Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-03
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Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and siis

Seeds. Slips. seons. Sprouts. Shoots and slisers.
| The lode to the Castor Bean" is notice
ably absent in the papers this summer.
The people of Sterling are cultivating ac-
cumen with q magic lantern exhibition.
| Burlingame would Just as soon have
| water works as not, and she guesses she
| will.
| The board of trade of Hays City has sub
scribed $4,000 for a straw board paper
| mill at that place.
Ten chances to one If an editor under
| takes to write anything during thunder
| storm it will whirl off into unreined bonn
| baSt.
A great deal of hay will be put up in the
eastern part of Butler county. Several
presses are running in the vicinity OF Ro-
salia.
| Kingman's electric lights have started
up again and again the young fellows have
| to take their arms away when they come
| to a corner.
A stranger recently asked Topeka man
| if he liked Omar khayyani's ''Rubaiyat.n
No" he said, Il always drink Anhauser
or Budweiser."
Leon has little amulet in its inside
pocket that it will get out and surprise
Tue NOIlQ SOuo Jay. Lucy aaNc 0tSSoN-
cred mineral springs there.
''There is always something in Kansas"
remarks the Kansas City Gazette, ito beat
the oldest settler. These October nights
in July are something new"
A man at Caldwell has key 123 years
old. The antiquity of any vessel is not
what attracts the people of Caldwell, how
ever, so much as the contents.
Sumner Press: County Treasurer Strum
returned from Topeka Saturday. He left
with the state treasurer $1961o, and sent
sl4, 1885, S to the fiscal agency in New York.
This is the time of the year when the
klngman huntsman growing impatient
for the quail season. goes out and takes
blaze at the pigeons, as kind of nerve food.
The young man who got up at the
Wellington Normal Institute, and held
stray garter aloft and shouted "Multum
in parvo, pluribus unum." has been
fired.
If you will take notice, in towns of GER
tain size there is always one family that
makes it a practice of being burglarized
about once q year for the name of the
thing.
+. B. Hutchinson visited Geuda Springs
yesterday, aud in the eight mile drive he
counted 800 stacks of wheat, every one OF
which he could see from the road as he
drove along.-Traveler.
There are in Franklin county $50 sheep
and 1896 dogs. The Ottawa Republican is
at a loss to know how the county is going
to manage to get along with SO many sheep
when 1t has SO few dogs.
Parsons Sun: The Kansas City preach
ers are discussing the question OF the sim
fulness of baseball. 1t is certainly sin
to play baseball the way the club from that
civ does when awaV from home
One of mothers joys at Caldwell is to
see her beloved little Willie with his legs
hanging over the edge Of the 15O-foot
standpipe, and pretending that he can't
hear her entreaties to come down.
An exchange explains: "That rather
disconnected, mysterious story in our last
issue was not our fault. We caught the
devil, who has a penchant for fishing, saw
ing out pieces of the plate for his throw
line.n
The nimble -witted wag's pleasantly in
the Wellington Press: The announcement
that diamond wedding rings have been re-
placed by twisted gold ones has made
many Wichita young mans heart leap
with joy.
Charles Smith, living near Udall, has cut
40 acres of broom corn from which he will
make between 1900 and 1000 dozen
brooms. He has been in the business
number of years and says it is the biggest
crop he ever raised
A young man at Ness City, who was suf-
fering with fever, jumped from the second
story window of a hotel last Sunday. He
was book keeper in the First National bank
at Ness City and belonged to an excellent
and wealthy family.
The following is from the Wilkes-Barre,
Pa, Record: "a car load of butter arrived
in this town yesterday from Lincoln, Kan,
made by the Lincoln Creamery ASSOCIATION.
1t was consigned to Charles Z. Dickinson.
This is hauling butter a good distance"
Lawrence Journal: Canton, O., boasts
of miser who is said to live on thirty
five cents week. The paupers of Linn
county go him ten cents week better.
He should come to Kansas and get point
ers if he expects to make a cheap living.
A new coal company with capital of
100000 has bought 1900 acres of land
south of Leavenworth and will sink
shaft and lay ont town site at once.
The company is composed of English
men, headed by Messrs Bond and Bauser-
man.
Within less than sixty days there has
been struck in forty miles of Wellington
no less than eleven dwellings, eight burns,
four school houses, two churches, four
persons and over twenty head of stock,
making total of nearly fifty strokes or
an average of nearly one each day.
X c. Star: Kansas made a mistake in
sending Frenchman as commissioner TO
the Paris exposition. A man 20 talk Kan |
sas and advertise Kansas and make other
people see Kansas as she is must be to the
manor born. No alien can adequately
glorify the sunfiower state or sound her
praises.
The sugar works company proposed that
il the citizens of Attica would furnish the
pole they would put it on the top of the
mill, wire it and put an electric light on
its top. The pole has been furnished, and
when in its place will elevate a light l05
feet in air. Attica believes in letting her
light shine.-Attica Advocate.
The discernment and perspicuity of
some individuals in Kansas is assuredly
staggering. In @ recent suicide where
fellow took poison at a hotel. an old man !
twenty miles away, and he was walking |
along and looked as if he contemplated |
suicide. Afterwards it turned out that the !
poison was taken by mistake.
Sedan Graphic: The Sedan cob pipe |
factory is now at home in Its own three |
story building and the machinery was set |
to running again this week. We do lot /
believe that the proprietors of this enter |
prise are making $50 per day or half that |
amount but they are making enough TO |
keep fifteen boys and girls at work at S /
per week, who would be out of employ /
ment was it not for the pipe factory.
A Citizen reporter made bis way OF |
horseback 10 the top Of the west mound /
yesterday morning. From that elevation |
ls.I of Sa