Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-24
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Seeds. Sips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and sis'

Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and slis.rs.
A counterfeiter's metal is usually tried
before he is caught.
The question of Thanksgiving day:
"Will you have dark or white meat!"
The running expenses for the eleven
charitable institutions for October were
81 ,460.3S.
If, when a man marries, he finds his
bride rich. the wedding is au falt; IL be
finds her poor, it is ''ahl fate.
Fort Scott is to have the only railroad
tunnel in the state. 1t is to run under the
old military fort and will &c 600 feet long.
The Leon Indicator is enlarged which
admits of great deal more fancy work on
the party shelves of that portion OF Butler
county.
A fair exchange is no robbery. A man
at Leon is giving 50 pounds OF coal for 40
pounds of corn, or, rou ghly, bushel for
bushel.
A Kansas Judge decided that only in
cities OF the first-class may separate
schools be Established for the education
of blacks and whites.
A correspondent reproves another by
telling him if he can't shoot of his
mouth" without using, he had better
take tumble" and "vamboose."
Atchison Globe: The difference in the
seXeSsshowS itself when you remember
that the wife of a great man Is everything,
and the husband OF great woman moth
ing.
The coup de grace in the husking bee re-
port is "the corn flew" This will be a
puzzler to the omithologists of the future,
when Kansans are as antiquated as Egyp-
tians.
A rural note: Our literary society will
debate the question OF woman's right and
duty to vote, next Thursday evening. No
ladies admitted. A pleasant time is antic-
ipated.
From the death of the pied poetry Of the
journalistic caste at present, 1t is evident
that Mr. Horatlus Flaccus ommitted the
important item of corn-husking in his
cars Poetica."
The lola Register believes that can Uncle
Tom who would jerk Legree's whip out of
his hand and knock him down eight or ten
times and tramp On him would be howl
ing success"
The mill at Wellington is running until
IL o'clock at night, and the promising
young basso, who calls on his best girl In
that part of the city, now confines himself
wholly to the treble cleft.
While constable in Lawrence was ac-
companying professional Jolntlst IN search
of bail. the p. j. gave him the slip and lit
out. But this little coup de theatre Is al
ways understood in Lawrence.
A Wellingtonian caught curious ami
NAL in tho territory that resembles wea-
sci, mink and ferret. Several spectators
remember seeing something like IL Grow
ing on Arkansas City whisky.
of h.
press comphny at Marion, who was sent to
Jail because he refused to let the county
attorney examine his books, during; a
whisky trial recently. has been released.
The company hnolly acceded to the attor-
ney's demands.
Cullison Tomahawk: The Wichita
EAGLE truly says that the ''ony dead
thing in Culiison is an old engine In the
round-house." That's SO at present, but
if the pole-cat that is wintering under the
Tomahawk Office don't soon find other
quarters, there will then be two thugs
dead in Cullison.
A new trial has been granted in the dis
trict court of Shawnee county in the case
wherin jury wiped out debt, principal
and interest, on the ground that the jury
now say that they did not intend to give
verdict which would mean that, but that
they intended to give the plaintiff his
money with legal interest only.
Postoffice Inspector Nelson yesterday
wire Chief Inspector Dice, Of this district,
that he had arrested Charles Miles, in
Purcell. l. T., charged with the forgery of
a signature of a money order payable at
Wichita, Kan. Also ID. e. Winters, of
Hairland, Kan, WAS arrested for commit
ting an offense against the postal laws.
Exchanges tell US that the birds of a
feather" party is the late thing The
lady at whose home the party is to be
given tells a friend to make out a list of
people whom she knows to be on friendly
terms with one another, belonging to their
set" This list the hostess uses without
chaege, and the guests, while knowing
the hostess did not make the selectloi are
not allowed to know who did. Usually
pleasant gatherings of people of similar
tastes is the result. 1t is great scheme,
for none can get angry with the hostess If
he did not receive bid.
John j. Ross. private banker of Kan
sas City, has filed suit in attachment
against H. G. King, formerly treasurer of
a war brtween Ulysses and Appomattox,
both of which want to be county seat of
Grant county. An advertisement kept
in newspaper of Ulysses an
nounces that II. g. King, agent for John
j. Ross, keeps Appomattox scrip for sale
at discount Mr.. Ross insists that he
keeps no such scrip and that the announce
ment is made only to hurt Appomatox. 1t
is charged that Ross has sold $4,000 OF
Grant county bonds at premium and has
failed to return the eXcess.-k. G. News.
Prof. J. Richardson, taxidermist to the
American Museum Of Natural history, at
Central Park, New York, assisted by j.
Hawley of the same institution, has been
n the western part of Kansas about six
weeks collecting specimens of grasses and
'emains of animals and birts that inhabit
he western plains. They shipped 3,l00
pounds of buffalo grass sod, which will be
planted in Central park, and dissected one
If Jones' buffaloes that died recently, TAX
ng the bones. which they will put to-
,ether and set up 10 the museum. They
hipped between 800 and 1900 pounds of
kins, feathers and remains of different
birds and animals which they picked up
II the plains, besides securing alive a
lumber Of rare specimens Of small ami
nails.
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