Wichita eagle., 1889-10-03
suNFLoWER sHADoWNGs.
Seeds, Slips. seions Sprouts. Shoots and slisar

| Chautauoua county's cotton crop this
| year is the largest ever grown.
The absence of 'Pinafore" in Kansas
| this year indicates Grammatical education
in progress.
The Missouri Pacific railway will pay
g, 1859 taxes into the Greeley county
treasury this year.
Abilene has had only five cases of drum.
kenness before it since July l, and four OF
these were tramps-
A man named Mexican died at Lanham.
Washington county. after drinking a quart
of whisky at one time.
They paint the Newton opera house once
a year, and this gives the people an excuse
to 90 to Uncle Toms Cabin again.
Architects are sending in plans and
drawings for the new court house OF
Greeley county. 1t viii cost s2O.0UU.
A great many people think the use OF
perfumery vulgar but this does not In
clude the people Of Wellington, VINO Use
Lemon extract.
A restaurant burned down in Kansas
town the other day and the cigars ana pies
were not injured at all by the names, out
came out intact
Emporia Republican: Omaha is talking
OF public baths. That may 90 IN Neoras-
ka, but in Kansas we prefer TO do our
bathing III private.
In Judge Perkins district thirty-three
of the seventy posUmasters that have been
appointed under the Harrison admlnlstra-
ton were ola soldiers.
1t is rumored that Wichita parties con-
template organizing stock compSna with
a view to purchasing and operating the
Douglass sugar works.
Boonville, Missouri, has a citizen feet
10 inches in height whose whiskers reach
to the ground. Missouri is the only state
in the union, that grows that kind.
There are forty-nine divorce cases on the
October docket of the Leavenworth county
district court. In thirty-one OF the cases
the wife asks for legal separation,
The exchange who, in speaking of the
cigarette. says Its notifications are COM
pounded of denominations" may never eX-
pect to get its picture on tobacco adver-
tlSement.
A sow in Nebraska has distinguished
herself by giving birth to pig with one
head and two bodies. 1t seems that Ne
a good deal lately.
President Marvel, of the Santa Fe, in
recognizing the affairs OF that road, has
abolished the railway Y. NJ. G. A, and
dispensing with its secretary at Topeka,
saves 5000 year.
Newton Republicans: The carriage fac
tory, we understand, is TO be run at full
capacity night and day from this on. Or
ders for their superior rigs come IN so rap
Idly that it will require great work to
keep up with them.
Chicago Tribune: A grocery firm in
Atchison, Kan, lately received from swift
Zerland a nne OIL cheese weighing 100
pounds. and the rental value of real estate
for several blocks around at once fell oil y
per cent.
John Murray, who a week ago nearly
murdered Sister Camille of the convent at
Emporia, because she would not violate
her vows forsake the convent and marry
him, has been arrested at Terre Haute,
Ind, and will be delivered TO the Kansas
authorities.
Extensive arrangements are being made
for the reunion ot veteran soldiers and
sailors at Aug October 3, 10 and Ii.
Governor humphrey VIII DE Ill attendance
on the Stn ana Hon. Harrison Kelley on
the 10th. The Wichita battery is expected
to be i'll attendance also.
Osborne Farmer: Young Ferguson. who
was appointed from Colby, Kan, cadet
at ~ est Point TO till vacancy III this dis
trict by Congress Turner, failed TO
pdSs the examination. RawsOn w ollie,
who was appointed alternate by Congress
man Turner aJ the same zine, was then
appointed for the place aud successfully
PASSED the examination.
Lawrence journal: Stillingsville, the
little I.eayenwortn resort at the "Other"
end OF ;he pontoon bridge, Is rapidly i'm
proving. Fur new saloons are being
built.
On, list 10 the clang of my wooden shoon
As gaiiy SKIP DER the fraIl poontoon.
Though the jim jams shorten my living
years,
I'm daily chalked down for my StilIings-
vile beers.