Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-22

year tne graSsnopper eggs Wouio hoI
hatch out.
There is girl In Dodge City who
says that kiss has 500 vibrations a
minute She evidently doesn't kiss
her brother.
Fred Funston in writing to a Law
renee friend says that battle is hell
with It's halter loose and its tail over
the dashboard.
A western Kansas man said the de-
scription Of the prize-6ght sounded ia
miliar enough except for the omission
of the usual "S5 and costs"
Kansas alwa~t considers the East q
good victim Of her jokes. Alfalfa tea
is now being advertised as Kansas
product east of the Mississippi river.
We are not prepared to say who is
the biggest corn raiser is Kansas, but
John b. Rea of Jewell county, who
raised 100000 last year, is no SLOUGH
himself
An Augusta boy will be graduated
from the High School this year who
has attended school for eleven straight
years and has never been tardy or alb
sent single day.
There is running through Kansas at
the present time special car carrying
physicians who glide from town to
town, charge big fees and stArve the
local physicians to death.
Mckee, Kansas travelling man at
tracts attention wherever he goes on
account of an ugly scar across his
throat. lie once cut his throat with a
razor, attempting suicide.
The introduction of tropical. plants
into Kansas has always been failure.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lemon of Rush county
have been married ten years and they
are atill the only lemons in the house.
1t is said that some artistic and var
led performance in the way of profan-
ity was the rendition of Kingman
county man the other day when he up
set his wagon loaded with sixty dozen
eggs.
A justice of tho peace in Brown
county tried to kiss the bride after per-
forming the marriage ceremony and
got slapped in the face. He must have
been old and wrinkled and without
teeth.
On Kansas tram certain man was
in custody of an officer When the
conductor came around the officer was
absent. The fellow did not have any
fare and the conductor put him off and
the train sailed away.
The people in the vicinity of lola are
in bad fix. The roar of the Palmer
gas we'll in that town can be heard for
ten miles. If cyclone should APP
proach it would drown out the roar of
the wind and the people would be
without warning. ,e.....
j. L. Kise, Sumner county man,
has a bunch of carrier pigeons which
he turned loose at Mayfeld the other
day and started them for Wellington
Five of the eight birds made the trip
of nine miles in twelve minutes, or at
the rate of forty-hve miles an hour
The Kansas Creamery Company,
which has factories in the northern
part of the state, has completed ar
rangemcnts for the ablishment at
Wichita of large factory. Swimming
stations will be located throughout
southern Kansas and Oklahoma.
This talk about the short grass not
being productive is rank stuff. Norton
county has a baby 81 months old that
weighs is pounds, The name of the
child is Mamie Chambers. Assuming
that Mamie will keep up her lick and
reach her growth at 20 she will weigh
1856 pounds.
Bob Fitzsimmons telegraphed ex-
Senator Ingalls, denying the published
statement that he had called Mr.. In.
gals liar. Mr. Fitzsimmons states
that he had no interview in relation to
any such matter, and that he had new
err had occasion to apply such term
to Mr.. Ingalls,.
The Rock Island has issued an order
that all employees in the passenger
train service who have not been vacci-
mated within comparatively recent
time must take the precaution at once
on account of the immigrant travel
and the attendant danger of catching
and spreading the smallpox.
The Union Pacific has engineers in
the territory going over the proposed
line of the Hutchinson & Southern
railway to coal fields in the Chickasaw
country. 1t is given out that the I'M
ion Pacific will buy the road and build
through from Medford to Texas at
once.
The improvements on the Vitrifed