Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-27
suNrLoWER sHADowMGs.
Seeds. Slips. scions, Sprouts. Shoots and siv'

| sUNFLoWER sHADOwMGs.
fseeds, Slips scions, Sprouts. Shoots and slivers.
| A complete failure-the nubbins.
The lake at Geuda Springs contains
| black bass.
Work has commenced on the Sisters
school building at Wellington.
None of the candidates, this year, claim
to be in the hands of their friends"
Kansas clerks never are discharged
| They always retire to accept a better posi-
ton.
They are making fun of a Salina judge
! for calling doubie-barreled gun ''two-
| shooter"
! This is the time of the year when the
/ huntsman practices upon the neighbors'
chickens.
| In matters of comparison in immensely
| the Kansas corn crop is coming into excel
lent play.
| The county commissioners have refused
| to pay for any more bar dockets for the
| district court.
! Bonds to the amount of $4,000 have
been voted by Parsons to build court
house or city hall"
| About the most unstable ornament for
an editors sanctum is a limb with sixteen
buiShlng peaches on 1t.
The Manhattan small boy is laying up
treasures" in working for the city on the
rock pile at i've cents per hour.
The only time that Kansas men really
| lie at heart is when the whole crowd re-
fuse the last slice OF watermelon.
A man in Butler cleaned his well the
other day and among other things he
found pie and set OF false teeth.
According to birth notices. it looks like
| the Kansas babv'S sole purpose was to vote
| as they are donned voters invariably.
A Wellington dude, in way thinks
ike liGhtning-that is if a thought, should
strike hlm 1t would knock him down.
A chap up north. who wrote to his girl
on postal card, remembered when it Was
| too late that his rival was postmaster.
A boys diary this month is something
like this: IL IN. apples 3 p. IN. grapes; 6
p. m. pears; p. N. awful, awful pains.
a remark among Kansas farmers on a
par with us this hot enough for you9'' of
the city folk is 'Are you building u gran
ary?"
At the reception: Fate to Kansas, who
has huge harvest bouquet in her hand
kansas, allow me TO introduce Miss
Prosperity"
Mocking Bird: We have had very little
wind this season, but we think it has COM
menced now and will probably make up
for lost time.
Said of Summer county pumpkin: "And
the elements SO mixed III him that nature
might rise up and say to all the world,
this Is pumpkin"
The strawberry raisers Of Jackson coun-
ty, directly north of Topeka, have COM
pared notes. They sold their berries this
season for So bushel.
Eight picked soldiers from Fort Riley
went to Leavenworth Tuesday to compete
for the gold medal awarded at the sharp
shooters tournament.
Salvation Sal. who after song recently
at Wellington. quoted, emusic hath
charms" is still hunting for the fellow
who threw that tomato.
Hugoton Hermes: The bonds for the
syrup factory, eight thousand dollars, in
VOORHEES, township, were voted by q vote
Of twenty for to seven against.
The State horticultural society has adj
lourned after an interesting meeting at
Wellington. Reports of the fruit crop
from all the counties were very fiattering.
It is said that Crawford county has a
school teachers trust" which grades the
teachers and forces the school districts
to accede to the demands regarding sala-
ries.
Not O little excitement was caused in
Winfield when the trombone in the female
band brought its solo to a sudden and I'M
expected end without any visible cause
She had blown her gum into the slide.
Labette county seems destined to soon
witness county seat fight that will be an
1900
for the movement have already been active
" begun. Oswego is the county seat, and
Parsons wants it.
In the ladies' twenty mile race at the
Missouri state fair at Sedalia, Wednesday
Miss White of Missouri was thrown from
her horse and badly hurt. after she had
ridden six miles. Miss Lizzie Williams
of Kansas, then had the field to herself.
The Kansas representatives and visitors
at the national encampment will wear the
grasshopper and sunfiower badges which
have attracted SO much attention ct
former encampments and appropriate en-
blems for the representatives Of the great
sunHower state.
The Kansas Farmer says: ''There is
nothing in the outlook to indicate higher
prices for wheat in the near future. New
wheat is going into the market, and the
quantity will increase for some time to
come. The report Of unusual shortage in
foreign wheat crops is not confirmed"
The Bethany Quintette' ct the Lnds-
borg Swedish college has just concluded a
three months concert trip under the
management Of Prof, Swensop. which
resulted in netting for the college the sum
OF 5000 The troupe visited St. Paul,
Omaha, and other western cities, appear
ing for two weeks to large audiences in
Chicago
Horton Signal: The Pottawatomies
could sell 1900 acres of their land in
this county and still have q hundred acres
left for every Indian man. woman and
child actually residing on the reserve. 1t
is land that will produce twenty times as
much and is worth twenty-five times as
much as the Sioux reservation. But they
won't do it,
Eugene +. Ware, the bard of the Mar
nation, is sujourning at Battle Lake MINI.
From private letter TO the editor Of the
Citizen, the following is extracted: "Am
ND here at Battle Lake with my wife and
baby. The baby was cutting % rows Of
teeth like an ear of Kansas corn, when
doctor ordered me north, Have
been requested by an Eastern daily TO
write an article over my own signature as
to whether or not prohibition in Kansas
does actually prohibit. In order to brace
up for the occasion am living wholly on
fish. principally black bass. Imuch doubt
whether | can get into condition under six
years.
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
There is no contest on Reno City's town
site.
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