Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-24
sUNFLOWER sHADOWINGS.

Seeds. Slips. scons. Sprouts. Shoots and slivers
Excellent cotton has been raised at Ben
nington.
The smart man who draws anything
| from a lottery, never brags abont in.
The Kansas papers have struck foun-
tain of perpetual humor in the "onior
| trust"
Fort SCOTS schools are so over-crowde(
that ne-fourth of the pupils can only go
half day each.
1t is rarely that Kansas society ma!
mention the rainy weather every day for ;
whole week.
LIE Harpe is putting up new barn, ant
| the whole town is going to celebrate
nOticeably on one string.
The card This is my busy day" is now
superseded by one reading shut TIT
door," says the Salina News.
Salina News: The tramp fights shy O
Kansas now. He has heard that they art
making sugar out of beats"
The Lane County Herald says there vii
| be from $4,000 to 10000 acres of wheat
sown in that county this fall.
/ Saline county has a large acreage of win,
| ter wheat in splendid condition and 4
|
| rain.
| There are fourteen eX-soldiers. twenty.
| five civilians and thirteen women EN-
ployed in the various departments at the
state capitol.
The citizens of Wellington are now dis
| cussing in their own minds whether they
shall swallow all Tank kee tells them
about China or not.
State Journal: At Ellinwood there is a
field of beets that yields $500 bushels to
the acre. Beets are mainly useful to show
what Kansas soil can do.
The Stanton County Telegram is seeing
TO the education of the people of johnson
City. It publishes an English history in
serial form and quotes copiously from the
Scriptures.
Mr. George Ropes, architect of the state
capitol at Topeka, advertises for sculptures
to fill two pedimeuts and one for statue
to surmount the DOME The subjects have
not been announced.
In the seven months that Mr.. Harrison
has been president he has appointed fifty
four presidential postmasters in Kansas
and about 800 fourth-class DoStotfices have
been filled with republicans.
Emporia Republican: The Santa Fe en-
ployes were paid off in checks yesterday.
Agent Torringtou had his hands full dis
bursting the companys checks. The new
plan abolishes the pay car system and saves
about $50 per day.
B. w. Perkins favors Washington as the
place for holding the worlds fair. 1t
rather occurs to US that the Judge would
be working for the best interests of his
Kansas friends by favoring st. Louis The
majority of the people of Kansas are not
able to make a trip to Washington. but
Louis.-Chetopa Democrat.
Garden City Herald: In the ''smash up"
that took place on he Santa Fe, near
Cmarron, Thursday night, the beo OF the
tourist sleeper, among other cars, turned
over in the ditch. A tramp, who had been
stealing a ride on the trucks, crawled out
from among the debris after the accident
unframed. Several passengers in the
coach were injured and very seriously
hurt.
In the Morton County Monitor: Back
ward, turn backward, oh time in your
flight: give me the dollars l blew in last
night: put me to bed, for my feet are 50
sore: sober me up as was once before.
Wipe from my poor face the cheap whisky
stare. smooth from my forehead the dis
heveled hair: wind wet dishrag around
my swelled head; put me to bed, mother,
put me to bed.
a Salina man has invented a machine of
peculiar value to western Kansas. 1t is a
revolving hoe for pulveriZing the ground
to great depth. Where the ground has
been plowed in midsummer this rotary
machine will pass over, demolishidg the
weeds and hoeing up the surface as can be
done by no other machine now in use.
The machine will be put on the market
next spring for the first time, patent
having been secured for it. 1t is likely to
the plains.
State Journal: What is known as John
Browns fort at Harpers Ferry. is to be
torn down. This is the old engine house
used as citadel by the great anti-slayery
leader and his followers thirty years ago
as place of refuge from the soldiers and
citizens surrounding them. The Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad company has de-
cided to change the location OF its main
runs directly through the old engine
house. Thousands have gazed with inter
est upon the fort from car windows and
platforms An effort is being made to in
duce a syndicate of Philadelphians 10 buy
the building and move IL to Philgdel phIa
TO be set up there as an exhibition enter
prise like the Chicago libby prison
'Stove time.has come. again" says the
Parsons Sun. Once more the golden rods
nounce the nid-afternoon of summer. and
the aster begins 20 see its pale image ia
the brook" The sumac pricks the eye
with its spikes Of fire. Thistlcdown floats
lightly in the lazy air. The growing after
math already hides the stubble Of the
wheatfield. On the masses Of the forest
foliage there falls touch CT old gold The
apples and pears hang heavy, and bend
down the tree rods in graceful curves. The
maize ears I'LL with Iucious milk. The
wild grape vines suck delicious acid from
the sour boys where the sedges droop under
the weight of their brown burs- and the
clethra loads the air with its sutumn2l
fragrance. The sky scenery so.teas into
dreaminess, and lazy horizons haag over
quiet stretches Il gauzy veil is drawn
over the monday and at night the stars
withdraw into deeper spaces"
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