Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-15
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Seeds, Slips. seions, Sprouts. Shoots and siiss

| SONFLOW LII SdAOOWlNCS.
Seeds Slips, seions, Sprouts, Shoots and si;ysrs.
| Captain J. w. Beeman, treasurer OF
| Osborne county, is IS. 600 short In his &C
counts.
! Rev. l.. Pomeroy. OF Muscotah, brother
of ex-senator Pomeroy, died at that place
| October 5.
| Thirteen carloads OF sweet potatoes have
| been shipped from Garden City to Denver
| in the last two weeks.
There are one or two papers IN Kansas
yet. which have not announced that the
days are getting shorter.
| The Atchison Globe defines great man
| as one who keeps pegging away whether
| things are pleasant OF unpleasant.
| The Methodist church at Emporia is be-
| ing renovated with water and mop. This
does not extend 10 the congregation.
An effort is being made by the twelve
| trades unions at Topeka TO give grand
midwinter festival and exposition IN that
city.
The Republican party is looking up, in
| Waubdunsee county. There Is only one
man on the county ticket who is less than
six feet high.
The Atchison G A. r. post. No. %. has
out of regard for the memory OF the es-
teemed ex-governor.
Greeley county has built over dozen
good school houses this fall, and although
only year old has thirty school districts
in good working order.
The Emporia News depicts a scene OF
Providence smiling on race course. IL IS
great pity Rembrandt is not alive to
seize upon the suggestion.
C. o. French, judge of the Sixth judicial
district, embracing Linn. Bourbon and
Crawford counties, has forwarded his
resignation to the governor.
4 Young lady lief in Topeka is suppos-
ed to be insane because she stole three
gross of diaper pins. but she may have the
relief of Stevens county in mind.
This is the season of the year when
squads of sweet and buoyant girls prone
made from three to six abreast and take up
all the sidewalk. says the Latham Signal
B. F. Simpson is preparing memorial
address on the late Ex-Governor Martin,
te be delivered before the State Historical
society at its annual meeting in next jan
uary.
The Leoti Transcript remarks that those
fellows with the lame arms and the weak
backs and hopety-e-ty-go fetch-e-ty walks
were not born that way. The gymnasium
is in full blast.
When solicitor for an impecunious
church pokes greasy looking subscription
book under your nose nearly every other
day, the temp alton to be Stiagy is almost
lrreslstlbe.-E.X.
The grand ball" in Hoover's hall last
"Wednesday night, says the Oxford Mock
ing Bird, was surely a f-lZ-Z-l-e. Not
enough dancers We're there to form one set
and there was no dancing.
The sun is moving south and the shadow
On the north side of the house is rapidly
growing longer.-Fredonia Citizen. MrY
Gilmore doesn't say so, but the same thing
occurred about this time last year.
An observer says that nowadays young
men of the period don't go down on their
knees in nervous agony to their future
wives. They hold solitaire diamond ring
above their heads and the girls jump for
it.
From all over the country comes the
cheering news that wheat is up and is
making a good stand. With good start
failure of the wheat crop in Kansas is
phenomena never even witnessed by the
oldest inhabitant.
In the vicinity of Atlanta five sorghum
mills are running. That is the way to de-
moralize the sugar trust. Home made
sugar and moiasses will beat all the COM
binations of capital and corporations
Winfield Tribune.
The Emporia Canning company have
shipped four car loads of goods to Saljna
during the past week. This is a very
great compliment to the capacity of the
epicures there. but the item itself is slam
at Salinas industries.
The Kansas Democrat offers a years
subscription free TO any man if Foraker is
elected in Ohio, provided that in the event
of CampbelPs election the man paw 50 for
the subscription. 1t will turn out that the
Democrat was ''fooln.'"
Lawrence Tribune: Now comes the Kan
sas City Times and declares that the corn
crop of Missouri is larger than that of
Kansas. Some of these days that paper
will be claiming Missouri as the home of
John Brown and Jim Lane.
The latest agricultural report gives Kan
SaS the highest average in wheat, is 4
bushels per acre. Kansas has received so
many f1atrering distinctions of late that an
appointment from the present administra-
ton would almost go unnoticed.
The enrolment this year at the Kansas
State Agricultural college is the largest in
the history of the institution. There are
397 present as against 333 In 1883, 81 in
1887, and 1868 in 1856. The present enroll
ment consists of 254 males and 143 females.
Addison and WASHINGTON Irving are
very popular in Topeka, so much so that
somebody stole the Spectator" and
"Geoffrey Crayon." You wouldn't think a
Topeka man had anything to do with
these models. should you judge by his Ian
guage.
A girl who had got tired of single bles-
sedness wrote to her intended as follows
Dear Jim: cum rite off if you are COM
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shall hav him and he hugs and kisses so
much that l can't hold out any longer. y
Exchange.
Barber county has never asked outside
aid and it has never failed to raise enough
for home consumption. There has not
been year since 1850 that the county has
not sold half million dollars worth of
cattle. And a man can get the best kind
OF farm in Barber county for so an acre.
1t don't pay to get drunk and fight down
in Elk City. Two parties down there in
dulged III that pastime week or SO since
and one was fined so and costs, and in de-
fault of payment was committed to the
county jail. The other one was sentenced
to sixty days in jail and to pay the costs of
suit.
The Rogers outfit of boring artesian
wells passed through this place on Wednes-
day last on its way TO johnson City. where
the parties have a contract to bore a pros
pect we'll This outfit put down a well $50
feet on the Wichita addition 70 Meade
Center, and water flowed eight feet high
for one hour, when it lowered to the level
of the surface of the ground. II is to be
hoped that johnson City viii have better
luck and obtain regular gusher-U lysses
Sir Edwin Arnold has made himself
very unpopular in Kansas City by saying