Mckinley is big
ger traitor than Jeff Davis" The Grand
Army men pounced on him with hammers
and things and the doctors had to sew
him up.
w, c. Shinn, who made the Dodge City
Times such a wild and woolly publication
in the early days, is now master of trans.
where he has fought off consumption and
laid by. considerable wealth.
In answer to correspondent: The first
white child born on the soil of Kansas
was Napoleon Boone, son of Daniel NJ.
Boone, who was a son of the great Ken
lucky Daniel Boone. The birth took place
on August o. 1928, at place few miles
north of the present site of Lecompton, in
Jefferson county. The father was holding
government employment teacher of
farming to the Kansas tribe Of Indians.
On October IS, 1856. Lady Byron. widow
of the poet, sent $500 from England to aid
the cause of the free state settlers in Kan
sas. A few weeks later Richard Realf,
who was protege of Lady Byron arrived
in the territory and became a prominent
actor in the struggle for freedom. He was
the first Kansas poet. His career, which
ended in suicide in San Francisco less than
twenty years ago, was nlarvelously similar
to that of the American poet, Edgar A.
Poe-though -Bohemianism is pretty much
the same the, world over. These bits of
history are suggested by some letters of
inquiry received at the Kansas historical
department from the relatives of Lady
Byron, who had heard that a history of
Colonel Realf had been written. There
WAS a IOOllSn story III SItGldtIuil III hdu-
sas at the time of Realf's residence there
to the effect that he was the illegitimate
son OF Lord Byron. but this is obviously
impossible. as Byron died in 1924 and ReaIf
could not have been born at that time.
did 1 ever tell you about the cholera
epidemic out on the plains?"' inquired Col
onel Bob Wright, of Dodge City, as he fell
into reminiscent mood the other day.
We'll, in the summer of 1861 the cholera
swept over Western Kansas like one of
those hot winds which comes up from the
staked plains and it numbered its VIC
tins by the hundreds. Soldiers. teamsters.
ranchers and Indians fell victims to the
dread disease and for years afterwards
graves could be seen along the trails and
about the well known camping places.
II was running a hay ranch twenty-five
miles west of Fort Dodge that year. and
the first intimation had of anything un.
usual happening was sudden stop in the