Wichita eagle., 1889-12-28
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Seeds. Slips. ssiens. sprouts. Shoot. and Silver

The Kansas daily newspaper Investment
is about $500, 600
The roads leading to Augusta are well
nigh paved with corn.
Misfortunes never come singly. The in
fiuenza and McGinty. for instance.
The popular design for the Kansas
farmers tombstone is corn-ucopia.
It has been SO warm in Kansas that the
| cabbage patches haven't had q chance to
smell
Olathe is having such sea OF trouble
with black and white that it is great
wonder that whe does not try oil
Hog cholera is raging in Usage, Green
wood and Pottawatomie counties and the
consumption of corn is less than ever.
The Journal says 1900 Topeka roung
men will try to get through the rest OF the
week with 80 cents or Whereabouts in their
packets.
There are men who will wish you hap
py New Year and ask you for the loan OF
a dollar in one breath, and smile at the
same time.
The newspaper men of the state have
not been sufficiently alarmed to inquire
whether the influenza is transmitted on
silver coin.
A Lawrence university girl can't make
her debut until she drops her right
smart" and succeeds in sucking a lemon
without wincing.
Popular chime:
Did you everf
No never
Saw such weather,
On a Christmas day before.
John j. Ingalls, spoke at the teachers
meeting at Topeka last evening, and his
grammatical errors are perhaps being
talked over this morning by the local au-
thorities on language.
The consuIship of the City of Mexico, it
is believed, will go to l.. C. Bridges, OF Sc
dalia, Mo-, and some of Tom Ryan's I'M
employed friends are wondering If he had
anything to do with this.
Cyrus White, coiored citizen of Olathe,
has brought suit against the Republican
county central committee to recover $40,
which he alleges is due him for campaign
work during the last election.
The big coal mines of Pennsylvania are
shutting down on account of the continued
warm weather. Six Thousand miners are
already thrown out Of employment and
their number is being added to daily.
A correspondent in the Little River
Monitor spreads himself On THE cause Of
the present hard times" That man
ought to be smothered in bin of Rice
county wheat.-Hoisington Dispatch.
Kansas raised "a. O00, 600 bushels of wheat
this year. If made into bread, reckoning
bushel to sixty pounds of -four, it would
give each man, woman and child in the
United States thirty-four two pound ioaves
of bread.
Lindsburg, the Swedish colony in Nc
Pherson county, has a $1,000 pipe organ.
The good old times when the last line of
he doxology and "John Browns body"
were the only tunes Kansas knew, 1t
seems, are gone forever.
Some of the farmers regard the car
famine. as it keeps the markets from being
glutted and the price of corn steady in
consequence, as special dispensation of
Providence, but the people of Topeka are
probably inclined to think it is Marvel.
Justice Brewer as the successor of the
Hon. Stanley Matthews, deceased, will be
assigned to the Eighth judicial circuit,
comprising Kentucky, Ohio. Michigan and
Tennessee. He will visit each state once
every two years. the trip through the cir
cult not consuming over two months
time. From October to June of each year
he will be on the supreme bench at Wash
ineton.
The idea prevails that there will soon be
an attack all along the line, from an or
ganized opposition to the practice of de-
horning cattle. One dehorner has been ar
rested. 1t is understood by those in favor
of dehorning that the second section of
the law passed last winter by the Kansas
legislature is aimed at the owner of the
cattle who permits dehorning. The Ma
tional Humane society proposes to make
objections. Those who believe in dehorn-
ing assert that it causes net increase in
the value of each head Of s.. A writer in
the Live Stock Indicator says that socie-
ties are already formed to stop the practice.