The Globe-republican., 1898-01-06
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS

Many more Kansas farmers had q
merry Christmas this year than last
year.
Wichita is tho only town in Kansas
with burst bank that will pay out
depositors over one hundred cents on
the dollar.
David Dodson . painter ut Fort Scott
has a shining stiletto which he claims
was taken from Napoleon after the
battle of Waterloo.
Wheat keeps going up and bicycles
keep coming down." said the Kansas
farmer. 'Things are coming my way
from both directions"
In the last two months deposits in
Kansas banks have increased only
slightly. People are investing their
money. Kansas is just now in z home
buying era.
Upon hearing that the bedbug is be-
coming extinct in Kansas, the Arapa-
hoe Bee congratulates the Kansans on
the fact that the aroma of the bedbug
has become extink.
The RELOCATION of the human stom-
ach conclusively proves that talking
was not subsidiary, but the prime
function of the mouth, a thing that
Kansas preceded science in discover.
ing.
T. P, Metzger, department clerk in
Washington, will soon be made chief
clerk of the general land Office. Metz
ger is from Greensburg, Kansas, and
has been is Washington for number of
years.
The large increase in business on the
katy" has necessitated the putting on
of an extra pickup train which will be
started about the first of the year. 1t
will be worked between Parsons and
Sedalia.
Andy Platner, of Ellsworth county,
sold forty-four head of fat cattle, aver
aging 1921 pounds, for 81. 10 hundred
and drove home singing the old hymn,
.''Now I can read my titles clear to
Klondikes of nv own"
The unprecedented reticence of Pro-
lessor Dychs is due to the fact that he
is making a four-pointed weather
vane. On each point is the letter IS. :"
He will stick this vane on the North
Pole when he gets there.
A Concordia farmer who ordered his
groceries from Kansas City got tired
waiting for the train which was to
bring them and asked permission of a
local grocer to have the goods stored
in his building until he, (the farmer
could come to town again.
The Lawrence Journal remarks:
''The journal is the only paper in Kan
sas, the only one. if we are not mis-
taken, in the whole country, that got
through the Christmas holidays with
out the ideo:ic Xmas" appearing once
in its columns, either in editorial, To-
cal. telegraph or news column" This
entities the Journal to considera BILE
respect, especially as it further an
nounces that next year it endeavor to
make plain to advertisers the error
OF their ways in using This expression,
which really is about the most sense
less one yet devised.
At the last meeting of the county
board of Ellis county the matter of let
ting the contract for the new court
house came up A number of contrac-
tors were present to bid on the job,
but it did not take them long to ascer-
tain that the building could not he
erected for the sum proposed 1t is
estimated that it would cost at least
$1,000 more than the architects esti-
mate. Il was finally decided to have
the building built of hard rock below
the water table and soft rock above,
and other changes were made in the
plans. The board adjourned to meet
January Sd, when new bids will be re-
ceived.
The third annual exhibit Of the
Glasco Poultry and Pet Stock associa-
ton is unusually large, there being
S62 birds on exhibition. Each individ-
ual class was well represented. the
American class leading in numbers.
The Plymoth Rock and Wyandote fam
lily would be credit to any poultry
show.in the eastern. states. The Ash
stics are exceptionally good. the light
brahmas and landshans taking the
lead In the Mediterraneans the leg
horns, minorcas and hamburgs are per-
feet beauties The score cards were
made by c. II. Rhodes, of Topeka. who
acted as Judge. All the birds will be
shipped to Beloit where the Mitchell