Wichita eagle., 1889-07-26
sUNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and sss

AhO aud HOUR I'LL NoAen SooseV
burned Monday.
Mr.. Cabbage arises and addresses TIT
chair, Hear. heart
The Kansas pension Office disbursed
81, 12l, OO3.51 in June.
The X. c. Star thinks the Emporia post
Office Is sure hoodoo.
a larger percentage of the wheat croI
than usual was stacked this year.
The feeling is increasing over the state
for the humiliation Of the German carp.
Two Wichita young men are entertain
ing sports of Atchison with sparring
matches.
A Kansas illustration of 'fate" the corn
stalk that outgrows the rect OF the stalk:
full two feet.
The Kansas assembly of the Knights Of
Labor will convene in Leavenworth August
and inclusive.
The Cottonwood river is about the only
thing that isn't quiet up in Lyon county
except the frogs.
By the number of scraps that happier
daily at Leavenworth they must be used
as sort of appetiZers.
A Kansas argument: B-''Whose horse
IS this on my garden" A-"W hose chick
ems are on my lawn"
Alex Butts is thought to use Don Quix
ote and a cocktail as stimulants when nc
gets up his kansas Notes"
a large number of Atchison people are
said to call out time" between numbers
at rluslcales from force OF habit.
Cora BritZinghoffer. who fatally shot
! herself near Eureka Monday, was buried
at Howard at o'clock yesterday.
What is the peculiar species of mind that
class OF citizens who invariably lariate
their cows on the street possess?
| The state agricultural department has
| received a sheaf of oats from Saline cOun-
tyt he straw of which is six feet long.
| A Topeka druggist has been arrested and
! placed under $1,000 bonds for selling
Cherry bitters," particularly the biUters.
A Kansas farmer cannot expect his
paper 10 go into ecstacieS over his big
potatoes unless he brings peck along to
prove 1t.
Some strawberry plants down in Cowley
county demand recognition from the fact
that they have increase twenty fold since
last spring.
The contract for standard furniture for
the Fort Scott public building has been
awarded to the Union School Furnishing
company of Battle Creek, Mich, for S4S9.
A number of Winfield young men are
talking of organizing lyceum or literary
society for the consideration of political
and economic questions. Six ounce gloves
will be provided.
"A pointer to the ladies': Mr.. Clark. the
new undertaken is a married man. Local
in Atchison Patriot. Or, in other words,
girls, you can't get buried any che aper by
being sweet on him.
1t is difficult to meet Kansas man who
can't go you one better. If you hang a
copy of Titan or a Horace Vernet, al
most all your travelled acquaintance will
unfailingly have seen the original some
where back east"
Considerable excitement is created in
the neighborhood of the Sac and Fox In
dian reservation on the Kansas and Ne
braska line because of depredations COM
mitted by highwaymen who take refuge
III the reservation.
I, A few days ago Prof Snow, of Lawrence,
shipped forty five consignments of diseased
chinch bugs to farmers in eight different
states, as an experiment TO determine the
practical utility of the white fungus for
destroying healthy bugs"
COwley county watermelons. it is said,
are just beginning to come upon the mar
ket. Heretofore the vines have grown so
fast under the vivifying influence of the
frequent showers that they have worn the
melons out dragging them around.
Topeka has a wagon load of confiscated
whisky in the basement of her city prison
and the council doesn't know what to do
with it, and in the meanwhile they are
suffering under the suspicion from the cit
liens, that their inactiOn in the matter is
a blind.
ElDorado Times: At the Missouri Pa
citic depot today was ''cow puncher" so
hilariOusly happy from the effect of 'red
liquor" that he insisted on shaking hands
with all who were on the platform The
fellows didn't care to refuse on account of
the small arsenal that he wore at his belt.
Terry Eye: "All candidates reading this
item will consider it means them: We are
the daddy of bouncing girl baby, and
we need baby buggy, cradle and baby
jumper. Let the first man who wishes TO
be successful send either of the articles
above mentioned to The Eye office, Terry
town, Kan"
Usage City People: Our farmers must
feel pretty confident that there will be a
good corn crop from the way they are
bringing in their corn this week. Asher
Adams bought seventv-five loads yester-
day and the elevator is crowded today
with wagons. The prices paid today are
% cents for mixed and "a cents for clear
white.
Fort Scott Monitor: 1t is stated that
the electric light company will offer to
give the city twenty arc lighes at Sc 30 per
month per light, lit until | o'clock, which
would cost an aggregate of S1,5S0 per an
mum. Assuming that the city can afford
to invest 81. 900 per annum in light, this
would leave s., $50 to be used in lighting
with gas, which, at SIS per post, would
give 14O gas posts.
Emporia Republican; Two Hiawatha
men attempted to fight French duel the
other day. They got along very well till
the sixth round, when one accidentally
'pinked" the other in the shoulder. This
raised the latter's ire, and throwing away
his gun he walked into his opponent with
his fists and was proceeding to make the
affair serious, when friends interposed.
Such an unfortunate ending to pleasant
occasion is greatly regretted by all.
A Ford county paper comes to the front
with story about one Mr.. Sternburg,
citizen and farmer of that part of Kansas,
who made last year $4,000 from twenty
acres of waterrnelons. The melons were
not sold nor eaten. They were simply con-
verted into vinegar by a process known to
Sternberg The seed were sold for 800
A thousand barrels of vinegar were made
from the melons which.sold for $40 bar
rel. The expenses all told did not exceed
s., 500
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