Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-30
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Seeds, Slips, seions. Sprouts. Shoots and sly.

Seeds, Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and svers.
Ali Kansas watermelons are jumbos.
Kingman cannot supply the demand fol
its salt.
1t never rains in the dusty road to the
fair grounds.
A man at Ell Dorado claims to be the
original John Smith.
The Winfield and Arkansas City fire de-
partments will run q race.
Watermelons are a drug on the market
a sort OF midsummer tonic.
A reporter thinks he is at his cutest
| when he writes up scandal.
People with long headsand fruit tongues
are putting IN strawberry plants.
'Turnips' will be not least in the CO US
bill OF fare this winter IN Kansas.
The water works at Caldwell have been
fixed up and at last merit that appellation.
Kansas wind storms have a propensity
| for blowing down school house chimneys.
The Arkansas City boys are practicing
walking with square shoulders for reunion
| week.
/ There is an ambitious flute player at
klngnan who has depopulated one entire
addition.
4 All that is necessary to become lion in
| Newton society is to know how to play the
mandolin.
The number of bushels to the acre
| counts away up in the data OF rural pro-
posals this fall
| Atchison has captured Joe Seftus most
notorious horse thief Of Missouri and
eastern Kansas
From the paucity of death notices it
| hot M tal-
to die, at present.
Congressman Peters and others have
gone to Louisiana TO Tiew the election
methods OF that state.
! The intelligent mailing clerk OF the Par
sons Sun still continues to write Winfield,
Windfeld.-Courier.
''Hope springs eternal in the human
breast'-the delinquent tax list ceases
publication next week.
A Wellington man feels about twice as
important as usual when he gets quarter
stretch tag on, at the fair.
They keep Arkansas City in a perpetual
stew by notifying it every day that they
Will pull the joints tomorrow.
There is a man at Arkansas City SO ugly
that people reverse the usual phrase and
say THE devil looks like him"
The worst ordeal school board is sub
mitted to, is the testing OF the efficiency
OF the steam apparatus IN August.
The Arkansas City Traveller says it will
not publish death notices unless the infor-
nation is from respectable person.
There is one old man at Newton whom
the reporters can count upon giving them
an item every day. He loses his spectacles
daily.
Two carloads of horses were shipped
from Lawrence yesterday to the new state
of Washington, where horses are very
scarce.
The happiest moment in Wellington
boys life is when his tonsorial crop justi-
ties the barber in asking: "The upper lip
shaved, sir?'
Outside of milk shakes and poker about
the only pleasure Winfield bloods have at
this time of the year, is INDUCING III
"moustache races"
Strangers at county fairs should not be
deceived by thinking that men who carry
whips around in their hands, have any
thing to do with horses at all.
Hiawatha owns $4,000 in Missouri
Pacific stock which it proposes to sell tor
10 cents on the dollar. One thousand dol
lars return for SO, 900 invested.
1t is curious thing, but a Newton man
never smokes cigar in the presence of the
donor. 1t has been limited that he never
smokes 1t out OF his presence either.
Some correspondent in an eastern paper
asserts that Medicine Lodge has china
mandatory, and nobody is more sur
prised than the people at that place.
Every farmer that drives out of Winfield
has the back END of his wagon filled with
big bundles of fruit cans. Everybody will
have plenty of apple sauce and peach but
ter this year.
The biggest men in Kansas, this fall,
unfailingly question the validity of your
ticket and perempoorily order you to 90
out the other gate.
The Medicine Lodge creamery is paying
30 cents for milk and Scents per gauge for
cream, and it is paying cash every Monday
morning. The receipts are about 5000
pounds of milk per day.
Atchison Globe: At shutdown last night |
one farmer with load Of watermelons had |
crossed the Leavenworth pontoon bridge !
from Missouri, and Tl6 men and thirty |
one beer wagons had gone over to Mis-
souri,.
The Rice county officers have had their |
salaries reduced on account of the falling
off of the population; the county treasur-
er's salary was reduced from $1,000 TO /
g, 600, the county clerks from $4,000 to |
81, 800, etc.
*. C. Star: The only man who ventured |
on the camp ground at the Blue Rapids re-
union with a bottle in his pocket was ar
rested. This is one of the ''old memories" /
which the veterans are not permitted to |
Live over again"
Topeka Journal: There is a man in Os- !
borne county who has farmed sixty years,
but who has never seen seven ears OF corn /
on one stalk until this summer. Students
of ancient history will remember that I
when certain Pharoah only dreamed of
such thing it produced the greatest ex-
III Egypt.
How loose round my waist were the
clothes OF my childhood, as my doubled up
corsets reminds me with pain, the slip
that | wore when l used TO chop stove
wood, had more real enjoyment than
hustle or train. The hustle. | know IS a
thing highly treasured by ladies' built on
the mocking bird style. But give me the
garment with looseness unmeasured, the
old mother hubbard that weak men revile,
the dear mother hubbard, the comforting
old hubbard that beats the old style. -
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Barber County Index: Estimating that
there are 80, coo acres of growing corn in
Barber county. and that 1t VIII average ~
bushels, there VIII be raised this season
200. 600 bushels. At even u cents it
would sell for $3.50 600. The population OF
the county IS IL, coo: 80 every man, woman
aud child would get s33 II II were equally
divided. Then think Of the wheat, oats,
rye, millet, sorghum, vegetables and fruit
Barber county will produce considerably
more than million dollars worth Of
500 TO every man, woman and
child in its borders.
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