Wichita eagle., 1889-08-31
sUNFLoWER sHADOwINGs.
Seeds. Sips, scions, Sprouts. Shoots and si..
The prairie chicken cry: 'Lie low
Arkansas City has twenty miles of water

Cowley county has seventeen paupers at
the county farm.
'.Thick as grasshoppers" is Kansas
expression long fallen into disuse.
The Kansas Grand lodge of the knights
| of Honor meets at Topeka September a.
| Kansas papers are set Oh having Bob
| Younger dying in the Minnesota peniten-
tiary.
| That is an ugly sensitive probate Judge
/ in Kansas who will not allow the bride to
| kiss him.
Wellington Press: The Press is now in
better shape every way than 1t has been
since 1886.
| The editor who is smart never worries
over the rumor that another paper is to be
started in his town.
1t is said that Ell Dorado equestriennes,
as soon as they get out of sight oyer the
hill, go it man fashion.
The Emporia News says: An Atchison
reporter gets 3 ''tWofer" for announcing
the birth of a mule colt.
A Cullison woman says her husband is a
three-handed man-lef5 hand, right hand,
and little behind hand.
The Parkinson sugar works at Fort
Scott, says the Arkansas City Traveller,
| cleared say last year
About all some farm boys know about
astronomy is that the next is harvest moon
and that's enough for them.
Argonia has six grain buyers, but they
get into all kinds of knotty disputes IN
striving to out bid one another.
The agricultural societies of Douglass
county will hold a grand harvest home
picnic at Sigel. Douglass county.
a stranger should not take the troubls
J
town. 1t is always behind the school
house.
i Kansas woman always feels the least
bit chagrined when the art committee at
the county fair hangs her pictures upside
down.
Confectioners still charge 10 cents dish
for ice-cream at Pratt, and people viii still
remark that our young men have no go
IN them.
The Paxton Courier is clamoring for a
bank, claiming that that city has plenty
OF business TO support an Institution OF
that kind.
The Wellington society girl always
scores it as Il mark of preferment when she
gets one Of her teeth pulled publicly by the
travelling dentist.
When an editor pol1es fun at some
anonymous woman in his paper, 1t IS
usually his vile, LOT lEefe he can 10 IL
with lmpunlty-so
The indian girls from the United States
Indian industrial school at Lawrence have
been for three weeks encampment at the
mineral springs at Eudora.
A Topeka man asked for macoroons ct a
Wellington ice-cream palace the other day
and the waiter still goes into spasmodIc
Commissions at every retrospection.
1t is a dead give away on your riding to
hang onto the saddle horn at Arkansas
City, in fact. you are looked upon as sort
OF dude If you use saddle at all.
What an opinion the people two thous-
and years hence will have OF our intelii-
gence if they should pursue the average
paper OF today devoted to county politics.
There is a child at Kingman who hasn't
fallen off of the front gate this summer,
and people think that this distinction
means the presidency or something big for
him.
Cloud county purchased 80 per cent.
more Bibles last year than any other
county III the state. \ Cloud county man
takes great IN the family record, too, it is
said.
James F. Foreman, of Everest, claims to
be one of the oldest settlers in Kansas and
doubtless is. He settled near what is now
Atchison in 1913 and was an Indian
trader.
Wellington Press: The editor has cat
that eats raw roasting ears. This ia not
mentioned as an inducement for congress
to locate the worlds fair here but merely
as freak.
The state board of charities has award !
ed the contract for building the state in
dustrial school for girls at Beloit to a
Beloit contractor for SlG.9S9. Work is to
begin this fall.
Thirteen hundred and seventy five |
school children will simultaneously pull |
out for school at Eldorado Monday morn |
Ing ana suck their respective thumbs when /
asked their names.
The Cheney Blade is offered for sale, its /
editor and publisher, Warren Foster, hay /
ing engaged in another business enter /
prise that will compel his absence from /
home considerable part Of the time.
1t is strange little study but the normal /
institute in Il body haven't called on a 4
Kansas editor but that they found him !
pulling his disheve.led locks in deep medI- /
tation and oblivious to all about him.
a man III Graham has a Shetland pony
ranch. He purchased several head OF these .
ponies and IS crossing them with Indian f.
pony mares. IhIs cross gives a very nice /
little pony which he sells for a fancy price,
so OF course he Is making money.
The voters Of Cloud county will have a
special election October l. to vote aid 20
the Omaha Kansas Southern railway
through four townships Of the county.
ConcOrdla, the county seat, viii vote on q
similar proposition September y.
If they keep on receiving kilograms
stating that so-and-sO Is appointed post
master a Arkansas City the chances are
that every man in town will think he has
II, and II viii be necessary to bring in a
foreigner TO dispose Of 1t amicably.
kins'ey Mercury: The Kansas City Star
is trifle off in saying that Edwards coun-
~ viii produce more crops this year than
III all previous years put together. Our
crops are immense this year, and no mis-
take, bat we have had number OF i'm
mense' crops here before. aud never any
thing like a complete failure
/. f. Starks, farmer residing in Har-
per county, recently made oath to the
statement that 'Be Is running a steam
thresher and that during the past six
weeks he has threshed X 90 bushels Of
wheat and that the lowest yield was
twenty-four aud the largest thirty GIT
bushels per acre"
A few weeks ago a gentleman Of this
city, whose wife IS in the east visiting
friends. awoke during the light and found !
himself hugging the pillos. He thought
here was an opportunity 70 get his wife 20
come home so wrote her all about it. The
answer he got was that she did not care
how much he hugce1 the pillow, Just 50
long as he did not hug anything else
Arkansas Valley Democrat Then what
did the man dot
Newark Advertiser: The Afternoon
meeting at Ocean Grove on Monday WIS
by Mrs. Lydia Sexton, Ct Kan