Wichita eagle., 1889-08-09
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Seeds. Slips. scions, Sprouts. Shoots and sliye

SEEDS Slips, Scions Sprouts. Shoots and Sliyers.
| Parsons population is $40, with 2,2s5
children OF school age
The railroad assessment valuation for
Kansas this year is Sc, OO0,O 900.
The Sumner county fair is one of the
earliest. 1t begins August q at Yelling
| ton.
Five whisky sellers at Hays City were
yesterday fined S100 each and given thirty
days in Jail.
A broad smile on farmers face says
just as plain as day: go bushels to the
acre, b'gosh."
These tall stacks of wheat are about the
greatest temptation the playful lightning
ever was tormented with.
Leavenworth boys are practicing in a
summerset of joy to be INDUCED in at the
opening OF the pontoon bridge.
Now that the newspapers have let up
talking about it. it is believed that the sun
will return to its natural hue.
About 100 citizens of Fort Scott met one
day last week and passed resolutions
against playing baseball on Sunday.
The reason that some Newton people
don't throw their old shoes at newly we'd
ded couples, is the want of a catapult.
In July the Leavenworth postoffice sold
SILL IS worth of stamps: postal cards,
576; envelopes, s649 50: total, s.. 531. As.
| Mr.. Weatherby, of Leroy, has been made
principal of the Hartford school at a salary
| OF $50 yer month for eight months school.
Thomas Collins, one of the oldest citi-
zens of Abilene, was found dead in his
carriage Monday. He died of heart dis
| ease.
| The Mcpherson Republican says that
! there were eight thousand people in Nc
Pherson last Saturday, and they were all
sober but two.
| letter addressed to Daughters of SOL
| ONION" remains in the Usage City postof-
flee uncalled for, They are queer set of
people in that town.
An unusual brightness in the Kansas
newspapers humor this month may be at
trlbuted to the fact that two minstrel
shows are doing the state.
The buildings at Fort Leavenworth in
construction Mt the present time are two
barracks, riding school and Catholic
church. The total cost will be $4,000
A new Knights of Pythias lodge has
been instituted at Newton, with f1fty-two
charter members. Grand Chancellor Nor
gan Carraway instituted the lodge Satur-
day night.
A man that subscribes for half a dozen
foreign papers, but does not take his home
paper, ought to pin his ears over his head
to save the expense of Ounce cap, says an
exchange.
John Walruff, the Lawrence brewer, is
authority for the statement that he manu-
featured II, 900 more barrels of beer last
year than he ever did before and that it
was all sent into Kansas.
A Kansas man offers his hand in mar
r a tn al CnnpYnonue emf
OF proper age, appearance and sex. Here
is the helping hand, indeed.-Ex. And
Doodle eye, don't you Think
The New Home coal mine, Leavenworth,
Kan, has been awarded the contract to
furnish Fort Riley, Kan. with 2,700 tons
of coal. The price to be paid is "a cents
per bushel on the cars at the mine.
Housekeepers, please take notice: A
married man at Newton is authority for
the statement that Newton broom handles
have no give in them" and are as con-
venent and efficacious as the best steel
poker.
Nightly the Salvation Army at Yelling
ton marches and unfailingly is surround
ed by the city marshal. If the army has
anything to do in the disposition of souls
in the great hereafter, heaven help that
marshal.
Harry Miller, of Falls City, was prob
ably fatally injured at Slater, No., yester-
day by falling from freight train and
through the trestle Of the Missouri river
bridge to the waters edge below, dis
tance of fifty feet.
If man in Kingman wants a glass of
soda water ali he has to do is to approach
a farmer aud touch the fuse off with: |
How're your crops, anyhow" But it
takes two hours of attentive listening to
get the soda, though.
At the meeting of the coal operators of
this county last Saturday to establish
selling price for coal. it was decided to
charge So a ton at Usage City and $l.70
ton at Burlingame and Scranton.-Bur- |
lingame Democrat.
A Topeka councilman tried to create |
sensation in the council last Monday night |
by saying that the Barber Asphalt Paving |
company had offered him 81, 600 ito keep |
quiet" but refused to name his man or de- |
tail any particulars.
And now it is rumored that our Emile |
Firman will start soon on trip through |
the rural parts of France. Monsieur must |
have been skimpping on that S., 600 that he I
might make a great show of francs over
his whilom schoolmates.
The Emporia waterworks can pump
8, 600 600 gallons day, one of the engines
having a capacity Of two million. the
Quiet QUO SoiiOus. E-ukihcSI
Greenway thinks that it would be possible.
if necessary, to pump 100000 gallons
day.
Scandal, Republic county, claims to
have found vein of fourteen inches of ex-
cellent coal. If good coal can be found so
far west it will be great thing for that
part of the state, but it is exceedingly
doubtful if it ever will be. The chief
trouble lies in the fact that nature didn't
store any coal under that part of Kansas.
Abilene Reflector: A little girl in Abb
lene about to move to Missouri, and who
had heard that state spoken of as a for
lorn and particularly God-forsaken place,
was saying her prayers on her mothers
knee the night before their intended de-
parture She said all that had ever been
taught her, and then, with peculiar en-
phasis and solemnity. added: And now,
good-by, God, for tomorrow we go to Mis-
souri,"
More enlightment from the Sumner
institute: OF tn. 234 teachers at
tending the Sumner county institute not
one was born in Sumner county. The
heaviest weighs POS pounds, the lightest
50; the largest ladies' shoe worn is s, the
smallest 215. Croquet was the favorite
game of 81, base bail of 81, checkers of Is,
tennis of 8, while dancing was only chosen
by l.. AS a beverage 81 liked water. II
coffee, SO lemonade, Is tea, IL milk, hot
.oddy.
Emporia News: 1t is seldom that one
ever sees an excursion train more heavily
loaded than the Harvest excursion for
Colorado which passed through here at