Wichita eagle., 1889-10-23
sUNFLowER sHADow1NGs.
Seeds. Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots ard slise

Auguration seems to be epidemic IN Nan
sas, this. time of the year.
Ingalls, people are agitating the build
| ing OF sugar mill at that place.
Reno county is going to have a poor
| farm at cost of S15, 900, 1t is reported.
The first law of the successful editor is to
love babies, and particularly everybody's s.
This portion of the state is almost wholly
for ST. Louis, as the location OF the world 5
fair.
The city of Atchison will vote November
5 on proposition to build 81, 900 market
house.
A Garden City man has pair of hand
burrs with which he can grind a bushel OF
wheat or barley in an hour.
The Geuda Springs Herald has been
seized with bad case of ''cute kid and
precious youth "reminiscences.
If every new crib that is built in Kansas
this year is inaugurated with dance.
Terpsichore will die of fatigue.
The Lawrence Journal says: A Topeka
woman is going to the national woman S
conventions; her son is going to the devil.
1t is noticeable that the man who has
once killed a cat, never receives any in
spiration from his first effort tor second.
1t is still doubtful in the minds of some
whether Thomas keene plays Richard the
Third or Richard the Third plays Thomas
Keene.
R. W. Sellers. printer sent to the Kan
sas penitentiary in 1884 for eight years for
burglary, has been pardoned by the gov
ernor
If Webster could have foreseen the effect
it has had on journalism, he never would
have added that list of latin phrases to the
dictionary.
In the Wyandotte county convention,
the undertakers all took lively interest
in the nomination for coroner and worked
vigorously for their candidates.
Emporia Republican,: A Wisconsin
woman has written book entitled ''Wait-
ing on Destiny" 1t will not be read.
Grover has become back number.
The Bluff City Herald informs the world
that: Nearly all the fairs and eXpositions
have been held early this year. st. Louis
and Bluff City seems to be about the last.
The turkeys are being selected for
Thanksgiving. Kansas thanks heaven,
there are no trusts on turkeys. though
they have gobbled the oysters from the
dressing
Arkansas City is trying to secure the
permanent location of the military in
struction camp on a ten mile square
reservation just south of the city across
the state line.
A Punch and Judy show is doing
Chautauqua county. and some Of the peo-
pie stick up their noses and refuse to look
at it. because they saw the same thing
''once, back east"
A boy named Carroll, with Altoona for
his home, is counted the toughest boy in
Kansas He shot at his mother, was placed
in jail, set fire to the prison and escaped.
He is still abroad.
Kansas City Times: Hearts Boiled
Down. is the heading of newspaper &C
count of a Kansas wedding. This IS a
new way of expressing the two hearts
that beat as one" idea.
Kansas Commoner: One hundred and
five thousand dollars was paid for the
trotting stallion Axtell last week. And
oats only cents a bushel, somehow things
seem to need evening up"
The present continuous rain in western
Kansas has wet down nineteen inches in
the prairie and deeper in cultivated lands.
This will insure moisture for six months.
providing hard and long continued freezes
are absent.
The Halstead Independent startles the
deniZens of Harvey county by reporting
that whisky and rowdyism which are gen
orally closely connected with dancing. 1t
is only the people who can't dance who
object to it.
Il am going to Kansas next summer
sure" Secretary Rusk said to Washing
ton correspondent the other day. There
is no more hospitable people on the face of
the earth, and there is no better country
anywhere, either"
81 see," said Kansas man to another,
that the king of Portugal is dead"
Rats" answered the inadvertent gentle
man; kansas lost her chance with the
pension commissioner, ana she doesn't eX-
pect anything from old Harrison, now"
Caldwell is having lots of trouble with
the Rock Island railroad. One day last
week about sixty busted men that had
been working on the territory extension
of the line, were dumped off in Caldwell
and the town had them to feed for three
days.
The Kansas City News is authority for
the statement that Emporia is bothered by
a crowd of toughs who gather about her
opera house doors at night and make COM
ments about the ladies, and when remon-
strated with throw handful of mud at
the gentlemen and then skip.
Arkansas City Dispatch: A prominent
educator, writing TO an educational
journal, advocates pensionin9 teachers
after they have served out their day of use
fulness in the school room. If they are fe-
males, send them out to Arkansas City
where they are in demand as wives and
in small fanatics.
1t is stated that Fort Riley may have the
annual fall maneuvers of the regular army
in the autumn OF 1890. The Junction City
Union processes TO have information to
the effect that they will take place there.
Eight thousand soldiers will take part
next year and the parade ground will be
within convenient reach by rail Of all parts
Of Kansas.
1t will be news to a large number of our
citizens to know that experts are prospect
ing for coal on the farm of Shaffer broth
ers. about two and one-half miles from the
city They assert confidently that their
search will prove successful. IL Is earestly
hoped that it viii, for with the advent of !
cheap fuel there is no estimating the great
advantage il would be 10 Wellington
Wellington Gazette.
The Oskaloosa canning factory managers
make an exhaustive report showing the
results OF nine weeks work which consli- /
tuted the season. The factory canned !
only tomatoes, putting up total OF 49, /
300 cans. This was the product from about /
ten acres he most expert "peeiers" who I
were women, averaged al day Next /
year it is expected to can peas, beans and |
other vegetables.
1t makes person here feel comfortable |
20 read Of the weather in the north and the 4
.ast and contrast the condition there and /
here Instead of cold rain and mud and /
snow and frost as reported in 50 many /
places, here. il Is yet like summer. The +
gardens are green, tie trees without leaf 4
gone and the lawns bright with blooming 4
lowers Dear northern friends we can /
pick you today from our gardens. roses, 4
1ox, verbenas, pink, artemesias, dghlias. 4
md all other late summer and autumn