Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-04
SUNFLOwER sHADOwNGs.
Seeds. Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and sli,

The city of Topeka, Jim Leep'
The Grant monument at Leavenworth
will not be unveiled today.
Everybody at Lawrence has stopped
talking Hillman except the BARRIERS.
The bronze statue of General Grant ar
rived at Fort Leavenworth, Monday.
A common expression in Atchison is
"That smells as bad as our dog pound.
Another volume Of Eugene Ware 8
Rhymes Of Ironquill' will be published
soon.
The compilation Of facts from Wilder's
Annals of Kansas will be continued by W.
| w. Admire.
A professor" attached Newton mans
| mace name, dubs him a dentist or veter-
mary surgeon.
/ Kansas produced 225,OOO barrels of salt
last year. yet the number OF buzzards has
| not perceptibly decreased.
Topeka restaurateurs always tell an En-
porian by his demanding imported French
| mustard for his sandwich.
The Newton boys cannot carry water to
| the elephant, because there is none, but
they can wash the chariot wheels.
| This romantic milkmaid" atfectation
has been carried so far in Lawrence that it
1
Chancellor Vincent says that Topeka's
| Chautauqua assembly room is huge
| sweat box and ought to be torn down.
| There is burly society fellow at To-
peka, who wears Tam O'Shanter for the
mere purpose of being called effeminate.
| Abilene is indignant because a whisky
advertisement was put on the cover of the
| Dickinson county high school catalogue.
A linen buster and a conductors check
in your hat in most Kansas towns is bet
ter than half dozen personals" in the pa
Iers.
Following some long-forgotten formali-
ty, Wellington girls still leave just little
"a very ittle-ice cream in the bottom of
the dish.
The degree of LII. D. has been conferred
on Chief Justice Albert II. Horton, of
Topeka, by the regents of the university Of
Michigan.
Rider Haggard's new novel, "Cleopat-
ra," is said to be promoting coquetry, to
degree dangerous to the young gentlemen
of Leavenworth.
One man was killed and two others
badly wounded during general row Sun
day on the Sac and Fox Indian reservation
in Brown county.
The burglars are giving people to under
stand they haven't left yet, by q good deal.
They entered the mayors house at Leaven.
worth Sunday night.
1t is said that the Kansas City hotel bills
of fare are mertoriOus of more praise in
tie ching the Lawrence scholars than the
French linguist at school
Topeka Democrat: Corporal Tanners
signature on the Hotel Throop register
looks as though 1t had been written with a
tent pen dipped in barrel of ink.
Do you remember the building of the
scatfold in ''Barnaby Rudge"? Well, just
such scene has been enacted over the
CREASED poles in fifty Kansas towns, last
night.
No matter what the taste, a Kansas
home is never complete until two large
ill-executed portraits of the head of the
family and his helpmeet are hung in the
parlor.
Some Atchison people who were so fool
ish as to buy fireworks before the Fourth,
couldn't resist the temptation and have
been having "pyrotechnics" every night
this week.
There is some solicitude felt for the ora
tor of the Fourth at Ft. Scott lest he at
tempt to get off the same old speech that
has been heard there for four Fourths in
succession.
There Is one who is present at every de-
gree Ol Uu6 WuOm uoltuoI
the bitter blasts of winter, or the hot,
sultry nights of summer may overcome
it Is the Kansas poet.
"We meet,' says George Martin, ''half a
dozen nice looking colored girls every
morning going to the teachers institute.
How the world does move. and how
quickly we get used to it,"
A photograph of the Potawatomie edi- |
torial association has been presented to
the state historical society. Some on was
mean enough to maintain that their breath |
was so assertive that it shows in the pic
ture.
This patent neck-tie holder which is be- |
ing peddled around Kansas, and which |
enables one to make tie out of a sock,
threatens to abolish the state custom of a
fellows best girl making a craZy-quilt out |
of neck-wear.
A "dehorning lotion" says the Repub-
lican, which has been having quite sale |
in Kansas, has suddenly left the market. |
When applied to the horns OF a calf it not |
only stops the growth of the horns, but it |
also permanently suspends animation in |
the entire calf.
Newton Republican: Mr.. I. II. Rick
seeker, of Sterling, was in town last even |
ing on the way from Guthrie to Sterling. |
He had with him fourteen fawns that he |
had captured in the Indian Territory and |
he was taking them to his home to place
in his park. They were about the pretti- |
est pets seen in Newton for some time.
1t is compulsory to hitch teams at Atchi-
son, and a farmer ran bluff on the mar
shall in this wise, according to the Patriot:
A farmer left his team on the street this
morning tied with small piece of wrap
ping cord. Marshal Tote came along.
stopped near the hitching post, smiled IA
little and sauntered on down the street.
Betting among the local sports Of We'll
lington, says paper of that town. on the
result of the coming Sullivan-K ilrain con-
test was rather brisk last night. One gen.
tleman offered to bet $40 to SIS that Sulli-
van would knock OUT his man in five
and no sooner had the otter been
made than 1t was covered by two parties.
Several smaller bets were made, all of
which indicated that John L., is the favor
tie in Wellington.
Athison Globe: Mrs. Lincoln, wife OF the
American minister at London, was re-
Gently presented to Queen Victoria, upon
which occasion her dress is described as a
midsummer nights dream in black"
The Globe knew Mrs. Lincoln as a girl in
Mt. Pleasant, Ia, when she was prairie
blossom of freckles and red skin; bright,
amable girl who was content with one
Sunday dress a year. such are the pos
sibilities of American girls.
Joe Spendloye who shot down and killed
Gustave Werner at Topeka last winter,
and who is indicted for murder in the first
degree. was again released on bail yester-
day. This time the bond being placed az
SIS, 600 and his bondsman the kev. John
D. Knox, of Topeka. 1t is said that
Spendlove has wealthy relations in the
east who are interested in his behalf and
that he will be defended by Hon. D. W.