Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-03
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Seeds, Slips. scions. Sprouts Shoot. and siissrs
| As a natural gas town Cherryvale ranks
| second to no city west OF Indiana.
The success of the goose-bone's prophe
cies lies in the fact that it has 50 many
| interpreters.
The wild careless and forgetful boy witt
| gun and bag of shot is now 'pasteinG
it in his hat"
There was sleighing at Kinsley one day
last week. 1t melted off before night
however, and there was no chance to Isl,
close"
A Mulvane druggist has procured per.
NIT to sell liquors, and his books show 8
terrible outbreak Of malaria in that com.
munity.
Alex Butts: It is not an uncommon
thing at all for Newton woman to lend
her best knives and forks for two weddings
on the same day.
The Sedan pipe and tobacco company are
offering thirty cents hundred for cobs,
which must be one and half inches in di-
ameter without the corn.
Pending the holidays tie snow windows
are becoming so attractive, now, that one
can look at the window without being
suspected if admiring his own reflection in
the glass.
Strong City Republican,: Mrs. Con-
gresham Tarsney, of Kansas City, kissed
every member of the Hale Zouaves. This
was the first time the young soldiers ever
faced powder.
A man named johnson, from near Cald-
well, shot his thumb off while hunting
near Wellington. Friday of last week.
The Wellingtonian parlance, he was the
wrong duck"
Some time since Kentucky youth who
loves peace and quiet eloped with deaf
and dumb girl. In course of time, how
ever, she will learn to tell 'paregoric" by
the motion of his lips
A strange disease has broken out among
hogs In Comanche county. No one is able
to tell what it is, but some people who
know the class of food the hog eats, are
inclined to think it is dyspepsia.
1t is said that Mrs. Lew Wallace has
the motto in her sitting room: And the
name of that chamber was peace" But 1t
was not related whether the general had
the same motto in the barn or not.
Kansas City Star: They are such stick
lers for etiquette at Atchison that a
woman in that city who rushed into a
neighbors dwelling to tell the family that
the house was on fire apologiZed for not
ringing the door bell.
Cherryvale's success at finding gas is
stimulating other communities. The
kind that roar is the most desirable. In
Riley county the prepoDderance OF roar
may emanate from the fact that the alb
sconding treasurer left forty bondsmen lin
the hole"
Around about Thanksgiving the super
animated family horse whisks his dissipat-
ed tail, pricks his leathern ears. shifts the
hric ly fC tOr
mile or so III true electrical fashion.
Then he sobers down, assumes the old
tired feeling. and joys on for another veal.
The details of great mans private life
are omnipotelt. He blows mis- nose and
Sycophancy and Affectation and the end
less train take out their handkeIchiefs.
Let the few humble mortals who do not
burn for fame, thank God that the exist
ence OF great men does not deprive them of
the privilege of living
Judge John P. Greer died yesterday at
his home in Topeka at an advanced age.
He was member of the Wyaudotte con-
the Price raid. He also published the first
daily newspaper started at Topeka. He
went to Kansas in 1856 and made himself
an inseparable part of its history.
In the surfeit of poor wit and the rarity
of great, it is becoming SO that the enjoy
ment we receive from comic paper comes
more from the anticipation than from the
joke itself. According to correspondent.
Life pays $3.50 per joke, while Mupsey's
Weekly pays 81, Puck from 70 cents down
to % cents, Time 80 cents, and Judge about
the same as Puck.
About seventy thousand head of stockers
and feeders have been shipped out of Kan
sas City markets during the past year to
Kansas cattlemen for the purpose of fat
rening. These cattle came principally
from Colorado. New Mexico and the Pan
handle. In addition to these seventy
head were shipped direct to
Kansas cattlemen and did not go through
Kansas City. This would make 10000
head which are to be fed on Kansas corn
this winter.