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SAND-BURKS AND TUMBLE WEEDS. Kanesa! is and to have 800 Insurance ageuts. There is war among the flour men at Eureka. McPherson county again "agitatIng" for a court house. Lawrence recently had an Ice carnival An Ice time was "had' The Marion Record thinks there cannot be too many churches in town. A sarcastic than in Atebi-on has named a street car horse Naney Hanks. The editor of the Ft Scott Lantern wants to be coal oil inspector. How natural! Kausas manufacturers received $300 in bounties this year for the sugar they made. A Sterling man has invented a traction thresher engine which uses gasoline for fuel. Reform is getting there. All the saloons in Wichita have to close at 12 o'clock every night. Ex-Senator H. B. Kelly has been admitted to the bar: that is to say he has become a lawyer. The Commercial bank a Goodland has failed with assets twice the amount of its liabilities. During the last twelve years the value of farm land in Kansas has increased fully 25 per cent. The editor of the Fredonia Citizen, after seeing a skirt dance for the first time, thinks it "tolerable," The "per capiter" of bank deposits in Dickinson county is $28, and the county has a population of $22,000. Mrs. Lease's son in named "Charles H." Does the "H." stand for what the lady told the farmers to raise? The rumor that Johann Most is coming to Kansas is not true, and there never was any foundation for it. The second dividend of 20 per cent has been declared by the receiver of the defunet Second National Bank of McPherson. An Ottawa county farmer complains that since the legislature opened his hogs have acquired the habit of sucking the cows. A Topeka real estate man and a Lawrence merchant threaten to leave the state on account of legislative muddle. Well, ta-ta! The meanest man in Cloud county, according to the unanimous verdiet of the populist party, is the editor of the Concordia Empire. One bad thing about Mr. Hoch ing to the legislature is that his man, Dan Lindsay, issues a "salutatory' each week In the Marion Record. An Abilene man is so lazy that he won't get out of bed when somebody yells "fire!" He thinks it's only scheme to awaken the nightwatchman. As fish are now being hauled into Minneapolis by the wagon load, Governor Riddle hasgiven Tom Cordrya vacation in order to feed uphis brains. A horse shoe suspended over the door of an Atchison house for luck, fell down recently, and striking a child of the head, caused doctor bills that footed up to $30. There is a marked improvement in the calamity papers that come to this table, which may be accounted for from the fact that the editors have been down in Topeka for the past three weeks. It is reported that George Collett of of McPherson, Ellsworth, had and to Warren sit at Knaus separate tables: the recent Democratic editorial banquet in Topeka, owing to the largeness of their feet. The Emporia Reuublican which has many queer fancies, suggests that State Treasurer-elect Biddle build a sub-treasury and get his Alliance friends to put up their wheat, corn etc., as security for him. State Journal: If Kansas can produce 74,000,000 bushels of wheat with scarcely one-twentieth of its wheat lands utilized, think of its possibilities; and then think of Topeka with a dam and fifty big flouring mills.
