Judge — April 6, 1889 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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go. In 1866, after serving as shipping-clerk in the St. Louis arsen: Kansas City and at once entered polities. keeper and held that position until 1870, wt had been shot thro ansas City bills having become hh the pre bit buffaloed, he w accounts ¢: this came his ele election to the mayoralty in 1886. ducted an insurance business, During his reside esumably for the r between the ballot-box and obl sve up this avocation to his son, Mr. matters less identified with the percent private citizens policy. nd his associ deposed cow-puncher that Mr. Kumpf uses at sausag A NECESSARY PRECAUTION. Mk StoRKLEY (on Ais thing of me cane "Tue KeTLER i sint it out in’ th’ kinnels. ay out)—"" Has anybody seen any- * Tt wor frightenin’ Miss Cl tenin’ pet tarrier so ‘TH boy'll b in, Sor.” JUDGE MEN WE HAVE MET. HENRY CHRISTIAN KUMPF, MAVOR OF KANSAS CITY, MO, THE DUTIES of the chief municipal officer of this stocky town have materially changed since * ‘foh d’ wah.” ‘There was a time when a man had to be a much better shot with a Derringer than with a pen to carry on the affairs of Kansas City satisfactorily, and the conditions for réelection involved the showing-up by the can- didate of as many healed bullet wounds as possible. All this is happily changed now, and the most timid tourist can pass through this western borough with nothin to contend against than an occasional escaped steer and the usual quality of Jackson county torpedo whisky. Mr. Kumpf, the present mayor, is serving his third term, and at least one-half of the citizens have learned to pronounce his name without hiccoughing Born in Beerfelden, Hesse Darmstadt, in 1830, he was apprenticed toa commercial firm at Frankfort-on-the-Main when fifteen years of age: but the in- creased strides of the sausage manufacturing industries in the st so deplorably brisk that when he reached nineteen he determined to ei America, He landed at New Orleans, stayed there long enough to hear whispers of Ben Butler's con:ing in la . Louis, where he proposed to settle until he found that the severe de- velopment of ear made it impossible for him to keep his hat on while walk- ing with one of the daughters of I of Chi- , he came to worse more than once. es made competition igrate to He was appointed United States store he retired to make room for a soldier in the war; and in 1872, the appointed auditor. ion to the comptrollership, followed after a After prief interval by his ce im the west he had con- eason that there is many a slip ched the pinnacle of power he Kumpf, and contents himself with He is very popular with both and the rumor brought east by ¢ instead of a gavel in presiding over the city’s coun ils lacks substan- tiation, NO APPLICA- TION. “What makes you sad, “Well, you'd be sad ifyouhad buried your last friend.” “Have you?” “Oh, no.” PITY ’TIS. He—Where’s my boot-jac Maria?" She—"ON! must you use it? What a pity! I've covered it with pink satin and painted a spray of wild flowers on it, and hung it up in the parlor by long satin bows. What a pity one can’t be artistic without having everything spoiled. ‘om? * Forgotten your opera-glass ?* No: my libretto of the opera. _ It’s in Ger fessor Heimstetter has marked all the lines where it's good form to laugh or to cry.” APRIL. S. dm only one of twee 0 two of us Just alike, All our names you'd never guess. Three of us have gone ahead. All the rest, come marchin ist stopped © bt to cry fe tile each with There Tim Taughing= do you sce Ry ste away Tittle fickles wayward T! Coming coming, Father 1 HISTORICAL NOTES. After Samos was subdued by Pericles he was never the Samos before his defeat. Skiold was the first king of Denmark, but the land was skiold before he reigned. here Ali was not the inventor of shears, although he did a great deal of cutting in his own way. ne Chinese canal of Yu Ho is so named because the emperor tried to stop the faters by calling “ Yu, Ho!" comicbooks.com