Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-20
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Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and sliv
Geuda Springs is oyercrowded.

Geuda Springs is overcrowded.
Winfield has purchased two new parks.
Dosage City is not dead, protests q local
paper, 1T sleepeth.
The jointist's fines in Atchison are as
high as the weeds
The greatest trial a new postmaster has
is TO learn the boxes.
Topeka will let man with the name of
Bugaboo swindle them.
An Edwards county's cheese and sun
flower are about the same size.
Very few Kansas people have had time
this year to stop and get sunstroke.
A man hasn't appeared on the streets
with coat on in three months at Burlin-
game.
Frog legs don't prevent any considerable
number of people from being vegetarians
In Kansas.
The papers have very little TO say about
the hot winds. They are afraid lest they
'agg" them on.
A smaller per cent Of the population Of
Kansas is of foreign birth than of any
other state in the union.
The Wellington Press thinks the Wich-
ita EAGLE and Kansas City Star have it in
for the Washington dude.
1t is said that the only occupant of the
county Jail at Salina is a city councilman
incarcerated for selling liquor.
Many stranger has taken the only
brick house in q Kansas town and been
hoodooed by the whole community.
The corridor connecting the two wings
of the Kansas state house has been pro-
bounced dangerous by the executive coun-
Gil.
The Missouri Pacific and the Rock
Island are going to withdraw from the
union depot at Leavenworth the first of
the month.
Four Joint keepers at. Atchison were yes
tsrday fined 500 each aud notified that if
they were arrested again they would be
fined $500 each.
A Topeka woman poured some gasoline
into boiling suds the other day, and her
husband made e very narrow escape from
becoming widower
Kansas has built school houses at the
rate of one for every day in the year for
the past four years, and has 13l more to
spare for good count.
The Atchison man who stated in a crowd
of devotees of low cut shoes that there was
no such thing as chigger, is still delirious
and recovering from his wounds but
slowly.
The word ''charivari' a small paper,
when used judciously will bring up the
regard for the editor among a certain
class of his subscribers. to an astounding
degree.
Topeka ice dealers, according to the
State Journal, wear diamonds almost as
large as he chunks of ice they leave at the
peoples door, But they are not as costly,
of course.
A common trope in Kansas is that an
electric light is the consulate and the bugs
applicants and Notwithstanding that fully
a quart are killed nightly the number of
bugs are not yisibly diminished
Parsons Sun: after harvest" everybody
is going to pay everybody al they owe
everybody. And in Kansas, from the pres
ent outlook, everybody will be able TO pay
everybody all they owe everybody
State Journal: Ingomar IS the popular
play at Lawrence this week, Maude Miller
appearing as Parthenia. Ingomor is a
good play TO travel with in July. The
costumes are admirably suited to the
weather.
It would set St. Anthony Comstock wild
if he could get out on some of the resident
streets these summer evenings III Kansas
and see the display of anatomy on the part
of the people who pull their beds up to
windows to get the breeze.
At Garden City the postmaster ekes out
his salary by keeping a meat market in
the postoffice lobby, and his mail is recog-
niZable by route agents hundreds OF miles
away by the smell OF sausage upon it,
which serves as kind of pOstmark.
A habit of tobacco chewing is so preva-
lent in Topeka that the first thing a so
ciety man of the Older set there does when
he goes to party is to ask the hostess
where the "spittoon" is. Ten feet Is the
avorite distance and he never misses.
The Atchison Champion says ''the bust
ness Of the summer hotels, by seaside and
in the mountains, Is distressingly poor
this year. The great swarms OF people
that a few yeats ago seemed to live in such
places have vanished, or come not" They
are all in Paris. climbing the tower in lieu
of Pixies Peak.
There is rock up at Usage City that is
not a maidstone exactly, but it draws the
conceit out OF some men admirable. It Is
large round stone, about twelve 10 FOUR
teen inches III diameter, dug from the
mines. 1t requires a very stout man 10 lit
it, while most men th.uk they can raise il
with one hand at sight.
Atchison Champion: A butter dealer
who resides outside OF the city WAS detect
ed yesterday selling. for fresh butter, Old
butter which he had bought very cheap in
town, taking it home and mixed with just
enough goa butter TO take away the stale
and rancid flavor, 1t is understood That
this euterprising gentleman Is IN the habit
OF playing such tricks.
One of the eveatful moments in young
Kansas farmers life is Immediately after
his marriage. The ceremony over the
brides father takes him by the arm and
leads him to the hog pen, and pointing to
dyspeptic raZor-back, in a dulcet and
soulful voice cries, while the tears burst
forth at the thought of his own generosity.
Take the hog, John; he is yours
The second annual tournament Of the
Kansas State Firemen's association will
be held at Ottawa September II, IS and 49,
The ladies Of the place will offer prizes for
the handsomest fireman, the ugliest fire
man, the largest fireman and the smallest
fireman. II has leaked out that the ugli-
est fireman is to get Waterbury watch,
and the handsomest gets to kiss the
judges.
Everything goes at Topeka. The pro-
bate Judge married a couple in a hack and
indorsed the certificate this way:
In a hack in stormy weather,
married this man and woman together;
Let none but Him who rules the thunder,
Sever this man and woman asunder.
*. c. News.
Married together and ''sever asunder'
is "ans geseichnlch."