The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-02-16
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS

An exchange lRnOranJIy cracks
joke by referring to the Globe admin
istration i'm Kentucky.
X. c.. Star: Love Is simple noun,
but even girls with the "Lighe1
education" cannot decline IL.
England might as well throw up
the sponge, u Sallna man announces
that he will join the Beers.
Down in the zinc country they have
Jig mil ls" but these are not the same
as the ag shops which prevail all
over the State.
The Hutchinson News wa nts "clean
cotton rags" and the exchange o
such clean sheet for rags ought to
make business rushing.
What will the woman's rights bri.
gade say of the weak sister at Hills
boro who lost her mind when her hus-
band accidently killed himself?
The product of the Penitentiary
binding Irvine plant will be sold di-
rectly to tue consumers and the mid
dleman has received another blow.
Eating apples are quoted at Hutch
lnson at So a barrel. If Adam had
started ths race here now much
trouble would have been saved,
perhaps.
X. C. Journal There is a coffin
trust, ana now baby carriage trust
has been formed. The octopus seems
to pursue us from the craule to the
grave,
Tramps in the neig h borhood of Her
ington celebrated Easter recently
when big poultry ware house burn.
ed with two cars of eggs and one of
poultry inside.
The smallpox scare carried off
Fritz the mascot dog OF Company
G, Goth Kansas, who lived and fought
and died at Coffeyville. The night
watch shot him.
The FIT. Scott papers say man was
brought all the way back from Ken.
lucky for robbing TT. Scott saloon,
the charge for which will probably
be receiving stolen goods.
Parker, the man who manufactures
merry-go-rounds and shooting gal.
leries at A bilene, sold three instru-
ments last week and expects to en-
ploy seventy.five men next year.
When the Daylight broke into the
visible frightening of the resulting
newspaper that proves the consolida
ton to have been wise one.
FIT. Scott has so many conventions
booked that the Monitor suggested a
convention hall and says the idea
struch a responsive chord, but it takes
many cords to build a convention
hall.
The Kansas City Times says Bryan
cannot win unless he carries Kansas,
but the weight of the money which
has come into the State since he last
shouldered it will prevent his carry
ing it now.
Hill City, Graham county, has a
paper protesting to be ian indepen
dent POpulist paper" and this cross
ing of straine is well named the
"Graham Gem" all the shorts being
left in.
Coffeyville lie pressing her purpose
to better the roads leading into town
and this has aroused Independence to
a realization that Coffeyville, with
good roads, will capture Indepen-
dence's trade and so more good roads
are talked of.
advises town girls to marry farmer
boys because the town boys are
loafers. She might give good word
of advice to all the boys and tell them
to marry country girls.
The bill giving to Kansas the 1000
acres belonging to the old FIT. Hayes
military reservation haa been passed
by Congress. The land will help es-
tablish western branches OF the
normal and agricultural colleges.
The Chanute Sun angrily resents
the imputatiOn that there is any
ignorance in Chanute of the requisite
French to re-christen the Fin de steele
CLUB. Maybe, but Missourians are
listening for the new name.
Little as the innocent public may
believe ii there are hundreds of edi.
tors who firmly believe that an edi-
tion of q paper cannot be Issued with
out som good swearing, and these are
awaiting the Sheldon edition with a
knowing grin.
Ed Turner, of Wichita, was en-
gineer on the Mexican Central road
when wreck occurred and three
Greasers were killed. That paternal
government imprisoned the crew and
Turner died in Jail. Now his widow,
who is poor, has filed q suit against
the Mexican government.
A Leavenworth widow who has
been lscturing since the death of her
usband against elderly wOmen
marrying young husbands, has just
bestowed her go years upon young
Greek of Topeka aged 20. 1t ia to be
hoped the youth comes from the
Spartan end of the isle.
1.-THE Kansas City Journap says
that college boy and his best girl
were out driving one afternoon. They
had como upon a fine stretch of road
"Do you believe in palmistry," said
he, "the reading OF ones hand?" ~
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