The Weekly Review from Kanopolis, Kansas • 3

N0TC3 PROM ABROAD. LITTLE ABSURDITIES. lv) spring trade. Fred. A.

Ki-nler is prepared to do all 0. E. HOLLOWAY, KANOPOLIS, KANSAS. Sell Under Buy Under io tk Matt a He IkJ Yorfi SIofb The AlraigMy'Dollar isjtlie Great Lever that Moves the World By following this principle, the New York Store has (mm email hpOMnnino-. tO SUCn an ex- tent that to-day it stands unrivalled for large, good and best selected (at lowest prices) stock ever on the market in this winter is fast approaching and we offer you bargains the various long time credit houses, can not match or cannot come within 20 rer cent, of duplicating.

Space prevents us from mentioning many of our various bargains, but come ana see iur All wool dress flannels 36 yard that have never som lor less man Blankets at 65 cents cheap a $1.00. Cloaks, Clothing and Boots Shoes must be seen and examined to be appre Come and see us, and be suit you. Kespecuuuy, G. A. YOUNG, KEW YORK STORE.

ELLSWORTH, KANSAS This space belongs to H. H. DAVIS at CRAWFORD'S for CASH. We aim to give you more goods for the money than any other house in Ellsworth County. In connection with our Grocery and Dry Goods Notion Store, we carry Drunkenness is very rare in Rio Xanelro, coffee taking the place of al toholio beverages, The old salon of Tarls received this year 8,430 pictures, nearly one-half of which were rejected.

It is about thirty miles across town In London, and for the entire dlstanco there Is said to be an unbroken line of residences and stores. Six corpses on the ball room floor was the result of a little difference of opinion among the dancers at a ball in an Austrian village two weeks ago. The renting of portions of the sidewalks in Paris to proprietors of cafes, who set out tables there, brings in a rental' to the city of 000,000 francs a year. The tiger makes short work of the buffalo in Sumatra. Therefore, to avoid its enmity, the buffalo rests at night in the riveA with only Its nose and horns above the surface.

In the matter ot woman's rights Abyssinia Is far ahead ofurope. The house and all Its confgnvelong to her, and if the husbanu 0uenJs. she turns him out until hV is ts.ulyt8' pentant and makes amendV N- The success of the Manchester ship canal has stirred up Englisr, merchants and manufacturers to the projection of all sorts of canal sche mes. Birmingham wants a ship canal connecting it with the Bristol A project is on foot to introduce Into the United kingdom the edible lichen of Japan. It is gathered; on the granite rocks in the Japanese mountains, and contains large qualities of starch and other gelatinous substances.

The average density of population per acre in London is 57.7 and the average death rate is 23.3 per thousand. In some parts of Whitechapel, in the tenement region, the density of population is about 3,000 per acre and the death rate is 41.4 per thousand. Dr. Flnkler of Bonn, said, in a re cent parliamentary discourse on hygiene, that of the 500,000 soldiers of Napoleon who perished on the Russian expedition of 1812, 400,000 fell victims to infectious diseases, and that in 1860 Prussia lost 5,000 men in battle and 6,000 through preventeble diseases. PLEASANTRIES OF THE HOUR.

Nurse, at the circus You are too big to be begging for peanuts. Arthur I ain't, neither; I ain't half as big as that 'ere elephant Bragga You look rather blue this morning, old man. Jaggs I'm black and blue. I was green enough last night to tell a fellow twice my weight that he wasn't a white man. Mamma I was sorry to see that you took no trouble to walk lightly when you went into church to-day.

Dickey I didn't think it was late enough for any one to be asleep. "And the prisoner, when arrested, was disguised as a woman?" said the magistrate. "Yes, your honor." "How did you discover his identity?" We told him his hat wasn't on straight and he didn't pay any attention to us." Traveler Is this here th' bureau of information? Railroad Clerk It is. Traveler Well, about six hours ago a teller toofcmv-watch in' around th' corner to git my name engraved on 'em, so they wouldn't git lost, an' I wanter know if the engravers of this 'ere town are all out on strike. Little Brother Mr.

