Wichita eagle., 1889-01-13
KANSAS KOLLARY.

The Kinsley Mercury, in spirit OF
optimistic exuberance, says: ''It occurs
to us that the eclipse on New Years day
means that this year will eclipse all
others in Kansas.
The water works at Herington have
been completed and water turned into
the mains. A public test of the throw
ing capacity of the system for fire pur-
poses proved satisfactory.
The board of state house commission
ers has awarded the contract for the new
vault in the treasury department in the
main building of the capitol to Diebold
& Co, of Canton, O., the price being
$17,929.
The Burlington ladies have eschewed
the use of gum. The doctors there have
been investigating and have decided
''that the gum chewing habit DESTROYS
from the glands and makes plump cheeks
an impossibility.
In Williamsburg there is an aged
masher, who swore, on his knees, 10
beautiful young lady that he would
grant any favor that she might ask. She
looked at him with two rolling black
eyes" and exclaimed, Then propose to
my grandmother. She is widow"
The Times is Informed that "a boy
twelve or fourteen years of age, an or
phan, residing with Charley Barker at
Florence, was drowned while skating on
the dam in that city last Sunday" Poor,
thoughtless boy. If he had skated on
race by mill site he wouldn't have been
drowned by dam site.
Human nature is a peculiar thing.
Within the past two weeks two ministers
have been frozen out" in this city, yet
last week a couple of hundred dollars
was given here to the Abilene churches.
-Herington Tribune. AS far as the
ministers were concerned it was prob
ably case of poor preach, poor pay"
Three car loads of corn fed cattle were
shipped from Wichita county over the
Missouri Pacific on the 9Th inst Two
of the cars were loaded at Leoti, the
other at Tuell. Such incidental facts as
these give more emphatical denial 10 the
slanderous reports of destitution and suf-
fering in that part of the state than col
uInns of simple denials.
Henry Poole, of Mcpherson, has ap-
a
yester which he has completed and
proved 10 be a success in field trial.
This machine Is simple and complete in
Its mechanism. and with five men will
harvest as much as twenty-five men can
by the present method Of haldiwork.-
Salina Republican.
1t is said that the women Of tins colf-
try spend 5000. 600 annually for face
paint The FL Dorado Republican
doesn't think this an extraordinary sum
as compared with the amount the men
spend for nose paint. The last remark
is understood not to have anE. reference
to Kansas. Robust health alone Imparts
the ruddy hue to the facial protuberance
in Kansas.
Five deaths occurred at the Soldiers
Home at Leavenworth last week. as fol-
lows: Simon Gleason. late of c, Fifth
California infantry: John j. Hanniger.
late of company, Forty-seventh Illinois
infantry: William Hinsey. late Of com
pany 3, Seventeenth Illinois infantry;
Rudolph Steinley, late of comr any c.
Fifth Missouri infantry; Archie Hister,
late Of company c, Fifty-;hird l. 5.
c. T.
Saline county has just completed a
new bridge, on new principle, across
the Smoky Hill. three miles east Of sa-
lima The Republican says Of ii: 1T Is
called the Mitchell wire bridge and this
one IS 40 feet kong and has main span
Of 100 feet There are 4I2 No. 9 galvan-
ized BessiIner steel wires IN the stTuct-
ure. It's chief features are its simplicity
and ease Of construction, adzp.s5ilIfy TO
and locality and cAeapness-