The Globe-republican., 1898-09-01

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
One farmer near Solomon is said to
have two hundred acres in watermel-
onA
A man living in Mcpherson county
has alarmed the natives by beating
his wife.
Kansas has nearly one hundred and
City distinct species of weeds and there
are others yet to come.
It is said that Cowley county dairy
man, out of consideration for his Gus
toners, filters his water.
The First q. P. church at Topeka
has passed resolutions declaring
against Sunday base ball playing.
Tom Norton, an old time Kansas
newspaper boy, has got INFO the legal
department of the Santa Fe at Chi
cago.
Mt Hope boys, when they get en-
tangled in a fight about girls, settle it
according to Marquis and Queensbury
rules.
AReno county farmer put 600 pounds
of watermelons in load of hay. He
sold I, 400 pounds of hay for ton, and
then sold his watermelons.
An Atchison preacher kissed an eight
een-year-old girl member of his flock,
and she told her papa It is quite like
ly the preacher will resign.
James Young. the quartermaster at
Frisco, a volunteer from Kansas, who
was convicted of dishonesty, will get
q year in the federal prison.
5The shell game CRATER got in his
work in Mcpherson county this week.
Will the time ever come when people
will fail to bite at this bait?
It is hotter than sin now, but signs
of cold weather are getting to the
front. A western Kansas coal dealer
advertises that coal will 90 for cash
only this year.
Sam Peace, of Sumner county, has
been honorably discharged from the
Twenty-first Kansas and granted
pension of eight dollars per month.
Cause, sickness.
A Kansas farmer, who probably has
been experimenting, announces that
cave is good place to keep certain
things in hot weather, as well as dur
ing the winter season.
Unless the Twentieth goes to Manila
Ed Little will not get enough out of
his experience as soldier to form the
basis of lecture, and the dogs will
continue to bark at the pyramids.
An aged man fell dead in the circus
at Usage the other day just as the
clown made his appearance in the ring.
Those clowns are never happy unless
they are working off something old.
A six-year-old Seneca child, while
playing with a 22-calibre rifle, shot a
three-year-old baby, the ball passing
through the right ear, entering the
point of the shoulder and coming out
at the arm pit.
There is a movement on foot in Of
tawa to have license imposed on real
estate dealers 1t is backed by the
dealers themselves, who want it done
In order to protect them from the street
corner traffickers.
A nest of humble bees made an at
tack on an Ellsworth county farmer
In order to play even he proceeded to
burn out their nest, but the fire es-
capped his control and eight stacks of
grain were burned.
In Hutchinson the other day q re-
port was started that a young couple
had eloped to Omaha to get married
Quickly crowd of the young mans
friends gathered on the street and
commenced betting for and against
the truth of the rumor.
An unusually large lot of buns and
thugs appear to be following circuses
through Kansas this season. They
have heard of the prosperity the peo-
pie Of the state are enjoying, and are
after their share of it; and judging
from the reports which appear in the
newspapers they arc getting it, too.
A young woman of Harvey county
had q hard time in getting her silk
dress to wear when she was married.
One evening a few weeks before the
ceremony was performed she went out
buggy riding with another young
man, who offered her five dollars for a
kiss. She needed the money to buy q
silk wedding-gown, and silly-like, &C.
cepted the offer. He thought the kiss