The Iola register., 1901-02-22
Kansas Clips and Comments

ulBnJy dJ EdrSOnS since Jne asylum is
assured.
An eastern preacher says: "God
bless Carrie Nation, and keep her
in Kansas"
Miss Leta Triplett of Edna is very
probably doomed to singleness If
names cut any ice in her neighbor-
hood.
LaGrippe must be devastating Cure
ka. The papers say it is prevalent
and that "the doctors are tickled to
death"
The Reporter says that when Mrs
Hoss, of Independence, took i'll a
doctor was called, veterinaries being
barred.
The Ottawa Republican boasts that
not single merchant of that town reg
ularly attends funerals as a business
investment.
A mothers congress at Kansas City
has just decided that children should
eat at the first table. The kids always
knew that.
The Cotfeyville fire department
keeps punching bag at headquarters
so the members can be in shape to be
above criticism.
An Olathe boy has invented an
automatic voting machine which may
be adopted by that city and if success
full by the State.
A Sedan Photographer offers to take
corn, wood or hay on account, u bush
ell, box or bale per picture whichever
is most convenient.
Mr.. Fawcett, of Lawrence, has gone
to Oregon. He doubtless feared that
faucet outbreak would follow the
spigot smashing.
The Leavenworth Chronicle in glar-
ing headlines announces that the
Oberlin Carter case may develop into
another Dreyfus scandal.
The Lacrosse Republican says that
last week it said: "A little rain Mr..
Hanna" and the old duck sent four
inches OF snow next day.
Just to show you he isn't scared the
editor of the Cedarvale Commercial
faunts this line before Mrs. Nation:
"More weddings on tap"
A Troy man has a pet owl whose
habits are reliable weather predic-
ton. The only trouble is to find the
owl when wishing to read the signs.
During the temperance rioting at
Winfield girl was wounded in the
face and opinion is divided as to
whether it is abullet or a glass wound.
Burlington has Somerset club"
but the purpose is not to develop con-
tortionists but to increase the waist
line.
If the Nation chapter results only
in curtailing the prevalency of "1en
Ninbfc in a par Rnnpni' hy aly lyin,r 10
stately tame, she should have a monu-
ment.
A Ransonville man has contracted
to deliver 400 cottontails to an Ottawa
dealer. 1t is not known what he in
tends doing with the rest of the car
casses.
Smith county Kansas asks recogni-
tion because there live the Hammond
sisters. One, aged II, weighs 300
pounds, the other aged 81 weighs 100
pounds.
Even the dog is getting into the game
since the Belgian Hare craze started,
and an Abilene man is nursing eight
pups in the hope of getting Ss Tor them
in the spring.
The pleasanton Observer would like
to sit on the sunny side of hay stack
this weather and see duel between
the man with the hoe and the woman
with the axe.
A Burlington girl who stuck her
foot through bad board wants $1,000
from the city. Which shows what
good opinion girls of that town have
of themselves.
Lawrence Journal: William Jennings
Bryan to Mrs. Carrie Nation "Hold
your grip, old lady, and keep things
hot. If you let go once, you are done
for. Look at me.'
ADowns barber went to the well for
pail of water for his sick wife and
found $40 diamond. Now his wife
has to do her work on stills to keep
her head above water.
Hicks the iointist, who was run out
of Holton, has gone ~ Missouri, to
test the general Kansas belief that
life in Missouri will cause forgot
fullness OF all past woes.
A young man who married recently
at Howard sent a note to the Courant
please don't say anything about it
and I'll do as much for you some time
when you get pinched.''
A Fort Scott man who visited in the
Territory met Crazy Snake and thinks
he is pretty good citizen. Natural
ly, but what did Crazy Snake think of
the man from Fort Scott
1t would be interesting to know why
Kansas girls so abhor "stingy' boys,
but take kindly to "squeezy" ones.
In slang parlance the words have the
same meaning, sometimes.
Prof. Atwater, of Winfield, has dis
covered that hog and hominy are the
ideal brain food. This accounts for
the prominence of Kansans in every
walk of life in every cline.
The women of tine world will await
with intense anxiety the result of the
attempt of doctors at Wichita to save
the talking powers of little boy whose