Wichita eagle., 1889-12-10
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Ashland is planning wolf chase. They
are at present locating the wolf.
Boulanger, if be comes to this country as
lecturer will not prove as popular as his
march.
The boys and girls are all going to bed
earlier now, SO that Christmas will not be
so long coming.
Kansas has made 800, 900 pounds of sor-
ghum sugar this season. Such is the
degree OF our sweetness.
The fact that Judge Brewer will wear a
sllken gown is making the women folks
take an interest in him.
When the creek. which is wholly de-
pended upon for ice, freezes over, the ice
man either has to put up or shut up"
Topeka is 35 years old, but the stylish
suburban residents would dispute any
statements that she was gray" around
the edges.
Senator Vest allows no dress suits at his
suppers He is not very popular with the
Washington laundry men who make a
speciality of snirt-bosoms.
One Atchison politician wagered five
dollars with another yesterday that Judge
Brewers successor will be taken from
Missouri. This man, who ever he is, is a
little previous.
Topeka added twenty-six additions Fri
day evening, and the man who lights the
street lamps now has to determine his
position with compass. He reports fall
wheat doing dicely.
Mr.. Ingalls, has asked for an appropria-
tlon of $780, 600 for a government building,
and Mr.. Plumb the same amount for one
at Emporia. These may be in the nature
OF tones to their respective homes.
Judge Brewer will not go to Washington
until after the first of the year. He does
He will move his family to Washington as
soon as possible.
Edison, the electrician, is now said to
have perfected plan to utilize the water
power of the niagara falls. What luck, if
he would just take time now and try his
hand on the sand hills in Western Kansas
A Baltimore justice has decided that tine
use of damn" is not profanity unless
coupled with deity. But aside from this
1t is not ii nice word to utter about man
who prides himself on the size of his BIZ
ceps.
W.. S. Beaver, of Kansas City, has
bought the old John Brown fort at
Harper's Ferry for 1900. The purchaser
viii remove the fort to either Chicago or
Kansas City, where it will probably be
placed on exhibition.
1t is quite unusual in Kansas for the
comments on an appointment to be cur
tailed by the sudden appearance of another
appointment, but such is the case with the
reading clerk in congress and United
States supreme judge of last week.
Ellsworth Herald: A fashionable young
lady in this city was seen backing her
brothers boots the other morning, and the
next day she helped to do the family wash
ic hnn chaf &c,
become the wife of an Italian count.
A farmer named Kerns living in Wyan-
dottee county, has taken four first pre-
miums for the agricultural displays, as
follows: Topeka, $50; ST. Joseph, 500;
Montgomery, Ala, $500; Birmingham,
Ala, $500. Big pumpkins and long cared
corn pays.
Lawrence Journal: An aeronaut, "Prof"
Van Tassell, dropped from his parachute
into the sea near Honolulu, and made
light lunch for several sharks. Van Tas-
sell is found to be a formerly-of-Fo
Scott man, named Joe Lawrence. Mean
things are often raked up against man
after his death.
Emporia Republican: There's a land
that is fairer than this, but it doesn't show
up on the map; to get TO that good land of
bliss, we must get our wings fixed to flap.
We should all try, Of course, to meet there,
and let nothing our footsteps beguile but
as Kansas is healthy and fair. we prefer to
remain here awhile.
Two we'll known farmers of Brown
county, living near the Atchison county
line got into an alteration recently over
the division of some property, when one of
them got the thumb of the other in his
chewing it to such an extent that
it had to be amputated The case has been
carried to the courts and promises to be
long and lots OF money used by both par
ties before compromise can be affected.