Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-04
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Seeds. Slips. seion.. Sprouts. Shoots and slis'

| are in order.
Kiowa would like to retail its old sal
well shaft for post holes
Photograph wars" are great things il
social way in small towns
Notwithstanding recent warnings, Sa
lima continues to play euchre.
A great many Kansans climb Pike'
peak without ever going near 1t.
TIA Kansas has any poetry in him tn,
sunfower will bring it out every time.
A Geuda Springs man boasts of having
plugged his twentieth melon this year.
It is now established beyond doub
that weeds will grow in Mulvane withou
irrigation.
A Greenwood county man has invented
corn cutting machine that is run by
horse power.
Governor Humphrey. has appointed Johr
T. Stewart, of Cherokee county, as state
mine inspector.
Form, explains an impoverished ex-
change, is adding an Gin advance" to the
price of inscriptions.
Blue Rapids has voted $4,000 to COM
plete the system of waterworks COM
menced there in 1871.
Sterling Gazette: A car load of sorghum
cane seed was shipped to Australia last
Friday by j. Hanna & Co.
Coldwater boasts of cat with a falsette
voice that can beat the soprano" in any
minstrel show in existence.
Ninety-eight names are on the roll of the
Pawnee county normal institute. with sew
eral back benches to hear from.
Lindsborg News: Last week thirteen
cars of old wheat and nine cars of new
wheat were shipped from this place.
What the deuce do people mean by
planting a second crop of potatoes-unless
it is for the mere joy of seeing them grow
The total assessed valuation of Barber
county for the year of 1889, is 81, 3l2, 56S. 10
a gain of little over $4,000 in the past
year.
The people who thought they were going
to sell liquor in Chingawasa Springs park
have had the wind taken out of theil
sails.
The Continental hotel at Leavenworth
has closed its doors to the public. The
running expenses were greater than the
receipts.
Rev. Bright, of Abilene, was elected re.
cording secretary of the Worlds Sunday
School association, which was held il
London recently.
Subscribers will take notice that the
most excellent correspondence is always
crowded out in small newspapers. 1t is a
stroke of diplomacy.
The Topeka Capital says Kansas people
don't have to 60 to South Africa to see the
eclipse Kansas corn this year will eclipse
anything in history.
K. C. Star: The farmer who took stalk
of corn to the Wichita EAGLE Office which
1,,I Font S<yh pof anv tai
without falling but II was close call.
The Leavenworth Standard says the
metropolitan police in that city in the past
two years have drawn out $4,000 more
than they have put into the city treasury.
There is no use in keeping it from him,
he might just as well bear the dismal
truth right now, but the man who wrote
and read that poem at the opening of the
Chingawasa springs never will be cured.
Salna Republicans: Farmers boys are
practicing walking on stills In order to be
able to reach the ears of corn. 1t takes too
long to climb every stock, and then q tel
low is liable to run splinters in his fingers
when he slides down.
A storm has struck homo in Atchson.
A young man married 16-year old girl,
whom he met at Methodist revival, after
less than a months acquaintance. and now
the child sues for divorce, alleging long
list of horrible charges.
Oskaloosa Independents: Two or three
of our farmers south of town had the
White Russian oats in and realized good
crops, the rust not seeming to affect them.
Mr.. p. G. Vancleave had good yield of
Texas oats because he had them in very
early and cut them before the rust struck
them.
Emporia Republican: Some of the pa
pers are accusing Christopher Columbus
with a lack of foresight in choosing the
year for discovering America. The CEN
tennial celebration of the event will occur
in the same year with presidential cleo
ton and will therefore not receive the at
tention 1t should.
Ottawa Republican: They tell of very
cultured divine in Boston, who instead of
saying, "The collection will now DE taken
mp" impressively remarks. 1.-The accumu-
lation OF moneys will ensue." But Phil
adelphia clergyman. a great lover OF the
national game, forgot himself once, and
said: ''Here endeth the first inning-let
us pray.
Barber County Index: William Rogers
of Mumford. sowed sixteen and n half
bushels of wheat on eighteen acres of
ground, and few days ago threshed part
of the crop. He says he will get over 500
same vicinity Mr.. Lyman had SIX acres
which threshed and measured fifty-six
bushels to the acre. Mr.. Rogers says the
general average on Buffalo Flats will be
about forty -five bushels 70 the acre, though
there are some large fields which have not
been properly cared for.
Clark County Clipper: The castor bean
harvest has commenced and will be fol-
lowed up constantly and carefully as long
as there are beans 20 rlpen. The crop this
season is generally good and every bushel
grown should be cared for. The price is
one incentive, and another is the encour-
agement of An industry that is likely TO
pay in this part of the state. At any rate
it is worth trying. The freight on bushel
of wheat and bushel of beans is about
the same, but the latter is worth two or
three times as much on the market.
That strangely attired woman who set
all Commercial street agog yesterday af-
ternoou hailed rom near Huron. She
came to town with load of chickens, veg
etables, butter and eggs, left her wagon
standing in an alley on upper Commercial
street, and walked down the street in her
strange attire-a heavy winter turban hat
a gossamer, heavy wooden mits and thick
veil-on a wager with some of her neigh
bors. She is the wife of wellto-do
farmer and is great practical joker. Her
name is Standardization Champion.
Atcbison Champion: Since the re-appear-
ance of f. T. Brown, the Wichita man,
after an absence of six months, during
which time he seems unable to give any
account of himself, the papers recall two
similar instances. Both occurred in
Labette county, in 1860. A DR.. Lane lost
and, six months later
found himself at Franklin, No, $50 miles
his home. He could remember nothing
between the time when he struck a match
In his own Office one night aud MS arrival