Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-08
sUNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds, Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and sIiys


the people feel ''kind of sick-like'' whe1
they miss fire.
The Oxford roller mills export flou,
which IS shipped QUO via Memphis, Tenn,
to Savannah, Ga.
Nearly every house in Mount Hope is oc-
cupled. The city contains more people
now than it ever did before.
/ The Kansan, who returns from Oklaho-
ma. IS always full to overfllowing with ex-
ferlences, but seldom with food.
Professor Shelton, of the Agricultural
college, says this has been the best season
in sixteen years for tame grasses of all
kinds.
There is man out west who said he
could have stood his wlfe's desertion I'M
complainingly, had he not heard that the
fellow she went off with was crossed-eyed.
Some one has said that after suspicion
is once directed to man there is an ''air
| OF mystery" even about the way he hap
pens to sneeze, says the Fredonia Citizen.
| A good per centage Of Kansas boys start
out III life by getting LOB, brakIng on a
freight tIain.'' 1t is thought that the
nish the stimulus.
| Attica Advocate: In twelve-hour run
Tuesday night the sugar works cut and
| ditfused one hundred aud fifty tons of
cane equaling three hundred tons for
| twenty-tour hours.
| Caldwell News-'Suppose stranger
would come tripping into town with 3d.
600 TO invest, and should slip through one
of our dilapidated sidewalks and break his
neck. What a narrowing thought"
the youngest son of the editor of the
Freepost has already shown signs OF fol-
lowing the paternal vocation. He fell
| \ -
ment and was not injured in the least.
The straw hat will soon take its place in
the garnet, where it will remain until next
spring, when the good housewife will con-
vey it to the chicken house and place the
old speckled hen in it.-Grenola Chief.
X. C. Star: Sol Miller is IS years old.
and has eaten pie three times day ever
since he was old enough to know good
from evil He looks now as II he might
round out hundred years and not half
try.
An Oswego lady boasts of having forty
two proposals of marriage, and she
aseribes them all to the fact that she has
no objections to Il gentleman wearing his
hat in the house or smoking q pipe Ia the
parlor.
The dance is the whirlpool of life in
which thousands of vessels are wrecked.
The pilot who wishes to make safe
journey will steer clear of them. says the
man who can't dance, or if he mas been re-
fused a waltz.
Ness County News: Now haye your
babies washed up and in a kissable condi-
ton, as the candidates are about to
embark on their rounds and their stOmachs
are not in good condition for an overdose
of sweetness.
The citizens of Caldwell and Falls and
Caldwell townships are taking steps
toward securing a sugar mill for that part
of the county next year delegation Will
visit the factory at Conway Springs on the
18th of this month to investigate the sugar
business.
The letter (which never came" was dis
covered when they moved an Ohio post
office the other day. IL had fallen behind
a shelf and remained there twenty-seven
years and the girl had OF course married
another "feller' and was the mother of
five red-headed hildren.-kanapolis
Journal.
The city council of South Haven has
passed an ordinance prohibiting all kinds
of gaming devices under penalty OF a line
of ten to one hundred dollars; also Sun
day law which will close all business
houses, including barber shops and meat
markets, the only exceptions being hotels,
restaurants, eating houses and drug stores
and livery stables
The state board of railroad commission
ers orders the Atchson, Topeka and Santa
Fe company to proceed without delay and
construct depot and track connections,
and to provide full station facilities for
freight billing, ticket selling, telegraph
and express business at Kellogg, CONVEY
county. and that the station be opened on
or before November Is.
The band of St. John has adopted a
novel way of raising money to make the
next payment on their horns. They have
a little list and will go out serenading dur
ing the pleasant evenings They will take
a lunch with them and when they have
spotted man will proceed to open mp on
HIM from the front yard. Nothing but |
of 1.-The needfuP' will stop the |
music.
The eighth annual state convention of |
the Young Mems Christian association of |
Kansas will be held IN the city of Topeka |
October 10, 20. The convention OF last |
year was attended by over 600 delegates, |
making it the largest state gathering ever |
held in the west. Arrangements are now
being made for the caring for of 500 dele
gates.
Some one has found out how far a
farmer has to walk to put in and attend
forty acres of corn. To pillow the ground
with a sixteen-inch three-horse plow he
travels $50 miles; to harrow the ground
before planting he walks fifty;
to cultivate it afterward he will have to
travel 800 miles, making grand total of
200 miles beside the gathering.
X c. Star: 1t was along about the time
the grasshoppers were paying good deal
of attention to Kansas and the weather
clerk was away on vacation. 1t was
rocky times for the newspapers, and the
''old fellows who had held out against
patent matter" until it was useless to
kick any longer against the prlckS. were
finally compelled to succumb TO the in
evitable. Sol Miller, Web Wilder and
George W. Martin were the last to sur
render Shortly after their equalization
they met one day Oh the east steps of the
state house at Topeka. There was
mutual sense of humiliation which had
to restrain social intercourse, and
a solemn and mournful silence prevailed
until Web Wilder relieved the embarrass-
ment of the situation by turning TO Miller
and Martin with the inquiry: wv nose
plates are you usingE'
The latest estimates Of the Chicago Far
mer fix the corn yield for Kansas this year
at 24S, S24, $40 bushels. 1t is certain not TO
TALL below that figure. 1t has been proved,
in gathering the crop, that the average
Weld per acre IS larger than was claimed
earlier in the season. and will not be less
than forty bushels. Every succeeding re-
port has increased the splendid aggregate.
and il would not be a matter OF surprise
to see il reach 80. 000, 600 bushels. Ia 1881,
which, up TO the present time, has been
accounted the red-letter year in Kansas,
he corn yield was about 2O0, O1,OoJ bush
lis. The acreage this year was larger than
n 1884. but that season was by no means
30 successful in all branches of agriculture
IS the one which is just DRAWN. TO a
,lose.-State Journal.