Sewtor, why is it that my sister Hattie is always so good-tempered before you come here of an evening, and then so cross to me next morning? Mr. Sewtor Don't know, Johnny, shall I ask her? Little Brother Yes; I've heard her say lots of times she wondered why you didn't ask her, but I never thought it was anything about that An Irish woman works for Borne East side families. "Sure if I had nobody's business but me own to says she, "I'd have little enough to do." "After jBxpressing this sentiment she went on to cay: "In County Limerick, where I come from, there was a man that said he'd give any woman that uu mind her own business a pound twenty shillin's, I mean. And, upon me sowl, niver a wan of all the women in the county put in a claim for it." CHIEFLY CHAFF. "Miss Oldgirl has lovely teeth!" Yes, like her sex, they are fair but false." The boy who goes fishing without permission may sit in the shade, but he usually gets tanned.

A. Has she given you any eneonr agement? B. Oh, yes. She says she will get all her father's money when he dies. 'She isn't all that my fancy painted her!" bitterly exclaimed a rejected lover; "and, worse than that, she isn't all that she paints herself." Mrs.

Houser Is the oath of office 1 read so much about profane? Houser Humph! Depends a good deal whether it is taken going in or com ing out. She Why is it they speak of a man as a "strong candidate? He doesn have to lift anything, does he? He Er not exactly; but his friends all expect him to carry the day. Impatient Guest, to waiter, after waiting an hour and a quarter Why, this is beef; I ordered veal. Waiter I know, but just think how long since you ordered it It was veal then. 'Ah, well," remarked Hardup, cheerfully, as he threw a pile of unopened bills into the waste basket and touched the office boy for a cigarette, "at least I never borrow trouble." "Don't you find it very uncomfortable to fast 30 days?" said the visitor to a man who was doing the act in a dime museum.

"Well," replied the freak, "I don't mind telling you confidentially that I can stand fasting SO days pretty well, so long as I can get a square meal every night" A friend of mine is interested in the baby carriage manufacturing business. He gnynbled about trade. "Why," I asked him, "aren't as many babies born formerly?" Yes!" "WelL why isn't your business good?" "More twins. There never was a year when so many twins were born knocks our single baby carriage busi uess in the head!" "Is it posslblo the colonel is running for oflloe?" "No; he hasn't run slnoe the warl" "Are you not ashamed not to do ny work all tho year round?" "Oh, would rather bo ashamed than work." "Why is it that Tuner's pupils all teem to take hold of the musio better this concert." "It may be because it Is all Handel's." George Amelia, dear, do you believe love Is blind? Amelia Yes, Oeorge, darling. George Then.dear, do not see any need of keeping the burning.

"Ob eoh'se," said Uncle Eben, "time is money. But It do beat all how much easier 'tis ter gib a frlon' two houahs' talk 'bout economy dan 'tis ter leu fifty cents." "Is it true that your bride is very hard of hearing?" "It is. Why, when I proposed to her I had to shout out so loud that all the neighbors ran in and congratulated me." Mamma Bobbie, don't eat that candy, or you'll have the toothache. Robbie I don't care. I'll make nurse tell me an awful ghost story, and I won't know my tooth aches." Officer Phaneyhann I hear you was fired for sleepin' on jooty.

Is that so? Ex-Officer MoBroyde No, Mike, no; niver say thot It wasn't fur the sleepin'; 'twas fur the wakin' up too late. Little Johnny Sammy Sims called me a liar to-day. Mother I hope yoit were able to convince him that you were a lover of truth. Little Johnny Guess I did. I didn't let np till he hollered "Enough." "Herbert," she said, "tell me one thing, and tell me truthfully.

