The Globe-republican., 1897-02-11


Chanute joints are called dynamite
shops"
Garden City has o Mae who Is not
above typcsetting.
Newton girls like to go skating be-
cause they get chance to hold the
boys hands.
| A Leavenworth girl declares that
she bnys the old dresses CT the house
!! to hold her job.
| The wherea bouts of the Bender FAM
! lily is again being discussed. 1t is
! claimed that they are in Old Mexico.
When Miss Yaw meets a final and
real death she should have a monu-
ment reading: Greatness is made by
| advertising, not born"
A Fort Scott man is having his stom-
ach investigated by the \ rays. The
| stomach troubles him and he wants to
find out where the flaw is.
A professor of two-step, who has es-
tablished herself at Galena. has been
granted permit by the mayor to spell
her first name Jeanne"
At Winfield the mayor has appoint
ed policeman to keep order at the sal
walton army meetings, the army pay
ing the salary of the officer.
Rev. Pothshanks of Pillville has at
tackled the ball to be given by Miss
Bessie Durrant which will cost five
dollars and seventy-tive cents.
A Salina woman wants the Ameri-
cans to organize a society in which
each member will pledge himself to
buy only American made goods.
A bill has been introduced into the
Kansas legislature making the posses
sion Of a government license by joint
list prima facie evidence of guilt.
During the last twenty-five years
the city of Topeka has paid out over
thirteen thousand dollars in insurance
premiums on the city school buildings.
Topeka has taken another start in
is boom for big convention hall.
The man who first started this boom
died in 1868, and his son is now one of
the boomers.
Vick's Annual is now being distribu-
ted. In an early day the prettiest
thing that reached Kansas was the an
nual and the children used to fight for
possession.
The fact that cows are increasing in
western Kansas and that millions of
tons of ice are being put up now sug-
gests that ice cream will be dirt cheap
out there next summer.
Skating in Kansas is so rare that
when ice does co'.:e a number of old
fashioned wooden skates with runners
that curl up over the top make their
appearance from the attics.
An Abilene man has moquette car
pet in his house that generate cleo
tricity in a wonderful way. The other
night q young man went to kiss one of
the girls and was knocked through the
front door by the charge.
A story is told on a Kansas girl that
her mother recently put jug of boil
ing water at the foot of the girls bed
to keep her feet warm, and that in the
night the girls feet got so cold they
froze the water solid, and bursted the
jug.
Another Kansas girl is setting the
East wild with her marvellous voice.
Her name is Miss Boyd. A Kansas
newspaper writer says she is the same
Kittie Boyd who lived up the creek
near where Jake Potter now farms and
who achieved that splendid voice by
filling the prairie dog valley with the
music of that marvellous opera written
by Sig. Bovini, entitled "Cosboss, Coo
boss"
There is great grief in a certain
Atchison family; guest of the b use
has discovered that the oldest da, .gh-
ter has voice, and the mother and
children are looking reproachfully at
the father because he doesn't send her
TO Italy to have it cultivated. The girl,
moreover, was engaged to hardwork-
ing young mechanic, but has broken
it off since told that she has a voice,
for what has future Patti or Melba
to do with the making of pumps and
car wheels? Of course the girl hasn't
enough voice to fool with.
A banker at Topeka has prepared at
the request of eastern parties, a state
ment of the public Indebtedness of
Kansas, meaning the indebtedness of
the state, counties, cities, townships
and school districts. The statement
shows an aggregate Indebtedness on
June 30, 1896, of S34, So, O39. The tax
able property of Kansas as fixed BY the