Wichita eagle., 1889-12-06
suNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and slis.

Success in the poultry line depends a
good deal on Growing.
Congressman Perkins, Morrill,, Kelly
! and Funston. of Kansas, voted for Reed
| for speaker.
INDECENT exchange: Oats taken on SUBJ
scription. We must have food Tor our
| office dog.
Diphtheria has almost entirely disap-
been reopened.
There are only four inmates in the Sum
ner county aims house. The rest of them
are in Oklahoma.
He is now wondering if his darling Eve
lima means to perpetrate another one Of
those tides, again, this Christmas.
Owing to the crowded condition of the
Soldiers home at Leavenworth, no more
members will be received until further
notice.
The Voice of the People, of Kingman
county has become dumb, but vox
populi is still alive, as Democratic candi-
dates know.
When Topeka woman wants to do
something real mean to another one, she
gets her hired girl to leave the day before
the luncheon.
Wellington has a seven-year-old boot
logger. While his boots are not big
enough, he can rustic a customer bottle
OF beer in jitfy.
Atchison Globe: Whenever a woman gets
new bonnet or new cloak, she i'm
mediately recollects that she has few
calls she must make.
The boys at Geuda play humble peg on
the back pew at church, and some of the
members are dreadfully shocked. This is
a Ca phoro ~ or
Over SIS, 900 has been paid out for wheat
by the 1Etna mills of Wellington in the
last few weeks and the marriage craze
goes on undated in that vicinity.
Chas. S. Martin, of Kansas, has been APP
pointed one of the reading clerks of the
house. This reminds lots of kansans that
they never thought of that place being
open.
A man in Dokata started to neighbours
to borrow a newspaper and on his way
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed. This is for the use of Kansas eX-
changes.
Gilmore has established it beyond
doubt in Kansas, that Johnny Get Your
Gun" and Where did You Get that
Hat" are purely classical master pieces
in the tone-art.
An Atchison girl is to give ''vendu
w "A
and the invited guests are trying to decide
among themselves whether they are ex-
pected to bring any victuals or not
A girl out in Smith county won $50 by
husking and cribbing sixty bushels of corn
in five hours The swain who kisses those
hands has his glass eye on love and the
good one on business.
There is woman in Atchison who be-
lieves in lodges. Her husband probably
owns a meerschaum pipe and blows his
smoke at the rich heavy hangings in the
parlor when at home.
A white woman of Atchison recently at
tempted to drown herself in the river, but
was rescued by colored man named
Martin. Being rescued must have been
humiliating, especially when by dusky
hero.
Four boys by the name of Matthews, in
Smith county, offer to bet 500 to $500 that
they can husk and crib 500 bushels of corn
day. They have TWO sisters whom they
offer to bet can husk 260 bushels day and
put it in the crib.
A 100000 mill for the manufacture of
sugar. salt and paper is now being built
in Arkalon, Kansas For three months it
will makes sugar, then work up the cane
chips into paper. and the rest OF the time
will turn out bushels and bushels of salt
In the cases of cruelty in Kansas for the
past twenty years, the wives were guilty
l ,00S times and husbands 1,105 The diff
ference of 81 IN favor of the husbands in
point of numbers looks very much like the
men in this state were III the habit of get
ting in the last word, occasionally.
Senator ingalls, told reporter at Atchi-
son that none of the stories started on him |
while in Topeka were true. 1t is not |
known just exactly what the senator |
meant. but it is probable that he implied |
that they always waited till he got away
before they spread an the truth.
The last legislature, in the name of |
patriotism, gave an appropriation of $780,
200 for useless building for old soldier
at Ellsworth. The city of Els
worth now refuses to pay certain bills con-
racted by the local executive committee
that had charge of the first meeting in the
hall.
A farmers alliance at Patterson, Kan,
has adopted the following, which is logic
what is logic; ''Be it resolved. that owing
20 the excessive rates of freight charged by
'ailroads on corn and coal. that we believe
t cheaper to burn corn than coal And
We recommend to our members that they
BURN corn instead of coal and thereby save