Wichita eagle., 1889-12-07
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Seeds. Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and sIissr.

Seeds. Slips. scions, Sprouts. Shoots and sliser..
It is not wise to lie for the sake of wit.
Senator ingalls, on President Harrison's
message: Harrison is making Hayes ap-
pear respectable.
1t is surprising how many men will see
something out of the window when lady
enters crowded street car.
Eleven hundred empty cars left st. Louis
on the Missouri Pacific last week to help
the Kansas grain shippers out.
A great many goud people in Kansas are
waiting anxiously to find out whether
Stanley saw Rider Haggard's ''She."
Atcnison Globe: The man who would
be IA hero in the small boys eyes should
make candy cigars SO that they will have a
spit to them.
Most of the people who claim they have
read the presidents message clear through,
are like those who aver they never slept a
wink all night-they lie.
Wherever Mr. Barnum and his great
show go they are bound to be heard OF in
the newspapers. The London reporters
were given a taste of real life.
Encountering foot pad is by no means
pleasant experience, but men who have
fingered to long in the poker room are
forced to do it to satisfy their wives.
Mr.. Picker, OF the new state of North
Dakota, who had a personal deposit OF
5000 with the defaultinR cashier. Stetson,
is learning the ways of Washington life.
The contract will De let this week at the
Kansas penitentiary for convict labor for
the next FIVE years. There are at present
It's convicts at work on contract labor at
90 cents per day.
A little boy was arrested in a Kansas
town recently for meddling with the brake
of street car The law is a great shield,
especially when a complicated affair like a
street car brake is threatened with danger.
December is the corner of the calendar
when she enumerates the list of Christmas
presents she has received and that lone
some, dreamy, vacant look comes back
upon his face and he does not seem to
hear.
Woman, to tramp-''Want something to
eat. eh? We'll, here's some cold hash"
Tramp-"But / haven't got anything to
eat it with" Woman-"Just keep on a
little further and you'll find a fork in the
road"
The Fifth avenue hotel, Topeka. refused
to feed the jury in the United States cir
cult court yesterday because they were IN
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hotels still have red table cloths and the
pepper sauce bottle.
These reports of Stanley's wonderful
penetration into the wilds of Africa is said
to stimulate the Lawrence college young
man to put on his English helmet and
with his Liddell and Scot learnedly study
the water marks on sandstone rock.
A couple of Atchison lawyers are think
ing seriously of freezing" to the island in
the Missouri river opposite Atchison and
making an attempt to hold it by the right
of discovery. The same island has been
bobbing up and down for years, but this
is the first time it struck the Missouri side,
hence it licenses discovery"
Abilene Reflector: Now that Bill Nye is
ill and likely to die some of the papers
that have advertised his letters as their
greatest attractions are calling him a
fraud as a humorist. Fraud or not he has
wrinkled more faces with laughter than
any writer of the past decade. His humor
is original and inimitable; it will not die
with him.
Cimarron Echo: In small town not far
distant minister closed his sermon the
other day with these words: 1--WE would
be pleased, moreover, tC have the young
man who is now standing outside the door
come in and make certain whether she is
better than opening the door half an inch
and exposing the people in the last row of
seats to draught."
An ex change tells of nice little game
that will prove very popular in the minis
try: Changing the leopard spots" is the
newest scheme in church fairs The min
lister stretches large piece of white cloth
across one end of the ROOM On it is drawn
in charcoal a representation of a leopard,
with it's mouth open and its tail trailing
on the ground. About forty pieces of Cir
cular black cloth Il couple of inches in di-
ameter are fastened all over the leopard
with pins. Can the leopard change his
spots?' says the preacher, repeating the
biblical question. 1t can by a simple pro-
cess. Each one in the congregation pays
one dollar and buys spot until the Loop
ard resembles a white Gals. Thed the game
is repeated until every body, including the
leopard, is perfectly satisfied with the re-
suit.