Were you ever intoxicated?" "Well, replied the young man, "I was air-tight once." "What do you mean?" "I had a tooth pulled and took laughing yos." Daubs is mad as hops about his picture that was on exhibition." "Wasn't it noticed?" "Yes, took a prize." "What's he mad about, then?" "Well, It was a picture of cows, and it was awarded the prize for the best picture of sheep." HOW THEY COMPOSED. nalevy- liked smoking and always composed best with a long pipe in his mouth, the bowl resting on the floor. Sullivan does not write more than one or two songs a year. He receives hundreds of poems for music, but generally does not read them. Donizetti was of a melancholy temperament and subject to fits of mental depression without visible cause.

During the last three years his melancholia became so pronounced that he was Incapable of giving attention to his work. Cherubini so closely Identified his sympathies with his work than when writing a pathetic passage he would cry like a child. He was often found in tears over his score, and. some of his manuscripts are thus so blotted as to be almost illegible. Schubsrt was so proliflo of songs that he never remembered, a few days later, what he had written.

A friend placed one of Schubert's own songs before its oomposer two weeks after it had been produced. The latter had forgotten It and asked irhow Hiruh Wagner had a clearly molded, classical face, with thin, cynical lips, which seemed to wear a perpetual sneer. He was exceedingly vain, greatly disliked to hear words of praise given to any other composer, and rarely spoke even in faint commendation of the greatest of his predecessors. Liszt was tall, angular and thin. His hands were very large and his 6ngers so long as to enable him to cover an octave and a half.

His side face. Jipre a striking resemblance to that offilroun. His marvelous dex terity at the piano was the result of native talent, aided by almost incredible labor. As a he practiced ten hours a day, and increased this time as he approached manhood. DAME NATURE AND MAN.

Next to Niagara, the largest water power plant in this country is in Portland, Ore. There is a tree in Nevada so lumin ous from exuding phosphorescent matters that one can read by Its light. The physical lives of most freaks, like their professional careers, are short. The fat people usually die of apoplexy. At the end of each hair of a cat's whiskers is a bulb of nervous sub stance which converts the hair into extremely delicate feelers.

A novelty in icebergs was sighted 'atoly south of the Banks by the iteamshlp Brooklyn City. It was a hree-peaked mountain. The middle peak was 130 foet high. The berg, which was about 2,000 feet long, ap peared to be solid, and was apparently fast aground. The low price of silver in Paris has stimulated the inventive genius of a manufacturer, who has consequently made a new metal by means of an alloy of copper and silver, using the successful proportions of the two.

He has really obtained an entirely new netal, one of a most extraordinary legree of strength, and most valuable (or resisting sudden or long sustained strains. A device for stopping np shot holes war vessels, invented by a marine engineer named Douglas, and accepted 'Sy the British government, has been 'sted by the United btates cruiser Chicago. It resembles a parachute with a rubber cover supported by steel ribs. It is pushed through the hole made by the shot, when it ex pands and clings close to the outside of the vessel, preventing an inrush of water. Corns Cake.

-Two teacupfuls sugar, one of butter; add one teacupful molasses, a large eup strong coffee, four eggs beaten, five teacupfuls flout sifted with one teaapoonful Price's cream baking powder, one pound each raisins and currants, quarter pound of sliced citron, two teaspoon- fnls each cloves and cinnamon, and one each allspice and grated nutmeg. Queer Cake. One pound each ol floor and sugar, one teaspoonfu) Price's cream baking powder, three- fourths of a pound of butter, five eggs, one gul each of wine, brandy and cream, one pound of currants; citron, mace and nutmeg to taste. kinds of watdi, clock and Jowelcry repairing. Mr.

11. If. PiivU and Cyrus drove a mulo team belonging to Samuel LlvlnifHtiti to Lincoln Center on Sabbath day, where 0110 of tho mules took alck and died. Rev. liltindon, former pastor of the M.

E. church of this city, has been on tho sick list urid has been unable to attend his quarterly conference, but is convalescing. Nothing has been heard of Ex. County Treasurer Dick up to this time, but the commltsloners are determined to bring him to Justice, and sheriff Hutchlns says he will secure him yet If he does nothing else during his term of oillco. James Wilson and A.

