Wichita eagle., 1889-08-02
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Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and siiss

Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and siisers
4 Don't fret, little turnip, your praise
shall come in the fall
Thy Lawrence Journal says travel west
is very heavy just now.
Atchison merchants are being victim
lied with bogus checks.
l., A. Isrick, the leading merchant of
Everest, has failed with 5000 liabilities.
Work on the new soldiers home at
Dodge City will be commenced in few
days.
Atchison has tramp rendezvous, where
the poor tired fellows can rest undis-
turbed.
The Attica sugar mill is nearly COM
pleted. 1t will employ i25 men, and cost
$125, 600.
A Wellington '.lion' recently pounded
an ounce of face powder out of the lapels
of his coat.
A Jersey cow at Lawrence choked to
death on an ear of corn yesterday. 1t was
this years corn.
Finney county has more politics to the
square inch than any county in the state,
says the Herald.
| Convenient rattlesnakes are unusually
numerous in many parts OF Atchison coun-
| " tnlS summer.
George Donoxan, prosperous young
| farmer near Lincoln, suicided, on the eve
of his marriage, by taking poison.
! You can look for something startling
when the Kansas politician brushes the
nap of his silk hat the wrong way
Winfield and Arkansas City are quar-
reling over the number of the respective
switch engines. Quite metropolitan, in
deed.
1t is matter rather difficult to tell
which is the worstat Winfield, the Saliva
ton Army's music or the candidates
cigars.
San Atchison man." says the Globe,
recently married a widow because she
took such good care of her first husbands
grave"
| One of the queer things about Kansas
editor is his Unsuitable desire to perpetrate
| column dissertations on astronomy on his
| readers.
| What will become of the poor Kansas
| editor by winter if the farmers persist in
| making him taste all the different varie-
ties of apples.
You can MAIN and tortuc an Arkansas
| Cityite as cruelty as possible;you can break
and dislocate his jaw, but he will eat
hokie-pOkie still
| By the local papers it seems that about
ali the small boys at Arkansas City do is
| to fall OFT the horses, get kicked by mules
and caught in corn shelters.
| There are at least fifty people in Arkan-
| sas City who will confidently tell you that
they have their eyes on the lemonade trade
at that prize fight in the territory next
week.
1t is not perfectly clear what "a defeat
of the deviP' means in Salvation Army
I tora fol- l,,t
army manages to do it regularly once Il
week.
That is shabby dog, indeed, that don't
lose his collar once a month In some
towns this little collar incident holds up
the want column" in the local press for
| weeks.
Kansas City Star: Emporia has just had
sensational disappearance, but 1t only
lasted twenty-four hours. "Empory"
must not try to trot in the same class with
Wichita.
Alex Butts says that Sumner county
woman who attempted to make corn fritz
tiers for threshers knows now What that
expression means about pouring whisky
into rat hole.
Emporia News: A Leavenworth preacher
to those of his congregation last Sunday
who go to church TO DO a part of their
counting. Instead of worshipping Cop he
thinks they worship each other
There were twenty-five gambling games
at the Downs celebration on Saturday by
actual count. In the suppression Of gam
bling III Kansas we are sometimes q little
weak in spots.-Topeka Journal.
The Garden City people think that their
phenomenal good health Is attributable 10
the abundance of toads. As they are pro-
nounciDg benedictions upon everything in
Kansas this year, we say God bless the
toadS."
The tower of the college building at
Winfield is adjudged by Chicago archi-
tect as being In danger of falling. Too
much tower aud not enough foundation.
1t is a sad thing when a schools pedantry
ali goes TO its head.
Levi Beals, a young man residing near
Sharon, was thrown from a wagon drawn
by runaway team yesterday, and in some
manner his foot caught and the leaders of
one leg were torn loose from the heel. The
injury will make him cripple for life.
The Normal has received over thirty vol |
umes of the set of Official Records of the
Rebellion" which is being sent to 1t from
Washington. The volumes contain the
orders. correspondence, reports Of commit
tees, testimony, etc, evolved by the late |
war.-Emporia Republican
Charles Sweeney. aged 20, serving a one
years sentence in the penitentiary for
misappropriating a small sum of money |
has been pardoned on condition that ne |
abstain from all intoXicants for a period of |
two years. sweeney is Mexican war vet |
eran and a lawyer by profession.
The Chicago Tribune has been asking |
for opinions from prominent men as TO |
where the worlds fair of 1892 should be |
held. The following was received day or |
two ago:
ATCHISoN. Kan, July 24-EditOr of the |
Tribune:-The worlds fair of 1892 should /
be held at Atchison. JoHN J. INGALLS,
Index: Barber county had corn for sale |
last year, and so what may be expected |
this failt Farmers must buy up stock |
cattle and hogs, ana even mules. horses I
and sheep. 1t Will not do to expect to ship /
corn from here. Last year the county fat /
tened and sold 500, 600 worth of cattle and /
hogs and the figures should be doubled /
this year.
State Journal: Governor Humphrey has |
received a warrant from the treasurer OF |
the United States for s43, 80, which he /
turned over to State Treasurer Hamilton. /
The amount is per cent of the net pro-
ceeds OF the sales OF lands in the sundry /
Indian reservations embraced within the /
limits of the state during TIE fiscal year !
ending June -. 1885.
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