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Kansas University Weekly.
Raymond has been connected with the Kansas City Gazette for some time, but has quit the newspaper work for the present.
The House Across the Way.
During my early school days, my window faced a spacious, handsome house in which dwelt a college professor of wondrous learning. When I first became the professor's neighbor, I would sit at times looking at his house while I thought how happy a man must be when he is so well supplied with the comforts of life.
During one of these meditative intervals I was aroused by the sound of a shrill feminine voice. I started up and listened. Could it be possible that, even in this home, temper could be displayed, or quarrels take place? The possessor of the shrill voice was evidently excited. For fully two minutes she spoke uninterruptedly in a high key. Then there was an audible thump, a masculine mumble, a hurried opening and shutting of doors, a quick movement of feet, and a reopening of the argument by the shrill voice. The words were now distinguishable. "Your forgetfulness is unbearable, I tell you! To think of a man putting his feet into the best chair in the parlor, and that too when his shoes are covered with mud! I'll teach you some practical common-sense-philosophy if it takes me till doomsday." Another slamming of doors. The professor appeared on the front porch. He wore his usual air of dignity and his spirits seemed calm and unruffled. He looked at the sky, sighed, walked to the front gate, came back and incidentally scraped his shoes and wiped them carefully on the mat before re-entering the house. In the meantime, I could hear his wife sizzling to herself as does a teakettle when it gets warm and can't help showing it.
This was but the beginning. What I subsequently saw and heard from my window proved to me that the professor's home life was anything but an ideal one, and I devoutly wished that the learned old man might, by means of some mathematical device send his wife spinning out into space upon a parabola,
for I knew that "then and not till then" could he and his feet be happy when at home.
L. C. G.
A Valuable Discovery.
Mr. Cady has made a very valuable discovery. This is a rapid or accurate method for the determination of iron in ores or other compounds.
It is a modification of the permanganate process, with which chemists are familiar. For a long time they have been attempting to devise a method for the determination of iron in a hydrochloric acid solution, but heretofore no practical rapid method has been devised.
When you hear of "cheap clothing made to your measure" you can more than suspect that it was made out of town. Why?—because of its cheap appearance—a blaeksmith can shoe a horse but you can hardly expect him to make the harness. It requires a practical tailor to measure and fit a garment. We are not given to telling tales out of school, but Eastern Tailor made(?) suits are not in it any more. Our stock is the largest ever brought to this City, and our prices the lowest.
We make Suits from $12.00 to $45.00 Pants $3.00 to $15.00 J. J. KUNKEL.