Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-18
sUNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and siI's


The champion corn huskers OF Kansas
have the corn crop by the ears at present.
Kansas is having deluge OF corn, pigs,
stoves, bins, elevators. barns granafleS
are all full.
1t seems that Mayor Waggoner, OF Atch'
ison, forgot and put his signature 10
letter, also.
The bicycle craze has struck the youth
of Milan, and all the big sisters ID turn
are trying the wheel sideways.
1t is rather hoggish in Kansas to demand
Cleopatra's needle, as long as we have any
thing as ancient as the grasshopper repu-
tation
The Coldwater Review don't think that
it could take COWS on back subscriptions,
but it could manage some pretty gooo
sized calves.
One of the joys of the millennium that
the Harper county people looked forward
Harper papers,
The trouble with one tippler advising
another to let off drinking Is that the
advised is liable to ask the advisee to take
drink with him.
Children NAV repeat an aphorism and
understand it, but 1t takes time to make
them "feeP' it. They are, saying this OF
Grover Cleveland and his 'lnnocuous
desuetude," at present.
The number of new wives causes an
alarming increase of cutlery in the OLD es-
tablished household after division OF the
contributions to church social.
The Douglas county poor farm has but
four inmates, but the best families of
Lawrence still call one another poor
white trash just as they did twenty years
ago.
The Attica creamery company is feeding
200 hogs 1t would satisfy large number
of inquiring minds If they informed
whether butter from hogs milk comes
quick or not.
A Kansas paper refers to the South
American government, as lone horse re-
publics" While its disgust is not com
mendable, its patriotism to the United
States is admirable.
Along with the proposed navigation OF
the raging Kaw, it might be advisable Tor
the scientific societies OF Topeka TO discuss
the practicability of oillng the waves Oh
that turbulent stream.
A ferocious little boy at Danville Is
known 10 possess six shooter and pen
chant for using it, and it is surprising now
few a number of men care to reprove or
jeer at him for doing 1T.
Judge Brewer has granted temporary
Injunction restraining the collection or
this years taxes on the Pullman Palace
Car company's rolling stock in this state,
pending the decision OF the cases now IN
the supreme court.
A single clerk in Kansas City dry
goods store one day last week caught four
shop-lifters This is rather hard when
coupled with the statement that the Iope-
ka and Lawrence ladies are down IN the
city doing their holiday shopping.
Kansas City Gazette: John Peter St.
John-a relic, and a used-to-be-made a
speech before the Kent club at Lawrence
few days ago, in which he proved TO the
satisfaction of the audience that he is a
cold buckwheat cake. q sky rocket on Its
downward trip, d percussion cap after the
duck is killed, and piece OF soap after a
hard weeks washing in coal miner 8
family.
A traction engine drawing twelve
wagons loaded with -four from Halstead
mills was AN interesting sight on the Hal
stead road this morning. The mlllers
wished to ship their -four over the Mis-
souri, Pacific, but did not relish the idea of
paving the Santa Fe's charges for trans
terring, and so they sent their flour up by
the traction railroad and had 1t loaded on
the Missouri Pacific cars here.-Repubil-
can.