Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-15
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Seeds, Slips. seions, Sprouts. Shoots and sliss

Seeds. Slips seions, Sprouts. Shoots and Slivsrs.
| Kansas papers are contracting the habit
OF saying that the last storm was undenl'
ably the worst
| Harry Emmons. a 10-year-old boy, fell
from an apple tree at Kansas City Monday
and broke his arm.
| A Topeka druggist has been fined for
| selling cigarettes to minor. 1t IS the
hrst case under the new law.
Laughter is always Infectious" says
the Lawrence Tribune. Stick pin in a
mans leg as joke and try 1t.
There is one device in the way of gam
bling a Wellington man can't resist, and
| that IS the three shell game.
| Col. o. E. Learnard has been succeeded as
superintendent of Haskell institute by
Dr. c. Z. Meserve, of Massachusetts,.
1t is hard for Kingman young man to
! get out OF town without some one assert
ing that that he won't return alone"
Recent scientific Investigations have
, proven beyond a doubt that 'she do
| move"-that is, the jenny on the street car
at Newton.
| The Anthony high school building has
been rebuilt az a cost of So, $3.50 1t is
one of the best and handsomest school edi-
fees in Kansas.
1t is a sad fact that on circus day at Ar
! kansas City, every man in town regarded
every other strange man as a conscience
less pickpocket.
| Geuda Springs is growing more bon-ton
every day. 1t is now considered an IRENE
diable breach of etiquette TO appear With
out your over-gaiters.
| a man named William Martin fell
| head foremost into a cauldron or boiling
| grease, eight days ago, but lived until
Monday, in Kansas City, Kan.
| Apropos of the exhortative advertise
ments OF church socials, usually but line
| in length, in the local columns, wonder Il
anybody ever does forget them.
Hays City has secured a paper mill,
which Will run night and. employ about
| forty men steadily, consume half Car OF
coal and twelve tons OF straw day.
When too much repetition makes the
show montohous the magic lantern fend
at Ell Dorado turns the slides upside down
and exhibits the inverted figures as
anlmalcues.
Topeka is waxing so metropolitan that
the --latest improved gasoline stove" can
blow up without least fear CT the whole
town coming in and disgracing it with
imprecations.
1t is said that at the circus recently at
Wellington when the little lady" in the
trapeze winked her eye every single man,
and married. too, for that, tipped his hat
and winked back.
The bridge across the Wakarusa at Bel
voir was washed down stream during the
heavy rain Friday night. 1t was an iron
structure and was lately erected by the
county at cost of So, 600.
A great many people never learn to dis
irh hat = o,hc of
eral truths, so exceedingly popular with
some newspaper writers, and the patent
medicine advertisements.
State Journals: Puck makes Kansas
rustler say wal" for well There isn't
man in Kansas who says wal" That is
a New Englandism. and Yankees who
come to Kansas get over 1t mighty quick.
Osborne has a sensational scandal on
hand. A young girl who went wrong,
was taken before the county attorney, con-
fessed her shame ana the names of those
implicated. Several young men have de-
parted for the benefit of their health.
A larger attendance than ever before is
anticipated for the normal the coming
school year. Crops have been good this
season, and judging from the past, it
would not be out of the way to presume
that fully 200 students will be enrolled
for the year of $50 and 80.
State Journal: A Farmers Alliance
convention called to meet in Marion. to
discuss the ''deplorable state of the coun-
try" last Saturday failed to come together
a cursory glance over their wheat stacks
and corn fields convinced every farmer OF
the absurdity OF such meeting and he
staid at home blowing for more wheat.
K C. Star: The dam at Geuda Springs
burst the other day and the waters of the
lake poured out all over the prairie near
by. 1t is understood that hereafter the
Wellington girls, who frequent the
springs and who are interchangeable bathers,
will be prohibited from sticking their toes
into the embankment of the lake.
At meeting of the Leavenworth board
of trade the other night the board decided
to purchase fifty subscriptions to each of
the four daily papers IN the city, the pa
pers to be sent where they will do the most
good toward advertising the city. And
now the papers will toot like a colored
band when the cornet, alto, tuba and
trombone all go at a breakneck speed and
each tries to smother the others
Wellington's method of getting rid of
jointists, from the Standard: Two pris-
oners at the county Jail, jointists, took leg
bail last week while enjoying the privi-
leges rendered unfortuates At this season
of the year by Sheriff Adams. The cOun-
a jointist takes advantage of outdoor priv
ileges granted and skips, he relieves the
city of the expense of his keep and his de-
parture causes no mourning.
A petition is in circulation asking for
the appointment of Mrs. Charity kibbe as
postmistress at Usage City. on the ground
that she is, as the petition states, "a pro-
life Republican, This statement is
based on the fact that four years ago she
gave birth to pair of boys which were
named Blaine and Logan, and during the
last presidential campaign she again pre-
scented her husband with a pair of boys
who were christened Harrison and Morton
Captain Martin Mullins, ex-mayor of
Junction City Kansas. who was the crack
swordsman of the Seventh Hussars, Brit
ish regulars. and had no rival in the
United States army when he was captain
Of the Fifth United States infantry. At
one time with bavonet he defeated Col.
Geo 4. Forsythe, Capt. J. w. Graham and
Dr. w. A. Buchanan, who, mounted and
armed with saberS, charged upon him.
They were regarded as the best horsemen
at the time and beaux sabreurs Capt
Mullins, on foot, 6emoralized them all in
bunch and they at the same time charging
down on him.
The Fredonia Citizen published last
week black list of fifty-three persons
owing that paper on subscriptions total
Of $500 40, or an average of about Sc 05
each. The largest amount dae from any
one Of the list is $3.50 while the smallest
is 50 cents. AS sort of prelude TO the
list the editor has this TO say. "A number
os than hova laf, -ha country and o.harS