Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
Seeds. Slips. seion.. Sprouts. Shoots and slis'

Seeds, Slips, Scicns, Sprouts SHooS anu SH'e'ss
The biggest residence in country town
always has a livery stable directly in front
of it.
The empty buildings in St; John are
being utilized as corn cribs, ana they Will
soon be we'll filed.
A big sisters tight shoes very frequently
send the poor brother with the little
moustache TO a barber shop.
lola is very popular in Topeka. One
fellow reads an unexpurgared edition and
then tells it to the rest OF the boys"
&c. Star: a Fort Scott girls idea of a
good time is to meet her popcorn beau
when she goes down town to mali . letter.
The idea that occurs to most men when
they get on railway train, Is whether the
stranger in the opposite seat Is as big q
man as he is.
Nothing will make a man liberal and
lenient as quick as to discover That his
Sunday school class of boys know that he
chews tobacco.
Out west the most durable and popular
question of debate seems to be II SIX nun
dred pound hog can be scalded IN a COM
mon sized barrel.
The two daily papers of Wellington are
enlarging monthly and they Will soon De
dig enough 10 allow tuS "ouSo W Wv
them up into patterns.
The Cullison Tomahawk thinks the
woman who could play cards all evening
without asking whats the trump? would
be genuine curiosity.
1t is said in the east to be in bad taste to
wear the wedding ring in company. AT
this many Kansas girl will ask what u
wedding ring is for, anyway.
Get up and kick the man in the seat back
of you at the theater, who has seen the
play before and tells you what Is coming
next. 1t Is an unwrltten law.
A tailor who turned burglar died on the
scatfold in New York recently, and this re-
minds the Washington people to inquire
who made Mr.. Burton's clothes.
Harper is quarreling over the location of
depot, and the Sentinel suggests that il
be placed on wheels and tried in different
localities to appease the wrath OF the citi-
ZenS.
1t has been decided lately by scientific
authority that whisky neither cures nor
assists in the cure of snake bite, but
there are people in Kansas who never will
believe it.
The lack of applicable slang often COM
pels man to call another ''son of sea-
cook" when he knows very well that his
father is assistant sculllon III second
class restaurant.
1t has been discovered that Reed looks
like Shakespeare, Mckinley like Napoleon,
aud after long pouring over an album or
phizes it has been decided that ingalls,
looked like ingalls,.
Cullison claims to have the smallest man
in the state of Kansas. His name is Jas
| per Hendrickson, in his eighteenth year,
and has not grown any since be was lit
tie kid. His weight is fifty-one pounds
and he is just forty-One inches high.
The Norch German Lloyd Steamship
company have made arrangements Tor
running line between New York and
Bremen for the purpose of carrying cattle.
| This is unkind, following, as II does, a
recent announcement that this line was
becoming popular with Kansas tourists.
| Atchison Globe: The fad of being senti-
mentally melancholy is dying out among
the young ladies. The girl who finally
pinned away in joy over tire thought that
she was the Cinderella of the family, now
asserts her rights and deties any one to In
fringe upon them. The modern family Is
fast becoming family with no Cinderella
| in it. If there is only enough money 10
the family stocking to buy the silk dress
! the silk dress money Is spent Tor WOODEN
for all the family instead
A well known young man of Labette
county recently proposed to his best CIR
and was refused, he wreaks his vengeance
| by writing to the Journal as follows:
| want to say in the columns of thu
| Journal that the young lady who refused
| my offer of marriage last week need moi
walk sideways, nor prance any jee wher
we meet, as she has Gone since / Offered
| her my large heart and hand. She vii
live long time before she gets and oppor
tunity to refuse another bid like mine.