Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-17

| Newton Republican: The ghouls who
| seek the skull of Emerson should examine
| it for this bit of Concord philosophy: 1.-The
| idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled
| farmers boy stand nearer to the light by
which nature is to be read than the ces-
sector or the antiQuary."
| Professor March, formerly of the State
| university, is studying phlloiogy and gen
eral literature at the University of Bonn,
| Germany. Mrs. March intends to spend
| the winter in the art studio of Professor
BENJAMIN Constant, at Paris. the tutor of
Professor NJ. Simpson, eff the State Uni
versity.
The State University is planning to
equip its engineering department with g
sold shop" II expects TO put in about
So. coo worth of heavy machinery, such as
drills, lathes, and other machine tools. A
regular machinist is to be employed anu
will probably be engaged next week This
promises to become valuable addition 10
| the university, and is something greatly
needed.
Nothing in Kansas? Listen Co this.
Our tinshops have turned out during this
season 8, 900 tin cans into which has been
put fruit of all varieties. Counting one
third of this number were two-Quart cans,
we find that fl 900 quarts OF fruit have
been put up IN tin cans alone. Then there
are Tue nunureuS VI SICSo "a s'"0"
which have been sold by dealers.-Clay
Center Dispatch
Farmers who thought it would not pay
to raise tomatoes at 20 cents bushei de-
liyered 1t the canning factory, are begin
ming to change their minds. This has
proved about their best paying crop this
year. They get the money tor II, too, at
the time when there is no other crop that
can be prohtably placed in the market.
There will probably be big tomato crop
planted next year in this vicinity.-Osage
City People.
The history of Kansas is so interviewer
with the history of the nation that four
hundred men mentioned in Appleton S
cylopadia OF American biography have
had something to do with the state and
territory. d. w. Wilder, the historian.
has gone through the books, and will
write up each man mentioned IN con-
nection with Kansas for the historical
society. When ever the word kansas"
appears in biography it will be written
out by Mr.. Wilder for preservation and
observation-disclosures City Gazette.
Manhattan Industrialist 4 large nest
well filed with bald-faced hornets, all
alive and well, is kindly contributed to the
chronological museum by graduate I.
w. Thompson. The nest, well boxed
and contents secured from observation
came by express, and was opened with
care, admired, teaspoonful of chloroform
temporarily queting the indignation or
the prisoners. This species of wasp has
not been observed Ill this vicinity, and has
not been well represented i'll our collection
heretofore. The present colony Will FUR
uish the specimens needed to illustrate IN
full its Interesting economy.
Noble Prentis: 1.-The Kansas farmer
10 iiahi to trn
after boom as anybody else. A few years
ago there was ii cattle boom, and at one
time the path to wealth lay in buying a
header and last winter everything de-
pended on every farmer saving his old
cows horns off close to her head. Then
there is irrigation so much talked OF OF
late, and l am reminded OF man who
had a special aversion to the doctrine OF
the future eternal punishment OF the
wicked. But what would you do said a
clerical friend, If | should you passage
in the Bible that proved beyond question
that this doctrine was true We'll, was
the reply, L would read in some other part
of the book And so If il can be shown
that irrigation WAS practicable in certain
parts, even of Kansas, | believe | would
settle in some other part of the state.
Then we hear talk OF the climate change
but there is no occasion to worry about the
climate. A state that has never had Il well
authenticated fatal case of sunstroke is
not too warm, and a state where a careful
record as kept for twenty-Oue years, shows
that the average number or days III the
year when the mercury goes below zero is
only seven, is not too cold. The climate is
well enough as it is. Some say the rain
fall is increasing, and some say it is not,
but the main point is for the Kansas
farmer to stay right here, SO that in case
the increase does come he will get the ben
eft OF it, -