Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-17
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Seeds. Slips. seion., Sprouts. Shoot. and Silver.

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Seeds. Slips, seion., Sprouts. Shoots and slvsrs.
| Kingman prides herself in the number
OF her fine horses and turnouts.
Saturday the Catholics will hold fair
and have good time at Oxford.
s. r. Peters and wife will be at Geuda
| on September for several months.
C. A. Butterfield, of Woodsdale, Stevens
county, blew out his brains because OF
financial reverses.
Sterling Bulletin: There are few brass
bands that can play as many airs as the
drum-major puts on.
| There is a suspicion in Mulvane that
there is a joint in town-but it is general
iy among the women folks
It is said that the liquid at the five
| O'Clock teas at Belle Plaine is so weak that
| 1t has to wear ankle braces.
Will Stotler. of the Wellington Press,
discovers that the chigre bites Just as hard
as the chi2ger, and vlce-versa.
Reno county has too many school
marms. There are over three hundred OF
them and only two hundred schools.
The district court of Marion will meet
over 100 civil and from fifteen to eighteen
criminal cases.
1t is limited abroad that more than one
editor sojourning at Chingawassa, carries
a spring In his hip pocket which rivals the
panacea proper.
A convict just released from the peni-
Tertiary, raised while there 32l white rats
i'll eight months from a single pair. he
expects to sell them for pets.
Wellington Press: Poor Mrs. Maybrick
has been sentenced to death in London
just for poisoning her husband. A chance
for flowers from Emporia ladies.
1t is asking one to believe too much
when they say that returning Oklahoma
boomer with his covered wagon took
shelter in Cowley county bean pod.
Frankfort Bee: According to the Enter
prise the stingiest man i'll the county has
been found at Humboldt. He crosses his
bees with lightning bugs so they can work
nights.
Wellington Press: The Sedgwick county
normal is in full blast at Wichita and we
hope the red-headed Photographer Of the
EAGLE will keep shady, as we would hate
to lose him.
Emporis Republican: "Can you tell
me- said the succulent tomato, where
can find comfortable quarters for the WIN
terp" Chorus OF Kansas canning facto-
ries: 1--WE cant"
The provision Of a stock of ear-muffs by
an Arkapsas City irm will not seem pre-
mature when it Is stated that there will be
an old fashioned Methodist cAmp-meeting
in that town next month.
These hot summer evenings in Yelling
ton, it Is difficult TO distinguish between
the cackle Of hen over new laid egg
and ths victorious cschinnation of
player at successful throw at quoits.
1t is generally understood that the
match between Charley Woods and Paddy
Shea has been arranged, and that the
scrap will come of ia two or three weeks.
The time and place, however, will be kept
quiet.
The machinery of the Attica sugar mill
was put in motion for a test last Saturday.
Everything proved to be in good working
order. and the mill is ready for business.
1t is the largest plant of the kind in the
United States.
The farmers in the vicinity of Oak VAL
veution of horse stealing. Hemp rope is
the principal argument to be used by the
organization, which will be known as the
Viola Rangers"
Kansas City Star: A man dressed in
woman's clothing is begging from house
to house in Atchison. They found him
out by the way he brought his knees to-
gether when a woman threw slice of
bread into his lap.
Charles Miller, jewelry thief, escaped
from the deputy sheriff of Nemaha county
by jumping from the window of pass
enger coach near Oneida, Nemaha county.
while the train was rnnninR at the rate Of
thirty-five miles an hour.
A man who came to Rawlins county in |
1850 with only % and one suit of clothes, !
now has $50 acres of land, six houses and |
thirty town lots, but he still has only one |
suit of clothes. The last thing Kansas |
man does is co put on style.
Sumner comfy has nearly hundred |
threshing machines busy in all parts of |
the county. This many steam threshers |
cannot do the work fast enough, and |
some of the farmers will not get their |
wheat threshed for several weeks yet.
Kiugman Leader: A farmer in Harper
evil-disposed person was stalking about in |
his watermelon patch, but upon examina-
ton discovered that it was the corn that |
stalks" and it ''ears" all that's going on.
Wellington Press. The water company
are going to put in a dam ut Slate creek. |
1t will be eighteen feet wide and quite
long, and will dispel all fear of water ram
inc in the future They also propose to
filter all the water pumped from Slate
creek.
State Journal August Goth has been
fixed by general consent as the date when
all B--n-S--d elixir jokes and paragraphs
must positively cease. BY that time there
will have been so much talk about injec-
ton that the public will be in state of
general detection.
new fat man joined the circus at Wich-
tia. He wac until recently the type-setter
who Set up the ''Sunflower Shadowings"
of the EAGLE.-W ellington Press Yes.
the fat man referred to has an eye for
something good, consequently the above
is compliment of high order to the circus.