Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-22
sUNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Slips, seions. Sprouts. Shoots and siiv

| oeeos, DIPS, Seions, Sprouts ohoo's sno S"Se's.
johnson City will put down an artesian
| well.
An INDECENT wit says the sunfiower has
| the big head.
Harvey county is now in the Larned
land district.
Larned is going to have a mineral water
lake 200 by $40 feet.
Six different kind of vegetable is the
lowest limit in Kansas cuisine.
Bluff City's altitude is 1,2O1 feet, and she
| don't feel in the least stuck up
''Did you ever see mug wump?"-Ex.
! y o. did you ever see wuInp mug!
The dates on which the Caney Valley
| fair will be held are September is, 10 and
| 20.
In the bright lexicon of the Kansas
farmer of 1889, there is no such word as
| lie"
There is only one thing that will be
more abundant than the quail this fall
the hunter.
The artesian we'll is now flowing 5000
gallons of water every twenty-four hours
at Richield.
The first bushel of peaches a Kansas
! grocer gets in he never sells. His custom
ers sample them.
South Larned, formerly known as Joyce
| town, has been rebaptised and rechrlsten-
ed Salt Lake City.
! Watermelons are getting at that place
at Wellington, where people dlsdaln to eat
anything but the heart
The Halstead band lays claim to having
| the finest set of instruments in the state
| instruments Of torture.
| One of the numerous accomplishments
of Johnson City belle is to crack the
head off live rattlesnake.
There is a Shawnee county school teach
er who thinks Milton was not much OF a
poet, because he spelled favor, IA
YOUR"
| Suspicion points to a man at Topeka
| who has been to Yellowstone park and did
/ not write descrip ton back to the local
papers.
1t is being circulated around that the
! 500 banner which was presented to the
| Shawnee Republicans by Tom Osburn
only cost $40. so.
A man can whistle anything from mel
lie BY" to Mozart Concerto" in tune
with the hum of Sedgwick corn cutter,
and men do.
Abraham Morley, of Cherokee, has sued
George E. Anderson in the district court
for S25, 900 for alternating the affections OF
MS vile, Emily Morley.
The Globe Salt works At Anthony began
full operations on Monday and are now
! manufacturing salt from the elegant
brine obtained from the salt well.
A social lion in small town in the
northern part of this state has the APP
proprlate name of Adam Buldozer. There
is something in Shandyism, after all.
What with a long line of threshers and
engines, wagons, sulky hay-rakes, moving
machines, ETC., the farmer and his family
is witnessing an industrial procession
every day.
Even the children of Kansas smile as
they pass the big cornfields.-Bless 'em,
| they know that big corn crops mean big,
! fat Thanksgiving turkeys, and overflow
| ing Christmas stockings.
&c. Star: They are trying very hard
to find the remains of prehistoric animal
ut Chingawassa Springs, near Marion.
The company is determined to spare no ex-
penss to make the place attractive.
| A Kansas morgeu-lied:
why do love at early morn to wake
When roses are still wet with dews?
Because then can turn and take
Another snooZe."
Strong City has secured the contract to
supply the stone for the Missouri river
| bridge at Kansas City. The contract calls
| for 9. 800 car loads of stone. The work Will
require over one hundred laborers and cut
| tiers.
The Grenola Chief has the following
! scrib: IF you desire to sell your farm.
| place it in our hands and we Will advertise
! it free of charge" And the paper is pretty
confident that no one wants to sell his
farm.
Many an old dilapidated wagon Will
turn it's wheels mp in the air and furnish
kindling wood this year, while the red
spokes and the green bed of the new We
hicle will crow VIGOROUSLY in color-lan-
guage
From Hill City, county seat of Graham
| county, to ConcOrdla, east: thence 10 Scan
dia Republic county, on the north; and
thence west along the Rock Island road to
| Norton county, Is one vast sea OF corn,
most of which is out OF the way OF dry
weather.
Lawrence has spent 500 on a new iron
gate for Oak Hill, her city OF the dead.
| The gate is of handsome scroll work dec
| GRATED with emblematlc designs, among
them the cross and crown, the scythe and
hour glass
An outcast item: An old maid in juno
ton City keeps a parrot which swears.
and q monkey which chews tobacco. she
says between the two, she dosen't miss
husband very much.
At Topeka there were $500 pupils en-
rolled In the city schools last year; of this
mum Der :, oGj were in attendance at the
| close of school year in June. During the
term 6S9 had the measles 4G1 the mumps,
and Sol were vaccinated.
There is crowd OF beggars doing south
| eru Kansas that are noted for their I'M
cleanliness, and they are known as Italians,
! Russians, Poles, Germans, MeXlcans and
Missourians in the different towns they
strike. 1t would be consoling to know OF
what nationality they really are.
Simon Lebrecht brought an action
against the Citizens National bank in the
district court this week-in which he
sues for 81, 600 Simon claims the bank
has charged him usurious interest. and
that he has paid usurious interest III the
kamount of 81 500 aud he sues for twice
that amount.-Cresset.
The lola Register calls attention to the
fact that, four years ago, after twenty
four years of consecutive power, there was
not a dollar shortage in Kansas post
office After only four years OF power the
! Democratic books are being overhauled,
and already two defalcatlons have been
discovered, one at Lawrence OF 5000 and
one at EmporIa OF 5000.
Situated at Udall is one Of the best Pat
ent Roller Mills in the state, which gives
the farmer the highest cash price for his
wheat. and furnishes the surrounding
cities with high grades of flour at the
lowest prices. Also there is located at
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