Wichita eagle., 1889-11-28

One OF the greatest or Kansas Ia0S IS
| falling heir to large estate.
| The Salina papers place an Interrogation
mark after every mention OF the opera
house.
| Reflection cast by an Abilene paper: The
revenue collectorship seems to have slipped
cog.
| Monarchies and kingdoms are passed.
| Republics, cut on the blas-1or the reVolu-
| tionists-are in fashion
Lawrence Journal: First cook to second
ditto-Where's your whiskers?
! Second cook-In the soup.
Three new baby girls arrived in Rich.
fed this week, and the prospects for a SUI
| gar mill are brighter than ever.
Senator Ingalls, and wife will lead the
| grand march at coming ball in AtchisOu.
and there is great deal OF rivalry for sec
ond place.
A preacher in Ellsworth talked on why
was Lazarus beggar," and the Herald Is
strongly OF the opinion-because he didn't
advertise.
Popcorn and peanuts are peddled be-
| tween acts in the opera house IN Sauna,
but the consumption takes place during
the progress of the play.
William Areudt and Mrs. Susan Iseley
were married the other day in the Dickin-
son county Door house. The groom Is 10
and the bride 81 years old.
The Atchison Champion says there is a
great scarcity of tramps in Atchison this
fall. Evidently the products OF the cook
ing school are still unconsumed.
Ellsworth has two night policemen, one
recognized by the city authorities, and one
not so recognized, but neither are troubled
with the insomnia on that account.
Chrysanthemum of today was the arte-
misia or gold flower OF our grandmother
days. A hundred years hence its name
will doubtless be published in serials.
The reason Kansas people always take
| the balcony seats at a concert is on ac-
count of the unobstructed view of the man
with the kettledrum and the cymbals.
The local page of the Emporia News is
OVERLOOKING with pOnegyrics on school
marms" Apparently the reporters have
forsaken their first love, the Santa Fe
| depot
A recent Kansas country church fair net
! ted eleven cents. five lawsuits, an lncen-
diary fire and broken leg. Some do bet
ter than thi S, but they don't have any more
| fun in it.
A Clay Center man has just been ap-
pointed a special agent of the general land
Office. Commissions of this kind seize the
present administration about once in every
| six months.
K. c. Star: Plumb is sending out life
| sized photographs of himself to his news
paper friends IN Kansas. When a pretty
man does a thing of this kind no one
thinks anything about it.
| A Garden City man has taken the con-
tract to furnish the Eastern CoursinR club
of New York with thirty jack rabbits The
mercury will fall very low indeed when
Kansas ceases to develop new sources OF
wealth.
| A colored woman in Emporia gave birth
to an eleven pound boy few days since,
| this being the fifteenth child in the family
and the old women are now entertaining
| one another with wonderful cases OF pro-
Efficacy that they shave heerd on"
Yankee Blade: She-Oh, see that scare
crow out there in the field!
| He-That isn't scarecrow.
sit must be; see how mOtionless 1t is.
THAT'S the hired man at work"
It is stated that Dr. Phillip Krohn of the
| Atchison Champion, will shortly receive
and accept a call to become pastor of the
Congregational church at Atchison. The
hardest thing for man to do who has
been a Methodist preacher and goes into
another church is to learn to pray stand
| ing up.
A farmer named Kelley, in Pawnee
county, went there in 1886, and took with
him three ewes and one pure bred Shrop-
shire ram Taking account of stock, Octo-
Der, 1889, he found that he had raised S200
worth of sheep and wool, and was offered
$500 for his flock of twenty-five ewes. Seven
hundred dollars in three years from such
a beginning is encouraging to persons who
want to know what can be made raising
sheep.
Mr.. H. w. Van Sender and Miss Jessie
Smith were married at Pratt City yester-
day "wednesday. Mr.. Van Sender, at
present one of the editors and proprletors
of the Paducah, KY, Standard, was for
merIy citizen of Pratt and editor OF the
Pratt Register. His bride was a resident
and one of the most .winsome and accom-
plished of Pratt's fair daughters The
hosts of friends of groom aud bride follow
them to their kentucky home with choice
| hepadictiOns