Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-10
SUNFLOWER SHADOWNGS.
Seeds, Slips. soions, Sprouts. Shoots and SliY

Udall is thinking Of converting the city
Into granary.
Kansas music-the song OF the hammer
IS always on top.
Chase county is paying two-ifty a day
for corn cutting.
The Kansas man who is not making hay
does not live on farm.
Red will be a favorite color this autumn,
particularly with the maple leaves.
The Arkansas City Girls are all eyes to-
day and don't see anything but uniforms.
The shocks of corn and hay stacks are
not 70 be told apart down in Sumner
county.
a Kansas grown ana educated BOY IS
now professor in the Maryland Agricul-
tural college.
| A Salvation corps is bargaining for the
the winter season.
The cold wave struck Chicago about
| three days before it struck UdaIl. This
Will be news to Chicago.
What with a hot sun. poison ivy and a
| Fourth of July it is wise teacher that
| recognizes former pupil
The spiritualists OF Leavenworth will
| hold their fourth annual camp meeting
near Paramount, October 4, and 6.
In Kansas the race CT all races is be-
tween the peach crop and the tin-shoD,
with all prospects in favor OF the former.
| There is an old woman in Cherryvale
| who can remember having Wept over the
death OF Little Eva" 305 distinct times.
All the wheat raised in the United States
| this year amounts to 800, 100000 bushels.
| OF this Kansas raised about One-twelfth.
\ Winfield man gave himself away the
other day by asking a druggist for u
! tonic and adding, for medical purposes
only"
Marshall county claims that her corn
crop Will be larger than that OF Jewell
county, and the latter claims 10000, 900
bushels.
The miners and the management of the
Riverside mine at Leavenworth have de-
i.cided on the old rate OF cents a bushel.
Work was delayed for three days.
Some interesting developments are
promised III the Proctor murder case, near
Atchison, which will be tried at the Sep
TENDER term of the district court.
Henry George says: Looking backward
is an air castle with a foundation OF
Clouds" This depends largely upon the
condition Of the sidewalk you are walking
upon.
ried off some of our money, which, how
ever, we regret to say, was in the hands of
genteel but nevertheless, delinquent sub
scribers.
An old negro woman named Twiggs was
found dead in her bed at North Lawrence.
Under her pillow was found $40, which
had doubtless been laid there to pay
funeral expenses.
p. NJ. Lees large barn near Coffeyville
burned early yesterday morning, together
with valuable stallion, $3.50 worth Of har-
ness and a quantity OF hay and grain; only
partially insured.
The Kansas River Baptist association is
now in session at Silver Lake. The folS
lowing new churches were received Foun-
tain Ridge, Welsh church, Peterton and
L lrSt German church, Topeka.
There is one old codger in Arkansas City
who never discovers man to be au OF
fetal that he don't submit his claims for a
pension to him, and the people down there
are wondering how they are going 10 keep
him away from Gov. Hovey.
a Denver man has conceived the idea of
freezing the bodies of the dead in blocks Of
ice and then transporting them to Arctic
regions, 50 that pilgrim descendants may
have the boon OF seeing their ancestors As
they used to be; but this offer will not be
extended to ward politicians.
When Hogarth first announced the line
line of beauty, he was greatly ridicuied in
his idea, and there are yet SSeptics but
the smile on the Arkansas City girls face
today Us she admires the serpenulne grace
of the stripe on the soldiers weil-formed
leg, ought to annihiiate them.
a religious society, urging a more free
contribution OF money for missionary pur-
poses, announces that at present there is
but one teacher for each 80 000,0 of
heathens No wonder the poor fellows
consider missionary It'd bit and rejoice
when they get him served up in anchovy
sauce.
Fifteen or twenty members of the New.
ton Art League eXcurted to Halstead last |
Monday to sketch the scenery in that vi !
cicinity, but they could find fny two /
inch strip OF horizon without an intercept
ing hog or towering cornstaIk The whole /
league l. busy on a life size sunflower which /.
they viii publish as serial
The summer has ended, the harvest is
over, the children are in school, the fami- /
lies are again IN the home. The minister's /
vacation is over and the business man is ,
at MS desk. There is general health and /
prosperity in ali the land, ana there never I.
was better time for all to put their /"
shoulders TO the wagon and see the wheels /
20 round.-Atchison Champion.
hduSdS newspapers are quoting omar
but the finest stanza IN his
Rubaiyat has failed TO put il an appear
auce. 1t runs:
The moving finger writes, and having
writ,
Moves on, nor all your pietv or wit
Can hu ! IL back to cancel half line
Nor al your tears wash out a word OF it."
My friend earnestly exclaimed the
lecturer, pointing long, quiz
erlug tore1nger straight at the covering
figure Of n man ON the back seat, what
VIII you do when you come TO the end of
your career and lind honor, hope, friends.
home and all that makes life valuable. or
for the future cheering, lost-Iost?" LOST"
echoed Mr.. Rambo, dlmly conscious that
question had been addressed to him,
- George, I'd ihic) advertise.
Il reporter visited the park yesterday
afternoon and found that the necessary
were being made for the re-
union. The tent We're being put in rows.
with eight TO row. There are 100 tents
in all, capable OF accommodating at least
$40 people and perhaps more. The head
quarters VIII be at the east side of the
camp, on the river bank. The camp now
looks like an Oklahoma city on the Z3d OF
April, says the Arkansas City Traveller