Wichita eagle., 1889-09-26
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Seeds, Slips, scions, Sprouts. Shoots and sIise,


Seeds, Slips, scions, Sprouts. Shoots and sIiyers.
The Leavenworth sugar factory will start
| up on Thursday with force of 80 men.
Finney county took the first premium at
the state fair on sweet potatoes and mlllet.
The Terry Eyes motto is: published
for the benefit of the editor and his FAM
ily."
The Hope fair during the remainder of
| this week will attract the people of south
Dickinson.
Sugar" "darn" and "gee-whiz" are the
nearest a Wellington girl ever gets to
Billingsgate.
A cog-wheel road is to be built to the top
of Pixies Peak, but Kansas people will
continue to walk
Kansas people are at present trying their
best to decide when the damper IS up and
when it is down in the new heater.
The man who tries to eat quail with a
knife and fork at Winfield is not only con-
sidered coxcomb. but also jackass.
Somebody has scandalously observed,
"a hotel porter at Arkansas City, and ii
you fail in this, then on to Oklahoma"
About the most despiseable creature a
school-bOy can conceive of is the person
who spends his time visiting" schools.
The girl with the pretty face and sweet
disposition is about all the beiress the
Kansas young man wants his fiancee to be,
The new artesian well at Richfield is
going down at the rate of twenty-five feet
day and the towns hopes, up, proper
tiOnally.
Base ball at Salina has closed for the
season. This doesn't idclude the popular
play of ''ketch' between the clerks as this
is perennial.
When you want to say something real
mean OF man out in western Kansas you
state The hasn't sense enough to control
his wife's vote.''
The Kansas windmill that doesn't get
out OF Tx once month, surely, does not
deserve notice, at least 1t doesn't get any
in Kansas papers.
An inscription should be placed over the
gateway of Kansas: "Who enters here
leave hope of an appointment behind. -
Emporia Republican.
The social problem in Kansas right now,
is how to make one can OF oysters do for a
whole church social, and yet take a few
home for Sunday dinner.
Morton had three marriages in one day
and the prospect for more leaves the out
look for The attendance at church Sunday
nights. this winter, rather slim.
Something from anile Butts: There
were fourteen preachers at the camp-meet-
ing at Delphos. Heaven only knows how
the people managed to feed them.
At Richfield the cats follow the families
to church and play hide and seek during
prayer to the great danger of bursting the
little boys, who have been forbidden to
laugh.
The only conflict, enterprise at religion
experience IN Kansas, Is when the whole
town insists on climbing to the top of the
tower, Sabbath day, instead OF going to
church.
An ambitious youngster at Arkansas
got it the other day when he pulled hair
out of the butter with great gusto before
all the company.
X c. News: Lacrosse has a school bell
that rings a funeral dirge to perfection.
The pupils are in tears every morning and
a petition has been numerOuSly signed to
have the bell taken down and out.
X. c. Star: 1t is estimated that %, 900
old soldiers will be in Ellsworth the first
week in October. Such a crowd as this
will fill the little city and stick out a mile
or two in the country.-State Journal.
Strange as it may seem the old town of
Osawauomie is growing more rapidly and
has been doing so for a year or two, than
any town in the state. 1t now claims
l, 100 Inhabitants. Two years ago it had
not over 500.
The Topeka papers announce that "the
stores will close" on the chief day of the
fair. That isn't what interests Kansans
most, they wouut to know if the drug
stores will continue to do business,-Abi-
lene Reflector.
Lawrence Journal: The White Caps at
Atchison whipped an attorney of that city
and gave him warning to leave the place
because he did not go home early enough
when he was out calling on some ladies.
The people of Atchison are very particular
in matters of etiquette.
Jacob Kukendall of Rossville while in
sane Sunday night shot his wife and then,
himself in his house, defied
arrest. Sheriff Disbrow finally procured
squirt gun and threw pint of chlorOform
through the key hole into the madman's
face, causing him to collapse in heap
Leavenworth Sun: The sugar factory is
one of the most important industries in
the city. This winter iJ expects to employ
$50 men, run double time and grind 1000
bushels of corn day and burn 10 tons of
coal, Last year they paid 81. % per ton for
coal and this year are getting 1t for $3.50.
thus saving on their coal bill more than
$40, 600 year.