Wichita eagle., 1889-10-22
sUNFLoWER sHADoWINGs.
Seeds. Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and sI"'

| 1t Is only the geese that go south Ior
| winter resort.
| A paradox in Kansas is that Emporia' S
'.four hundred" number is -.
The Herald says Garden City has struck
an average OF two weddings day now.
South Haven has three restaurants and
| close competition Is making opunllsts OF
all the citizens.
| The total T. NJ. c. \. membership OF
Kansas is now 6,C00, Il gain of l.ooo during
| the past year.
| The weekly Interior Herald of Hutchin-
| son, says, the sun shined' little while
| yesterday morning.
An organ plays interludes at the How
| ard opera house and everybody goes out
| between acts but the organist.
| Winfield Courier: Christmas will come
| on Wednesday. This item is a fair scoop
on everything except the almanacs.
The Kansas state school fund commits
sioners have money on hand to purchase at
par. all school district bonds that may be
offered to them.
The largest life insurance policy ever
taken III Kansas was written at Atchisou
| yesterday on the life OF j. {. Park. 1t
was for 100000.
| 1t is thought that this gloomy weather
is visitation TO smother the eXuberance
OF those Kansas poets who have been in
| splred by the cornucopia.
If the peaches and apples dried in Kan
sas this year were to swell up. there wOuld
be a spot on the sun that would be plainly
visible in China.-Exchange.
The Democrats of Barton county re-
| solved in convention that protection does
not protect, prohibition does not prohi bit,
| but conservatism does conserve"
r, = I 4. 4
out on the Missouri Pacific near Topeka.
A depot, stock yards, elevator, hotel, and
a $4,000 mill will be erected at once.
According to the report of the grand
master of Odd Fellows of this state there
are 800 lodges of the order in the state
representing membership of 10, $40.
The munifcence of BARRIERS advertise
ments in the University kansan leads one
to suppose that the publishers are carry
ing on little trade ''unsight unseen"
Tests go to show that between forty an d
fifty bushels corn per acre will be the aver.
age for Rice county. 10000 acres yielding
forty bushels means round 1900, 00J
bushels.
The wolves and coyotes of Lane county
will have to look a little out now, The
county commissioners have sworn VEN
geance against them. Their scalps are
worth one dollar.
The university girl at Lawrence is fire.
quently puzzled why the intellectual
young man, who has such great con-
tempt for money, always manages TO ask
her company to free chow
There is danger of the State university
scholars dropping the timehonored custom
of singing college songs. The silence of
the night then would be oppressive indeed
to the hardened people of Lawrence.
Kansas City Star: Margaret Mather
made a great hit at Lawrence in Romeo
and Juliet" There are always enough
university boys and girls in love at Law
renee to furnish an audience for that play.
Pittsburg, Kan, mines sell coal at forty
cents ton. The Smelter says lit is the
only city on the American continent in
which coal can be purchased in any
amount the buyers wish at forty cents a
ton"
Kansas City Star: kindergarten has
just been established at Atchison. The
presumption Is that lt Is sort of auxiliary
to the afternoon whist club, which has
been reorganized for the winter by the
ladies OF that town.
Harper Graphic: Farmers from all sec
lions of the country say their wheat is up
and growing finely. When wheat gets u
good start which the recent soaking rams
guarantee this fall, there is little danger of
II failure in the crop for next year.
The University Kansan is published by
college boys. but they are exemplars
TO the Older Kansas journalists in
the matter of news. The current
number OF the Kansas informs, that the
cat had fit in the drawing class last Mon
day"
The ears OF corn raised in Kansas this
year placed end to end would make girdle
that would go around the world az times.
1t would make a gigantic hammock of 81
cords, that would swing with one end in
Sedgwick and the other over the horn Of
the moon.
a large number of papers find delight in
mentioning the difficulty OF schoolmarm
crossing muddy road. "A rase by any
other name, would not smell as sweet in
this case. In Kansas journalism the
schoolmarm and the muddy crossing are
lnseperable.
Several measured acres of corn have been
husked in Butler county. that have yielded
from 100 to JOS bushels OF corn. \ hundred
bushels TO the acre Will amaze the etfeta
east in the matter of corn, and at seventy
bushels of wheat on one acre they will be
simply araiyzed.-Augusta Journal.
News comes from Modoc that the trouble
was caused by the regular minister circu-
lating a vile, vulgar and vicious report
congregation. The whole town is divided
and all the old women. petticoat men, and
every body IS having a jolly good time.
The |. q. o. F. OF Kansas raised 81, $50. -
for the .tohnstown sufferers. The amount
paid for relief last year was SIS, 1906 -, 10
which should be added the irregular re
liefs, s5.37se4.
The success Of the Kansas state fair at
Topeka last mouth is shown b. the fact
that there is a balance of 81 200 in the
treasury Of the association after paying all
expenses aud expanding s., 80 for perma-
NEXT Improvements.
Anthony Republican: Judge \. r.
Blackburn, travelling freight agent OF the
1 Frisco line, informs us that his road viii
handle thirteen trains OF cattle from
Black burn station, five miles southeast OF
Anthony, within the next two weeks.
There will be from sixteen to eighteen cars
in each train and they viii commence load
ing today"
a single page in single issue Of the
Century taken for advertising, costs 500.
Harper's 800 and other magazines from
$50 10 800. 4 yearly ed Of one column %
the Chicago Tribune costs so 55s for the
lowest. and $500 for the highest rates.
The New York Herald costs 81. 33 for the
lowest, and So go for the highest priced
column. These figures will doubtless
astonish the man who invests $40 and
thinks he is A heavy advertiser bite
water Tribune.
One OF the college students received
very severe injury rhis week which might
easily have been fatal one He and his
chum were goIng.through umbling per-
Torrance in which, with heads as center
and legs as spokes. the performers consti-
tute themselves living when, the hold Of
the other slipping Nation feI! to the