The Globe-republican., 1899-01-05

Good rains are reported al over the
state.
Kansas wheat il in the best os con-
dition.
Acetylene gas is catching on rapidly
at Norton.
The stock in all parts of the state is
looming we'll.
In one day the treasurer Of Labette
county took in thirty-Hve thousand
dollars in taxes.
Members of the Gaylord band last
week blew themselves for complete
let of new instruments.
The warning at the fall in temperar
ture came in ample time to enable one
to replenish their coal bin this time.
The salaries of the country school
teachers in Kansas averaged $40 per
month, the smallest average in the
Union.
A vast amount of money has been
spent for Christmas presents this year,
in fact much more than is usually ex-
pended.
Many of the Kansas farmers are
still holding on to the wheat crop
with the expectation of getting bet
ter price.
After the first of the year the Odd
Fellows and Receccas of Oswego will
meet in a new hall which they are
fitting up.
Clay Center wants an insane asylum.
Concordia wants a normal school and
Stockton may put in a bid for nor
NAL school, too.
Those people at Woodbine who blew
up joint with dynamite certainly
have most emphatic way of mani
Testing their displeasure.
Three fad-end pugilists are giving
exhibitions in small towns in western
Kansas. Their point is to get enough
money to take them on to the next
town.
Westmoreland, the county seat of
Pottawatomie, is still making signs for
a railroad to come that way. West
moreland is the only county seat town
in the eastern half of the state that is
without q railroad
The insurance companies are now
fighting against putting up the money
on the policies of Kimmel, the Arkan-
sas City banker who completely disap-
peared. Do the insurance companies
ever pay without a growl?
The Wichita Eagle says: Collins did
not fire the shots which killed his
father. No mans brain is constructed
in a way to allow him to kill another.
for the assination of whom he had at
tempted to hire others who had proved
themselves to him unreliable.
Milking cows properly requires ex-
perience, skill and tact, and is both
science and an art. 1t requires patience
and yet it must be done quickly and
gently. A man who can milk eight or
ten good cows in an hour and do it
we'll is a valuable man for dairyman
to have. A kicking COW can nearly
always be traced to kicking or un-
sklllful mixer. A swearing man or
boy should not be allowed to milk a
cow, for an oath and a blow generally
go together, and they are both indica'
tive of the brute in human form.
Secretary Coburn is overwhelmed
with applications for his reports, SO
much so, in fact, that he can not begin
to supply the demand. The statement
that has been made that there are sew
eral tons of old reports of various
kinds in the basement of the state
house does not apply to his reports.
They are gobbled up as fast as they
are published. Before the last bien-
NAL report was out there were thou
sand applications on file for copies,
and Us soon as the newspapers an
nounced that it had been issued the
applications came in by the hundred.
The people of Humboldt have q
grievance. The claim is made that the
town is persistently misrepresented by
every other town within the limits of
the gas district.
Thanks to the generosity of the peo-
pie of Atchison, says the Globe, the
inmates of the Orphans Home had the
most successful Christmas treat this
year in the history of the institution.
There are 2as children in the home
and each one received at least three
presents, aside from almost unlimited