Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
sUNFLoWER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Slips, seion,, Sprouts. Shoots and slivers

Seeds, Slips, Scions, Sprouts. Shoots and Siyers.
Wild plums everywhere.
| Howard has trades carnival.
The blackberry pie is now at the front, "
signs the Howard Courant.
The Hamlin Cleaner is getting the repu-
tatlon OF crediting all its clippings 10
'Ex."
The yellow garter craze don't take well
in Kansas. Grocery store Irvine will con-
tlnue to hold its OWL.
K. c. Star: 1t isn't very often that a
| Topeka man goes to Leavenworth to live
unless the sheriff goes with him.
The second annual tournament of the
Kansas t1remen's association will be held
at Ottawa September IL to 10, inclusive.
A large force of iron workers from Chi
cago have begun laying the fire proof
floors of the main building Of the capitol
They are so pressed for time at Arkansas
City during the week that the majority Of
babies born there this summer have been
born on Sunday.
Saline County Journal: Five runaway
teams all at once created enough excite
ment for one day, last week. No great
damage was done except to wagons.
Zone of the chief industries in Morton
county" says the Garden City Herald, lis
hunting ground squirrels and prairie dogs
and selling them to the county clerk"
The trade in razors is increasing steadily
according to Kansas merchant. This
may be explained by the fact that the
emancipation proclamation" Is celebra-
ted August l.
That is queer freak in some newsDa-
pers when they tear mans fair name
into tatters heedlessiy. but at the same
time will be mighty careful whose dog
they are censuring
Tonganoxie Mirror: The telegraph line
men have finished the Carbonate wire to
this place, and are now at work between
here and Lawrence. They are also max
ing some repairs on the Union Pacific
wires.
Blue Rapids has voted $4,000 to COM
plete the system of water works COM
menced there in 1871. A common simile,
Eomely but well suited, is that Kansas
seems to be right under the bunghole of
heaven.
The dish-towel on the door-knob and
the contents of the pantry piled pell-mell
upon the kitchen table has been inter
preted by Kansan: as: "Wife and SER
wants gone summering; doing my own
cooking"
Two FL Dorado milkmen hsve quarreled
and, according to the degree of their
wrath, have lowered the price of milk to
So cents per gallon. In this nobody will
come out on top except the patrons and
the cream.
The Inconsistency in man is first shown
in the Kansas youth when he unfailingly
saves the seeds OF his first melon to plant,
but as unfailingly calls on the ''old man"
for money to buy the seeds the first thing
the next spring.
A man down at Arkansas City was in
the police court the other day for burning
a cOlored woman's arm with a cigar.
They were all at the circus and George
was funny and burned the girl with
cigar to see her jump.
The Kansas man who can light of heart,
watch dog run merrily off with a piece
of his adipose tissue and his pants, and
not shoot him. may pride himself on not
being ''unprlncipled" or at least on not
being called so by the CANNES master.
NO" said the Wellington girl visiting
at Winfield, who wanted to appear posted
being asked by her gentleman companion
what she thought OF the wagonette no."
she said, II don't think it half so sweet as
the guitar"
A hint of rhyme in the local columns
of the Leavenworth Times; but not enough
to bear the charge of poetry: "The sum
mer exodus of Leavenworth people has
about ceased. Everybody has gone that
could get away. Those who remain must
grin and bear it as best they may"
Madame Swetchine, in her "Aireles,"
gives vent to the thought that sit is as
ungainly to disparage oneself as it is to
plished lady never lived in Kansas and
ate dried beef before retiring. with
broken pump the only one on the premises
and not drop Of water in the house.
The salt deposits of Kansas extent over
an area of about 200 miles by 20, and are
probably the largest in the world, being
over 300 feet thick. The quality is uniform,
as an analysis of the product in Republic
and Sumner counties, one on the north
and the other on the south line of the
state, shows substantially the same re-
suits.
We have had quite little mad dog scare
during the past week. One of Hubbard's
little boys was bitten by canine that was
supposed to have the rabies and upon
applying the mad stone it was found to
adhear. 1t is reported that the mad dog
bit other dogs and a genuine panic is
imminent unless the dogs are muzzled.
We could afford to have half our dog
population removed" without any iucon-
'
On the authority of the State Journal:
The clergymen of Atchison took strong
stand on Sunday last against the break
ing of the Sunday laws and particularly
raked the city officers for permitting the
sale of liquor and the playing of base ball
on Sunday. The onslaught on the legions
of the devil was made simultaneously and
was listened to and commended by large
congregations. 1t looks as if AtchisOu
were going to brace up and be a better
town than before.
Leavenworth Times: The construction
of the pontoons for our new bridge goes
nobly on. There are about sixty now COM
pleted but it viii require some 275 to reach
across the stream. The company will
have about fifty extra pontoons made to
slip in in case of any accident Mr.. Flynn,
the superintendent, is pushing the work
forward as fast as men and money can do
it. He now has about seyenty-five men
employed on the work and hopes to be able
to have it in working order by the first OF
September next.
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