Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-03
KANSAS TOPICS.

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along. He has sloped the state.
.
The idea held by State Senator Cook
that ponds will supernduce rain will no
bear scientific analysis. If such were tn
case it would rain all the time over th
Great lakes, when, as a matter of fact, tn,
region thereabouts has little or no NOR,
rain than Kansas.
society has been organized by the Ell
dorado women for the purpose of forcing
man to his proper level. BY 1910 they ex
! pect to have him so far reduced that h,
can vote only on the question of calling
new preacher and in school meetings.
Bent Murdoch knows Il man by the name
of William Gallagher who is original enough
TO be interesting. When the first day Of
January comes around he burns all his ac.
count books and calls himself square with
the world. He neither pays the debts he
owes nor collects the money which is com.
ing to him. On New Years morning he
gets drunk and stays so for a week, after
which he settles down to business and for
year is the most circumspect citizen OF
the town.
General W. W. Guthrie is reputed to be
rich In addition to his law practice in
| Atchison, he runs a big stock ranch in
Chase county. The other day he personal
| ly loaded a train full of cattle at the ranch
| while the thermometer stood below zero
and then went along to Kansas CITY, At
each station he got out with the other cow
boys and punched up the steers with a
sharp pointed pole;
Nineteen divorce suits brought by women
are before the present term of court at
Parsons-which is an additional proof that
| even marriage doesn't stop woman from
| going after man.
| An old farmer who has been stopping Mt
one of Topeka's cheap boarding houses
| ever since the inauguration of Governor
| Leedy came out on the street Yesterday
and told policeman his troubles. II do
not understand" said he. why it is that
all of the offices are going to the fellows
| VINO wear neckties and have soft hands
| fellows who never did lick of hard work
in all their lives. I thought we farmers
would have show, but the dudes have
beat u.s.
1t is related in an Independence paper
that the remains of one Mr.. Gottleib were
taken from the local cemetery in great
haste and shipped to Cincinnati for rein
| terment. In explanation it is said that the
| Jewish law requires that bodies shall be
buried in consecrated Jewish cemetery
| within two years after death. and that in
the case of Mr.. Gottleib the time was near
ly up.
In the course of recent editorial Mr..
Hagaman, of the Concordia Blade which
is an orthodox Populist paper, advises the
Populist members of the legislature to take
an the Doodle which may be offered to
them. as they will be looked upon and
regarded as thieves, anyway"
1t Is intimated that Mrs. Backus of
Usage county, intends 10 proceed upon the
legislature with her anti-corset measure
which, it will be remembered. she attemnt
ed TO have recommended in the governors
message 1T is said that she has written a
letter to one of her county members in
which she declares that no generously en-
dowed woman should. oppose the reform
Tor, aside from its healthfuness. It offers
advantages to her in the matter of self
PRIDE When every woman is compelled to
traVel upon her own shape as 1t were, the
one who requires no artificial aids will
shine in comparison with her less favored
sister There appears to be considerable
force in this argument. for it is directed
against sham and false pretenses. and is
quite IN harmony with the spirit of the
nineteenth century.
It Is said that Professor Dyche missed
several North pcle lectures on account of
the cold weather. His audiences probably
got hot about it,
There is a state university graduate in
Topeka who says that when Sol Miller die,
he is going to hoist a flag and hire a brass
band to play two hours.
This Ed Little-pyramid business is get
ting to be considerable of a BORE and
herceforth We expect to pass it in Sphinx
like silence.
The Topeka papers. mostly edited by
YounS and inexperienced men, are irving
to make sport over the discoverv-made
through an attachment proceeding in court
-that u certain modest and well behaved
topeka matron had several pairs of tights
in her wardrobe. It seems to be the i'm
preston of these Topeka journalists that
such garments may only be associated with
the giddiness of the stage-lIngerie dia-
olcrie, as it We're. so to speak-but some
da% the probate judge will give them Ii |
cerse, and they will know better.
Abilene is fairly reveling in solf-congratu.
lation. In Mrs. NJ. H. Malott she has a |
lady who once attended a reception given |
by Queen Lii at her palace in Honolulu |
and she has a newspaper man who attend |
Ell the reception given to LIS brother. the |
king. at Washington. In Mrs. General |
Woods she also has lady who attended |
the reception given the Prince of Wales at |
Castle Garden, and in Mrs. B. +. Nelson a |
representative who attended the marriage |
of the Prince in England, and to this day
preserves piece of the wedding cake.
Speaking of wedding cake, it is not every
bride who can eat if she chooses of the
corrections which were served at the mar
riagc of her own mother. Mrs. ]. \. Rus
sell, of Abilene. has preserved for years 4
piece of the cake prepared for the mar
riagc feast of one of her Pennsylvania
school friends and the other day she for
Tarded it 10 the daughter of this friend,
who was taking a husband on her own ac-
count. with the following inscription: For
the journey you're about to take. 1 inclose
SOME OF your mothers wedding cake.
'On the Rock Island railroad" says the |
Osawatomie Graphic. ''the employees are
lot given time as punishment, but are
given marks instead. When an employe
goes on the carpet for some offense for
which he would ordinarily be given ten
days, he is given ten marks. When he has
siNty-five marks charged up to his account.
his 'suspcnders are cut. For years ]