Wichita eagle., 1889-10-26
suNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds, Slips. sciOas. Sprouts. Shoots and slis

SUNFLowER SHADOWINGS.
Seeds, Slips, sciOns, Sprouts. snoots and slisers
| Nine. .Ienness Miller is dressing III
| Lawrence this week in her own plain, un-
| padded style
Kansas is the only state in the Unior
which received premium for her agricul
tural report at the Paris exposition.
It is the ten cent man who does moi
know what to do with dollar. The dol.
| lar man knows what to do with the dimes
though.
Pittsburg. Kan, last year mined ga ;,
600. 600 worth OF lead, 1t looks like kansa:
| was doing little something else besides
raising corn.
The Lawrence y. N. C. A. will celebrate
their seventh anniversary tomorrow. Rev
Cromer, of Kansas City, No., VIII deliver
the address.
The seven days rain we had last week
played the duece with the roads but II wa:
worth thousands of dollars to the vas1
wheat fields of Pratt cOuny.-Pratt lie
publican.
The Champion says the Atchisor
masons sent TO New Mexico for two buck.
ing rams for special services friday nlgn'
must have had some hard cases TO brln.
Alex Butts saws: More silk has beer
made this season at the station AT yea
body than any year since its establish
ment. Even the worms IN Kansas are get
ting move on them"
Down here the Republicans have found
it all rain and mud IN their attempts &c
canvass the county. 1t will be all snow
for the Democrats about November IL
Sumner cOunty.-Press.
A white quail was killed by W. w
Brown, of Eagle township, this week and
presented to John Dohrer and Roll b.
Clark who at once sent it to Snow hail
State university, Lawrence. - Barber
County Index.
Salinas voting population shows well
for city of her size. Thirteen hundred
and fifty names were on the registration
books at o'clock Wednesday evening.
This $50 more than registered at the spring
election
OF the ninety-one persons employed al
the state house at Topeka, including the
state officers, heads of departments, and
iusubordinate positions, thirty-nine are
ex-union soldiers, forty civilians, and
twelve women.
The $500 prize for the best one dozen
ears of corn, at the st. Joe exposition, was
awarded to Adam Rankin. OF Olathe,
Kan. He had over two hundred competl-
tors. We won our wager that Kansas
man would win the prize.
Topeka State Journal: The young ladies
of Bethany college are raising a fund OF
$50 to purchase memorial communion
service for Christ's hospital. one of the in
situations maintained largely by the eff
forts of the late Bishop Vail
Now we want some weather profit to
a = har.
was less rainfall in this October than for
any October in ten years.-Wellingion
Press. What for? to prove him liar!
Where've you been the past ten days?
The Presbyterian church of thi, city
will be rededlcated next Sunday morning
at II o'clock. Rev. 5. B. Fleming of
Wichita, state superintendent OF missions,
will deliver the sermon and rededicate the
house to the service and worship OF God
Harper Graphic.
The most economical man in the city is
said to "A party one VINO would not send a
telegram costing 40 cents when mem Der
of his family died. but said he would send
a postal card and have the funeral wait.
He could well afford TO send the telegram.
-Atchison Champion.
The Star announces the prospect OF an
other sugar factory ut Conway Springs by
next seasons cane crop. The Wellington
Press thinks IF that should materaiiZe
somebody will have to hold old man Cain
down" Our notion Is if it is SO good
many more will have TO 90 to raising cane.
Probably the most extensive wheat
grower in this portion or Kansas Is our
townsman, Mr.. L +. Simpson. He has
planted already over 4 UG0 acres In wheat
and expects to plant more before the sea-
son is over. This is the kind of farming
- -r.vr. vein tD-nt
Republican.
Our worthy postmaster, John Wright.
on Thursday presented us with twig
from one OF his cherry tress that was as
full of blossoms as it could possibly be.
This the second time his tress have been
out in blossom this season.
Paragraph. Did he use Ratchet to chop
the twig from the tree? But no matter;
guess he was Wright about it.
A swindler is work ing the farmers in the
states this way: He gives the farmer a
machine for tying shocks, Tor which the
farmer signs receipt, the large letters OF
which show one niachIne free, and the
small letters beneath proves to be an order
for one gross and promise 10 pay S2S5.
The agreement is discounted at the first
bank and nothing remains for the victim
to do but pay 1t.
In one of the southwestern counties a
candidate for a certain Office carries
around with him letter purporting to be
from his opponents former home IN an
other county in which it is alleged that be
is guilty of some grave offense against the
law and good morals. The accused denies
the allegation as false, the letter IA base
"purgery," whatever that is, and the al
legator "A constituencies liar. such IS poll
tics in the far west.
An exchange says that every newspaper
in the state should publish the fact that
burnt corn is cure for hog cholera. 1t
was first discovered by the burning of
pile of corn belonging to distiiiery at
Peoria 1t was thrown to the hogs and
readily eaten by them. Before that time
number had been dying each day with the
cholera, but the disease Immediately dis
appeared The remedy Is SO simple that it
can be easily tried Wood charcoal has
the same effect as the charred corn.
4 graphic account was given by Salina
lady yesterday of terrible conflict
with au Infatuated bull north of shady
Bend in Lincoln county last week. The
person in the conflict was a Mr.. Adam
Shrader He was milking iii the cow yard
Some distance away WAS 3 tnree-year-
old bull that had up to this time appeared
to be perfectly harmless. Shrader had tied
u red handkerchief around his neck as the
day was chilly.
The bull gave no warning OF his APP
proach and the first Shrader knew Of it he
was terribly gored He fought the infur-
lated beast with the efforts born Of the
moment, and in the contest somehow bit
four inches of the bulls tongue OF. Help
came in time to save Shrader's life, but he
had to be taken from the yard nearly dead.
Salina Republican.
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