The Iola register., 1900-11-09
KANSAS CLIPS AND COMMENTS.


engaged in a severe tussle.
Even a man with his eyes shut can
readily see whythe preacher at Seneca
chose Tor recent text: "Open Eyes"
Down at Chetopa is a man named
Dam, and, properly enough, he is oc-
cupied right now in setting up stoves.
Several Kansas farmers have sue
cesstully experimental with Angora
Goats to keep mortgages off theplace.
The Modern Woodmen society.
which is strong in Kansas. issued its
insurance certificate No. 100000 this |
last week.
y Bald Headed Mans Club appear
ed at FIT. Scott, and remarkable fea-
tureis that every hairless member has /
one or more heirs.
Opie Read told Il Kansas audience |
what real hard times are. He says
that in 1896 he dropped the initial "o'
from his name to save ink.
A little dude at Salina came trip
ping down street "Oh girls, said
one of the husky Kansas Junos, "here
comes our little watch charm
a Kansas farm journal is urging
the farmers to name their farms.
Now look out for an epidemic of
Wyndewood, Brookline, and Corn
cliffe.
During the month of October it
took just 4,06S sales of liquor in To-
pella to keep snakes and biliousness
and frog in the throat from hectoring
the people to death.
Another sign of prosperity and other
things: a Winfield man closed his
office and spent whole days time and
the cost of a trip to Arkansas City to
recover pug dog.
a young man at Bronson bet two
to one on Bryan and his guardian
took the matter into the courts imme-
diately on the grounds that the young
man was mentally screw-loose.
Miss Lottie Garrison. the Ft. Scott
Miss who has just refused $500 a week
to sing in an opera troupe, could
! doubtless have a chanceto refuse every
boy in town should she return home.
SO many fires have occurred at Ga
lena latelythat insurance men suspect
! that house owners are burning their
/ ilVhN'Ns 'p-IN''lliE All' hlOn'N anu
escaping from town, the boom being
over.
The very creditable fairy tale comes
from EmpOria of "A youth who picked
up a beer bottle and burned his mouth
badly with lye in the bottle, "trying
to look in the bottle to see if it was
empty"
The first violent death of an inmate
OF the Olathe Deaf and Dumb Asylum
occurred this week. Foster Ross, a II
year old boy, managed to get through
a fourth story window grating and
fell to the ground.
A Garnett paper gravelv asserts
that couple recently married there
on their wedding tour went through
Niagara Falls and the east. What a
damp, dismal, dreary twain they must
have been on emerging from the Mag
ara rapids.
4 hypnotist and divine healer is
st, piping at Pratt and one of the
ocnool boys had fine eimitationtrance
in the school room. The unimagiua-
tive teacher brought him swiftly out
by waving hickory wand near him.
\ FIT, Scott girl has bet kiss
against sweets not so highly refined
ON election. II Mckinley wins she
gives "a kiss for every state he carries
and II Bryan wins she get pound
of candy for every state he carries.
il that young mans scared, WHY
There is a young lady mp at oxford
who calls a spade spade. Recently
a youth told how his dog, after being
chained mp, broke loose and followed
him for miles. and asked what she
thought OF that, This maid replied
that she Thought he ought TO take a
bath
The story is told of Parsons edit
orwho boIroweda a friendly politician S
pass and rode into Pittsburg on it,.
The conductor scanned theeditor care
fully and finally remarked; "Well
m glad to see your leg has grown
out again" The politician had but
one leg.
81, 900 in rats, is surely spending
money with free hand. An old
bachelor near Cedarvale had his
wad of bills to that amount i'm the
house and rats found and ate the whole
pile. 1t seems probable that the ro-
dents now wish that currency might
be cut to 5O-cent dollars.
Topeka Capital: While James L..
Mead and his wife, of Wichita were
pestering about the crater Of Vesuvi-
us a few weeks ago the old volcano
unexpectedly gave one of its sulphur
Gus. lava-laden coughs and almost
blew them off the face of the earth;
but they luckily escaped all injury,
although they have something of an
idea of the way people hunted cover
when Pompeii received its burial
shrowd of ashes.
Wichita Eagle At spiritualist
meeting in Pratt county, recently, the
spirit Of Elijah Crosserwas called for,
Elijah Crosser had, died there in an
early day, but was remembered for his
immense stature, 6 feet ) inches. A
voice in the darkness said he was