Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-04
KANSAS TOPICS.

Just fifty centuries and So days have
elapsed since the dogs commenced to bark
at the pyramids.
The Atchison Champion issues a trading
stamp with every 10 cent subscription.
ss
w. H. Rossington and Gene Hagan are
| the only two Kansas lawyers who wear
plug hats into anything less than the su-
preme court.
?. ]. Bonebrake once swore a frightful
oath never to go on a bond again. but
nevertheless he goes security for every
body. He is being sued now as one of Nc
Nails bondsmen.
Charley Scott came mighty near announc-
ing himself in the race for governor when
he said: Nobody in Allen county is a
candidate for a~nything-not now"
80
Commenting on the announcement of the
marriage of Mr.. William Williams to Miss
Willie Wills. the oxford Register says:
For particulars see small Bills
80
1t is said that the law firm at Fargo
into which w. S. Stambaugh goes as a
partner has a larger divorce business than
any other law firm in America.
Inc announcement OF the engagement or
Ex-Governor Osborn reminds us of the only
time in his life when he got mad enough
to swear out loud. 1t was when a Topeka
Capital reporter woke him up at 8 o'clock
in the morning to inquire if the report was
true that he intended to marry a Leaven-
worth lady.
The holiday editions of all the Kansas
newspapers are in now, and the first prize
must go to Billy Nelson's Smith County
Pioneer. The paper was unique in one
thing. On the cover page there was moth
ing but the heading and a picture of the
pretty face of Miss Florence Headley. asso-
ciate editor of the Gaylord Herald. If Billy
were not so happily married, the other
newspaper boys of the state might COM
mence to infer some differences.
| Our Idea of a nervy man Is one who Is
not in pain, but who is willing TO have
some of his limbs amputated because they
are in the way. AT Burlington, George Og-
den, Il cigarmaker. who will be remembered
| very we'll by old-timers in Lawrence, has
had both of his legs amputated at the
knees. For forty years his legs have been
Timber from the knees down. and he Wake
on stills attached at the knees. Lawrence
school boys of thirty years ago will le-
member with what envy they used to con-
template Ogden's skill in walking on his
hands. The Burlington papers say he is
getting along all right.
Grief often verges dangerously near to the
ridiculous. At Plainville the other day, ;n
old gentleman was buried who had been a
familiar sight to the town people. He al
| ways drove an old horse that he called
Badly" This horse and the carriage were
draped in black and led just behind the
hearse by one of the pallbearers.
A Santa Fe engineer at Newton is under
arrest for fighting his wife. and the Wich-
tia Eagle declares that the railroad should
discharge him, for ''even Il man travelling
on a pass would not like to trust his life in
the hands of a man whose courage is SO
weak that it would permit him to whip his
Wife Nevertheless, if the matter is to be
settled on the question of courage, the
Santa Fe ought to be fair enough to take a
look at the wife.
At last a bridal couple has been found
who were willing to admit that their guests
had some rights in the premises worthy of
consideration. When Miss Gertrude Allen
and Mr.. Clarence Beeth reached the altar
In the church at Larned they turned and
faced the audience and remained in that
position throughout the ceremony.
Speaking of innovations in weddings. n
N|As y SAAN x II tIc lld1
riagc of John w. Beldon and Eliza Snow
at Sterling. The groom had prepared Il
home for his bride and they went to it
and had the ceremony performed there in
the presence of the largest house wedding
party the town has ever known. This was
from choice and not necessity, as the peo-
pie of the bride had a fine home of their
own. After the ceremony, the bride en-
tertained her guests at supper. Another
| novelty in the affair was tho praSop,a nf
three preachers, each of whom performed a
portion of the ceremony.
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And, speaking of weddings. we desire to
say that Hon. Silas Whiteford, of Miami
county, is not the man we have ALWAYS
taken him to be or n certain Osawatomie
editor would now be lying with his toes
to the daisies. The Hon. Silas, who. bv
the way, owns more land, cattle. buildings
and bank stock than any other man in
Miami county. was married last Wcdnes-
day to Miss Hattie Lininger. a handsome
young school teacher of his vicinity. and.
in writing up the affair, the editor of the
Osawatomie Graphic discourses as follows:
while the groom was looking upon his
bride with admiration. and holding her lily
white hand in his brawny fist, the Graphic
scribe, following an old custom, but which
is not followed much in these degenerate
days, stole n march on 81 by getting in
the first plumper on the brides rosy checks
and dimpled chin"
The popular idea that a man cannot
drink whisky and at the same time attend
TO business is not borne out by the his
tory of a remarkable man who died at
Wellington last Friday. His name was
James w. Wright and he was by far the
wealthiest citizen of Sumner county. He
could neither read nor write. but he con-
Quoted business enterprises of all sorts
with singular s~hrewdness. The yelling
ton Mail says, that he had been a .beastly
drunkard' for a long period of years. He
bcasted that he was a cousin of the no.
tcrious James boys, of Missouri. and at
one time kept them hid from the officers
fer more than n month on one of his farms
in Sumner county He was divorced from
his wife and quarreled with all of his chill
dren except one, to whom he willed mis-
entire fortune.
A business man of Enterprise made a
run for a Santa Fe train the other day and
managed to land himself upon the plat
form of the baggage car as the train
pulled out. There was no door at the end
Of the car and the merchant was COM