Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-01-21
A Downs newspaper man has back

county $500, 100000 in private deposits.
A Hutchinson editor charges that
Sol Miller is after the Troy postoflice.
The number of inmates on the coun-
ty poor farms of Kansas is gradually
decreasing.
An Atchison firm bought 200 BUSH
els of corn at nine cents a bushel in
| Smith county last week.
At FL Dorado when they want to
paralyze anybody they say they will
make him jump sideways,
There are no quail in the market at
Pratt, but any grocer will sell you all
the French pigeons you want
The Mitchell county farmers will or
ganize against the swindling fruit tree
peddlers who infest the country.
The creamery at Argonia, Sumner
county, is receiving in the neighbor.
hood OF 5000 pounds of milk day.
A Kansas man says that if the pres
ent decrease in prices keep up he will
soon be selling horses by the gross.
Billy Waggener, who owns the most
luxurious home in Kansas is getting
ready to spend $500 fitting up his pri'
vate Office.
The result Of the senatorial fight
will be the announcement of half
dozen fellows that "they have quit
politics for good"
Sol Miller is still objecting to Kan.
sas making the discovery of the North
Pole, matter of state appropriation
and private enterprise
Iii Kansas bushel of corn pays for
just one glass of whisky But the
same bushel can be made into four
and one-third gallons of it.
People who think the financial ques-
tion is dead should observe the street
corners in Kansas. They are crowding
up again just as they were before cleo
ton.
Peanuts are staple crop in Cowley
county. An acre of ground will pro-
duce about $50 bushels, and they bring
for cents a bushel The cost Of pro-
duction is about % per cent of the pro-
duct
Part OF the regular patronage of Kan
sas weekly newspapers is the local no
tice in which merchants dun their deb
tors to pay up. Some of the merchants
even go so far in these notices as to
explain why they want the money.
In western Kansas man school
teacher resolved to punish bad schol-
ar; a girl of IS summers. lie punished
his pupils with ferule. "NIiss, he said
to this girl, "Give me your hand" She
blushed and said: my. You'll have to
ask Pa. This is so sudden"
The young boys of Douglass wrote
on all the merchants windows with
soap: "a Happy New Year" Police
man Winters grabbed them, made
them get buckets, towels and water
and walked them about the streets in
daylight and made them clean the
windows brighter than they had been
for years.
If Job had known the following,
says an exchange, perhaps the record
of his patience would have been lost
to posterity: The yolk of an egg
made into plaster of honey and -four
of about the consistency of mustard
paste, gives speedy relief to one
afflicted with boils. The white, used
as a coating for scalds and burns, ex-
cludes the air which so aggravates the
suffcrings of burned person. 1t is
softer than collodion, therefore better,
and is always at hand. 1t is more
soothing than the once popular sweet
oil and cotton. The white beaten with
sugar, is invaluable in bronchial af-
fections, especially in hoarseness,
when a little lemon juice may be adj
ded with good results. Cidar vinegar
may be substituted for the lemon juice
when the latter is not available
The girls of Doniphan county appear
to have improved their leap year priv
ileges. The result is that there are
thirty-fOur more marriage licenses is.
sued by the probate judge during the
year 1896 than in any former year.
The month of December also broke the
record, there being more licenses is
sued during that month than in any
other month in the history Of the coun-
ty. There were four issued in one day,
which was the greatest number of any
one day on record. There are several
other novel features. A white couple
were married by colored preacher,
the only case of the kind on record in
the county. 1t is also noticed hat one
minister of the gospel" 10 signing
the marriage certificate, did so by
making his mark, and having witness
to his signature One would naturally
suppose that man who cannot write