The Globe-republican., 1897-02-11

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Newton is great town for railroad
news.
The Topeka husbands whose wives
have been experimenting on them with
the Pure Food show receipts are now
reconciled to drug store whisky.
There is pending in Atchison suit
against the city by former policemen
for SO, 900 alleged to be owing from the
city for time served over eight honrs &
day.
The charge is made against the New
ton dairymen that the people there got
their first pure milk of years during
the cold snap. Every pump in town
was frozen up.
Most Kansas women when they at
tend theater forget the play in try
ing to figure sut who is whose husband
and who is whose wife in real life
among the players
An Atchison woman complains that
though she has put up fruit for thirty
summers, she has never yet been paid
the compliment of having burglar
break into her cellar and steal it.
Although young people do not believe
it, there are as many opportunities as
ever to get rich. There never was a
time before when talent was SO quickly
recognized, or commanded as high a
price.
The magnificent wheat fields in the
State. are just now looking at their
best. Plenty of rainfall during this
winter has placed the ground in good
condition, and as a result the wheat
is beyond the average.
Kansas editors have way when they
get married of joking about it III their
newspapers When they get home at
night the bride says: ''Oh John! think
that was horrid." She may not like it.
The groom thinks she does.
A Kansas newspaper says: IA new
use for big sleeves was found by a
woman in attendance at the Pure Food
show at Topeka-the sleeves were used
to stow away samples. Just think of
the possibilities of this infant industry
in the case of a woman with kleptO-
manical tendencies!'
A new fake is being worked in But
Ter county. A woman book agent
comes along and leaves book for ex-
animation. The next day a mau comes
along and collects the books. Next
day the woman comes back, declares
that the mon was thief and demands
pay.
A western Kansas young man who
studied church affairs pretty carefully
thus defines them: "a church fair is
a place where we can spend more mon
ey than we can afford for things we do
not want in order to please whom we
do not like and to help the heather
who are happier than we are"
The Lawrence Journal says: It is not
probable that another state normal
school will be established by the pres
emit legislature, but is there is. Wichita
should have it by all rules of fairness
and decency. The fact that there are
already several schemes and jobs put
up by which individuals are to profit,
should cut no figure"
Near Emporia there is a farm. In
one house on this farm lives j. W. o.
burn; on the other side Edith Osburn.
his daughter-in-law. They quarrelled
The old man established . trocha.
Each was TO keep his and her side of
this. The old man violated the rule,
got over his trocha, the woman attack
ed him and he hit her with a revolver.
The case is now in court.
When it comes to love and ambition,
there are cases where ambition knocks
Atchison woman has had two pet chick
ems for nine years that followed her
around and ate from her hand. Her
husband recently objected because she
wanted to give a dinner party, and to
overcome his objections by reducing
the expenses, she killed her two pet
hens and made them into chicken SAL
ad, and ate her share without q ire
NOR.
A school district in Kansas not hav-
ing been able to make satisfactory ar
rangements with local booksellers, has
made a contract with the publishers
direct, by means of which the children
are supplied at wholesale prices, the
board furnishing the books at cost
While the plan by no means settles
the vexed school book question, it
meets the approval of all the patrons