Wichita eagle., 1889-10-10
sUNFLowER sHADow1NGs.
Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts, Shoot. and sts.

| ~eso'I SHPsr SCiohs, SPROUTS, ohools ana Sbtefss
John A. Martins life was insured TO,
s., 100.
The Fort Scott Street Railway company,
capital $50. 900, has been granted state
charter.
Forensic ability in Kansas is cultivated
largely in wearing the nair in the Calhoun
fashion.
Arkansas City wants to divide Cowley
county Such talk always makes Winfield
weak in the gills.
The Arkansas City postofice is disposed
OF, and more people than ever down there
| are believers IN fate"
The name of Philip Krohn now appears
at the head OF the editorial page of the
Champion as managing editor.
An O'athe man raised name'ess straw
berry this season from which 800 quarts
were sold from plat loo feet square.
The hayseeds are going to take a whack
| at politics IN Marshall county. Every man
nominated by the Republicans there is a
farmer.
| The city Jail at Hutchinson contains five
people, three of whom are women. The
| down-trodden woman is fast getting her
| liberties.
Four switch engines are now being oper-
ated in the Atchison yards duri,g day
time, and yet people say that Atchlson IS
not booming
Wellington is cultivating penchant for
| heavily veiied ladies. who glance around
| nervously, and make hurried remarks to
| closely cloaked gentlemen.
| K. &. Star: The Waldo Enterprise has
suspended for three months to allow the
editor to earn enough money by teaching
| school to buy new overcoat.
K. G. Star: Kansas is probably the only
state in the union where man will give
| up business which is worth $1,000 year
to accept an Office that pays $1,000
The Efingham Times claims to have the
champion boy compositOr in the state. He
is fifteen years of age and will set type
| with any boy of his age in Kansas.
After an absence of seven years James
Marvin has returned to his home in Atchi-
son to find that his wife had married
again. believing Marvin to be dead.
Newtonian soliloquy from the Republic
can: The leaves are falling fast and as
they rustic under ones feet they rrmind
US of the never ceaslng flight of time.
Fred Osborne, of Ludell, met Miss Ella
Reed on Sunday, proposed to her the same
evening, was accepted and the couple were
married on the following Wednesday,
The Leavenworth police yesterday con-
fiscated wagon load of beer and liquors
in transit from Missouri to Fort Leaven-
worth and Immediately destroyed the
liquids.
Arkansas City is now enjoying a pyro-
technical display of II reportorial fend.
Sarcasm, exclamation and Interrogation
marcks are conglomerated with fearful in
genuity.
1t is usually the men who have little
cash and less winter clothing who predict
a hard winter. 1t is trial of that philos-
ophy: Think a thing is going to happen,
and it wont.
Alex Butts: 1t has leaked out that the
lack of harmony which now prevails in the
female city government at Cottonwood
Fails originated in an argument rs to the
best method of making pepper pickles.
1t is IA wonder the world is us good as it
is. See how temptations circumvent US
from the first. Remember the conflict in
our mind, when we espied he bone rings
on harness, where the absence OF a sharp
jack-knife only saved us.
Newton Republican: The old tree in
the walk just south of the Newton Nation
al bank was chopped down this forenoon.
and thus has been lain low another old
land mark. 1t was planted by old Billy
Brown almost twenty years ago.
Governor G. w. Click, the retiring PEN
sion agent, has summed up the business
done ia his Office since January l, 1856, the
day he took possession. He has paid in
pensions s24 OPS, 173 -, to di-burse which
sum he signed 5l0,S01 checks and 1000
letters
A Kansas farmer named John Arm
strong has invented an patented Corn
cutting machine. 1t can be made so as TO |
take one or more rows at time and cut /
l.k hA, hi y1n nd Lab
Gus work can now be done by horse poner, /
it will be a boon to eastern as well as 10 .
Kansas farmers. The western corn has /
larger, heavier stocks than that grown by /
eastern farmers, aud If the machine sue
ceedS in the west, there need be
no doubt about its working anywhere.
Rural kausan. he only objection
to it is that it would rob Kansas
of their joke about the step
ladders.