The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-25
LAYHAWKER JoTs.

Mankato is to have system Of wa
terworks.
Wetmore and Lebanon both have new
opera houses.
A Glasco mans alfalfa crop brought
him $40 an acre this year.
Glasco is looking around to see where
it can get hold of a brick yard.
Prosperity has struck the Winfield
Baptists so hard that they are going to
have a new pipe organ.
Jerry Simpson sold 275 head Of cattle
at public auction at his Medicine Lodge
ranch yesterday.
Winter wheat is about all in in all
sections of the state. In some loca1-
ties it has been up for weeks.
There was one Kansas crop that was
a failure this year: The state didn't
raise a single respectable cyclone.
WatervilIe claims that so many new
buildings are going up there that
laborers can not be found to do the
work
A Downs girl is suffering from bad
ly swollen lip, but she doesn't lay it on
to any kissing bug. 1t was a common
spider.
buffalo skeleton 10 feet below the sur
face of the ground while digging a well
recently.
An item is going the rounds of the
state press that the Western Union
made net profit of S27, 900 in Kansas
this year.
Burglars are doing an increased bus
mess all over Kansas this year. All
lines seem to have felt the impetus of
good times.
The three principal towns of Jewell
county, MankatO, Burr Oak and Jewell
City, are now connected by a single
telephone system.
The Minneapolis Messenger brags
that more telephone wires can be seen
on the streets of Minneapolis than on
the streets of Chicago.
There is a candidate down in the
Seventh district who carries. chocolate
creams around with him as well as
cigars. He ought to be elected.
farmer who lives near Clyde keeps
a set of books in doing his farm work,
and they show that he has made a net
profit of $500 during the past year.
The Salina council is considering a
proposition to appropriate Sc 900 as a
bonus for another wholesale house, just
as though it had the power to do such
a thing.
Ed Howe has discovered a Kansas
farmer whose corn crop failed this
year. He lives in Osborne county, and
he had to sell his hogs on account of a
lack of corn.
Dell Valentine has discovered that
when newspaper says a speakers
talk was carefully prepared, it usually
means the thing was dull and tiresOme,
but grammatical
A Larned man claims to have an
apple tree that has produced two crops
this year and is in bloom for the third
time. Kansas is working overtime all
around this year.
Probate Judge Allen, of BeIoit, regis
ters kick because Mitchell county
boys go to some other county for their
marriage licenses. He wants them to
support home industries.
The first football ever played in Alma
took place there last week, and while
some of the players did not know a goal
| from a gridirOn, it was so exciting that
the report was started that four men
had been killed.
A Sumner county boy played with a
| calf the other day by tying the other
end Of the rope around his own neck
/ The calf started towards a barb wire
fence and the funeral was largely at
| tended by sympathetic friends.
| Away down at Liberal watermelons
/ thousand pounds of seed were shipped
| out of Seward county in one week re-
/ Gently. Think what a paradise that
would be for the colored race.
| Secret given away by Bill Morgan:
| William Allen White has written an
/ able article denouncing fried food as
/ the cause of all human ills. And yet
| Bill can put away as much fried meat
and other indigestible truck as any
| man in the state.
Such items as this one, from the OF
/ tawa Herald, are refreshing in these
/ days: One man donated and three
/ other men cut and hauled, wood enough
to keep the hearth warm for a Lane