Wichita eagle., 1889-11-22
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| The Norton Monitor has changed its
base of operations to Redheld.
A plaster cast of the bust of John Brown
| has been presented to the State Historical
society.
| Marion county will celebrate her quarter
centennial anniversary on the Fourth of
July, 1890.
| A colored man named Willis Blackwell
| died at Great Bend on the 18th Instant,
aged ia years and months.
The Winfield Courier candidly admits
that blind man and little boy were
working the city yesterday.
The perennial onslaught of youngsters
for picture-cards and almanacs is usually
intensified about this time OF year.
What with the chicken pox and climb
ing to the top of the new court house the
Richfield small boy is pretty well occupied.
None of the papers have seen fit to an
nounee that the vertebrate OF summer
is disabled, so far, and it is almost Decent
Der.
The Freeport Leader furnishes the in
formation that Kansas has 1,6O $50 hogs,
not counting those who refuse to take their
home paper.
With good creamery, a first class -four
ing MILL an excellent hotel, a brass band.
ETC., Cunningham will surely come TO the
front, the Herald thinks.
When the man is right and the woman
can't talk back because she knows he Is
right. she cries Then the man has TO
apologize for being right.
Atchison Globe: Whenever an Emporia
woman wants to create sensation she
learns new way of cutting sandwiches
and invites the neighborhood in to tea.
A grain elevator collapsed at Winfield
Tuesday evening from being overloaded.
But Kansas elevators, like truth. crushed
to earth Will rise again, and this will be
rebuilt.
Springfield Republican,: The tie in the
vote for county clerk in Grant county,
was decided by lot, in favor of the Demo-
crat candidate. A "tie" has some connec-
lions with strings"
A masquerade ball is to be the leading
attraction at Harper Thanksgiving even
men have decided to impersonate tramp.
1t is so practicable, you know.
Mr.. Morrison, farmer living near Dam
vile, reports yield of 500 bushels of pota-
toes from two acres At this rate with
potatoes at the present price. 100 acres
would yield crop worth $500.
A Chicago society lady appeared at the
theater at Atchison recently. hatless. with
diamonds in her hair, and there was one
man in the audience Immediately in front
of her who knew what the plot OF the play
was.
Kansas City Star: When Senator In
gals addresses the Teachers association
at Topeka on the evening of December q,
General Rice will probably expect him TO
state where he stands on the question or
uniformity of text books.
A man in Topeka holds the Louisiana
lottery ticket numbered next one that calls
for $4,000. The lottery company should
be notified of the overcrowded condition OF
the insane asylum at Topeka, and see to 1T
that this doesn't happen again.
A merchant at Cottonwood Falls re-
ceived a car load of wagons from Toledo,
Ohio; the freight from that place to Kan
sas City was $40. 50. the distance 900 miles,
and from Kansas City to Cottonwood
Falls, las miles, the freight on the same
was $1O5.2O Now he wants somebody to
rise and explain.
ElDorado Democrat: A few years ago
the editor OF this paper loaded car with
household goods and horses at Dixon, sew
en- miles north of ElDorado. and pulled his
freight west to Lane county. Lane coun-
ty had no railroad, SO the car was billed TO
Cimarron fifty miles south. (Thus ends
the first chapter.) Three years and eight
months elapsed. with the attendant ups
and downs more downs than ups. how
ever Like the prodigal we concluded to
return home. Lane county now had
branch of the Santa Fe road and Dixon
had been snuffed out. We again ordered
a car. a combination car for household
goods and stock, and remarkable to say,
the same identical, number 500. was side
tracked for our return trip. We returned.
end of second chapter) Before closing it
might be well to remark that on going
west we had five horses in the car, but re-
turning we only had one-the extra space
being filled with solid chunks of expe-
ripnca