The Globe-republican., 1897-12-30

1he WneSs crop n md north.
ern Kansas = vssy halls at this
season.
On December esrd . bnaflsss firm at
Blue RapidA shipped fotr tkousand
pounds of turkeys to the essen mar
ket.
A Saline county man san he wishes
ne were a camel A cahel can drink
enough at one time e last hir seven
dayA
A man was arrested IN Ga,cna re-
Gently for merely adding 20 the circu-
lating medium, an unliuiteiawoant Of
eounterfeit money.
10. Ady. now in colsr@ao, to the
charge that he is broken inSpossset and
health, replies spiritedly that hi.
health may not DO free Of knot holes.
but the constitution of his Rocket book
is that of grass-fed OK
A Chester White hog out i6Kingmkn
county is the wonder of all who sees
it The animal was weighed the othe,
day and tipped the beam to 7eo pounds
and it was not very fat either. The
children out their still see the monste,
in their dreams
In celebra ton of Christmas, Govern
or Leedy pardoned from the peniten-
tiary: George Lee of Fort Scott. in
prison since 1895 for robbing freight
car; Rev. J. l.. Langdon of Topeka, in
prison since 1894, charged with assault
ing a little girl; A. II. Fry of Cherokes
county, in prison since 1888 for bur-
glary.
A Kansas man always has an eye ia
a boom. A Harper county man, writ
ing home from Yokahama says: There
are no sidewalks The people walk in
the middle of the street. Space in
front is to storekeepers, only conven-
fence to display their goods From tho
of new buildings going up,
we Judge that the city is growing rap"
idly. Every roof is of tile, whether
of native or of foreign built.
Colonel Ho,sington, a special agent
Of the government and representing
the land department., spent several
days last week making an appraise'
ment of 1900 acres of land belonging
to the Fort Dodge military reservation,
and lying north of the Soldiers home.
This land is to be sold in 40 acre tracts
At not less than 81 25 an acre. The
land will be sold at public sale. The
land near Wright station is appraised
at S. so an acre; and it rund ut So and
b .25 an acre.
Evaline Tyndall, the 20 year old
of the Rev. o. L. Tyndali of
Douglass county, died last week, after
m illness of about two weeks. Her
ailment is said to have been kidney
and malarial fever. She was
treated by letter and telegram from
Christian Science institute conducted
by DR.: bowls of Chicago, of whose
the Rev. Tyndall had become
an advocate since trip there last
summer, and no physician was regu-
larly called in during the girls sick
ness.
Prof. w. E. Covert has introduced
new industry in southwest Kansas
He has secured five full blood regis
tered Belgian rabbits and will make 1t
. business to raise rabbits of the above
kind to sell to breeders and the meat
markets. The Belgian rabbit is fawn
color, weighs from to 12 pounds, and
has feet as large as wild cat. 1t is q
Fighter, too. being able to lick any do
nestle cat. 1t kicks like mule with
it's hind feet. The rabbit is considered
The equal of quail for table uses and
superior to the flesh of any other ami
nal. It readily sells on the Kansas
City and Denver markets at from 20 to
Is cents per pound. These animals
breed from four to five times a year.
It is not Palmer Cox's funny charac-
sers alone that have made c. u. Jeffer.
ION, Klaw s Kralnger's great produc-
ion, palmer Cox's Brownies" the re-
success it is. When the cur.
tain rises on the splendid scene of tho
elaborate spectacle at the Crawford
Grand, Wichita, early in January, the
audience will witness one of the most
beautiful collections of young women
ever seen upon the stage. The princi-
pals in 1.-THE Brownies" Eva Tanguay,
iertie Carlyle, and others well-known
20 the theatre-goers, are unusually
handsome. All the chorus and ballot
girls have been selected out of hum
lreds of applicants on account of their
extreme beauty of face and form. The
fifteen young women who appear in