Wichita eagle., 1889-08-07
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! Kanopolis wants sexton to toll tn
bell.
Lawrence has new $4,000 Union Pa
cific depot.
Kansas nubbins are as rare as a day il
June. don't you think.
There is an ice cream war at Carneiro
and you can get whole polar sea for tel
cents.
The cattle out near Richfield are dyins
apparently for joy at the prospect o
luscious fodder
The old settlers of Marshall county will
hold their eleventh reunion at Marysville
August S3 and "a
An election was held at Attica on Tues
day of last week and S3, 900 voted in bond.
to prospect for salt
Riley county farmers deposited $50
bushels of corn with Manhattan buyers
IN one day last week.
W. W. Lockwood, of Freeport, has pat
ented grain weigher, which Is said to be
a simple and useful article.
The Towanda butter and cheese factory
is, we are glad to hear, improving In the
product OF cheese.-Herald.
You can identify Wellington 'young
blood" by peculiar way he has of eX-
| ptCtOTdtlu& through us teStu
Item from a temperance column: The
smallest elephant in this country drinks
eighty gallons of water per day.
Upwards Of 100 fast horses are quartered
at the Abilene driving park stables, get
ting in shape for the big races this month.
The city council of Leavenworth, gave
the Home mine the contract for furnishing
the city with coal at the rate of So cents
per bushel.
An Arkansas City man on show day
doesn't think he has had any time at all ii
he misses the concert" and fails to lose s.
on roulette.
Being sixteen years of age" says a
poor wellington boy, won't exempt you
from being a little Lord Fauntleroy by
your mother.
When paper calls an esteemed con-
temporary ''sweet rival, it usually sig
miles suspensiog of hostilities and gen.
eral Misunderstanding.
There are two things the Newton young
man was never known to do successfully
at all-disentange hammock or black
the heels of his boots.
| The Anthony roller mills shipped out of
the county during 1888, So cars of -four, 5
cars Of meal, 5 cars of bran and 8 cars of
| feed, making total of Is car loads.
1t takes but second for Winfield girl
| to dash off schooner of lemonade, but
! you can watch them sometimes for hours
trying to capture the ice In the bottom.
Holton workmen dug a monster jaw
bone from a sand bank the other day, sup
posed to have once been part OF the anat-
omy OF prehistoric mammoth animal.
Notwithstanding that young fellow at
| the Sumner county institute spelt ''pie"
"pigh," they go on talking about mental
evolution and categorieS and ''sich' down
there.
The faith they have in the faith cure"
at Leavenworth is shown by the fact that
a license to practice it costs $500 year.
Now this is getting at 1t In truly scientl-
tic manner.
1t is charged that orange dealers use a
small syringe and some colored syrup to
make blood orange out of ordinary fruit
but there is no fooliDg with the Kansas
watermelon.
Newton will have telephone exchange.
There was hitch between the council and
the telephone representative Saturday
evening, but matters will be satisfactorily
arranged we believe.
Wilbur Beal, living south of town, yes
terday threshed nearly 600 bushels OF oats
from a field of six acres. The grain is
plump and well filled out, splendid in
quality as well as Quantity.-Iimes,
1t is noticeable that three-fourths of the
couples that drive out into the country to
party invariably get lost coming back
and the other one-fourth have peeylsh
fathers and fretful mamas. and don't.
The following is a correct report of the
number of acres of land in cultivation in
Harper county this year: Winter wheat
80, 256; rye. 3, 142: spring wheat, 81; corn
76.04I; oats, 81, IL. Corn on hand March
LIST, 1859, 300, 500 bushels; wheat 13,7i0.
Exchange poetry: The man who beats
the printer out of single cent. will never
reach that place where good Elijah went;
but when at lastthis life is past, this life
of toll and woe, he'll straightway stand in
the fairyland, where they never shovel
snow.
Wellington Standard: The farmers Of
Barton county are capturing rabbits by
the thousands, which they are furnishing
at great profit to the coursiDg meetings of
the east. The villainous coyote perhaps
can yet be made a source OF profit to the
Kansas farmer.
Oskaloosa Independent: An old gentle
man passed through town the other day
on his way to Michigan in one horse
buggy. He had made the trip between the
two states, be said, four times in that
manner; had just been visiting a daughter |
A Wellington man noticed two suspi-
cious looking men following him late the |
other night and he turned round and SIM |
demanded an explanation and |
picked rock up and knocked one man |
man down and chased the other man all |
over the city. Foot pads at Wellington !
are nonplussed.
Stockton News: A. Lambert, of Lambert |
township, is the possessor of freak of ma
ture in the shape of a six footed pig. 1t is
about six weeks old, and as frisky as any
pig in the bunch. The hind feet are per-
feet, while the two front feet are double
and perfectly formed. The pig uses all
six feet in walking.
A Pennsylvania editor has discovered |
that everything in nature is playful. He
says: 1.-THE lightning plays, the wind
the thunder rolls, the snow flies,
the waves leap, and the fields smile. Even
the trees shoot and the rivers and streams
run" "And booms," adds a Kansas
editor, blooms bust"
Latham Signal A few days ago letter
was received from strong stock company,
whose headquarters are at Emporia, max
ing inquiry as to the crop prospects to
date, and if sufficient corn could be pro-
cured to feed 10000 head of cattle. Not
only does this company make such inquiry,
but Others are making calculations to feed
vast numbers of cattle IN the corn district,
and the farmers will find a steady market
for the surplus they are sure to have.
The Times doesn't feel like announcing
a decrease of population in Butler county,
but such is the case. 1t has been known
for some time that there was falling of,
how much was not known until the re-
turns were completed last Tuesday. The
popu latioD as returned by County Clerk