Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-02-25
CLIPPINGS AND COMMENTS.

the Republican may get plenty of the
evidences OF coyote prosperity.
A man in Wabaunsee county by the
name of Dollar has married woman
by the name of Nickle. This does not
settle the money question, but it may
make a few dollars towards it.-La
Crosse Clarion
That's the first known instance where
a nlckle was made the better half of
dollar.
A good second hand gentleman's 8 BIZ
cycle for sale cheap, or will trade for a
good lady's wheel.-Valley Center In
deX.
Your second hand gentleman had
better keep his wheel until he learns to
ride like first hand gentleman. We
thought all ladies were good ladies'
II their wheels were not in their heads.
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Roller skating is getting to be quite
fad IN Dodge City, and every body
seems tu enjoy it.-Dodge City Demo
crat.
Great Scott! Somebody said there
were many high rollers" in Dodge;
but we supposed that town-like the
rest of 'em-had couvalessed from the
roller skating craze at least fifteen
years ago.
The Chinese skin cats before cooking
them. but dogs are simply soused in
boiling water TO remove the hair,
little hair being left on the end of the
tail to show the color.-StrOng City
Derrick.
The reason they want to show the
color by the tuft of hair on the tail is
because white dog is reserved for the
wealthy Mandarin, while the yellow
curr variety is dished out to the coolie.
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Bill White, the cultured and cosmo-
pOlitan liar on Kansas, who registers
from Emporia, has been invited to Ohio
to scandaiiZe his home state.-Paola
Spirit.
I And Bill did it all right. The Chic
haters of Kansas could not get as pIet.
ty Or adept liar anywhere else in
Kansas as this same puffed up Bill
White. Neither could they get such a
man outside the ranks of republican
ism.
The legislature will pass maximum
| freight law, fee and salary law. law
upsetting the present charges at the
Kansas City stock yards, and a state
uniformity school book bill. That
much you can bet on.-Topeka Breeze.
| Well that will be an eminent suffici-
ency. And besides that, it will be
more good to the people of the state
generally than all the laws that have
been made by Kansas legislatures fol-
many years past.
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The people of Barton county have
been trying hard TO get big ditch from
the Arkansas river to the Cheyenne
Bottoms and convert the Bottoms into
an inland lake, but if the bill introduc.
ed into the legislature by Silas Rut.
ledge of this county is passed the people
out there will have to go dry a while
longer. Valley Center Index.
Don't worry about our going dry
Bro. Houston. This is the wettesi
county you ever saw, in more ways
than one. And besides, Silas' little
bill has already got lost in the scuff1e.
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After the close of the Cleveland ad
ministration it is thought the ex-presi.
dent will fish at BuZzards Bay, hunt
ducks at Dismal Swamps, and bathe ir
the Barton county lake. The latter
performance will rush an overflow tC
the cities of Great Bend and EllinwooC
and irrigate their gardens.-La Crosse
Republican.
Barton, like Barkis, is wiIIin'. And
if the president only knew what oodles
of ducks are now on Cheyenne lake ht
would be tempted TO not wait unit
after the 4th of March to make us
visit.
A young scamp at Baldwin annoyed
a fourteen. year old girl with snow balll
and she retaliated by hugging him. 1
seems she hugged too hard and she wa
arrested. So puritanic is that town j
was extremely difficult to get anyon,
to defend the poor unfortunate. 0
course she was convicted and fined S.
and costs.-Newton Journal.
Such an outrage never would hav
occurred in Joe Fugate's town. In tn
first place, no girl could possibly hu
too hard TO suit the boiler-iron yuuti
of NeWt0n. and secondIv Charli