Wichita eagle., 1889-09-13
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The car drowth will soon be OF.
The G. A. r. is building hall at Good
| land.
Eating oysters with knife is sure
hoo-doo at kingman-
Out west the word 'gnat' serves as grit
in the oil at every spelling bee.
The wheat checks paid at the banks at
!. Geneseo amount TO about 5000 per day.
Cain CITY is now wagering on the COM
parative worth of two rival grain buyers.
Mrs. Lucy Sullivan. mayor OF Baldwin
City, has returned home from visit TO
Chicago.
The most surprised of all creatures DUR
ing the reunion at Arkansas City are the
street car mules.
Nature has given notice to the frogs TO
let up on that musical festival they nave
been holding all summer.
Conway Springs cemetery is disgrace
to the town. 1t makes no showing at all
except in weeds and grass.
Two men tried to drive across Badger
creek near Emporia, but missing the ford
their horses were drowned.
What complicated set of books the
farmers are keeping in their minds as their
forks toss up the new mown nay.
The peaches at Cain City have given the
housewives thirty days notice TO procure
timer, which that town Is lacking
The reason that the Newton girl don't
take on much over the loss of one OF her
diamonds is that it is Rhinestone.
The Kansas G. A. r. reunion TO be held
at Ellsworth October | to ) promises to be
the best in the history of the organization.
The Emporia Republican may yet rue
the day 1t started out punnlng on the
names of Kansas towns. o, What Ameri-
Gus.
No man over q years of age ought TO
consider himself without friend in this
world, if there is an election anywhere
near.
The bow with the wild calf will always
take a turn with the lariat around the
newly planted trees IN front Oh schoo4
house.
The man who declines a nomination IS
very apt to think that all the people see
.syVhat might have been" written on his
forehead.
Bert Tracy. a colored bootblack at Law
renee. died Yesterday from the effects OF
too much watermelon. He ate nine melons
on a wager.
Atchison has a 7-year-old burglar. The
old thieves must have come TO the con-
clusion that robbing in Atchlson was
child's play.
The committee on decoration at Arkan-
sas City is looking for the Indian VINO
walked off with the trappings or the TIL
umphal arch.
1t is liable to4make a prisoner lacka-
Ldaisical if the sheriff hangs the motto on
the cell door, "If you don't see what you
want, ask for it."
Leoti Transcript: Who hath woe, who
hath sorrow, who hath tribulation2 He
who looketh too frequently upon the Grim"
son-boweled watermelon.
Green and brown may be the prevailing
colors in the rest of the fashionable world
this year, but red, white and blue rules
supreme at Arkansas City.
The Ellsworth man who had eighteen
wheat stacks burned up Yesterday must
think life is a good deal or lottery after
all and that he drew g. blank.-Re1lector
The application of the custodian of the
federal building in Leavenworth, asking
that night watchman be appointed has
been refused by the secretary OF the
treasury.
A wife beater named Mersh was fined in
the police court at Kansas City Kan, and
his wife pleaded so hard for him the Judge
gave him stay of proceedings pending
good behavior.
| They are digging 4 deep hole
down at Geuda Springs, they say tor
coal, but some people think that
it is really grave for the oft recounted
pedigrees of the lady guests
| The lake at Medicine Lodge stands now
at feet and 2, go cubic feet Of water runs
out at the waste-gatess every minute. The
| overflow of water would supply every
| sorghum sugar plant in Kansas.
| Atchison Globe: The tow-headed, freck-
| le-faced boy that rides to town IN the bot
tom of the wagon may not be so pretty 10
| look at as his sister Oh the spring-seat, but
he knows how TO get into the far grounds
| for nothing.
| Over in Greenwood county man named
| Shehan sued and obtained judgment
against Quincy township for the loss OF a
! horse which was drowned at the crossing
fof a stream where no water gauge was
| kept as required by law.
The Lance is authority for the statement
! that the girls at Topeka are all addicted to
i.smoking tea leaves IN cigarettes. 1t IS
fguaran feed to take the bloom off of girl
| quicker than any other dissipation. Girls,
| if you must smoke. get the pure tobacco;
in word get pipe. But in French novels
! girls don't smoke pipes, do they?
Barber county Index: The Medicine
Lodge sorghum sugar works started up
MONDAY, though only SnOrI runs were
I made Monday or Yesterday. About fifty
tons of cane was handled. Everything is
new and there is considerable adjusting
! of machinery to dosbut it4s believed that
! a carload of sugar will be shipped early
next week At present visitors are not
4 admitted in the building, the hands all
being new in the business; but when the
works start on a regular run, everyone
Will be given an opportunity 10 see how
/ sorghum sugar is made.
| The city council from Kansas City, No,
with their families also the city council
| from Kansas City, Kan, with their fami-
| lies will be here next Saturday. and many
| visitors besides from the same cities. The
city councils and other organizations from
! Topeka, Lawrence Manhattan and all con-
/ tiguous cities and towns in the state viii
! be represented here on that day. From
/ this city only, the Knights Of Pythias,
! Custer post No 6, Leayenworth post No.
| 100. Brennan post G. \. r., Garfield rifles
! and Benevolent society with a band have
| signifed their intention TO take an active
| part in the celebration.