Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-13
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Seeds. Slips, setons. Sprouts. Shoots and sIi.

4 Liuu ID W nave new BLUM ohNS.
The state board of pardons has about
| thirty cases before it.
| The youths of Arkansas City are occu-
| pied. shooting craps.
| The Florence water works is advertised
| to be sold at sheritf's sale.
| The most noticeable part of church
social is Sitting around.
The word 'jag' has reached Emporis
and is applied quite frequently.
The Morton Monitor, in spirit of cha
grin, misspells ct cries consistency"
Pittsburgh denies that it carries bats
liver in its waist coat pocket as tails
| man.
An Abilene citizen recently remarked in
nocently that poll-tax was like paying for
a dead horse.
A Leavenworth electric light company
now offers to light the city for SIS per
light per year.
The Newton National bank has pur-
chased the stock and assets Of the German
National bank.
It's a shame Kansas poets don't take
Horace's advice and pickle their produc-
lions for nine years.
1t is difficult to find which is the cause
of the most profanity in kansas-a postof-
flee or poison Ivy vine.
The number of rattles on the snake in
no wise signifies the drinks OF whisky to
be taken by the bitten.
One of the Wellington papers calls
mixture of chiggers, sweat, tennis and ice
cream fete champetre.
Notwithstanding the game law the
moguls of Kansas towns manage to get
prairie chicken once week.
Sch Cd he oil hoc
taken the place of BLACK bass" and is
now all the fad in Ell Dorado.
The hot weather and cool, refreshing
sleep have prevented Abilene police from
making single arrest this week.
The citizens of Topeka occasionally let
up cussing back at the street car drivers
long enough 10 let them get drunk.
1t would be dreadful calamity to the
local reporters on the Wellington papers
if the Big Six band should collapse.
At least half the men under % in Kan
sas think to themselves that with training
they could knock out the Beanville brulser.
They can tell Munkacsky from millet
out in Pratt, but the distinction Of corn
stalk from cottonwood tree deiies them.
John Eben, a bus driver and night mail
carrier at Lawrence, was arrested yester-
day for robbing the mails OF packages OF
merchandise.
The Atchison Patriot, which has been in
the hands of a receiver for several weeks,
was purchased yesterday at public sale by
Ii. Clay Park for -, 49,
Walker Megcham and Harvey Potter,
representative colored men, will organize
dime savings bank at AtchiSon, the
directors to be colored men.
The editor of the Cedar Vale Star says
it's no trick to make living at tue news
paper business in Kansas, if your wife
does her duty in the garden.
1t has not been denied that distin-
guished lady going down Kansas avenue
with hornette, the other day, frightened
all The Topekans Oft one side the street.
Since an ordinance was passed in FL Do
RADIO requesting the boys 10 keep off the
street at s p. H., and now the boys out of
sheer Obstinacy manage to bum" till T.
A "chigger party" was an attraction i'll
Ell Dorado Wednesday evening 1t is not
known whether the name hints at the
discrImitiveness OF the refreshments or
not.
The greatest embarrassment to the edi-
tor of ID weekly paper Ill a small commun-
ity, is to fall In love and have his SUBJ
scribers ScrutIniZe and find erotic utter
anceS
A Clay Center undertaker's stock of
collins is to be sold at auction. and the
constable advertises: eff any one is in need
of coffin. now is the time TO buy it,
State Journal.
Exchange poetry:
The man who cheats the printer
Out of single cent,
Will never reach the heavenly land
Where good Elijah went.
Free Press: The cucumber-dainty
thing-is in market. 1t is a second cousin
to the green apple in actions. While it is
not as large as an elephant or lion it is
powerful demorallzer of the human fam
lily.
During a quarrel over the ownership of
some grape vines G. NJ. Middleton, a we'll
TODD farmer near Preston, was shot and
instantly killed by Thomas Martin, Mar
tin gave himself up and claims self de-
Tense.
Usage City Free Press, supplicatingly:
1t is about time aspirants for county Of
fees were bringing themselves to the front
by handing in their announcements. 1t
will cost no more now than the day before
the election.
L. j. Adkisson, whose farm is north of
Joppa harvested his wheat in the first
days of June and listed torn on the stub
bic ground, finishing up about the 18th,
and had corn up on the 21st sufficiently
high to be seen across a ten-acre field
Attica Advocate.
The wheat in this immediate neighbor-
hood is about all cut, and the oat harvest
has commenced. In some parts of the
county we learn that wheat is actually suf
ferIng for want of machines and men to
cut it, and farmers have been compelled
to buy binders and headers in order to save
their grain. No such crop was known |
here, and plenty reigneth in the land
Sterling Bulletin.
An interesting item and a compliment
for Jim: Some time ago one of Jim Rae's |
bantam chickens got sick and would not |
eat Its crop was full and hard. Jim cut |
it open, cleaned and rinsed it out and |
sewed it up again. He bad no sooner |
finished the stitching than the chicken |
went to eating and is now as well as any |
of the others. Jim is quite chicken sur |
geon.-Delphos Republican.
When the boys in Atchison take dis
like to 8 comrade they bump" him, as
they say. They tie his hands and feet and |
half a dozen boys pick him up and bump /
him against a telephone pole This is
called dumping" and it is administered |
to boys who steal marbles OK tattle about |
their chums. A very severe case Of
dumping" took place in West Atchison |
yesterday and several boys are liable 70 be
arrested.
In Santa Fe coach: Karl Karl mind, |
your hat will be blown of II you lean 50
far out OF the carriage" Paterfamilias |
quickly suatching the hat from the head
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