Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-07
sUNFLOWER SEADOWNGS.
Seeds, Slips. seions. Sprouts, Shoots and Sill

Seeds, Slips, scons Sprouts, Shoots and siiyers
Topeka has q summer theatre.
1t will require $1,000 cars to haul off tn.
| Kansas wheat.
| Emporia has just got its first batch O
| water melons.
| The papers still insist that the last rair
was the finest.
Identification is used more of newspa,
pers than drowning in Kansas.
Salina sees visions of paper mills, fire.
| cracker factories and groceries.
Black eyes are excusable in Atchison so.
ciety the week after the Fourth.
The man who said he felt refreshed at
11:30 p. m. on the Fourth was a liar.
There are no spots on the Leavenworth
Sun, but there are news items by Acers.
Two Topeka firemen were caught under
a falling roof Thursday and quite seriously
hurt
Atchison is indebted to the water COM
pany of that place to the amount of 3d.
532.2S.
Cherryvale thinks that the spots on the
sun forebode something awful for its post
Office.
Newton Anzeiger: Nit dieser hummer
en- digit der zweiter jahrgang des Newton
Anzeiger."
There is fear that the glorious Fourth of
July is educating Young America to
protligacy.
The bids for the construction of the new
chapel at Washburn college of Topeka
have been opened.
Leavenworth florists have a difficult
time of it since the people will take flow
ers in the cemetery.
The corks that were thrown into the Ar
kansas river on the Fourth are passing
through Oklahoma today.
1t is said that the apples are dropping
off the trees in sheer disgust at unendlng
compliments paid the peaches.
The Fort Scott street railway has been
purchased by New York company. The
mules will give way to dummies.
Since Topeka speaks of its ''moto neers"
we may expect some amateur musician
up there to compose motor lied"
The number of killable days in st. John
is one hundred and thirty-three, with
numerous hunting parties TO hear from.
The Belle PLANE News calls upon the
street commissioner to cut down the weeds
and the city marshal TO grease the town
pump.
Knowing the tendency to double vision,
it is not always safe to believe the crop"
stories told by Fourth of July picnicing
parties.
Thomas Aston, colored man of Tope-
ka, was hacked almost to pieces in
drunken row of the bottom saloons in
Kansas City on the Fourth.
A representative of Bradstreets' who in
vestigated Wichita this week, wonders
-hnrn hn Sfn.
Indeed, few flies ever fiourished here.
Kansas City Globe: If all the Kansas
towns which call for them get packing
houses, we calculate that there will be
about two packing houses to every hog.
Chicago Herald: A Kansas editor criti-
cises Senator Ingalls, legs And yet the
senator makes more money than many bal
let girls who have lived twice as long as he
has.
There was any amount of fire crackers,
but there was no runaways In Topeka on
the Fourth, which doesn't speak much
praise for the spirits OF the steppers Of that
place.
Atchison Patriot says that two Missouri
damSels, who had lost a day, came into
town on the fifth and remarked that 1t was
the dullest Fourth Of July they had eyer
seen.
Under the supervision of Vice Chancel-
Tor Spangler and Superintendent Croker
the university at Lawrence is TO be given
a general overhauling and repairing this
The State Historical society has received
a pamphlet containing an address deliv
cred at Springfield Illinois, February -.
1912, by Abraham Lincoln, Esq, before
the Washingtouian Temperance society.
At Up. m., on July 4th, the last sky
rocket has gone up the crackers ceased,
the red lemo given out and the world all
ceased their festivities, except the chigger;
he went plying on in the silence of the
night.
Emporia Republican: Salina had the
Last Days OF Pompeii' on the Fourth,
and an Abilene paper contemDtuousiy re-
marks that ANY school boy ought to
know how TO spell the name of the famous
Grecian general, Pompey."
K G. Star: An Atchison young woman
in stepping off a street car the other day
caught her dress, and in SO doing spilled a
lot of poker chips, which she hastily pick
ed up and proceeded on her way. This is
one that Evangelist Munhall seems to have
missed.
The Cherryvale Republican pines for a
or a Demosthenes for the one |
purpose ''of talking an arm off the delin- !
luent subscriber" The average delin- |
luent can do" anybody on earth. past or
present, in point Of garrulity, howe yer.
Charley Scott: IL nine cases out of /
.en the man who abuses the editor or the /
paper, is In arrears for his subscription, |
and in the tenth SO he doesn't take it at |
all, but borrows it from his neighbor. |
The kicking never comes from the man /
who pays IN advance
Atchison Patriot: Out of thirty-f five |
money orders received at the AtchisOn
yesterday morning from Kansas
twenty-four OF them were pay
,ble to liquor dealers doing business in
Winthrop, Missouri, and this is not what
5 known as dry season, either.
Near the Santa Fe stock yards south OF
CALDWELL, Monday night, local cattle
iriver, named johnson, was struck by
lightning and seriously, If not fatally, in
ured Since the occurrence he has re-
NAMED unconscious and is continually
romiting blood. The horse on whose back
lie was riding at the time was instantly
Leavenworth Times: Gus Meers. the
fable janitor of the Times Office, had
ay off yesterday. 10 is boy, and GINS Is
.lmost speechless with emotion He came
own TO the office last night, but he could
lot do much. He emptied the paste into