The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-24
KANSAS CHIPS AND COMMENTS

An exchange says a Kansas artist
painted dog so natural that the town
authorities made him pay tax on the
dog.
Esau, a snake-eating freak, is max
ing the southeastern Kansas fair cir
cult. He must:have a rattlein' good
appetite.
Those papers which are trying to
discourage the Klondike business
should refrain this weather from head
ing dispatches ''Froze to DEATH"
1t took an extra two pages of sup
plement in the Pleasanton Observer to
contain all the good thought that came
to its editor the week he was married.
The Chetopa Advance will give a
years subscription to the person Civ
ing the editor the biggest watermelon,
none smaller than 40 pounds being
counted.
A Marysville man advertises bar
gains in new and second hand merry
go-rounds. Out in the wheat belt,
they say, nearly every farmer has one
on the place.
Through the columns of the Empo-
ria Gazette some inquisitive soul is
agitating the question whether the
devil takes a vacation at the same
time the ministers take month of.
A circus lemonade vender made a
country boy pay ID cents glass for
his drink because he sat in the re-
served seat row. And the boy paid it
with grin. They all sat in reserved
seats this year.
Fred Funston came clear of blame
for hanging those Filipinos and so he
captured batch of letters and has
several prominent eastern antics
strung up, And nobody will blame
him for that either.
An Abilene woman who knew her
| husband weakness and that he had
probably lost V to the circus graft
er managed to get even by tearing
her dress on the reserved seat and
settling with the manager for So.
It took a coroner's jury at TT. Scott
but few minutes to agree that a.
Romans, who committed suicide to
escape the candidacy for the county
commi ssiOnership which was given
him unsolicited, was certainly insane.
The Eldorado Republican reluctant
ly contesses that 1.-THE handy legged
Frenchman who said planet bigger
than the earth had fallen into the sun
and we would have hot summer, was
right
Love Allen. who draws 3S day as
freight conductor at Ft. Scott on the
Memrhis, refuses to let the fusionists
run him tor representative. He says
his - performs in continuous session
aud he wants no change.
A COW which strayed from a herd in
Linsburg the other day took her po-
sition near an orchard and proceeded
to chase everybody who passed up 4
tree. When the herders came for hel
she had man and boy and al
old maid up different trees.
While squad of soldiers at Ft.
Leavenworth were practising with a
Hotchkiss rapid fire gun, a squad OF
convicts at work on the new fedora
building had to pass where the bullets
screamed overhead, and the whole
line ducked like a measuring worm.
The mayor of Cherryvale tried tC
: to use his official Importance to per
suade a Santa Fe freight conductor tC
let him ride on a through freight from
Independence to his home. The con
p ductor wasn't impressed and said he'C
take the mayors name and report al
Cherryvale that he was coming.
The Madison Index says pretty
country girl brought several chicken,
! into a grocery and the dapper clerk
walked towards her as she laid then
on the counter, The chickens hat
their feet tied together but 1utteret
and the clerk asked it she thought the,
would lay there. son, no, she re
piled, "they are all roosters."