Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-09
KANSAS TOPICS.

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1t will be observed that in extending an
invitation to Mr.. Bryan the Kansas legis-
lature inclosed no cards for Mr.. Sewall or
Mr.. Watson.
1t is said that Bruce Lynch will take his
old run as an engineer out of Chanute. If
he does he will be invincible for something
in the next Republican state convention.
The fact that Mrs. Ditto, of Neodesha,
belongs to Il club for the preservation of
the identity of married women doesn't
prevent her mean husband from putting
her on the hotel register as Mrs. ..
There is no shock to the celestial con-
sistencies in the discovery that Mr.. Saint
is leading citizen in Paradise township,
Jewell county.
If Charley Scott discovers sudden and
mysterious shutting off in his exchanges
he need only remember that the profess
sion draws the line editor who prints
the smart sayings of his own 2-year-od
boy.
Bill Morgan went home from the Kansas
City editorial banquet with a red necktie
hanging outside his vest and his hat
tipped over to one side, and in the next
udy SullOEldI Sdlu lie
tins can't roll EN- any too high to suit u.s..
Mr.. and Mrs. James Dick celebrated
their golden wedding at Mcpherson the
other day. Mr.. Dick is entitled to distinc-
tion as the only man who ever got religion
while serving as chaplain on a Pennsyl-
vania canal boat.
81 do not see,'' remarks Lew HeadIey as
he wearily turns from the perusal of the
advance sheets of Bryan's First Battle'
how a man may be killed in action and
yet live to tell about it,
1.-THE Indifference of Catholics to Protest
ants is very amusing" says the Atchison
Globe. "Protestants preach against card
playing and dancing, but the Atchison
Catholics gave a social the other night and
offered Bibles as prizes in the card play
ing. There was also dancing
A Florence man who married a widow
always refers to her husband when speak
ing of him in company as my predeces-
Sor.
Joe Bristow is quite right in the state
ment at the head of his editorial page that
man doth not live by bread only" He
occasionally gets a private secretaryship
at 5000 year.
A Kansas man once gave an exhibition of
patience and forgiveness almost worthy of
the lowly Nazarene 1t was in 1862, at
Leavenworth when mob formed to de-
stroy the office of the Daily Inquirer
rebel organ. Webb Wilder, who was edi-
tor of the Leavenworth Conservative,
pleaded with the mob not to do it, and
carried the day. Less than two years be-
fore that time the pro-slavery people had
Totally destroyed Wilder's newspaper Of
| flee and forced him to run for safety.
No educational institution on earth has
| finer collection of stuffed animals and birds
and picked insects than the Kansas state
university. Visitors to the museum may
| have noticed a stuffed pelican, somewhat
| awkwardly mounted. which is given the
place of honor among the birds. 1t was
| the first specimen of any sort received in
the now famous collection, and Topics re-
| members well the circumstances under
which it was procured. Chancellor Snow
| arrived at the university in 1866, If we are
| not mistaken, and the pelican was pro-
cured in the spring of 1867. Snow was n
| natural born hunter. Within few months
after his arrival he knew all the haunts
| of game in the vicinity. He had fashion
| of mounting a little dun pony which he
| owned and riding out to the duck ponds
| before uayllgnt, ana Il very ldmlllar SlgnC
to the early day people of Lawrence it was
! to see him come Gathering through town
about sunup with bunch of birds tied to
| the horn of his saddle. He always rode as
| though the very devil was after him and
| seldom came empty handed.
One morning in the spring of 1867 he
| went to Wright's lake, a small pond out
| across the Wakarusa, and there he shot a
| pelican as it came sailing over him. He
| had never seen a pelican before and could
| not name 1t. and neither could Professor
| David Robinson. to whom he later sub
mitted the bird for inspection. OF course
they were soon able TO discover its species
| from the text books, and then they set
about finding taXidermist who could stuff
| it. There was no professional of that sort
| about Lawrence, but they finally induced
old DIR. Saunders to skin and mount the
| bird and it was then installed in the uni
versity with considerable pride on the part
| of both of the professors. AS stated be-
fore, it became the nucleus of the present
magnificent collection. and is therefone
valued more highly than any other speci-
men in the museum.
|
The publication of the following by Bent
Murdock convinces us that he is not half
so blind those two pairs of spectaclos
would seem to indicate: The Kansas City
ments of every kind, and the owner is a
man who is not afraid to tell the truth
Keep your eye on the Journal"
A Swede went into lawyers Office al
Atchison the other day to get him to make
out a conveyance for some land which he
had purchased. He said he wanted mort
gage. but the lawyer said he should nave a
warranty deed NO" replied the Swede
II once had a warranty deed to a farm
but another man held mortgage and got
the land. 1 want a mortgage"
Speaking of the dogs which barled al
the pyramids we observe that Mrs. W. w
Canine, of Burden, has fallen heir to $780,
900 from the estate of an Eastern relative
The latest recruit to the Populist rebel
lion is Ad Gallop, of Pleasanton. who ha.
returned home after months fruitles!
visit at the state capital in quest of of
flee. He tells his home paper that mo mar
need apply TO Governor Leedy for jol
except free silver Republicans from whou
the stink of plutocracy has not yet blown
away"
1t will he remembered that a year or 81
ago there was great excitement over tn,
discovery that three graves had beer
opened at the Topeka cemetery and th
bodies of three women carried away to
. local medical college. There was talk o
| a mob and Governor Morrill, called out th