Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-05
sUNFLowER sHADOWINGS.
Seeds, Slips, seions, Sprouts. Shoots and siiy

Fort Scott's trade display was witnessed
by $1,000 people.
1t would take train 3,125 miles long Il
carry the Kansas corn crop.
; The popular denouement at bali ou
west is dancing in the barn"
There is always an amazing affection be
tween an old maid daughter and the fam
lily horse
He is wise man who can distinguish
between a newspaper flake" and rea
Kansas occurrence.
Atchison Globe: This town has man
who is SO lat that he has to back up to q
door In order to knock.
1t is not customary at Arkansas City tc
eat the upper crust of Il pie, and as for the
lower, it is quite an impossibility.
The Cullison Tomahawk interrogates
us your wife partner in the farm profits
or is she working for her board and
clothes'
The proudest moments some men know
is when they can pass through door
marked positively no admittance" with
impunity.
Of a myriad of men who have spit at a
printing Office stove door at Wellington,
only two have been known to hit it in the
last FIVE years.
Garden City Herald: An eastern ex-
change says: The press Of the country
are clamoring for national air." WHATS
the matter with the cyclone?
Alex. Butts: Oats are selling for five
cents IA bushel in some parts of Kansas.
such thing as a horses rib ought not to
be seen IN that state this year.
b. c. Gazette: My son, if you wish win
ter to pass by quickly, give your note for
$500 due the 1s5 of March. with only 800 to
your credit in the First National.
Alex. Butts: Glow do you fellows dis
solve barbed wire?' asked Texas deep
water delegate 80 Topeka druggist, after
taking drink of Kansas whisky.
Marion has only one prisoner in the Jail
there. This is a very good showing on the
part OF the county, but it must be very
dlsheartenlng to the lone prisoner.
The fact that Kansas was the next best
state in the production of Irish potatoes, is
being used as an argument that the 81, 900
is waneing by the resubmissionists.
| K. c. Star: The sugar made from sor-
ghtest h Ga~ay Fiat aS % w answers
every purpose for crab apple preserves
The canning factory at Emporia is at
work on the tomatoes. A great many will
be canned. A castor, red table-cIoth and
tomatoes are very popular dejeuner in
Emporia.
Geuda Springs is agltating the forma-
ton of dramatic society. They will give
tank" plays, and the Geuda Springs lake
Will be introduced on the stage with start
ling reality"
1t is wonderful how man will dispose
OF the treasury surplus to an admiring
crowd and then feel of his own nickle and
try to decide whether he will buy a cigar
| or ride home on the street car.
Winfield Scott Buckner, nephew of
General Simon Boliver, at present
governor of Kentucky, drives the bus to
and from the depots to the hotels in Pratt.
This hardly proves Mr.. Buckner Kansas
man, but 1t comes very nearit.
the Rock Island road has been doing an
immense business, says the Caldwell
Journal, having shipped from that city
32S cars of cattle, from Pond Creek 29S
cars. and from Skeleton $50 cars, making
], 406 in ali from these three stations.
Belle Paine News: The old elevator on
the Santa Fe grounds has been purchased
by the Kansas Grain and Live Stock COM
pany, and it is being remodeled and put in
running order for the thousands of bushels
of grain that will come to Belle Plaine
this season.
The Ulysses Tribune is showing the tax
payers of Grant county the condition in
which they are situated. The city of
Ulysses and county is in debt 200, and
all they have to show for it is the county
records, two safes, court house furniture
and four town wells.
'Do you believe in the NAL de mer?'
asked one old Newton lady of another
WHAT" 1.-The NAL de lner or sea SER
pent?" "Oh, yes; we have picture of a
female one combing her hair,in the parlor
at home" Goodness me,'' afterwards ex-
claimed the old lady, "how dumb she isl
Wellington Press: The Kansas City
Star thinks that the bankers banquet at
that place last week was the finest affair
of the kind since the days of Lucullus. We
shall now look in its Information for In
quirers' for questions by Missouri sub
scribers as to who the dickens old Lucullus
Was, anyhow.
Jacob Stotier: The melancholy" DAYS
come with some consolation after all.
There's the seersucker coat, the base bali
game, the fellow that rides a bicycle in
scant tights, with his pumpkin complex |
ion and crooked legs, the organ grinder |
and other nuisances who have to go into |
winter quarters" Now if somebody |
would come along with a patent that |
would down the Salvation Army parade |
we would have tolerably nice time this |
winter.
OdIueu lily CdCkSOu
with two children-a boy eleven years of /
age and girl ten-walked all the way !
from Jackson county, KY, arriving here |
yesterday. They are going to Los Ange- |
les, Cal, where he says they have friends. |
They expect to walk all the way, and he /
says they frequently travel from twenty |
five to thirty miles a dav. They carry
their blankets, with what little clothing /
they have and their provisions on their
backs, sleeping out wherever night over
takes them. They arrived here foot-sore,
tired and in destitute condition.
Wellington Press: We reckon Sumner
county is leading the procession this year.
With two successful fairs, Wellington and
Belle PLANE; with the best sugar manu-
factory in the state, at Conway; her
splendid cattle shipping record at Cald-
well, Hunpeweil and other towns: with
her facilities rs railroad center at Wei
lington, and her Oxford mill furnishing !
-four to the state institution at Winfield:
with her wheat crop that leads the state
by forty Thousand acres: her magni ticent
corn, oat and fruit crop; with her fine
stock that has downed competitors on
every field of contest; with her three river
valhes OF the most productive land in the
state; with her railroad mileage greater
than that of any county in the state, we
10 not see but that she is the leader and (
but that her banner is floating N good
shape. We want all the newspapers and
TO make a note of 1t, too.
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.