Wichita eagle., 1889-07-09
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
Seeds. Slips, soOns. Sprouts. Shoots and sli
Lawrence wants to tax the cats.

Lawrence wants to tax the cats.
A man in Jewell county has $50 acres il
corn.
Two Chetopa men were injured by
| canon on the Fourth.
| Love is life'' MARBLES Kansas poe
| whose lines are death.
Dean Swift could sheer at the werld;
country editor could not
| There is nothing the average Kansa:
editor prides himself in SO much as ar
aDhorism.
| They say that metropolitan police al
Leavenworth is to be distinguished by his
shame-faced blush.
DIR. d. S. Gray, of Sedan, suicided
Thursday night by taking morphine
Cause, family troubles.
| The papers are now calling upon Prof
Snow to inoculate the chiggers, with the
| chinch bugs white fungue.
The total expenses of the penitentiary
for the month We're s., 1851 and the total
| cash receipts were S5,45S.93.
Haunted houses are at a discount in
Kansas this year. People are too busy
| with the crops to invent them.
Les Miserables and Hamlet, from the
choice of books published, turn out to be
the favorite works at Lawrence.
Kansans are great betters. Three or four
dollars must have changed hands yester-
day over the Sullivan-Kilrain fight.
A blind man arrived in Arkansas City
Saturday, from Texas. He came alone
and rode horseback across the country.
AT Arkansas City they regard man as
tenderfoot who eats his ''ice" with tea
spoon. They use soup-ladles down there
1t is an exaggeration, the report that
more than quarter of a million went out
of Kansas for liquors on the Fourth of
July.
Burlingame girls have naivette way of
sticking up their noses when asked to
take 81 milk shake. Milk is only cents
quart.
1t is not necessary for a reporter in
small town to be intellectual. to consider
himself genius and the majority
chumps.
Since Prof Virgins has discovered a
second satellite for earth, the moonlight
boating parties have increased perceptibly
in Kansas.
Two men down in Wellington had an
argument the other day about the word
'taxidermy." One man said it was Latin
and meant God will watch over us when
we are separated"
The state house contractors have placed
a new ten-horse power electric motor at
the south front of the capitol, to be used in
placing the porticos, columns and heavy
stationary in position.
Between Monday and Wednesday last
the Central Branch railroad carried 5000
tons of beer out of Atchison in express
cars in addition to a freight car full. And
cave entered against puns.
The newly elected councilman who is
expected to grade up every street in his
ward in twenty-fOur hours, can appreciate
Josh Billings remark that ''Praze is sown
with one hand, censGre with both"
Reads Y. NJ. c. A. exhortation: Strike
while the irons hot" is the old saying.
Changed it reads as follows: "Strike while
the weather is hot" No. don't. says the
ness
Miss Maude Moonlight, daughter of ex-
Governor Moonlight and a former resident
of Leavenworth, will be married on Mon
day to a Mr.. Simon, of Cheyenne, who holds
"A lucrative position under the government
in that place.
Topeka Journals: There is great danger
that the republic is growing entirely too
large. At Winfield it was with the great
est difficulty that they could get forty-two
young ladies on the wagon representing
While Diamond Dick was giving an en-
at Fort Scott last night sky
rocket from the east side of the city fell, |
went through his large canopy tent and |
penetrated the skull of Mrs. John A. Nell |
son, killing her instantly.
One hundred and thirty-fve employees of |
.he Santa Fe shops at Topeka were dis !,
charged yesterday evening. The number |
dismissed was divided about evenly among |
,he round house, machine shop, erecting |
shop and blacksmith and boiler shop. |!
Hard times the cause.
During game of drop the handker-
'hief'' at Topeka church social recently,
voice in the darkness In a pseudo whis-
Der was heard, Piper Heidsick" and
very man in the crowd made break for
he voice, and now they all claim they
hought they had the handkerchief.
Scene: Sanctum. An open window,
Kansas editor and pile of exchanges
-ater gust of Kansas wind land the |
ccusng spirit which flew up to Heavens
hancery with the oath blushed as he gave
t in, and the recording angel, as he wrote
t down, dropped tear upon the word and
'lotted 1t out forever"
Tuesday the creamery shipped 3,000
sounds of butter. In a week it viii ship
10 tubs of butter to New York Tuesday
butter and cheese buyer from New York
Tas here and examined the butter and
heese and he pronounced it the best lot ,
g had examined in Kansas. The butter
rades very high aud was SO well pleased I
hat he ordered 200 tubs as soon as a re-
rigerator could be had.-Nickerson
.rgosy. {
Leayenworth Sun: The bronze statue Of
General Grant has been placed upon the
ranite pedestal at the fort. 10 is an ex-
client piece of art and splendid likeness
/ the great commander. Bronze plates
re- fixed in the sides of the pedestal. One
ears AL equestrian figure oil she General {
nd his famous war horse; on the other is
.scribed the names Of the battles be took p
art In in the Mexican and Civil wars.
he day OF unwilling has not been deter Z
lined (