The Iola register., 1900-10-19
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KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

The mailing boy in the Newton Re
publican office rolls that paper up like
u cigarette.
s. H. Grain, of Bourbon county, is
lovingly known to his intimate friends
as Sand Hill Grain.
1t really looks as if Mr.. Spradling.
of Washington, might be a fusionist
without desecrating his name.
If that Pennsylvania strike keeps
up long enough the Kansas farmer
can reap fortune out of his corn
cobs.
Wichita and Sedgwick county be-
tween them are preparing to vote
$4,000 bonus to the Topolobampo
railroad.
The Chanute Tribune has been bought
out by the Katy railroad. Its presi-
dent sent the editor knife with u
corkscrew in the back.
Lawrence has finally got one patch
OF her streets paved-a small one
and the town folks in glee run around
on it so much they are dizzy.
a Fort Scott man who owned a
thieving slot machine is getting little
sympathy since an enterprising man
ran off with the whole concern.
Kansa mers have taken warning.
He with the little bunch of whiskers
who used to raise "h-ll," has now a
little bunch of steers and is raising
corn.
During the street fair the street car
conductors of Wichita rang the bell for
Ga, 2j9 fares, and this is the nearest the
company can come to telling how many
people rode.
From the reports of polls taken on
Kansas trains Mark Hanna must be
using his slush funds to pay the fares
of Republicans to do nothing but ride
and be polled.
a Lawrence husband ran away and
with no other disguise than the fact
that he was at work in Missouri he
completely evaded discovery until he
voluntarily reported.
a Leavenworth man has bought !. 900
acres of land which he will plant in
government mules. 1t has heretofore
raised long cared corn and ought to
do well in mules.
In recent speech at Salina Ed
Little said he was liercely opposed to
the Republican party and later said:
The Republican party stands for
Gold and Glory"
Parsons and Clay Center are fight
ing over that asylum again. They
had been quiet so long the rest of the
State was thinking of issuing a certid-
cate discharged as cured ."
Half dozen Cherryvale excursion
lists lost their sreturning from their
trip to Wichita, the air of prosperity
of the country through which they
passed having been very much in
evidence.
The choir of the Girard high school
at an evening gathering ate freely of
the viands prepared and then arose
and with their hands folded across
their refreshments sang abide with
Me.h
Since a Salina fisherman found
full keg of beer floating down the
creek there is an end to the kicking of
Saline county people on there being
no fish to stock the streams this
year.
The Wichita Eagle, with its whole
souled desire for truth, confesses to
having found one travelling man for
Bryan. His name is Emilio Aguinaldo
and he travels out of Manila for his
health.
A packed house at Republican
speaking at Hutchinson sang "Ameri-
ca" with apparent-just pretended, of
course-deep feeling. Howcould those
unpatriotic, scheming imperialists
have the nerve to do it
The Abilene Chronicle says that
Lincoln girl is travelling with an
actor troupeIand drawing $l5 a week
and every time the other Lincoln girls
think of it they want to throw the dish
rag against the wall and have a good
cry.
Andrew Boyle of Butler county went
to a protracted meeting and stayed
outside in his buggy to escape the hot
shot OF the divine. He received a
bullet from stray pistol shot into
his head and hereafter will take chances
inside.
The Holton Recorder says that if
1t was the devil, acting through the
street commissioner, who tore up a |
walk near two churches in the hope of |
the congregations to swear
as they waded the mud, he was badly
fooled.
Important discovery by Charlie
Harger: 1t was generally supposed
that the feminine custom of raising
the skirt by grabbing it in the rear
was of comparatively recent origin
but as the actresses the other night
the time of Nero did the
same thing with their gowns itevident-
ly dates a long way back.