Wichita eagle., 1889-07-31
sUNFLowER sRADowINGs-
Seeds, Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and slis

Lawrence wants slice OF that "harveS
excursion" pie.
, Great Bend is having trouble with tn
. telephone company.
Weir City claims to be the greatest Goa
producing town in the state.
Kansas has an inconsistency in silk hat
and low shade trees along the sidewalks.
, Strange affair-but the second Baptis
church, OF Winfield is in the soup, fnan
cially.
1t might be stated that a bald head will
answer as well as a china plate in catching
chiggers.
The Rock Island pay car leaves s1O.Oo
per month at Harrington. So says thu
Tribune.
Arkansas City people are undergoing {
series of illustrated lectures on trichina il
a shop window.
A woman at Abilene has finger-nails ar
inch long. Her husband goes creeping
around as if he was walking on tacks.
There is a cornstalk sixty feet high il
Shawnee county. 1t is in room on the
fourth story of the Knox building.-Topeks
Journal.
Capital: A bright young lady of Hill
City is candidate for register OF deeds. Il
elected she will be known as the record
ing angel"
The Atchison street car driver is no ex.
ceptlon to the rule, that the poor mule
driver is the target, at which the chaloric
world throws all its spleen.
AS Jingle in Pickwick would say, "Ah,
IN Atchlson-you're a liar-another, sir
fists-black eyes next neutrality-suspicious.
frlends-footpads, Of course.
Mrs. Mary Stevens, a widow living
| Of oxx-rp W. S
chloroformed, bound and robbed of 81 by
unknown burglars last Friday night.
At Winfield there is talk of lynching the
local laundryman. who goes to church and
| INDUCES in the m ost eXasperating chuck
lings at the collars whiting around him.
The photograph is very popular in
strument at Lawrence. This seems to
point to the fact that large majority OF
| the people there love to hear themselves
talk.
Atchison Globe: The trouble with a
woman allowing her husband to think
| that she can do her own work in an emer-
gency is that he will let her do it all the
| time.
A stranger would not be impressed with
the beauty of Kansas this time OF year,
| Tor roasting ears are not at all conducive
to soft aud beautiful lines in the average
! face.
| 1t is a curious fact, says the Patriot. that
| most of the inmates of the soldiers home
at Leavenworth, are foreigners, and nearly
every one of them is drawing pension
! for rupture.
When the bashful Winfield girl puts a
chunk of ice down her best fellows back,
she knows that the desperate act will
either result in an arrangement Or a
speedy proposal.
The Abilene Juniors will come out in
few days in white suits with red caps, belts
and stockings, and cigarette, and will be
prepared to handle any club of their size
in central Kansas.
According to the Ell Dorado papers the
victims OF surprise parties there are In
variably overcome at the outset, but as
Invariably recover sufficiently to merit the
most lavish praise as hostess.
1t would be an act of great commenda-
ton and of compassion, as FAR us the jour
nalistic fraternity OF Kansas is concerned.
if some good, kind man would shut up
those two Important that grace the circus
advertisements.
eve are writing the editorials on the
sidewalk this week. says a Kansas eX-
change, and another item Immediately
shows why it i, in this predicament; it
reads: Two large ears Of corn grace our
SanCLun tnlS week.
The biggest portion of an average Kan
sas fishing party's time is consumed in
catching grasshoppers for bait, and the
way in which the average man Is lrrltated
by IA common grasshopper's fnesse and
facetousnous is indeed pitiable.
Marion Record: Kansas has raised about
twenty-four bushels Of wheat to every
man. woman and child in the state this
wear. That settles the bread question, and
it seems as If we might all rustic around
the balance OF the season enough to get
tue water.
K G. Star: The farmer wants Il new
spring wagon; his wife wants lowered
carpet for the room;" his daughter is
stuck on having cabinet organ; his boy
has his eye on a Mexican saddle, and they
are all going to have them as soon as the
new corn is ready for the market.
Topeka Journal: The dome of the capt.
tol now shows up very plainly from dis
lance, it having reached height OF
twenty-five or thirty feet above the roof of
the main building. When one stops to
consider that the pinnacle of the dome
will be $50 feet above the roof of the main
building or. in other words that the dome
will be twice as high AS the main building
itself, he can get an idea of what an inn
mense structure it will be.
Wellington Standard: The latest addi-
tion to the Speed menagerie is a curious
looking bird known as the SciSsOr-tall. 1t
is of the milvules forficatus genus and
though Its particular habtation is South
America, it is sometimes found in south
ern ATTITUDES of North America. l. was
caught by conductor Buy Phlliips IN the
Pan Handle and presented by that gentle
man to Mr. Speed. Ii is very rare bird
in the United States and is III consequence
highly priced by Mr.. Speed.
American Wool Reporter: Kansas this
year outstrips its agricultural record
Never in the history of the state has the
present wheat crop, just harvested, been
surpassed. The quality is excellent and
the quantity enormous. Farmers that
were lucky enough to have put out a
wheat crop last year will make spec, |
though the prices should be low. Oats |
pever better, good quality and heavy |
yield. Potatoes surpass All former at |
tempts aud corn is more than promising. |
Verify, Kansas is booming,
Atchison Patriot: The, Atchison grain |
elevators have received official notice Of the |
SIX month lay over law, and are now en- /
abled TO do much more business than for |
merly. On the first of next November the /
Missouri grain law, regarding the mixing |
of second and third rate grain and calling /
it second, Will 90 into effect, and then /
Atchison will have a decided advantage /
over Kansas City in this particular bust /
ness, as there is 10 such law In Kansas Ii 1
is probable that the Santa Fe will handle /
most of its grain at this point.
Parsons Sun: The immense packing /
house of Armour & Co. have sent a sample /
of pulverized byrates to this city to have /
it compared with the byrates which has /
been discovered near this city. The object /
in sending It is, first. TO compare the quail
ity and then to receive bids for furnishing
this material. which is used in immense