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1886. In an orchard in McPherson county there are seven cherry trees in full bloom. If Corbett really wants to fight he e should address Tug Wilson of Cowley county. A dance at the insane asylum marks the opening of the social season at Topeka. The old soldiers at Atchison have resoluted against the police commissioners. One poor Topeka mortgage company has been compelled to become owner of 300 houses. The state school fund appears to be holding a sack instead of some Scott county bonds. Leavenworth'sapple carnival will be incomplete without Cy Leland and his apple jack. Baker university has shut off foot ball and is instructing the students in military tactics. A earload of apples which was sent from Ottawa to Philadelphia didn't bring enough to pay the freight. The success of a dog at the Goodland coursing meet may be said to depend on "knowing more than a rabbit." Some people have gone so as to charge the frequency of violent deaths in Pittsburg to the large kilns there. Osborn is as proud of her new waterworks plant as a boy with a new top and it only cost her $7,000. Cheap enough. An "informal wedding" at Fort Scott is when the pair drive to the probate judge's office and have the hackman for a witness. Old soldiers within a radius of 200 miles of the soldiers' home at Leavenworth, will hold a big reunion at the home November 2nd. Commissioner Saxon of Pottawatomie county has just returned from Scotland, where he sold a consignment of horses at good prices. "When the corn is waving, Annie dear," will be sung with cornet aecompaniment at a Holton social, unless Providence prevents. The M. K. & T railroad peopleshould feel thankful that their conductor who disappeared at Kansas City recently didn't take his train with him. As the investigations of the Fast Scott bank failure continue the wonder increases that Cashier Colean did not take the vault aud fixtures. Assistant Attorney General Goddard f has appointed C. W. Mitchell receiver of the wrecked bank at Fort Scott, Mr. Mitchell belongs to a local insurance firm, and his bond was fixed at $100,000. A. Garrett, of Derby, was somewhat I surprised last week when he was presented with a note for collection for a $65 for cigars bought in Denison, Tex. As Mr. Garrett was never in the state p of Texas in his life, he has concluded he does not owe for any cigars here. Those poor fakirs will have to try o someone else. The other day a Lawrence deaf P mute was writing an ad. for the paper, S and coming to a word that stuck him a in spelling he proceeded to spell it out t on his fingers, and followed this with his pencil and had no further trouble r in getting the word right. Lots of c people not deaf mutes have nimbler t fingers than minds. I A. C. Hutehison who was one of the brightest and best editors in western S Kansas one year ago, is now in CripD ple Creek, Col., holding down a gold S mine, and also looking after the editoT rial interests of the Mirror. He visits V Kansas at regular intervals and will C eventually succumb to the charms of a n Greely county maiden. The Gove City Gazette is making a n fight for the county high school propoo sition, which will be voted on in that N county this fall. It figures it out h that after the Union Pacific, the big f lumber and land corporations and W the non-residents pay their share the in people will have to pay only eight cents per capita to meet the annual W expense. O A novel idea has been put into act tion by one of Sumner county's citiS zens. He has a herd of cattle which d he drives to pasture in the morning c and home at night. He also has a bir cycle. One night a reportersattention = was called to the fertile minded man as he went down the road on his "bike" driving his heard of cattle. He could fi
