Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-11
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Seeds, Slips Scions, Sprouts. SHOOTS ana Slivefs.
Charity never wants for an object.
Every community, however anuent, mas
its mendicant, be he worthily so or not.
Edison wants something hard in litra-
ture. Has he tried one OF Carlyie's Ter
man-English-French sentences?
Atchison Globe: This is the time of
year man makes Christmas the excuse
for having secret from his wife.
1t is something strange that negroes for
q weapon take to the razor. 1t may be the
natural inclination they have for Zip"
There is man so stingy in Emporia
that he bites the ends off his ''two-fer''
cigars immediately so that people won't
ask him for them.
An exchange says there are still men
who think it novel and funny to ask,
when you have a new suit of clothes on,
where the fire was.
1t will be sad for Baby Mckee when he
gets older 10 be reminded OF SO many eX-
citing experiences he had which he hasn't
the slightest recollection of.
The practice of pressing ferns is growing
rapidly in this country. Inc american
circulated over so, 900, coo bibles.
K. c. Star: The climate of the Atlantic
seaboard does not agree with Cleopatra S
Needle. 1t is believed that the only way
TO save it is to send it to Kansas.
Topeka Journal: The Cronin trial is
nearly over. 1t has resulted chiefly in the
finding out where nearly everybody IN
Chicago was on the night OF May 4.
Mr.. Plumb introduced bill to prevent
the issuance of passes to official person.
ages, and several of the boys who carry
ANNALS in their morocco cases are wonder
ing what Plumb means.
Dr. Amelia B. Edwards, who has been in
the country not quite month, declares
that America will furnish the noted
women of the future. Amelia is smart
and she knows where to sugar the Amerl-
cans.
Men always cherish an unpleasant feel
ing towards the person who first revealed
to them who Santa Claus really is, and
robbed his mind of the poetry that this
mysterious parsonage invests christmas
with.
Every day some feeble octogenaran
marries, to the great modification and hu-
initiation of his grown children. 1hls Is
we'll enough. 1t is the only way totterlng
old age has Of getting even with the i'll
gratitude and disrespect OF its children.
1t is proposed to mark the spot in Tren-
ton, y. j. where the HeSSlanS surrendered
over a century ago with $500 stone. This
is unnecessary, as it is generally supposed
that the English spent enough money on
these poor prince-trodden mercernaries one
hundred years ago.
The safety of the Crawford Opera house
at Topeka is again under discussion. The
people have never forgotten the panic
which occurred there one night when a
fellow came in and whispered around
! among the audience that restauranter in
the block below had tapped keg of beer.
The police poured barrels of whisky and
wine into gutter at Leavenworth Satur-
day, and the crowd of spectators scooped
it up, imbibed and became disgustingiy
intoxicated. Tothe average citizens mind
in Leavenworth the use of the gutter as a
bowl was not SO disgusting as the ignor-
ance of OVERRIDING mixed drinks.
The frequent quotations FROM that an
Gent wine bibher, Omar Khayyam, in the
Kansas City Star, would perhaps work q
perceptible decrease in its subscription list
of good, reputable christians if, in add
ton to the trend of his sentiments. II
should come to their knowledge that he is
designated as the ''Voltaire of the East