R. Buslck caused quite a sensation In Ellsworth, Saturday, when, without a warrant or any legal authority, using wlnehestors as a means of Intimidation, they forced Doss. Vandavor and anotner young man to go with them to Sylvan Grove. It Is presumed their object was to force information from them concerning the Sylvan Grove bank robbers. It matters not what Van-davor Is or what their object was, it was an outrage and the perpetrators should be brought to lustlce.

Ellsworth Items. Kesler has received his new goods. Earnest Rogers arrived home from Missouri, Saturday. Mr. Rankin is slowly recovering from his recent Illness.

Frank Alexander made a flying trip to Wilson, Sunday. Quite a number of people were in town trading, Saturday. Geo. Lincoln, after an absenco of about five years, returned homo last week. Sternberg's irrigation plant seemed to be the main attraction of the town, Sunday.

Bud Gephardt leaves Saturday for Winfleld, where he has secured a position in a drug store. The Methodist revivals after three weeks' continuation, were brought to a close Friday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Everest Goff, of Pea-body, spent fhe week in Ellsworth, visiting friends and relatives. Patterson Son have moved their harness shop into the building occu pied during the summer by R.

Rhuel. Many of our merchants report a good prospect for a good Ilolliday trade better than last year. Wonder if the County money causes it? Dave Fox, while helping pull the hose cart to the Are, Thursday, met with quite a painful accident which may result In the loss of a finger. Last Saturday Chas. and Everest Goff come near having a runaway, through someome leaving a steam engine near tho road at the Spring creek bridge.

Fire broke out last Thursday in the Bowlin barber shop, but through the prompt action of the fire department no damage was done except to the building Itself. MARRIED CURATES RULED OUT. Sad State of Affnlra Id the Established Chnroh In England, Marriage seems a gwthc lover's' the case of curates in ifof England. One of them w'n'3a of the sad lot of his class as. follows: "When vicars in charge of fashionable suburban parishes insist on having only young and unmarried curates it may, In the opinion of mere worldly men, be very nice for the girls, but is it very good for the chnrch? Why do married vicars invariably advertise for unmarried curates? Are their own marriages all failures? My case is a common one.

I am a curate and want work. But I am too old, being no less than thirty- seven years, and am married, so, of eourse, must stand aside. That I have enough income to live on is lucky for me, but does not alter the caso. My father served as a curate nearly all his life and I thought I might at least be permitted to do the same, but the notion of the bishops in ordaining men wholesale during the past twenty-five years has enabled the majority of Vicars to reject all who, like myself, are old or married, and so we are left in the sad position of your humble servant, who signs himself 'Out of The General Interpretation. Lord Russell once said: "Mr.

Hume, what do you consider the object of legislation?" "The greatest good to the greatest number. 'What do you consider the greatest number? "Number one," was Ma Hume a re- Ply. MEN AND WOMEN. Fashion plates came in nse daring the last quarter of the eighteenth century. A writer has figured that an average of 27,000 widowers remarry, as against 19,500 widows.

A late English nobleman left his horse trainer $80,000, his cook $5,000, and his chaplain but 81,000. France is the only European country which has to-day fewer able-bodied men than it had thirty years ago. Two hundred women are employed by Edison in working at the more delicate details of his electrical inventions. Buffalo can claim the distinction of being the only city in the United States that has furnished two presi dents. A spaniel owned by Dr.

Frederick A. Lyons of New York city, has adopted a chicken, which it cares for incessantly. But who Is to work China's new quick-firing gunsf" inquires a New York exchange. Why, the Japs, oi eourse. i ro pound something nara.

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T. K. G-RiFtflTH, KANOPOLIS, KANSAS, for testimonials and other valuablo Information relative! dlputqeria and tonsllltls PRINTINGI WE CONTINUE to do all "kinds of Job Printing at the lowest possible rates. Write us for rates we will surprise you on prices. Griffith The Printers, KANOPOLIS.

