Wichita eagle., 1889-07-16
sUNFLowER sHADOwINGs.
'eds. Slips. scions, Sprouts, Shoots and slivers.

mountains.
A Salina newspaper man won q butter
milk drinking match.
The commissioners of Atchison county
want 500 900 court house.
Eminence celebrated Wednesday as the
county seat of Garfield county.
There are Just fifteen libel suits pending
against newspaper men in the state.
Somebody might offer prize for a new
witticlsm to be used in birth notices.
The caterpillar has tackled Kansas cot
tonwood trees The caterpillar is fool.
People don't stop to take out flies OF
pieces OF the soda fountain this weather.
1t took 10000 pounds of Irvine to en-
brace the wheat crop OF Mcpherson county.
This is splendid weather for seances, and
Topeka is having a series OF splrltualistlc
sutfocations.
Wouldn't gigantic thermometer be a
| suggestive sign for an ice cream parlor
this weather.
1t is said one of the cutest teachers in
Kansas is l2-year-Old maiden, who has
been teaching year.
1t has been decided to ship the Salina
man VINO wants to fight Sullivan out to
Larned mineral baths.
Junction City's population was increased
| by tive very small, but pretty infants,
Fourth of July week.
When some of these bombastic centen-
NAL descriptions come out. wonder if the
Bastlle isn't sorry IL ever fell.
| Nothing melts a Garden City girls heart
| SO much as q ride on the lrrIgatlng ditch
with light guitar and young man.
| A new time schedule is to go into effect
on the Santa Fe soon, and it is said there
| ha ryyn fhr|, traI a DOLL
1t was reported that Neosho Falls had
| been quarantined, and that no further
communication would be allowed with the
| burg.
| Prof E. NJ. Shelton, of the Kansas Agri-
cultural College has produced variety of
| wheat which yields forty-seven bushels to
| the acre.
Il is sincerely the Monsieur F'irman, our
representative in Paris does not find his
quarters uncomfortable or that s.. 900 bur-
densome.
The immense crops have crowded the
sunllowers off their accustomed fields this
summer, but they are not in the soup by
any means.
The contracts have been let for the audi
forum, DINING hall and five cottages for
the u. a. X. cncampment grounds at Ellis
worth for Sl5G54.
A Wellington man has crotchet that
he Is a hunk o ice, and his friends are all
anxious to know how he got 1t. he Is the
only comfortable man in town.
The single tax club of Topeka has COM
menced parliamentary discussion, and the
military organizations have been ordered
to have themselves in readiness.
A popular style of summering among
kansans IS to leave the state in all its
beauty about June LIST, and swim back in
perspiratlon in the middle of July.
Not to be credited to the EAGLE: The
catfish around Blue Rapids are in the
habit of jumping out of the water and
Shaping anglers in the face with their tails.
1t is now remored that the vein OF coal
discovered at Topeka has turned out to be
huge lump of profanity which was
hurled at the last legislature and had set
tied.
The charge against Topeka iceman
that his scales were two pounds off was
false. The two pounds played Niagara
Falls between the ice wagon and the re-
frigerator.
Clay Center Times: The express receipts
at Haddam one day last week were thir-
teen kegs of beer, a keg of red liquor and
pig What, in the name of the necessi-
ties of life, was the pig for?
Hiawatha Journal: Coal in paying
quantities was found in the well dug near
the brick yard south of town, at a depth Of
twenty sixs feet. The brick makers say
that the clay they found there is superior
to anything they have ever seen anywhere
else.
They evidently haven't heard of that
snowy growth on the chinch bug up near
Wakefield, as correspondent in the Clay
Center Times says several farmers have
rod al G N no
Gus chinch bugs they contain, and which
are now migrating TO the adjoining corn
fields.
Evidently fabrication of the Ell Dorado
Republican,: The latest Kansas society
fad Is an ''onion party" Six girls stand
in a row. while one bites a small chunk
out of an onion, and young man pays
ten cents for a guess as to which one it is.
Ii he guesses right he gets to kiss the other
five; but if he doesn't he is only allowed
to kiss the one with the scented breath.
Hadji Hassein Ghooly Khan
Picked up his grip and away he RAIN.
We Khan not see why Hassein Ghooly
Should be so very exceedingly mhuley.
Perhaps his thoughts of home were har-
rassein
The tender heart of Hadji Hassein.
When fled this sensitive Persian MANI
Why of course it was after TIE he ran.
X. c. Globe.
Romance in the northern part of the
state:
Wanted - Housekeeper by widower;
young widow preferred without incum
brance. Address, stating age, wages, etc,
q. E., box 493, Osborne, Kan"
A representative Salina beauty, aged 81,
respectfully offers her services. Bright,
viYacious and interesting. Am SO well
fixed in this world 8 goods that / will work
for board and clothes. Address, Widow"
care Republican.
A clover lie from the Belleville Demo-
crat: j. L Watkins brought us sample
of the clover raised on his lots in the south
part of town, and it beats anything yet
produced in Kansas. We do not like to
give the exact measurement for fear that
some one will accuse us OF handling the
truth carelessIy. The tallest man in
Belleville had to stand on high stool to
see the clover blossoms on top. Matt said
he had some clover that was better than
the sample he brought in.
A Topeka negro refused Thursday to
pay his fare on the street car. he cuffed
the conductor and thumped the police man
the dome of the state house, where the
officers were compelled to climb to secure
his arrest.
Topeka wants TO be the electric city of
the world, simply because 1t has the cleo
trio hair-brush aud motor line.
The Leavenworth papers:
Bludl Bud!
The Garden City Herald heaves the fol-
lowing sigh OF mingled vengence and sat-
isfaction: The libel case against the editor