Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-14


tioned-it crowds out the unceasing men
| ton of local celebrities
! 1t is rarely Kansas sheriff ever receives
a telegram, without having it published in
his home paper. There is such an air Of
mystery and importance about it.
When the festive fly
| Gets ready to die,
| He burieS himself
In green apple pie.
It seems that some sheriffs just carry a
| horsethief around and have practice OF
passing through towns with a horsethief
| in town" for the mere appearance of the
thing.
! When man has the adjective ''old''
| prefXed to his name, he is pretty we'll
| done for in Kansas as public character.
unless it is as authority in war remlnls-
ences.
| After holding ten different meetings and
after about 100 speeches and debates and
essays on the subject, social CLUB at ADJ
lene has decided that the word "devil' is
not an oath.
K. G.. Star: Captain Huffman, of Cow
ley county, raised three ears of corn this
season which contain 1000 grains. That
would be enough to run game OF puppy
poker for twelve hours.
Meade Press Democrat: Hymen has
cast his net about six Of Meade's bravest
and most beautiful citizens. This fall
three new Benedicks will carry steak home
to three new housekeepers.
The third annual fair at Hutchinson will
be held on the associations grounds Sep
TENDER II to 20, inclusive. The editor
acknowledges receipt of an invitation
from the managers TO attend.
Cawker City is to have ten balloon
ascensions during fair week, September
"a q, and the youth of that city are al
ready dreaming of guy-rOpes, capslzed
baskets and break-neck attitudes.
Lane county boys wear ruffied socks,
In Greeley they wear them plain;
The Ness boys don't wear none at ALL
But they git thar just the same"
Wichita Standard
During July Atchison paid out in round
numbers S65, 0G0. OF this $4,000 was in
terest on public debt, 81 900 interest and
principal of internal improvement bonds,
$1,000 to the Midland aud St. Louis col
leges.
A man at Wellington, who has pen
chant for taking up lost stock and making
the owners pay for it in return, tried to
make the owner pay twenty cents for the
oats a pepper-and-salt goat had eaten
he found it.
The most intrusive characteristic at
so-called quiet wedding" in Kansas is
the spasmodic hugging and kissing of the
bride on the part of the fathers and the
wailings and meanings of the two NAM
mas at the loss of their children.
The Topeka Sugar company is consider
ing the project of purchasing machinery
to manufacture syrup out OF the cane rails
ed about the mill this season, so that it
may not be a loss to anybody. 1t can
stand in the field until September l, with
out injury.
A young man named Jackson. in Rus
sell, started out to learn how to toss Cam
non balls. At the third toss he caught
ball on his head and came very near having
his skull fractured. 1t never occurred to
him to toss up a hoe or spade.
The Salvation army Is slowly departing
from Winfield. 1t may be a consequence
if the item in the Winfield Courier to the
effect that winfield has more churches
and more church going people than any
city in the state" that provoked the army
to this cessation.
BY putting a lath and wire fence across
the old river bed above the city. while the
river was high last week, large numbers
OF fine, large fish were ught, some
Weighing as high as twenty-five pounds
The fishermen were numerous for two or
three days.-Beloit Gazette.
Ashland Journal: There are $500 acres
of castor beans in Clark county, The
owners of this crop have made contracts
with a dealer in this city whereby he is to
pay dollar for each and every bushel of
beans delivered to him after harvest time
The money is ready. and the crop through
out the county promises to be good.
"The dashing hero of the Altman dia-
mond robbery at Kansas City" says the
Topeka Ccpital sis now credited with be-
ing Kausan." That theory won't stand
the test of logical analysis. If he had
been from Kansas he would never have
rushed in and out of a saloon without
stopping to get drink.
A hit by the Marion Record: This is
indeed remarkable age, and wonderful
events are crowded into an ordinary life.
There are men in Marion who lived before
steam railroads, telegraphs, telephones,
electric lights and a thousand other now
common things were known. And we
doubt not there healthy, robust boys and
girls here who will live to see the work
now in progress on Main street, finished.
A Doniphan county farmer. whose COW
lost her milk between the
pasture and the house, watched her last
week. and discovered that a big black
snake met her in the path and relieved her
The cow stopped and waited for the reptile
to coil about her hind legs and stood pa
tiently while the milk was withdrawn.
The farmer killed the snake and now the
cow brings her milk with her when she
comes home-K. c. Star. The credit was
not at all necessary, but Is only matter of