Wichita eagle., 1889-11-27
suNFLowER sHADow1NGs.
Seeds. Sips. Sriens. Sprouts. Shoots and S'iw

Over in Butler county they she'll corn fol
the cobs for fuel.
White City, Kansas. has an anti-tobaccc
society of 140 members.
The State Journal appeared in new
dress Monday evening.
Hunnewell is to have a newspaper, which
in Kansas is quite out OF the ordinary OF
late.
Medicine Lodge wants doll factory.
Maybe they have some faces down there
they wish to dispose OF.
Douglas Tribune: The Republicans lost
Iowa and Ohio, it is true, but sweeping
victory is reported from Brazil.
The bondsmen of the defaulting county
treasurer of Riley county will 60 into the
courts and attempt to burst the bond.
Atchison Patriot observes: The man who
imaglnes that he is great success as a
masher on railroad trains is another nuis-
ance.
A correspondent remarks of animals that
which cannot be said of man: Hogs eat
lucent corn just as well as though 1t cost
80 cents"
Some men regard the returning OF the
same silver dollars to them after an ab-
sence of some time with suspicion, espe-
ciaily counterfeit one.
A smart exchange has discovered that
the Topeka Capital never declines with
thanks" any of the manuscript sent IN by
Mrs j. K. Hudson.
Wellington Mail: Since the recent cleo
ton the Winfield Courier has discussed no
question save and except the public ad-
vantage of a starch factory.
The police of Arkansas City are all newly
uniformed in blue and gold, but they
can't collar drunk with half the agility
as when they wore jeans, a belt and fan
mel shirt.
The city council of Harper has passed an
ordinance combining the offices OF street
commissioner and marshal into one and
fixing the salary at fifty dollars per month
in city script
Kansas City Gazette: DR.. Kemp, an
gentleman at Topeka. esti-
mates that Kansas is 100000 years old.
He takes as his base measure the Bandana
club of Leayenworth.
On Sing Chinese laundryman of Well
ington, removed this week to New York
city, where he will open tea store. Well
ingtonians will now have somebody to
"see" when they go to the metropolis.
A pure white swan was seen on the lake
at Geuda Springs the other evening. Some
of transmigration tenets, believe it was
Milt Reynolds returned, as the poet Horace
tells us of like weakness Of his, in one of
odes.
A Hamilton county editor was elected
register of deeds recently by majority or
one, The other fellow, agreeable to
foolish custom, voted for his opponent,
otherwise he would have been the lucky
man. He is kicking himself yet.
Kansas City Star: Frank Webster resem-
bles ingalls, more closely this year than he
did last, but he will never learn to look
over the tops of his eyeglasses like the
Atchison senator does when he is talking
to man and thinking about something
else.
Historical item in Kansas City Star: The
first school teacher in Kansas is said to
have been Mr. Fitch, who was killed at
Lawrence by the Quantrell gang. His
daughter, Miss Lulu Fitch, lives at Coun-
ell Bluffs, Ia, and recently visited friends
in Kansas.
Kansas City Star: Saturday afternoon is
the fashionable time for making calls
among the fashionable women of Law
renee. 1t gives them an opportunity TO
tell each other what kind of luck their
hired girls had with their baking IN the
morning.
The personal reCOlleCtlCuS Oh fdruee
Butler is the title of the latest Kansas
book Pardee Butler was a minister of
the Christian church who came to Kansas
in 1850 In August, 1856, pro-slavery
mob at Atchson gave him coat OF tar
and feathers, put him on a log and started
him down the Missouri river. He died but
q year or so ago.
Atchson Globe: The state insurance
department has got to the bottom of the
'Topeka Insurance company" and find 1t
rotten and without assets. 1t has unpaid
losses to the amount OF $4,000 that will
never be paid Ben S. Hale" one of the
officers, is myth. And still we
find man occasionally who wants Com
missioner Wilder removed.
Emporia News: An Atchison editor see
ing Senator ingalls, riding the other day in
a rusty old ram-shackle wagon, went off
and moralized beautifully about the ease
with which so great a man can descend
from the dizzy heighths of senatorial exal-
tation, and feel comfortable in dingy,
dirty buck board. When a man like In
gals finds himself between the devil and
the deep sea-" straddling fences is not his
only or perhaps most charming ACCOMPLISH
ment. He must become agile as well as
1extrous, in order to pose successfully be-
fore his constituents OF the wild and wooliy
west. ingalls, appears to be an all around
adept from letter writing to fence strad-