Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-24
suNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds, Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and sliv
They play ball on Sunday at Topeka.

Seeds Slips, scions. Sprouts. Shoots and sIivers.
They play ball on Sunday at Topeka.
1nuendo Of Kansas exchanges: wonder
who will bring US the first watermelon.
The editor of the Ford County Republi-
can has been appointed postmaster at
Dodge City.
They are all so nice that the Kansas
| farmer don't know which ear OF corn to
save for the fair.
Along with the wheat and oats the an
nual crop of undershirt sleeves is being
cut throughout the state.
The fire marshal of Leavenworth is
named Burns, and the name of the meat
inspector at Topeka Is Blood.
| There's many farmer right now who is
clear out of Irvine and calls on his family
to hand over their shoe strings.
| The Mulvane extension is said to be so
| rough that the milk cans In transit furnish
milk-shakes all the way out to Engiewood.
It is very hard to tell whether the "base
ball controversy" or the surprise party"
| item is the more durable in Kansas pnbii-
cations.
| The board of county commissioners meet
| at Genola today to consider the ACCESSIBILITY
of renting place TO be used as county
infirmary.
For an unenthusiastc Kansan to say that
the crop this year is better than last, is
like telling a girl that her mouth il pretty
II 1t wasn't SO large.
"Connoisseur'' is not odious at Winfield
except when coupled with ice cream, :"
and detection of starch will win one that
appellation forthwith.
The unparalleled occurrence of three
ruuaways in Atchlson In one Gay mas
caused several old ladies of that place to
shake their heads omlnously.
A Newton society belle caused no little
talk in social circles in Wellington by re-
fusing to eat ice cream because the proprl-
etor of the shop failed to furnish paper
napkins.
A good faithful, street car mule at En-
porla, II ne is industrious ana mas no oau
habits will meet with preferment inside OF
year and be transferred to an Usage
county coal mine.
State Journal: Before we begin to use
vitrified brick it might be as well to learn
whether as good aim can be secured with
one during the progress OF Thomas cat
concert. as with an ordinary brick.
A fourteen inch iron pike that was made
by John Brown has been resurrected In
the closet of the Sumner county surveyor S
office and the local poets are being spirited
away to Gueda by timorous citizens.
DR.. Carl Newman, Of Lawrence, was
fined 500 and sentenced to thirty days in
jail for selling liquor. After sentence was
passed Newman attempted to take poison,
but was prevented by the city marshal.
All the romanticism has been knocked
out of that item that a Kansas editor was
called out of bed at midnight to receive a
subscription, by the correction that the
caller only wanted to look over the back
files"
Fredonia objects to having wire fence
around the court house. In the first place
it wouldn't stand the weight of the local
loafers, and then there has been too much
wire-manipulation around the building
already.
You have heard of the GOODNESS OF NAL
borough in battle but his aplomp was
nothing compared with that OF the Kansas
spinster who will walk up before the
whole normal institute and give her age
as eighteen.
Circulars are being sent out by the Sec
rotary of the state board Of agriculture to
all the counties of the state, asking for in
formation concerning the largest yield OF
wheat and oats per acre harvested this
year, and how the yield was obtained.
A doubtful item in the Grenola Chief:
A citizen of Grenola who visited Inde-
pendence few days since, says that there
are five open saloons running IN that city.
and that the business men, as a general
thing, are in favor of continuing the
traffic.
There seems to be the foreshadowing of
another libel suit at Garden City. Editor
Gregory of the Sentinel has a standing Of
fer of one dollar for IA photograph of Edi-
tor Painter. of the Herald.-State Journal.
1t might be that somebody wanted to play
the scurvy trick on him that a New York
lady recedtly suffered from-put his head
on figure in tights.
The meanest man in Kansas has been
discovered by the Emporia News He
bought 10 cents worth of sticking fly pa
per about the LIST of June, and in a couple
of days the paper was a mass of flies. The
man then proceeded to pick OFT the pesky
critters one by one, u job which took him
a whole day, and as soon as he had his pa
per cleared he set the trap again. He has
been doing it ever since and has saved at
least 80 cents by his great economy act.
About ten years ago there was young
man in Atchison by the name of Moran,
who moved about ln a quiet, unostenta-
tIous way, pursuing the humble vocation
of tree peddler. After time he entirely
disappeared, what became of him no one
in the city knew until recently 1t trans
pired that this same Moran is one of the
leading travelling correspondents of the
Chicago Times, having by his own genius
and industry risen step by step to his pres
ent lucrative and influential position. He
is a vigorous and graceful writer, and
travels all over this continent on high
salary in the interest OF that Journal
Atchison Champion.
Frank MacLennan says: Years ago,
when Shawnee county was new, the set
tiers in sinking well used to occasional
~ strike vein that yielded water that
was salty or bitter. They used to call it
bad water, and sink new shaft in
another locality. Nowadays when well
digger strikes bad water he puts up
sign mineral spring." and makes quite
an income from patrons who prefer 1T to
good, sparkling and wholesome Adams
ale That's the difference between the old
settlers and their degenerate descendants.
The porter of a large business block in
Atchison must be in love. The other
morning, with merry air and thirsting
lug for work, he built fire in the steam
apparatus and proceeded to heat up"
The building was full Of young clerks and
bookkeepers who, from careful conjec-
lures. must have wiIted about high noon
Many Of the bodies have been recovered
Evaporation goes on, occasionally deposit
ing fraii form here and there on the floor.
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
The Oklahoma Herald has set its teeth