The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-02-12
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A Topeka man is paying for beinf
married on the installment plan. This
Is a fact.
Newton girls like to go skating be
cause they get chance to hold the
boys hands.
A Leavenworth girl declares thai
ohe bnys the old dresses CT the house
20 hold her job.
The first thing state printer II
Kansas does after being elected is te
hire an attorney.
The last cargo of cattle shipped by a
Greenwood county firm to Liverpool
~old at $40 head
The weather man may have it in for
Abe ice dealers, but evidently he is not
trying to freeze them out
Last week Professor Dyche has to
postpone lecture on the North Pole
because of the cold weather.
A Kansas man has discovered that
as matter of fact the dogs of Egypt
do not bark at the pyramids at all.
Joblot parties are so thick in Atchi-
son Just now that even the "breakfast'
dates have been claimed until Lent
The wherea bouts of the Bender fam
lily is again being discussed. 1t is
claimed that they are in Old Mexico.
During the recent cold weather in
southern Kansas the plumbers have
been seeking it to the steam laundries.
An Atchison mans idea of person
who is well educated is one who can
spell both ends of Bailie Waggoners
name.
There are as many fools in other
states as in Kansas, but the trouble is
that in Kansas we pay more attention
to them.
The husbands of the women who set
the social pace in Atchison have hired
cook and will live in club until the
afternoon craze is over.
A professor of two-step, who has es-
tablished herself at Galena. has been
granted a permit by the mayor to spell
her first name Jeanne"
A bill has been introduced into the
Kansas legislature making the posses
sion of government license by a joint
list prima facie evidence of guilt
A Cherryvale man is credited with
the intention to bring suit for divorce
against his wife on the ground that
she is running his health and uniting
him for business by her poor cooking.
An Abilene man has moquette car
pet in his house that generates cleo
tricity in a wonderful way. The other
night young man went to kiss one of
the girls and was knocked through the
front door by the charge.
II is our luck, during real cold wealth
er, says an Atchison man, to hear from
a friend in the south who is eating
Strawberries, and in very hot weather
we always hear from friend who is
sitting by the fire in the mountains
February End is generally known as
aground hog day." and the condition
Of weather that exists on this anniver-
sary is supposed by the superstitiously
Inclined, to indicate the kind of wealth
er that will prevail for the next six
weeks. If the ground hog didn't see
his shadow when he sauntered forth
from his hole about noon it was not
because the sun was hidden, for that
luminary was shining bright at the
hour mentioned.
There is a great grief in certain
Atchison family; guest of the house
has discovered that the oldest daugh-
ter has a 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 a hardwork-
ing young mechanic, but has broken
it off since told that she has 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.
Skating in Kansas is so rare that
when ice does co~Ie a number of old
fashioned wooden skates with runners
that curl up over the top make Their
appearance from the attics.
The Newton Kansan says: "It is said
that a Newton man has twelve dogs
and that he hides them all in the cellar
when the assessor call upon him. A
census is taken of the dogs of a county
just as it is of the people, SO when the
number is announced this year, just
add twelve to the total number in or
der to make it correct.
The average Kansas girl never know:
how thin the soles on her shoes are un
til she tries to clamp club skates or
them.