Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-06

hNin: machines are constantly passing
from the earth to heaven and that they
whiE by him "a tremendous rate. When
| he tries 10 get aboard women in Ions
Hack robes lean over the sides of the
machine and mock and jeer at him. II
may be remarked in passing that his de-
fusion presents at least one consistency.
If ever q line Of air ships is established
10 heaven its passengers will. he pretty eX-
| ctus.N ely women.
The marriage of Mr.. Asa Boom at Cher.
okee would seem TO Justify the expectation
for at least little one in those parts.
The marriage of Pete Juggersnap in Kan.
sas breaks about even with the divorce OF
Buck Sigertlip in Missouri.
Assistant Secretary of State Tim Slower
was a sailor i'll his youth and on dull days
| he amuSeS the boys about the office by tv-
| ing Knots in Il rope. He can tie any knot
known to the profession.
Lots of people never commence to get
mean until they are old Rev Joseph Will
son. of Frankfort has brought suit for di-
vorcc against the wife with whom he has
| lived for more than forty years and alleges
| lncompatihility of temper
L. ). RILEY. great big remorSeless
| flIuiiSt in Rocks county has combed out
| MS WhiSkerS ana put grease on his boots
ana Is coming down to seize Frank Flen-
| ihken place as secretary of the state
beard Of railroad commissioners.
!
| me good Christian people in the vicinity
! OF Marietta. Marshall county. We're very
| much excited over the rcoort that = GER
tam sect intended to have Christ and His
| Twelve apostles personated at the Christ
I .trr Ts1E
! 'S materialiZc. 1t is not precisely the
| putin of outsiders hut we wish to remarl,
| ihtt with Colonel Bill Smith in the title
| role Marshall county could Law all over
the Passion play presented in thar
baNarlan village of oberammergau.
e, r. Ball is the name of q Neosho
county farmer who has been writing an
account TO the local paper of a trin he
recertly took 10 his boyhood home in En-
&i%nd. He says that when he started he
ulIed one of his grip bags fun of ear, of
Kansas corn. knowing they would he
quite curiosity across the water. but
on the steamer going over there We're n
iot OF English people and they bourb+
all of the corn at the price of u cents ~,
car before he had been out three days
Ntlle the thrtftineSS of Mr. Ball is some
.ilihE most strongly 10 be commended If
Is ON! with grief that We can peruse his
VI "Hdi next followed. He saws
ne sold his COPY of COINS Financial
SCh"oI' to q woman for 20 cents Tins
'i'drihS ~ cents on the original cost of
the book. Think of the sacrilegiousnass
OF Kansas Pop who would sell his
Gems Financial School" A man like
Billie. '' '"'H MS
ffltz Schooster is the name of q Fort
Scott man who has Il brother liviner in
pennsylvania. The other day he received
a letter from this brother rccouDtinc- tho
death of relative. and we extract the
lohowlhg sentence in demonstration of the
fact that a Pennsylvania Dutchn1an is NOT
entirely without perspicuity: Il can't ex
pam what Jake died with but the doctor
tnlnkS his sickness had something to do
Wlth.it, for he was not we'll for a long time
before he died"
That mysterious stranger who was shot
fun of holes while resisting arrest in Nen,-
aha county theSother day is still as much
OF q mystery as ever. The other dav it
pecame necessary to cut deep down into
his hip to remove Il bullet He positively
refused to take an anesthetic. ana with
cIinched lists and gritted teeth underwent
the. operation without a finch Later he
informed one of his fellow prisoners that
ne refused to take 5chloroform because he
was afraid that. Under dts influence he
might talk and giye himself away.
commenting on the fact that T. c. PEN
field, Ed Little's successor as consul zen.
eral to Egypt. had written Il letter to the
Youths Companion. in which he decIlred
that Abdul Hamid. the young khedive. was
Il very august parsonage. the Abilene Re
Hector contemptuously remarks that Ed
used to slap him on the shoulder and call
him "Ab."l
The kilograms of 4 few DAYS ago reIat |
ed that j. r. Burton. Of Abilene. and w. |
II. Mackey. of junction City We're having |
trouble over gold mine which they had |
purchased in New Mexico. because of 9th
er parties who claimed title to property. |
Burton returned from New Mexico on Sat |
urdaT and gives an entertaining account |
or now he secured possession of the mine |
W Nh"n he arrived there lie found that the |
other fellows had employed 4 man who |
had the record of having killed two men |
TO guard the property and Keep him off |
II Went back TO town.. says Eurton. and |
hired Il man who had the record of having |
Killed five men ana started him after the |
tWo-man killer. went along to witness I
the performance. but kept mt Il safe dis |
tance. Ny man walked right up with the
assurance which naturally goes with Il
hve-m"n record, and the other fellow
weakened. | tell YOU. records are a great
thing down in New Mexico. Later I rode
into town on tEe same wagon with the
ouSted killer. and he was not angry. but
seemed to think that had not treated him
exactly fair in running in Il 1ivr-fnancr
when he was only in the twO-mancr class"