Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-20
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| Lyons wants carpenters.
Nature is great equalizer. If she wasn't
Kansas Watermelons would burst.
! George Tarbell, of Emporia, was drown
ed yesterday while fishing in the Neosho
| river.
| An Atchison widow makes $12 month
baking bread for the "Woman's Ex-
change"
An Ellsworth paper says local dramat-
ic club gave an entertainment Greece-Ro-
| man style.
There is drayman at Ell Dorado that
the citizens of that place haven't seen
awke since April.
This lingering silence of the Salina pa
pers on the wholesale grocery house is
growing oppressive.
The moon is the ouly thing in Kansas
that can legally stay out late nights and
get full. says the Midnight Muser.
If you are a sensitive, backward poet
and are charv Of submitting your lines,
| dedicate them to the editor and you're all
right
You can "cuss" anything and everybody
at Winfield ball game, but anywhere
else it is more discreet to do 1t lnau0lbly
in that town
WANTED-About $500 men over six and
one-half feet high to husk the corn in Ellis
worth county this fall. None but robust,
healthy men need apply.
A man who can light a match on a
windy day is known in Kingman as an
''Irishman;" but if it is the last match he
has, he is then ''loo-loo."
They have begun arresting boys for
jumping off and on moving trains at Ar
kansas City, and now all the boys promise
to be arrested in a weeks time.
A Wellington boy objected to being a
Brown-Sequard victim and having jack
rabbit injected into him, "'cause he was
scared of dogs enough already"
Two tramps named Martin and Black
have been bound over to the grand jury at
Fredonia for breaking the seal of Frisco
car at Neodesha and stealing goods there
from.
Occulsts say that the habit of looking
at distant objects improves the eyeslght.
That's what we attribute our excellent
eyesight to-looking for remittances Of old
subscription accounts such long way off.
Sol. Miller.
Barton County Democrat: The farmers
up in the northern part of Barton county
do not fool around selling load of wheat
at time, but in car loads. 1t is nothing
uncommon to hear of a man who has
three to six thousand bushels of wheat.
Atchison Globe: We are apt to give ia
cob great credit for having served fourteen
years for Rachel, but if history were i'm
partial it would probably show that she
served him for the rest of her life, and yet
she was meyer called a heroine.
"Do the spirits of the dead recognize one
another in heaven?" was the text at a Sa-
lima church Sunday night, and the two
h yy ,yad Nv,
crowd of death-fearing love-sck lads and
lasses, who listened attentively all
through.
Most happy is the man, and ne'er upon
the sherltf's docket, who always has a lit
tie change within his trausers pocket.
And SO the signal service man, a pauper
can be never, for in the elements he finds
a little change forever.-Midnigh Muser
in Champion.
Homer Heustis, son of f. Heustis,
young man 25 years old, who was foreman
in constructing a railroad in Mexico, was
shot 10y a Spaniard. Homer was Il prom
Using man of moral habits. His par
ents who reside miles east of Larn-
ed, are almost crazy learning Of their dear
sons death.
Minneapolis Messenger: Whenever you
find an editorial III a Kansas paper which
contains the word "environmentn you can
bet your boots the editor graduated at the
Kansas university. Environment" is one
of the university specialties. They did not
invent the word, but they have worked it
SO hard that 1T stays with the graduate
through lie.
Mrs. DR.. Stormont, of Topeka, has given
the Topeka city library 5000 to be placed
in fund to be known as the "Stormont
Book Fund" The interest on this will be
used for the purchase of books. Barney
Lantry & Sons, of Strong City, gave $1,000
to be known as the "B. Lantry & Sons
Rock fund" Mrs. Stormont recently gave
s., 900 to the state library.
Five cities in Kansas are now under the
government of women. Five women are
now serving as mayors and twenty-five are
on city councils. Three are performing
the difficult duties of police Judge A
dozen women are county superintendent
of public instruction, and several are act
ing as city clerk or treasurer. In addition
to these large number probably 200, are
serving on school boards.
Dighton Herald One Of Ness City's
enterprising citizens was let out of the
penitentiary one day last week, and upon
the second day of his release he announced
himself as Republican candidate for
register of deeds, the best office in the
county. His hair may be little slow in
or ont hut it will ba all RIGHT nv