Wichita eagle., 1889-12-17
sUNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds Slips. soions. Sprouts. Shoots and Silver

Seeds Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and Slivsrs.
behind in cent pieces. The pressure will
let up in February.
Jewell county claims to be the banner
corn county of the state this year.
ST. John thanks God that he belongs to
no political party. but it is very doubtful
if God ever hears such men as st. John.
The Atchison Globe thinks that next to
an intellectual woman, the coldest thing
IN winter is stove that has no ire IN it.
Garden City has sixteen applicants for
the postoffice, and not more than fourteen
of these are personal friends of Harrison's
Des Moines capitalists have paid $4,000
for the Atchison street railway. 1t Is not
necessary to believe this unless you want
to-
There is one thing certain. they ought to
consign all joints &c the ground floor. or
else open u state hospital for broken
limbs.
A son of Jim Lanes struck Lawrence the
other day. busted, aud very few people
took time to tell him Of his resemblance
to his father.
Four car loads of fat sheep are shipped
from solomon City weekly, and with the
incoming cash, OF course the town doesn't
look half SO sheepish.
This Kansas December weather is Won
derful. The man who forgets and makes
garden hasn't got the laugh On his neigh
Dor who laws in q stock of fireworks for
Christmas.
When the wife of Dickinson county
farmer is seen ripping hole IN the bed
tick it is a sign that the old man has been
to Abilene and drawn all of his money out
Of the bank.
An Atchison paper announces there
were no cases in the police court this
morning" Has it got TO such point in
Atchison that you can pack it right in
demijohn or jug?
A brother of Chas. A. Dana of the New
York Sun is farming near Independence,
Montgomery county. He ought TO be able
to work brother Charles for little adver-
Using for his town.
Colonel Tom Moonlight has accepted a
position in the freight department OF the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas. Governor
Ross, of Santa Fe. and Moonlight might
visit each other now.
Christmas presents cost so many nickels
rather than so many dollars The holiday
season is increasing the demand for small
coin at an unusual rate. The Philadel-
phia mint is working night and day. Alr.
Leech, the director, estimates that he IS
about 81, 600 behind on pennies, and $50, 900
Congressman Harrison Kelley credits
Topeka with population Of of 100000. 1t
is supposed that the extra 80, 600 in Kel-
ley's brain was due to the un-kansan
method of putting nutmeg on hot punch.
practiced in Washington.
indianapolis Journal: Kansas will soon
be in shape to furnish all her own condi-
ments The salt beds at kingman
are producing vast quantities, and Senator
Ingalls, new novel is expected to furnish
all the pepper and vinegar that is needed
in the state.
The Scotch are sounding the pibroch
right in the midst of Kansas wheat fields.
An Atchison Touring mill has just closed
a contract for thirty-six car loads OF flour
to be delivered in Glasgow. and Scottish
syndicate is making contracts for all the
Kansas flour it can purchase.
Kansas City Star: A speaker on the
affirmative side of the question: Re
solved, that farming pays in Kansas" had
just taken the floor at the meeting of a de-
batting society out in Western Kansas
when fellow on the negative side opened
the stove door and shOveled in three or
four pecks OF corn.
kingman Leader Courier: Judge H. L.
Ball, who has been seriousuly i'll for the
past six weeks, is still low and tho gh
there has been change IN MS CONDITION,
his friends still entertain hopes for his re-
covery. He has had hard pull of it and
despite his years his strong native consti-
ton may yet overcome his troubles.
"God gives food, but the devil sends
cooks.n Nine Janauschek, who is fond
of German cookery, has invented a new
and remarkable dish. 1t has been the
habit with lovers of sauerkraut to pour a
bottle of Rhine wine over the picked cab
bage Janauschek, with the inspiration
of genius, has substituted champagne for
the Rhine wine with great success.
When the Atchison joints were closed,
there was gush of congratulation among
the phariseess all over the state that Atch-
ison had been redeemed" The congrat-
ulation was premature. Since the joints
were closed men frequent alleys and barns
with bottled whisky, and empty bottles
appear scattered over the streets every
morning. An investigation at the court
house reveals that the drug stores are now
getting four or five statement books to one
got when the joints were running. The
advantage of joint whisky over drug store
whisky is that ~ cepts's worth satisfied u
man at the bar, but now be must buy a
half pint or more to get drink. In cOnse-
uuence he gets drunk, and his family suf-
ters.