Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-20
SUNFLowER SHADOwINGS.


VI ScOU iOOQGf.
| Noble Prentis is reported quite i'll al
| Springfield, III.
A Printers Protective fraternity has
been organized in Leavenworth.
The old soldiers of Neosho county are
holding reunion at Usage Mission.
Abilene has new organization, the Le-
bold-Fisher Loan and Trust company.
The object Arkansas City man loves
best after his wife, is a double-nose dog.
The Hutchinson fair has opened with
elghty-siX entries in the speed department.
Darwin was not probably aware OF the
evolution of the Kansas ice cream to the
oyster.
Comes-at-Rain, the convicted half-breed,
| wont see any water for the next SIX mouths
anyhow.
The man who smokes a pipe on the
| street. according to Kansas society, thinks
| he's smart"
In Lyndon the opera house managers are
! compelled to pay d tax for every troupe
which shows there.
a macadamized road is being built from
| the Haskell institute to Lawrence, dis
lance OF two miles.
Some 1O-year-old hotel registers at Ar
kansas City have DIT last been laid aside,
thanks to the reunion.
| 1t is said that Joint hid away in the
brush near the fair grounds at Atkinson,
last week cleared 81, 900.
| 1t always understood among kansans
! that the stranger who wears low-cut shoes
and a neckerchief is kentuckian.
! Miss Luna, a goddess who presides over
| the moisture in Kansas, the superstltlous
aver, has been humping herself.
| c. E. Raymond, a prominent capitalist
of Boston, Mass, died suddenly at Topeka
yesterday Of paralysis OF the heart.
"There is divinity which shapes our
ends.' and you bet that capitol don't fall
with the legislature on the outside.
The state normal school at Emporia ex-
| poets to enroll / 600 pupils this year. 1t
started in 1864 with nineteen scholars.
There is g report abroad that diphtheria
in bad form prevails at Larned, and
there is some talk of closing the schools.
Leaxenworth people still think that
keene, the tragedian who plays Richard
III, is by far a greater man than Shakes
peare.
Marion Record: An Immense flock of
geese flew over Marion the other day With
out stopping. Nothing but goose wonld
do that.
Everybody carries canes at Newton on
Sunday afternoon, but the old mans don't
come into active service until about l a. m.
Monday morning
We have our dry and our wet moons,
our smiling full moon, and the dissipated
waning but the sweetest moon IN Kansas
Is the honeymoon.
Arkansas City pays $4,000 per year for
water and has eighteen miles of mains to
run it through Arkansas City is pretty
nice town, all around.
The Sterling Syrup works are working
to their fullest capacity these days. The
quality of the goods made is said to be eX
cellent, and finds ready market.
Kansas has school house for every 1S5
of the population, Illinois for every 300,
Ohio for every 300 Pennsylvania for every
400 Massachusetts for every 600.
On "a rainy day the Topeka man will IN
knowingly carry a peck If sawdust around
on his feet and then solemnly swear to his
wife that he hasn't been III Il joint since
his marriage.
is responding to the cause of higher educa-
ton III Lawrence. The sales OF beans and
bacon have Increased IS Der cent since the
opening of the university.
There is only one time that a Kingman
man has his doubts and Will refuse TO ar
que that marriage is not failure and that
is just after he has given the kitchen
stove its fall coat OF backing.
There has always been some doubts
about the sunflowers alleged manner of
turning their heads toward the sun, but if
the statement that they turn their heads
away when a Winfield couple passes, ridi-
cules belief.
The Rock Island railways elegant and
alo nor ~ Jn SIS I'm Nt-,ts
photographed yesterday. It is one Of the
features on the fair grounds. Autograph
Office is established there and an operator
and agent is on hand at all hours.
An unknown, good looking young wo-
man abandoned 16-months-old girl baby
at Atchison Monday night, leaving the
child on curDstone with package of
bananas by its side, ana it is the desertiOn
of those bananas that is perpleIing to the
Atchison people.
An Oskaloosa widow bequeathed about
SIS 900 in property TO the Methodist
church. and 10 found home for Superan-
nuated preachers, leaving her son, a prom
inent business mau, without a cent He
VIII try to break the will, as he did a
similar one made by his father some years
ago.
Parsons Eclipse: The policemen of the
city have been dispensed with, and the
city marshal now constitutes the entire
force OF police, i9iler and guardian OF the
pound. We doubt If there Is city any
where else in the United States OF the size
OF Parsons which requires SO small force
of officers to keep the peace.
During Inc unwilling of the Grant monu-
ment at Leavenworth, lot of pick-pockets
worked the crowd in great shape. II IS
estimated that they got away with about
$40, 000. Senator ingalls, is said to have
been among the victims and relieved Of
$780, The first part of this has queer
ring. but the acid eats the latter.
a citizen Of Virginia is seeking 10 have
the sulphur springs Of that state indicted
as nuisances Injurious to health. He has
lived near one for three years and he says
that straw berries and dead dogs now smell
alike to him, but he is Nirginian,
Genda Springs man won't listen to
Olympian nectar or extract OF Hours
tears or anything else, classical and time
houored, when there is any OF old No. n
sight
Arkansas City Traveller: Yesterday the
pottery kiln was opened aud the operators
inform us that this test was a successful
one. They made lot of jugs, pots, Jars /
etc. from two different kinds of clay. !
dried them in the sun, burned them and
they came out in first-claSs condition. The {
clay in the latest test can be glazed and !
will make the finest OF ware. Another test /
will be made soon from the same clay and /
also from some other samples 10 decide /
which IS the best for the bus ness, after /
which pottery will be established here.
Topeka Journal: The United States |
postofIice and general store in which il /!
was located at sea brook, about four miles |
southwest of the city, burned down last |
night. About go worth Of stamps aud /
small amount of mail matter was de- |
The store and contents. valued !