Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-27
KANSAS TOPICS.

wart on the back of his neck. When the
governor left, the barber found out to
whom he had been talking and promptly
kicked his fresh self.
Colonel Toler, who is in charge of the
Cuban relief movement in the Seventh dis
trict, has notified the people that he wants
nothing contributed but flour. We nave
On Idea, however, that the colonel will
accept dough from those who. have no
-four.
Willie Herbert was sent to Jail at Law
renee for hugging and kissing a woman
against her wishes. Willie'S father has ap-
pied to Governor Leedy for d pardon,
and says i'll a letter: Can any candid
nan believe that Willie was guilty of
Juggling and kissing a 5O-year-old woman
when she had a daughter in the house
who was young and amiable?"
In Sedswick county a woman got a d.
vorce from her husband on the ground of
!ncompatibility of temper. After the trial
was over the pair met on the court house
steps and kissed each other good-by. When
the friends of the woman asked her why
she had done such a thing she replied
that she supposed it was from the force
of habit.
In Kansas 1t is growing less and less
the custom for office holders to call upon
their friends to serve as bondsmen. 1t is
deemed better all around to procure bonds
from one of the surety companies. Mar
sinai Sterne gave a bond for 10000 the
other day, which he procured from a New
York company by the payment Of $50 a
Year.
Observation-Disclosures item from
the Wichita Eagle: No one in Wichita
likes Tom Reed. the speaker Of the ma
tlonal house of representatives. Two years
ago Wichita was a great Reed town. Dur
ing the Mckinley campaign Reed came
nero and made a speech. The tone he
adopted to his audience, one of a father
&c MS children. disguised the community
and a mention OF Reed on the streets to-
Cay will bring protests against him on
every side.
A Topeka oculist advertises that he can
cure defective vision without the loss of
life or limb"
What depraved and vitiated tastes some
men do have. An Atchison man gives the
following testimonial to a mineral water:
Il drink a gallon of your water every
day, and find it better than beer"
Who can be so clear and lucid as Colonel
Major Jeltz? Hear him: "A scoundrelly
fellow is not worth the killing. Hence
no one attempts the act. He is barred from
society, but some are Rugged on election
day."
One of the most respectable arguments
yet advanced against the annexation Of
Hawaii came from Governor Leedy the
other day when he announced himself in
favor of it.
Colonel Whoop !Tomlinson has come out
in one of his double-leaded epileptic fits
for John Seaton for governor. The trouble
of the Atchison man are commencing early.
The friends Of Mrs. Annie Digs are be-
ginning to fear that she is i'll or some
thing. Shit hasn't had an interview in the
Topeka papers for nearly four days.
Commenting upon Ingalls, statement that
in his controversy with Leland he was
acting purely upon the defensive, several
Kansas papers at the same time expressed
the wish that the old man would lay aside
his meek and lowly deiensiveness just once
and fight back like a man.
sss
1.-The Kansas widow" says Victor Muir
dock, sis not strictly ornamental. Little
Fay Templeton. a Kansas girl. with her
100000; Mrs. Walkup-Ketchum, with her
o'o'vVvp anu L AllIillloilp Will ACl
prove that"
You misunderstood me in one thing I
said about the United States marshals at
Lincoln's Inauguration said Ex-Governor
Tom Osborn to Topics yesterday. You
made me say that at the meeting Of mar
shals at Ward Lannon's house no one ex-
pressed a fear that Lincoln might be as
sassinated. On the contrary. there was
considerable talk about assassination. The
error is so trifing that it would not be
worth while correcting except that it in
wolves a curious circumstance. Along about
1864 there was a great deal of talk in the
newspapers about airguns. and people had
gained an exaggerated idea of their dead
illness. At the meeting at Lannon's house
we talked for some time about the posi-
bility of someone shooting Lincoln with an
airgun as he proceeded toward the capitol.
As I remember now, there were several
who believed that a bullet might be fired
into the president by someone concealed in
the second story of one of the houses. and
the deed would be done so noiselessly that
the assassin could not be located. We know
more about airguns now and understand
that they are not very serviceable as a
weapon"
Literary Information from the Abilene
Chronicle: "Quo vadis." which is the title
OIL d popular DOCK, HledilS "HltleT 1oeSI
Thou?" In Deutsch 1t would be "Woh
Gehen Sie?"
If Mr.. Coburn gets the support, in his
candidacy for governor. of all the people
who Endorsed him for secretary of agri-
culture in the national administration when
it was hoped that the appointment would
come to Kansas, he will have n powerful
backing He was Endorsed by the Repub-
lican members of the legislature, by the
Kansas Improved Stock Breeders Associa-
ton, by the Kansas State Swine Breeders
Association. by the Kansas City Live Stock
exchange, by the Kansas state board of
agriculture and by the Kansas State Ed
itorial Association.
Very soon Mr.. ]. NJ. Patterson. the i'm
plement dealer of Kansas City. will receive
from Abilene an old armchair made by
his grandfather in Pennsylvania more than
100 years ago. Forty years ago Mr.. Patter-
sons parents moved from Pennsylvania
leaving behind by mistake the chair, which
was standing behind an old brick oven.
Noah Engle, who now lives in Abilene.
moved into the Patterson house and found
the chair, which he brought with him to
Kansas more than twenty-five years ago.
Some weeks ago Mr.. Patterson learned that
the old heirloom was in Mr.. Engle's pos
session and opened negotiations for its re-
turn. He instructed an Abilene man to
procure it at any cost, and the Abilene
agent persuaded Mr.. Engle to part with it
for an expensive modern armchair in re-
turn, which Mr.. Patterson gladly fur
nished.
Judge S. r. Peters has returned to New