Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-03-08
Kansas Notes

can be bought for less than $3.50.
c. W. Dock of Brown county who |
asked to be judged insane because he |
was afraid OF himself. was accommo-
dated
The state Sunday school. convention |
has been taken away from Wichita
and given to Emporia
Mound City. to make doubly sure
that it cannot be hid has struck a
flow of gas at a depth of 40 feet.
A Salina man was fined SIS for kill-i
IS worth of sleep the very next
night.
Lawrence recently sold $4,000 of
Improvement bonds, and not a bond
went out of town. Lawrence has more
old wallets wrapped with twine than
any city in the state.-
A Leavenworth man. while driving
the other day, says the Western Life,
had the misfortune to break part of
his harness AS he drove through
town at least fifty individuals hailed
him and told him strap was drag
ging and the fiftieth man came near
getting his eye Dlacked- for his trou-
BILE. The spirit of brotherly love is
strong, but at times it gets to be a
chestnut.
The Rev. Mr.. Thorp of Weir City
describes his missing wife, who took
$4O0 OF mis- money when she ran away,
as good looking, stylish and proud"
Carrie Nations latest effort to re-
cover from oblivion is a letter to Miss
Roosevelt warning her not to christen
the kaiser's yacht with champagne.
It is much better that Mr.. Przybylo-
wicz OF Leavenworth should be nick
named Murphy, than that E. E. Muir
ply should be nicknamed Przybylo-
wicz.
The Great Bend Tribune tells about
a business man who gets up so late
in the morning that when he goes
down to the store he regularly meets
himself coming to dinner.
Travelling men are catching on to
the fact that they can get half a col
| umn in the Wichita ppers any day by
standing sponsor for the sentiment
that Wichita is hummer
There is the word of the Pratt Union
for it that man in that town wore
a shirt until the middle of the after
| noon, one day this week, before he no.
| tlced that he had it on wrong side be-
| fore.
A Topeka preacher who denounced
! the newspapers few days ago as the
itnig Washburn college, one of the
moss worthy educational institutions
in the state.
The Atchison Globe is printing hints
on etiquette from the Brakemans
| Home Journal Here is one of them:
eff gent takes, a lady to a ball it is
tEroper, about IL o'clock. for him to
| couple up with her, switch her down
| to restaurant and coal her up with
| an oyster stew.
| Spearyille's champion liar has taken
the floor long enough to tell about a
| jack rabbit he killed recently which
i had pair of horns like Texas steer.
A man in Caldwell was kept alive
| for several hours by means of artificial
respiration. The Hutchinson News de-
mands that congress enact law tax
| ing artificial breathing when done in
Limitation of the genuine article
A story is being printed in North
ern Kansas about a Jewell county man
yho recently paid 5000 for a Polled
Angus COW in Chicago and that last
week the cows tail came off. 1t was
an artificial appendage that had been
stuck on to make the COW sell bet
ter.
The Delphos youth who carried a
loaded gun with him on a hayrack
| escaped with the loss of only one leg
and part of one arm.
/ The borers at Jewell City are deter
mined to keep on boring until they
strick coal. even if they have to tap
one of the Asiatfc coaling stations
from underneath.
A team OF Washburn college girls
went to Emporia to play a basket
ball match az the State Normal school
and the papers in both towns were
undecided whether to trea. the event
as society or spor.
At the January examinations the
teachers were asked to decfpher and
spell correctly the following words:
"Sycollogy. Ejipshan, serjicle, dissip-
lin, counterfeit deseese, dezeezed,
Conscience, unconshus, roomatizm.
Filipeens, Filipeenos, discomfitoor."
Henry Grice of Smith county, who
has boarded several thousand bushels
of corn of the vintage of 1889. regards
it as so much gold
Emporia has the first ping pong club
, yet formed in. Kansas.
Whisky drummers have a new way
OF eyading the vigilant officers in Bur-
1ington- A man struck town the other
day who claimed to be selling liquid
music. Way Down on the Sowanee
River" Dixie and other popular
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