Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-05

| to assent that they are just as good as Mrs
| Harrison, since they have heard OF the
mortgage on the white house.
| Astrologers and the superstitious have
| been disappointed by finding that she is
| born in makes no difference in the guam
tity of ice cream Wellington girl eats.
At labor day was not legal holiday in
| Kansas the mayor of Topeka declared it as
such in that city The workingmen had
one OF the biggest parades ever held IN
| Topeka.
Tho Rock Island railway will tomorrow
begin the erection of a corn depot on the
fair grounds. where big display of agri-
cul ural products will be made during the
fair at Topeka
Newton Republican: Wichita's police
men have never fully recovered from the
sell the ''old farmer in Forepaugh's pa
| rade perpetrated upon them. They had
their eyes opened just trifie.
1t has been demonstrated that no kind
of trees flourish near where electric lights
burn all night, but Kansas people who
have to go home after l a. N. have no fear
for the life of the trees.
There are great many handsome men
in Leavenworth, and when away from
home their striking appearance is con-
sDicuously noticeabl e.-Leayenworth Sun
But at home the people know them.
1t must tear the heart of Kansas real
estate agent to think of the immense num-
Der Of acres of land recently sold by the
Indians, upon which no commission what
ever was paid.-Emporia Republican.
The worst trial gentleman has to I'M
dergo in FL Dorado is the knowledge, when
he Is driving the object of his attentions
III the finest rig, that three or four dirty
on hah
Col. NJ. r. Moser, near Harrington, has
over 1900 fruit trees, besides 81, 900 grape
vines, 400 raspberries, 400 black berries and
800 gooseberres. He will ship two car
loads of grapes daily during the picking
season.
4 band of Indians passed through EN-
poria recently and dedicated" lady OBJ
server remarked one old bucks persist
ence in using the car curtain for a hand
kerchief Is an ''idiOsyncrasy. She could
no doubt get the bucks corroboration in
this
The Kansas City Baby Carriage com
pany is building the S75 buggy for the
finest baby in the state of Kansas, offered
as a premium by Rogers * Rogers of the
Kansas City stock yards. and will offer
one themselves for the finest pair OF twins.
This is for the Topeka fair.
for two miles down. has washed out on an
average of twenty feet during the past two
decades. Four houses have been moved
inland within the past five years. besides
three or four that went down stream
Lawrence journal.
No person living will ever be able to
write current date without figure in
it. The figure now stands on the extreme
right-1SS9. Next year ii will be in the
rlla There
for ten years. 1t will then move up to the
third place 900-and rest there Tor one
hundred years.
Scene at Arkansas City: A travelling
man got off the train last evening and re-
marked aloud: why, this looks like
Pittsburg; where does all the smoke come
from" No one was accommodating
enough to tell him that half the people in
town We're burning the weeds and straw
about their premises.
The Arkansas City man who went with
his wife 10 the circus and remained out
side himself to save half dollar, is called
''the meanest man in the STATE" How
would it be if he had reversed the pro
gram, and made the wife stay on the out
side?-Emporia News. Then we would
have included Missouri.
1t is said that the new guests at Long
Branch frequently speak of the hail storm
they heard during the night. They are
soon informed that it Is only the young
lady boarders throwing their gum out
upon the piazza roofs AS they go to bed
They say it is the same way at Geuda
Springs, except it sounds more like brick
house.
Reunion item from Arkansas City: 1t
will take about 100 horses to pull thetoats
used in the harvest drama alone The
horses will be covered with white robes
properly decorated. About 100 Egyptian
grooms Enthusiastically arrayed will act as
escorts in the harvest drama. Yea, King
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed
like these.
.,abetha Herald: The city authorities
find in Leavenworth when liquor is seized
III "A livery stable. or elsewhewhere, that
there are very few cases in which the own
ers call to claim their property. We
would like to see the experiment tried in
Sabeths There is only one livery stable,
az least. in this town. that runs a beer
keg attachment out of all proportion
TO the number Of persons employed.
The Arkansas City girls are indignant
and have passed the following resolutions:
Whereas, We, the undersigned, believ-
ing, as we do, that we have not received
the treatment from the yonnG men of this
town that we merited, have. with view
TO self protection, the future welfare, or
gained ourselye into a body: and
Resolved l. That we Will allow no
Young man to catch OF" and accompany
Us from church, prayer meetings,ice cream
suppers, entertainments, etc, who has not
been our escort to such places.
Resolved , That IL we cannot be table
cloth we viii not be dishrag-in other
words, we will not accept card # we find
or know that the sender has sent one %
some other young lady previously 20 send
ing 70 rs the same evening.
Resolved, , That we think the young
men Of this town display unbounded
audacity and temerity when they accom-
pany Us 10 places where no cash IS neces-
sary, but are conspiouously absent when
something takes place. which would
necessitate going into their pockets.