Wichita eagle., 1889-11-16
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
Seeds, Slips, Scions. Sprouts. Shoots and SIwefs.
I met the girl of the
And gently took her -
| thought I'd pop the
But didn't have the s&.
BALDWIN Raacon

| III bcdCOu
The most popular way to fall down stairs
| now, is with coal bucket.
! Marion county needs court house worse
| than any other county In the state.
| The Press says you can always bet on
| the Republicans of Summer when they get
| their backs up.
Backing the nose as a preventative of
blindness seems to have become re-
cOgniZed as successful.
Lawrence has new military company
known as the Robinson Rifles, in honor OF
Ex-Governor Robinson.
The report of two sweet potatoes. one
red and the other white, on the same vine,
comes from klngman county.
The young ladies of Topeka have organ
lied Il Delsorte class, but their exercises
will not extend to the wash-tub.
One more year of plenty and the Kansas
mortgage Will be AS the uncanny memory
OF nightmare murmurs, the Press.
A cheese factory is to be built at Bald
win, and the students are already figuring
on crackers Baldwin is great place for
style.
A man at Topeka has just patented to-
boggan brake. This is like man in the
Sahara desert dying OF thirst patenting
a water-wheel.
The third annual reunion Of the soldiers
of kingman, Pratt, Sumner, Sedgwick,
Harper and Reno counties will be held at
kingman tonight.
The Kingman Rock Salt company last
week shipped six car loads of salt to points
in Texas. The company are now mining
about 120 tons day, all OF which finds a
ready market.
The Richfeld broom factory is again
open and is turning off six dozen brooms a
day. The brooms are made tirst-class, and
the material Of which they are made Is a
superior quality.
Since Fort Riley has been made the ma
tional school for cavalry and artillery the
farmers of that vicinity intend breeding
horses peculiarly adapted for use of these
arms of the service
do hogs pay?" asks a Kansas paper of
an agricultural turn, at which another
Kansas paper says: Very few. We know
of a dozen who are in California who left
without saying beans"
The youth at Wellington were not with
the majority of Kansans quiet on Hallow-
cen. They got a threshing machine and
set it on the front porch OF the Press Of
flee. and it must be remembered that a
threshing machine is no small concern.
A fellow filled up at Caldwell Saturday
night and tried riding down the street at a
break neck speed, whirling his revolver
over his head the while, but the author-
ties surrounded and captured him. Cald-
well isn't what it used to be by a good
deal.
A London correspondent says church
fairs are entirely out of date. They origi-
mated some twelve years ago and at that
time were profitable. but now they scarce
ly pay expenses. The last is not new,
however, but has been known III Kansas
some time.
Oxford Bird It is settled fact that
the alliance is to build at this place So
900 ELEVATOR. The stock is nearly all sub
scribed. The place most favored as the
location seems to be on the Missouri
Pacific railroad. This is something that is
needed very badly at this place and we are
glad that the alliance has taken hold of it.
An electric light is being put in at Hays
City. 1t is not a score OF years ago when
Buffalo Bill, the international Snowman,
furnished the people with all the meat
they had to eat buffalo killed in Paradise
valley, and too when NJ. +. Joyce was the
sole representative of the law and order in
western Kansas, who as justice of the
peace married and divorced people and had
TO have an act passed ito legalize the acts
Of one NJ. Z. Joyce, justice of the peace,
etc. Marion Globe.
1t IS SO muCE pItF NasLeu 10 ieel LOT the
poor settlers in Western Kansas who were
covered up by three feet of snow the other
day. They are just now digging their way
out from under the drifts and the first
thing they do after getting out is 10 rush
to the telegraph Office and announce in big
headed specials that the snow has been
worth thousands of dollars to their wheat
crop. The western Kansas man is queer
bird, and you may as well undertake to
make the devil ashamed of himself as TO
discourage one OF them.-Lawrence Trib-
Uue