Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-07-06
KANSAS TOPICa.

If Topics understands Mr.. Jordan clearly,
he is willing to admit that several cogs
have broken out of the periphery of his
deputy marshal cinch, but insists that it is
still in revolution.
The Wichita Eagle is almost as slow in
recognizing the value of the new fast mail
as the Pops are in admitting the return of
prosperity.
Bale Waggener is considerable OF a
humorist. In complaining to the Atchison
water company of the character of the
fluid furnished. he said it was too thin 10
cultivate and too thick to drink
II Mrs. Lease is correct in the statement
that the octopus always reaches out a claw
for the man who becomes delinquent in his
interest payments. God alone W uld seem to
be able TO help Mr.. BacktOll, of Stockton
Commenting on the fact that the school
book commission has adopted, the vertical
system Of penmanship. the Lawrence Jour
nal rejoices that at last one straight thing
has been found about the Pop administra-
ton.
Milton Brown lost something else besides
an Indian Territory judgeship during his
recent visit to Washington. He was
sauntering along Pennsylvania avenue,
reading the signs ard humping up against
people. when a sneak thief relieved him Of
his return ticket to Kansas.
Here is a proposition tFat ought to set
somebody's sporting blood in motion: The
farmers of Rush county want to bet one
hundred thousand bushels of wheat that
their county raises a million more bushels
than any other county in the state.
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The editor of a new paper down in South
western Kansas gravely announces that it
will be "neuter'' in politics but offensive
ly' earnest in everything affecting the ma
terial welfare Of its readers.
MISUNDERSTANDING item from the La
Crosse Republican: Rev. A. L. Norieet IS
operating a header in Pleasantdale town
ship for J. H. Linn, but will preach at the
NJ. Z. church next Sunday at the usual
hour.
The late Judge Prescott. of Salina. were
he alive. would have occasion TO look upon
his children with pride and JOY. Three OF
lis boys have graduated from Harvard COL
lege with unusual honoTs. the last one be-
ing Carl. who took his degree at the end
OF the present school year and at once en-
tered professional life as a member of the
editorial staff of a Boston newspaper. The
t-utSl sth u d pAOA'oSpl III "a SNdtt I'M
versity. of Indiana. and the second is an
Instructor in Harvard.
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The addition 10 Morrill, academy at Hia-
vatha, known as Hoover hall" IS about
completed. 1t was built with funds from
the estate of the late Isaac B. Hoover. OF
Hiawatha. and an entertaining story is
told Of how the academy became the OBJ
ject of his benefaction. He was an irasci-
bic old gentleman and somewhat given 10
embellishinE his conversation with expIe-
tives. one day he was trundling a wheel
barrow down the dewal when he met
three girls from the town high school pro-
ceeding along arm in arm and covering the
whole sidewalk He didn't yield. and the
girls didn't yield. and the result was a col
lision in which the parties became consId-
eTabIy mixed. After the old man had ex-
tricated himself he sat down on the wheel
barrow and commenced to swear. I'll be
-" said he. If ! don't see to IT that
this -- town gets a school that Will
teach some kline Of -- politeness,' In
d day or two il was announced that the
old man had charged his will so that his
fortune would 20 to the academy instead
Of the Masonic lodge, as he had at first in
tended.
There isn't anything that tickles a doctor
so entirely as TO get hold of a piece OF mu-
tilated humanity. II II Is peculiarly re-
voting in appearance he will have as many
different kinds of ecstacy over It as a sum-
mer girl does with a rev kind OF ice cream.
At the meeting of the Golden Belt Med
ical Association at Abilene the other day
the doctors had a beatiic seance over the
great toe of a negro that had been sent
them by Surgeon McClintock. OF Topeka.
The toe was an exhibit Of the effects Of a
remarkable disease. only ten cases of which
have ever been reported in the United
States. a member afflicted with this dis
ease amputates itself without the aid Of a
surgeons knife. The first thing noticed
by the patient Is an absence Of feeling in
the member. Then a slight furrow forms
around it and steadily deepens until the
member drops off without pain or the loss
Of blood. II is common on the west coast
of Africa among the negroes. but il has
never been known TO assail d white man.
One can take down any recognized Pop
ulis: work which deals with the 'unearned
Increment" and prove beyond a peradvent-
ure tina the Pop farmers Of Kansas have
received co-mmensurately larger returns up
on a small investment of labor and capital
than any rich man who ever set out TO be a