Wichita eagle., 1889-09-14
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Seeds. Sips. ssIons. Sprouts. Shoots and sH

| SUNEIOWE Err SHAOOW INSS.
Seeds, Sips, seIons. Sprouts. Shoots and slisers.
| Marion county has 501 old soldiers.
This mortgage crop wealth in Kansas is
great mill.
There are sixteen newspapers in Potta-
watomle county.
In Butler county peaches are selling at
| ten cents bushel.
Peabody will soon send consignment
of silk TO Philadelphia.
There is great propensity in Kansas TO
spell crops with big {.
Salina has a slight twinkle in her eve
when a Methodist university IS mentioned.
Wellington is desirous of jail and col
lege, and is more sanguine OF the former
Paola has bean two feet and a half in
length. This ought 10 satisfy the pean
crop.
Once in long while a citizen will re
turn TO Wellington not improved IN
health"
1t was only the tallesu boys that would
play Neptune IN the kansas wheat ne4ds
this year.
The Attica creamery consumed 63,O0O
pounds or pretty near 5000 gallons OF mix
last week.
There is Just one family in North To-
peka who ''go in society over III the city,
says Mr.. Butts.
In Ell Dorado society very frequently the
engagement ring Is sawed OH from Ine emu
of brass gun cartridge.
The boy with the big wooden spoon VIII
soon make his journey around and around
the world of apple-butter.
Fifty different varieties OF tomatoes
were raised on the state experimental
farm At Manhattan this season.
A lady elocutionist has been discovered
at Winfield who don { recite in her mimi
table manner" This is indeed sad.
The BARRIERS are repainting their poles at
Kingman. Tell you what the boys grow
boards mighty young out in hlngman
county.
The Kansas photographer frequently re-
quests you TO rest your eyes on the sign,
so: Negatives must be paid Tor IN ad-
vance"
Two Caldwell bachelors have gone east
after wives, and double as many yellow
rosette CATERS have been thrown away III
disgust.
The female Methodists of Belle PLANE
are attending a proUracted meeting, and
the men are playing checkers between
customers.
The Indian band of Haskell university.
Lawrence, and eight Indian girls from
that institution axe attending the 81.
Joseph exposition.
Some merry Andrew says that recollec-
tions Of Niagara always crowd upon his
mind when he hears a Pr5tt county girl
eating watermelon.
Two acres of wheat will be sowed in
Kingman county this fail TO every one re
Gently harvested This is what they call
talking" in kiDgman.
Some Garden City people are making
living by gathering the bones scattered
over the surrounding prairie and selling
them to buyers in the city.
1t will take John Sullivan longer to be
trained for congress than for tight. HIS
managers weae hOrror-strlcken when they
found he spelt doodle, 'budIe."
Paola is having some trouble about her
gas we'll fund. Ii seems that after voting
bonds they were disposed of and the
money received has been lost sight of
The Stafford boys are great football
players and have an immense amount of
fun, excepting, probably, those little diff
culties about who shall blow her up"
Brooklyn can boast of having the largest
bread bakery IN the world. 1t turns out
10000 loaves a day on an average, and
Kansas wheat furnishes not little share
of the flour
A Cowley man wanted to whip an editor
the other day because OF the publication
of a 'halr vigor' advertisement, which
depicted the horrors of all uncleanly scalp
which he took Tor a slam upon himself.
The people of Oxford have concluded
that it is better to put up with three hours
IL,
many instruments nineteen hours, and
have asked the town band to reorganize.
Atchison Globe: The honeymoon is that
part of a married life when tie wife spends
her time in trying to find out what her
husband likes TO eat and lie spends his
time III trying to eat it after she mas cook
ed it.
''Scoundrel, wretch, scullion. brute"
loudly the editor procialms the man who
poisoned his dog the week after the item
kill the dogs" appeared in his paper Is
this consistency No, this Is human
nature.
The Florence water works were sold at
sheriff ; sale Tuesday for -. $50 TO L. II.
Queen, OF st. Louis, who represented the
bondholders. The works are said 20 have
cost $40 GOO, and probably did cost 81, 900
or $4,000.
gain her lost populations" inquiries the es-
teemed Wichita Beacon. There IS. Let
her place shOemakers wax on the dry
goods boxes, fences and curb stones Just
before the Grant monument celebration
Emporia Republican.
Professor Shelton views with alarm"
the tremendous planting of wheat which
is going on IN Kansas this fall The
professor says wheat Is a profitable crop
IL Kansas when grown in connection with
other crops and as part of a system. but to
cultivate II IS a speciality is to invite dis
aster.
A young man by the name Of VIII
Rankin died on the l1th day OF August at
heunedy Camp. Buffalo Springs l. T. lie
dlu not tell where his relatives lived, and
it is thought they reside in some OF the
counties near here, 1t is requested that the
neighborlng papers copy the notice Of his
death and make mention Of It.-CaidWell
News.
II. 3. Smith has presented the State
Historical society with an old account
book or journal which was the property Of
the late Charls II. Crane, who settled in
Ossowatomie, Kan, during the year 1850.
The book belonged to one Of his ancestors.
Henry Crane, and the accounts run from
1852 TO 1892.
The other morning Dr.. Young found a
genuine rat lying dead near his stable,
which had evidently been killed by cat.
1t Is the first specimen seen in this section.
probably brought in on some freight car or
emigrart's wagon Il : sign of civiliza- /
tion. 'W estwaFd the rat Of empire takes
it, flight. "-Culiison ToInabawk.
The old soldiers reunion Of Chautsuqua
I r---fk IN