Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-30

The position of minister TO Venezuela
''Dahomey'' or any old country, with pref
| erenees, however. for the first named, is
the job Mr.. George Young, of Bosworth
would like TO tap the incoming administra-
tion for.
Enterprising Holt county thieves made q
| wagon trip around in search of plumber
the other night and managed to get away
unmolested with 400 pounds of pork and
forty bushels of corn.
A young man in Rosendale who recently
indulged in some unnecessary profanity
while in the local postoftice has bumped
up against some of Uncle Sans officials
in a way that seems to threaten more or
less disastrous consequences to himself.
Maryville looks forward to the sherry
cobbler season with a serene confidence,
born of the knowledge that 5000 tons of
home grown" ice are stored away in
readiness for the local demands.
After the change in management on the
Omaha & st. Louis line. about the middle
of March. there will be four passenger
trains run daily, and the general offices
will be transferred from Council Bluffs TO
Quincy.
Gentry countys unique and widely ad-
vertised industry, the McFall skunk ranch,
has become only fragrant memory.
Corn in Nodaway county is only bring
ing 10 cents a bushel, the lowest notch on
the price list that has been struck there for
many years.
Rabbits have been more destructive to
the apple trees in portions of Livingstone
county this season than ever before within
the recollection of the earliest settlers In
the township in which Utica is located,
nearly every tree is protected by wire
screening, but the little pests gnaw about
or dig under the guard, and hundreds of
bearing trees have been totally ruined in
that way.
Mr.. Wedding was married to an estimable
young woman over in Shelby county, and
the guests who were so fortunate as TO
witness the ceremony have not yet ceased
making puns of a prophetic and congrat-
ulatory nature appropriate thereto.
s*s
A government pension of SO a month,
with arrearages for period of more than
five years, has recently been secured for
Mrs. Westfall, the widow of the well,
known Rock Island conductor by that
name who was killed during the Winston
train robbery several years ago.
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Evidently there is no scarcity of cash
in Gallatin. A new savings bank which
opened its doors for the first time Monday
morning had received deposits aggregat-
ing more than $4,000 by noon of the same
day.
Now let giddy old Winter mantle his
blushing countenance with his Pefferian
whiskers and make an Immediate sneak
for Greenland's icy mountain. after read
ing this lurid bit of word painting recently
executed by the impressionist of the Gala
tin Democrat: Winter is here at last.
After dallying for many days in Autumn's
lap, toying with her golden tresses, basking
in the sunshine of her warm seductive
smiles and lulled into languorous repose
by the soft airs of the sunny southland;
yielding to sweet temptation and prolong-
ing the saturnalian revels, while the sun
was dipping farther toward the southern
pole. shortening her diurnal visits until the
limit reached, returning found the gray
old Frost King still enamored by Autumn's
kisses, and with impatient zeal chided, his
delay and urged him on to stretch with
speed across the dreary waste and touch
the hand of Spring. AnEered by the mild
reproof, old Winter frowned, frowned so
sternly that mother earth was frozen with
the look. and limpid streams We're bridged
in one short night, and into every living
thing he hurled his icy shafts that made
the flesh quiver and froze the very marrow
in their bones. From the caves Aeolus he
loosed the mighty winds and Iashed them
into such fury that they howled and
Shrieked like some horrible demon of the
night, and through every crevice and cram
ny sought to enter the palaces of the rich.
and the novels of the poor, where gaunt
poverty shivered in rags over dying en-
bers, and longed for the coming of the
dawn"