Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-15

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Newton item If you must use soap, use
Newton made
Sandwiches for the Belle Plaine fair
have been in making for week.
Nothing has been heard OF Butler
fcounty's buckwheat crop yet.
History repeats itself. All the picnIc
parties at Winfield have omnibus bills.
Anthony merchants are selling salt at 81
barrel The town ought to have salt
lake.
Don't derogate superstition, nor ridicule
the mascous The kinsley Mercury has a
web-footed devil.
Harper dentists charge too much for
pulling teeth or rather don't discount
enough for the jaw.
The Reflector says: Harmony in huge
chunks characterizes the Republican party
| oil Dickinson county this year.
1t is thought that the widow woman"
of newspaper fame is indicative of more
pathos than the single word.
All the preachers are illustrating Math-
ew-matical statement by so many acres
and SO many bushels OF wheat.
When an Attica swain calls his girl the
sweetest thing in town, he either lies at
heart or is dsloyal to the sugar mill.
The Kinsley boys are not satisfied with
their noses, and have organized a boxing
club and will proceed to remodel them.
The Kinsley cheese factory rolled 500
hoops OF cheese out into the world last
week into ten times as many open mouths.
To people who make practice of run
ming to all fires. the new school bells are a
source of uncontrovertible disappoint-
ment
After a Kingman girl finishes her water
melon she generally has TO resort to the
bath tub as the only satisfactory finger
bowl.
One of the differences between a politi-
cal ring and an engagement ring Is that
one is all steal and the other Is usually
gold.
The Belle PLANE town pump has been
creased and the handle repaired This
shows that they are going TO drink water,
fair week.
One of Walt Mason's old rhymes on the
chigre has been ressurrected and is now
going the rounds credited to the Quenemo
Republican.
The ''rumor'' is the only thing afioat
that an FL Dorado marksman can't shoot,
but he always gives It fresh impetus by
shooting Oft his mouth.
The police at Lawrence have their eyes
on crank who is supposed to be- making
preparations to shoot the Bowersock mill
dam in barrel.-K- c. star.
Kansas breeders took all of the first
premiums on cattle, Holsteins, Jerseys,
red polls and short horns at the Iowa
safe fair at Des MoineS last week.
One of the largest watermelon farms ia
the county and perhaps in the state, IS
north OF Lewis about quarter OF mile.
There Is something over eighty acres
planted there.
Three weddings in one week is doing
pretty well for Harper folks. The furniture
dealers and jewelers. are smiling he
furniture dealer went east and done got
married too.-Sentinel.
The state house at Topeka furnishes a
never-faiing supply Of news to the local
reporters. When nothing happens. the
papers say 1T was an unusually dull day
at the state house. '-Repu5lican.
Lazy school boys are offered the conso-
latlou that Hogarth used TO sketch faces
on his finger nails and when he got home
copy them on paper, whence they were
transferred 10 the plates that gave him
everlasting fame.
Just think Of it. corn, suga-, wheat. rye,
ogts, Irish and sweet potatoes, cotton and
4
Of peanuts for the boys and girl s;buJ such
IL life in the far west, and tins al! IL Har-
per county, says an Inspired correspond
eDt.
Historical item, companion for Pege-
sus 81 Bayieca: Comanche is the name Of
the brave old steed VINO is the only sur
vivor OF the Custer massacre Hs IS prob
ably the only horse IN this country that
leads life OF entire leisure and has
servants 70 wait on him
Casper Seibert, Of Randolph. Kan, has
had his share Of trouble recently His
horse ran over a neighbor's little girl.
out of e. 400 by q cattle steal: his son was
drowned, and a mule kicked him. broke
his thigh and several ribs. He Is 70 years
old.
From Harper: TIE Sentinel is not m
to its usual notch Ia vim, vinegar. vitroI
and enterprise this week, owing 20 the IL
disposition Of the editor. A blow, dsllv-
cred az Us IN a business way. knocked on,
all ambition, pride and perseverance,. We
thong gifts together on any subject. Simply
I impossible
Usage County Times, D. johnson. liz
ing in BIuetowr, tells Of a great slaughter
Of yellow tArsnsS4lAs last Suofsy lie
killed seven that day aud cue Tuesday.
These yellow tarautGlEs do No. grow =.
large as the brown Texas variety. but ars
said TO be fully a. poisonous These are
etbc first we have heard OF IN this sec,iou
though they are quite plentiful in southern
Kansas
AtcaiSo1 Globe: There Is a fragrance II
spring n the nail district On Ird.uer,cssics
creek The trees aud ether vegetation.
stripped OF theiE foliage by the hail. arr
budding on, again, and TIE sweet per.uuss
Of blossoms Elt ths sir. Ch=r-y. apple.
osu-n and peach tEses are laden vita
bloom; also tie hlac ard !oczs.s II : /.
rars SsgtE, ard worsA tae tru-1bse and time
OF visit II Is prstzbsa that farmer OF
| ,te district viii make 81 exhih.r @. tie
. lilac blossoms q. tue fsir iais week