Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1899-02-02
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| MOre tnun IVU municipalities In
England, Scotland and Ireland now
own the municipal gas works.
Women students at the University
OF Berlin are not allowed 10 wear
their hair In braids down the back.
Two girl students who persisted In
doing This were expelled.
Senator Allen, OF Nebraska, 10 an In
veberate smoker OF stogles. He never
lights a cigar, but always has waist
coafO pocket full OF long slender
StogieS, and dispenses them to his
smoking clientele, The senator is
very generous with his tobacco. SEN
ntor Mason facetiously calls 1t prodi-
gal generosity without extravaganza.
Most people will be surprised to
learn that the majority OF flowers
have no perfume whatever. An Aus
trlan chemist, who has been making
researches into the subject, declared
that out OF Alto varieties known and
cultivated in Europe, scarcely 400
have any odor; and of these nearly
fifty have an odor which is, II amy
thing, disagreeable.
Superintendent T.. B. Andrews, OF
the Chicago school board, writes thus
to a friend apropos OF the report that
he had resigned: do not have a
funeral sermon until there Is corpse.
The newspapers have been too pre-
vious. am still at the head of the
Chicago public schools, and hope to
be so for long time to come. IT'S
o great and glorious work."
A new Robinson cruso has been
found. The man, according to q Pc
ruvian telegram, was found ON one Of
bhe desert Galapagos Islands. He had
not spoken TO or even seen human
being for fourteen years, and his
body Is covered with thick hair!!! He
has lived on wild birds, she'll fish and
water. The man must have a sensa-
tional story to unfold.-Rio de Janeiro
News.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen slgnalized
their departure from Canada by cir
culating a farewell literary souvenir
among the host of friends they had
made during their residence at otta-
wa. 1t consisted of beautiful re-
print of the introduction that Lady
Aberdeen contributed to the Canadian
summer annual entitled Our Lady
of the Sunshine" the retort to Rud-
yard Kiping's Our Lady OF the
Shows" Then on loose sheet were
the words Goodbye" the autograph
signatures OF Lord and Lady Aber-
deem, and the date, November IL, 1898.
Referring to the makeup of the
next senate the New York World says:
Senator Edward Murphy, Jr., the ST.
lent, will be missed. Quiet, easy going,
smooth, oily, n politician withal, he
accomplished more for his constitu-
ents than many senators who pro
claim their doings with brass band
and an army trumpet. Murphy is not
the man to stand on the housetop and
announce in foghorn voice what he is
about to do. If he lacked three votes
Of enough to pass measure in which
he was interested they were FORTH
coming"
A unique petition In bankruptcy was
recently filed in the federal court at
Nashville, Tenn. The Banner, Of that
city, says THAT the petition probably
has no equal i'm the country in the
way Of liability, which is confined to
the one item OF alimony due a di-
vorced wife. 1t was filed by Gentry
r. Smith, of Mrfreesboro, who sets
forth that his liabilities are $2,llO
due Mrs. L. A. Fits, Of Enon College,
nee Mrs. L. A. Smith," Incidentally,
as "nee" means bonn, Mrs. Fits, who
was born Mrs. Smith, must be re-
markable woman.
Boston is bursting with pride be-
cause the largest illuminated clock in
New England has just been set UP in
her new terminal station. "The dial
OF this gigantic piece OF mechanism"
says Boston paper, "is twelve feet
Ave inches in diameter; the glass face
Of the clock, with its framework,
weighs 600 pounds, and the monster
minute hand is six feet long" Well
what OF 1T? Why, Boston's gigantic
clock is hardly as big as a watch in
comparison with Philadelphla's new
time keeper in the City Hall tower,
with Its twenty-four foot dials!