KANSAS. LOCAL AND OTHERWISE. Call and see Kesler's new goods. A glorious rain aad snow, Monday, Get your hats brushed for the wed ding. The Salt Mines are working as usual.

Honest work at honest prices at Kesler's. Subscribers see that your coupons are canceled. One week from next Tuesday will be Christmas. Sewing machine repairing promptly done at Kesler's. C.

S. Bath has completed the ad dition to his house, Bad men never die: If you doubt It, consult the tomb stones. All kinds of jewelery repairing neat ly and promptly done at Kesler's. Mr. Sam.

Livingston has received a new stock of drv goods and notions. Mr. Frank Easterly, who dislocated bis ankle sometime ago, is improving The Missouri Pacific wrecked several freight cars at Hutchison, Thursday. Gents watch pbalus guaranteed for Ave years from $2,00 to $6.00 at Kesler's. D.

A. Cowle is arranging to light the engine rooms at the Salt Works by electricity. Missouri Pacific agent Spencer moved to the west part of town the first of the week. The Union Faclflo and Missouri Pacific depots are now connected by a new telegraph line. Kesler will clean your watch and guarantee youyvatch to give satisfaction for one year for fie Missouri Paciflg trains now lay 9Y? ifignt at Kanopolis.

They arrive at 3 P. M. and depart at 6 A. M. There is an epidemic of hog cholera in the city, and as a result of it a good many pork barrels will remain empty.

The lumber for the new M. E. church at Carneiro arrived Monday, and work at building has commenced. If your watch Is not giving satisfaction, leave it at Kesler's and have it put In proper shape, and it will do the right thing. Several "upsets' have occurred near the Spring creek bridge, caused by a broken.

down enjinein the road, which frightened teams. Bert Holloway, tht city, passed a successful examination before the State Board of Pharmacy, which met at Ellsworth, Dec. 13th. J. II.

Jackson the old meat market building to the rear of his meat market the last of the week, wnere lie will use it fur an ice house. Pursuant to notice from Rev. Iral I Hick, rain fell Monday, terminating in nearly three inches of soft, wet snow. The next is to ccnie from the 21 ft to 25th Inst. We understand the Salt have ordered a car load of pit cars and one of steel pit rails and are otherwise engaged in preperation for an exten-J 1 We buy from a Bargain House and we will give our customers the benefit of our bargains, so.

when you are in the city call and see for yourself and be Missouri Avenue, Kanopolis, Kansas. vumsw. inches width at 35 cents per assured that our prices will a full line of Millinery ii Anyone who may receive a copy of this paper, who is not a subscriber, will understand that it has been sent by a friend or is a sample copy and an invitation to become a subscriber. We place no names on our books who are not subscribers. Dealer! in GRAIN, FLOUR, FEED, Vegetables Groceries, Missouri Kanopolis, Kan.

J. R. JACKSON, DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF Fresh and Cured Meats, Butter, Eggs Poultry. Farmers, I want your trade, and will pay you the highest market prices for hides. I also take butter, and eggs in trade for anything in my line fa Old Reliable Meat Market r.

Jackson, PROPRIETOR. Missouri Kanopolis, Kan. The Kanopolis Land Co. OFFERS a Tare chance for a good miliar. The Flour Mill can ba had at a very low figure.

Also the Pottery and Brick Works, Houses and Lots for Residence, In these days of "Irrigation" agitation, the Brick Works, being supplied with a good Acme Brick and Tilt Machine, offers a good opportunity for the manufacture of vitrified brick for paring, and drain tile for irrigating purpose The rery bexf of clays are near at hand. Address NO. S. JUDSOX, Manager. J.

Jennings THE CHEAPEST Dealer in EVERYTHING! tr- In the above few words it has all been told our competitors know as well as those who trade with us. Let us number you with them. 0 Kansas Kanopolis, Kansas..