The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-25
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

WOulu ratner marry girl VINO OaDRs
her hair than one who bangs the
piano.
Joe Rosenthal, q Galena poet, wears
O monocle, but this foppteh habit is
endured in that wild western COM
munity on the theory ofpoetic license.
The Columbus Courier is of the
opinion that since millions of mi
crobes have been found living in
square inch of Ice, "all that remains
Is to boil the ice."
II the heavy rains keep up that
100, 900, 900 yield of wheat this year
will be reduced. The heavy heads |
are threatening to bow down to the |
rich earth which produced them.
PHI. Rabbit, formerly clerk of the
cour OF Crawford county, has been
pronounced of unsound mind, the jury
remem beriLg that madness has run
in the Hare family tor centuries.
The LaCygne band can play but
two tunes without it's music, "HOt
Time" aud ~ hat Will the Harvest
Be,n but .tbat didn't prevent them
from seIenading aDewly welded pair.
To the old founders. it will seem
emineutly fitting THAI Mr.. Bouser
and Miss Stein should wed at Seneca.
Nearly every boezer has dreamed OF
sooner or later making collection of
choice "steins,'
Hutchinson News: A granite shaft
towers aloit il the Minneapolis ceme-
terry marking the hanowed spot
where rests six husbands of one
woman. And the widow is still quite
pert and chipper.
A Coheyville man left a note in.
forming his family that his body
could be found below the dam, but
the thought of consIgning his corpse
voluntarily to even damned waters
maze him change his mind.
1t is rumored that straw berry
trust is coming in southeastern Kan
sas. This Is foolish. Squeezing
cherries, peaches, apples or other
fruits has compensations, but squeez.
ing straw berries produces plain jam.
An old man who was witness in a
divorce suit at Stockton closed his
testimony ty remarking to the judge
that he thought "this court ought to
give the girl divorce and another
chance to pick her flint and try it
again
Ottawa Herald: A mysterious
and all-wise Providence is blamed
i'm the lodge resolutions for the death
of three shawnee county men, who,
though unable to swim, went boating
with the man who stands up and
rocks the boat.
A Lawrence lady gave very swell
| and n In1rnaI tho
day had Der card advertising for the
return of fine lace handkerchief
Hereafter the country towns will
maintain that Lawrence's 400is of the
same piece as their 4.
The Minneapolis Messenger says
that "just about the time Fellow be.
gins TO lose his teeth, his wife learns
how TO cook the things which he likes
best" And some day the EDITORS
son will run Off with the family cook
and We gods! how the old boy will
roar.
Tho "othern animals seem to have
taken to foot ball. The Chase county
leader tells how a Cottonwood FallI
man was kicked by mule who's,
! wounded leg he was dressing. Tit
mules kick knocked his eye out anC
sent him rolling under the heels of 1
team OF h orses VINO tramped on hin
while he lay unconscious.
The story is being told that 81
Independence man owed q banker o
3 that place $1,000, and owned q tract o
Texas land which he valued at $l2,
600. He wanted the banker to TAX,
the land at $4,000, but the banke
3 objected. Pending settlement, tn,
D banker received from an alleged rea
estate man in Texas a letter stains
. that the land was owned by some
man In Independence and that h,
? (the Texas mani wanted to buy it a
Q $4,000. A draft for 800 was enclosed
, as evidence OF good faith. The banker
: saw "speck" of $1,000 and quick,
l closed the deal with the independence
3 man at $4,000. Inquiry has failed t.
locate the Texas man since then, anC
the banker looks bilious every tim
he meets his late debtor.