Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-08
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Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and slissrs

5000.
Rush county has 713 dogs-an unlucky
number-too large.
| The w. c. T. U. at Manhattan is at war
| with the county attorney.
| Kansas boys who run away from home
are unexceptionally freckled faced.
A Lacrosse architect is drafting plans
for a Slo,OOO court house for Greedy county.
The ex-soldiers of Ness county will hold
a reunion in Ness City, Thursday, October
| 10.
The assessed valuation of Republic
county was S3l.210 in 1879 and 1858, S43 III
| the present year.
1t is burning shame that the Kansas
peanut crop hasn't received more notice
from newspapers.
Fhe Jewell County Republican is afraid
the girls OF that county are reading too
many novels This is a new idea.
There is field of milet one mile east of
Danyllle that is eight feet high, with the
heavens threatening another moistening
rain.
A travelling photographers outfit have
taken everything down at Winfield from a
flne Poland-China hog to the usual group
of the normal institute.
Mrs ID. G. Haskell, widow of the late
Congressman Haskell has received the
appointment of matron-ln-chief to the
Haskell institute, Lawrence.
A couple that is engaged is always to be
distinguished at Wellington by their
walking in the streets with the backs of
their hands lovably pressed together.
Professor Blake, the Kansas weather
prophet, announces that he Will have ready
for delivery early in September, "Blake's
nf bar or
The Kansas river reached height of
sixteen feet above low water mark Friday,
the highest for years and only high water
known here in July.-Manhattan Mercury.
Six citizens of Colony are jailed at Gar
nett. A pretty face above white dress
and two small slippers on the outside
goes on wondering about men In general.
The probate judge Of Anderson county
has offered free marriage license to every
couple who will be married at the county
fair in August. One couple accepted at
once.
There is a man down in Cowley county
who is confident that he has the largest
pumpkins and melons, the finest corn, the
biggest potatoes and the fastest horse in
the county.
The burning of the Santa Fe buildings
at Topeka is causing the local agents
much additional work. The reports from
June l have to be ali made out again and
sent to headquarters.
A number Of Wellington people really
believe that the wild havoc made by the
lightning in Sumner county this year, is
caused by classical reporter, who persists
in calling it the bolt of Jove."
The Newton Republican says: "Boys,
don't devote your Sabbaths to gambling.
Have more respect for yourselves" which
would seem to imply that the boys were
exhorted to gamble on Mondays.
Several old ladies at wellington, in the
goodness of their hearts, have got together
great quantity of old mattresses and pill
lows since it has been announced that
man will descend in parachute, fair day.
At Overlook, in Usage county, the six
teenth anniversary of Harrison grange,
Patrons of Husbandry. has been celebrat-
ed. The grange was organized in 1873 and
has kept up its meetings, without single
omission, ever since.
They say that the tuba player in the Big
Six band at Wellington goes to sleep by
the the way of illustrating the "Warrior's
Dream" favorite piece, and snores IN
lieu of blowing his instrument, much to
the delight OF the music-loving public.
After travelling over half the state to de-
termine what was the best kind of light
for Il city, the mayor of Fit. Scott returned
home and found that there was no money
in the treasury and that consequently the
town could have no light of any sort
K c. Star: 'Trombedium holesric-
cum" is the scientific name for chigger,
and it is supposed to be the passage of this
name through the cuticle that causes the
irritation which is experienced
when chigger takes contract to drive
an entry.
State Auditor Mccarthy has notified
County Clerk krebs that the state board
Of equalization has added two per cent to
the taxable valuation Of Atchison county
property, thereby increasing the valuation
Sl15. $3.50 making the total valuation |
ST, 676, 800. II.
Monday morning the bank of the Geuda |
lake gave way again and the sparkling |
water went roaming over the prairles. |
This morning force of men were set to |
work repairing it, and this time it will be |
built more substantially than ever before. |
1t will be finished in about ten days.
Rev. J. B. Thomas, for several years the |
pastor of the First Baptist church of Du-
ouque, Iowa, has accepted unanimous |
,all to the First Baptist church of Topeka.
as successor to Rev. L. X. Peters, and
will begin his duties September l Mr..
Thomas is a young man and graduate
If Morgan Park Baptist seminary of Chi
,ago.-Democrat.
Many people and farmers wondered and
lsk what the advertisement meant in last
weeks paper asking for bids tor thou
and tons of straw. 1t was only another
step forward in the onward march of this
county, and was the preliminary step
oward the establishment OF Il paper mill
n this city. Negotiations are now pend
bending with eastern parties who have
)een III operation many years to move
heir entire plant and works, except the
building. here. provided sufficient straw
AN be procured at suitable prices, it cost
ng sl4 TO SIS ton OF their present works,
md scarce at that 80 the profit OF manu-
acture is gone.-Hays City Free Press.
There are now SIS prisoners confined in
he state penitentiary, Of whom 695 are
whites 112 negroes, ten Indians and one
dexican. Fifteen are females. Forty
light of the prisoners are United States
ivil or military prisoners, so that only $40
we're convicted in cur state courts. La
,ette county has forty-four convicts in the
Wyandotte forty-one; Shaw
lee thirty-nine; Sedgwick thirty-tbree;
Ieavenworth thirty-two; Bourbon and
thirty each. All the other
ounties are represented by from one TO
twenty-five. The per cent of prison pop
llation is now about one to 2,l00 of the
otal population. TIA Ell
Joe Harpster. 81 years of age, of Troy,
)oniphan county, was born of American
PARENTS who spoke German. and that was
he language he first learned Subsequently
lie learned TO speak English and used 1T
xcluslyely, forgetting the German. About
ne month ago a drunken man hit him on
he back OF the bead with pair OF brass
,uuckles, knocking him senseless. He SO
emained until last Tuesday, when he re-