Wichita eagle., 1889-10-12
suNFLowER sHADow1NGs. ;
Seeds. Slips, soions, Sprouts. Shoots and Silver

boxes.
The Etna mills at Wellington will be
started again.
Wheat is coming up nicely; that is the
wheat IN the ground.
The colt show at Muivane opened yes
terday and continues today.
The "Dagoo and the monk" are trying
to gain some notice at Arkansas City.
| The waterworks at Caldwell gave way
last week, but was repaired Immediately.
The first log cabin built by Senator
| Plumb in 1856 now stands on the banks Of
| the Saline.
| The old settlers of Sumner and Sedgwick
held reunion in Broadhurst grove, north
of Belle PLANE Saturday.
A new lodge of Knix hts Of Pythlas will
be instituted at Cunningham shortly. 1t
has charter list Of twenty-five.
The Kansas Historical society would. no
doubt, be thankful for that geese-fy men
| toned in the Sumner County Press.
There seems to be an unaccountable
alteration, espe clally among the news
papers in Kansas, of a daisy" delivery
wagon.
The five hundred dollar prize for the
| best six ears of corn at the st. Joseph ex-
position was awarded to Adam Rankin,
Oiathe, Kan.
1t may be a surprise to most people that
according to the last heard of toe Advent
lists, the world came to an end October Z,
three or four days ago.
The city marshal of Conway Springs has
| lawsuit on his hands because he put
fellows horse in livery stable, thinking
it had stood out too long.
The Burlingame soda water and pop
factory, including the contents, were to-
tally DESTROYED by fire Thursday morning
last. Loss, $1,000; insurance 81 600.
One of the greatest trials country edi-
! tor has to undergo is to have a chance ac-
quaintance or delinquent subscriber ask
| for three line mention of his carbuncle.
| Giddy item from the Burton Graphic:
| The girls of this town seem to be struck
| on the blue coated, brass buttoned gentle
men who RIM in here. Say girls is it true?
1t is about time that the man who thinks
he has great joke on newspaper, that
has neglected to change its date lines, be
| trepanned, for his own, the whole worlds
sake.
eve are sorry that we made the grave
mistake in our last issue in reporting Mrs.
Smith dead. She is getting better quite
rapidly. We apologize" explains an ex-
change.
The editor of the Cullison Tomahawk
advertises to take good healthful babies
| on subscription. He loves pretty babies,
and western Kansas doesn't furnish any
Quasimodos.
Pumpkin pies or bust! Pumpkin pies
and bust. There is no alternative for the
Leon paper, which advertises:
1.-The Indicator one year for the six best
pumpkins. Bring on your pumpkins"
Greensburg Times: A rather crisp au-
l. - I,1< 81,
catiOnal force says that he has read it re-
peatedly that the people Of Kansas are
very renowned for raising two things, VIZ:
hell and babies.
A small child at Neosha Falls was left
sleeping in baby carriage. When the
mother returned the body of the child,
which was dead, was hanging outside the
carriage suspended by the neck by the
strap that is put across the buggy to hold
the baby in.
A barrel with both heads out, set over
rose bushes or tender shrubs and filled
with straw makes good winter protec-
ton. Hybrid roses. Towering almond and
Japan ounce wintered in this way came
through all right and. blossomed profuse-
ly.-Rural Kansan.
A dispatch from Hays City says:
Judge Osborne, of the Twenty-third dis
trict is becoming a terror on the bensh.
Yesterday he discovered heavy overcharges
in the fee bill of Sheriff McLane, of Ellis
county, and gave him severe lecture in
open court and cut down the bill over
5000.
The Lyons county papels record the
death of one of the pioneers of the Neosho
Valley, James O'Toole. He was good
farmer and cultivated q fertile tract of
land near Neosbo Rapids. He enjoyed the
distinctiod Of growing the corn which
took the first prize at Philadelphia in the
centennial year.
Burton is one town in Kansas that is
really booming on account Of the new rail-
road connections, but society there is on
the highest tension. Hear this from the
Graphic: There Is young lady in this
town who is engaged to marry young
man, and so far this week has been seen on
the street three times with different young
men. How is that?'
Louisburg Herald: J. E. Martin has
contributed the greatest wonder Of the day
to our exhibit in the shape of white
Bermuda sweet potato, five feet and live
inches long, and seven and one-half inches
in circumference. This is genuine pota
to, and no fraud about it in any manner.
Think of it! A sweet potato nearly five
and one-half feet long.
Some newspaper man, who evidently be-
lieves in telling things just as they are,
says 1--WE quote from the Gazette of Kanka-
kee, ILL., J: DO not swear. There is no Oc-
casion to swear outside of a printing office.
1t is useful in proof reading and indis-
pensable in getting forms to the press. and
has also been shown to assist in looking
over the paper when it is printed, but
otherwise it is u very disgusting habit"
Cullson Tomahawk: The theory that
horse can't pull 200 pound sack of sand
attached 70 a rome 200 feet long has been
exploded 1t was tried in Cullison on
wager on Saturday last and the horse
walked off as though there were neither
rope nor sand behind him. Two men,
weighing at least 800 pounds, then mount
ed the sack. making 500 pounds, and still
the horse walked right along without any
apparent effort.
Sedgwlck Paragraph: The goose bone
fiend has not put in an appearance as yet,
but the fruit skin and corn husk cranks
are on hand with their predictions of a
hard winter. Last fall the nineteenth
century omens all agreed that the winter
would be one of unusual severity, and it
was uncommonly mild. Last spring the
people were warned TO look out for long,
hot summer and it was phenomenally
cool. Winter representations should al
WAYS be made in January. and summer
predictions in July. Those made at any
other time are unreliable.
New York Times: Kansas produced
only 5000 bushels of salt in 1880. This
year she takes her place among the large
producers. And il is rock salt that is the
main supply, though other sources are TO
be utilized soon The rock salt was struck
first at Ellsworth, at depth Of 80 feet.
in August 1887: at Hutchinson, north OF
the Arkansas river, little later at a
depth of 420 feet; at kinguan the same