Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-03
SUNFLOWER SHADOwINGS.
Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and siis

Fishing is splendid over near Burling
| ton.
Atchison claims to have taken in 81 ,0Ot
on dog taxes.
A western exchange calls the church
belfry "top-knot."
The Topeka Journal has made the dis
covery of a philatelist in its midst.
An old man was arrested at Hugo the
| other day for stealing watermelon.
The first salt was barreled at the Bow
er's salt works of Wellington Monday.
The mounted battery of artillery will be
transferred from Colorado to Fort Riley.
Woodsdale, out in Stevens county, will
have four thousand dollar school house.
1t may be stated that two-thirds of the
Kansas towns have each man nick
| named "Kentuck."
Wellington will have a Calathumpian
parade tomorrow. A great many will par
tlcipate unmasked.
Senator Plumb. it is said, viii deliver
the fourth Of July address at Reading,
Lyon county, tomorrow.
The superintendent ofice Of the South
ern Kansas railroad will be moved next
Saturday from Lawrence to Chanute.
Captain A. c. Pierce, of Junction City,
will furnish the government LOO, 00O
pounds OF oats this year at Fort Riley.
Notwithstanding lynching, there was
| another burglary at Topeka Friday night.
The journal hopes it is only sporadic
case.
The University library contains 10, 22o
volumes, besides a large number of un-
bound pamphlets and the Kansas Herd
compilation.
lie l..
Wednesday night, total loss with no in
surance, the insurance having expired a
few days before.
The graduating class at West Point con-
tains forty-eight members. Kansas has
one member. Charles Crawford, who
stands forty-one in the list.
Fort Scott Tribune: A lady organ
grinder appeared on the street today with
II card bearing the following: II am the
father OF six motherless children"
MUSES. the Manhattan Naturalist
These are delightful evenings to stroll
about the city and catch the sweet scent
OF clover and mouthful of dust"
According to the brief and perspicuous
language of the Latham Signal, 1.-The first
warning the people had (of the flood was
the squealing of hogs and pigs for help"
A key of beer was taken in yesterday by
the Atchison police, and in less than five
minutes fifty loafers gathered around the
much abused stuff and wanted to sample
it.
In another month or so the time will be
here when the village boys lay hold of the
melon. and after trudge of three miles to
secure hiding place discover it is a pie
melon.
If the grass, says an enthusiastic ex-
az mr. a H.
nezzar was turned out to pasture as it is
now, he did not deserve a great deal of
cOmmiseration.
The police judge of Conway Springs
reads Dante, SO as to harden his heart for
the exercise of his official duties. Over
the door a motto reads: Abandon hope,
Ye who enter here's
1t is in July that the Kansas editors Ia
BILE is covered with baskets of fruit and he
sees himself grow suddenly popular with
his friends, who come in and say: Those
peaches are nice. amt they % until they are
non est.
1t is said that Brainerd is TO have an
other paper to take the place of the En-
sign. which Was removed to Whitewater
by Mr.. Hendee, and the new candidate for
public symnc4J is to be called Brainerd
Boomerang.
Atchison Patriot: There are several
good serenading clubs in this city but
try very hard to make music. but their
voices chord like load of wood and their
efforts in that line seem to be in vain
Alec Butts creates an Arkansas City
boy who is quite bald-headed having only
a thin fringe of hair around the lower part
Of his scalp and says: 1t looks very fnnny
to see his bare pate away up In the gallery
when there is female minstrel show in
town.
An exchange forewarns and comments
upon a fellow-citizen in this wise: Stehle
looks greatly improved since his marriage.
1t usually works that way for a while. 1t
takes time TO bring about the wild,
hunted, distracted look you see on so many
married mems faces.
Garden City Herald: Thousands upon
thousands of fish are pasturing in the al
falfa fields of Finney county. They come
down the laterals and getting tangled IN
the alfalfa and hardly ever get back to
main bitches again. The best way to
catch them Is with sharp stick handled
like spear.
Augusta Journal: Five young mice
with their tails completely knotted to
gether and fastened with grass, was one of
the curiosities incident to the flood brought
to this office the first of the week. 1t APP
peared that the mother had taken this
precaution to save her little family from
the raging waters.
At Abilene four houses were entered in
in one night. One burglar, Charles Brown.
was captured while in the act and consid-
cradle booty found on his person. Not
less than dozen houses have been entered
during the past week and people are be-
nervous over the matter. 1t would
take but little To induce severe measures
with Brown.
'Mrs. Jack Judy's Cow story in
three parts as told by the Atchison Patriot:
A bolt of lightning struck barn be-
longing TO Mrs. Jack judy, of Lancaster,
yesterday afternoon and killed cow.
also struck her residence, doing
very little damage. Patriot
The above clipping is inserted merely TO
gets eleven miles. In the first place it
wasn't Mrs. Jack Judy's COW. and the Mrs.
Judy in point does not own barn, neither
did the lightning strike within forty rods
Of her residence.-Lancaste Prairie Press.
A leading citizen of Lancaster met a
Patriot reporter in an Atchison drug store
and related the lightning story in a graphic
manner. and the gentlemau's condition
was seemingly .. h.
The last Ellsworth Herald has the fol-
lowing at the head Of the local column:
The good paper this week is owing 20
the absence Of our editor. THE BoYs.'"
And 'rhe boys" did edit it, Here are
some locals"
I'VE hunted through the Reporter to
see il we could fined few newsy locals 10
steal. but coldn't find any"
Ye editor is on a trip 70 Milwaukee
gone 20 fetch his wife-the boys in the