Wichita eagle., 1889-11-13
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
Seeds. Slips. scions, Sprouts. Shoots and sIiy

| Victorious exchanges: Our rooster
Thanks; he's all right.
| Prof. Snow says that the average coolest
day OF the year is January 8.
The w. C. T. Z. have been praying for
the councilmen at Yates Center.
| The Christmas tin whistle is being
brought to light in the notion stores.
| There are only thirteen prisoners in the
Winfield JAIL and it is right after election,
| too.
The Tribune Republican wants it dis
tinctly understood that this is no off year
ID Greeley county.
The Neodesha Register cries despond
emily: Ingalls, is going to build sugar
mill. Neodesha amt.
The new coroner of Montgomery county
| is negro, and lots of the Democrats are
afraid of meeting violent death.
The boy who has shaving mug given
him on his tenth birthday usually drinks
chocolate out of it the following five years.
The Winfield Telegram has reached the
| acme of citation over the election and says:
st seems too good to be true, but it is
| true
| James NJ. Fortner. treasurer Of Riley
county, has skipped to Canada. The
amount of his embeZzlement is at present
unknown.
| The Dlghton Journal observes: Several
| of the youths of this city have bloomed
out in full length pantaloons. They look
| real cute.
"Dice throwing is a crime under our
state law. At Emporia, few days ago,
Justice Bachelor fined two offenders $40
and costs.
John Francis, ex-state treasurer Of Kan
| sas, has gone to New York to assume the
duties of vice president of the Interstate
National bank.
Admonishes the Bluff City Herald:
"Wear your old clothes this winter and
| put your money into lots, the strip will be
| opened and you'll need them"
A man in Norton county picked a quart
of large, ripe strawberries from his vines
last week. Il will be some years before
Oklahoma can do things like this.
died near that city and rain began to
fall 1t covered the ground for a space eff
twenry-oue feet square and continued for
several days.
There Is a tom-cat with gaping grimace
indicative of triumphant jubilation that
has fallen into wonderful popularity with
newspaper that came out on top in the
last election.
Atchison Globe: "Here," remarked
woman in January, as she handed her
neighbor a piece OF ice over the back
fence, sis the ice l borrowed from you
last summer"
The race troubles are over in Tonga
noxie and the white and black children
will meet in the same school room under
similar conditions for the common pur-
pose of education
The Geuda Springs people are preparing
a list of Inducements for next summer
tourists, among which is the assurance to
bathers, that there is no danger of having
their clothing tied.
Emporia Republicans: Mr.. Campbell, the
governor-elect of Ohio, owns 800 acres of
good land near Arkansas City, and would
he had got beaten
Major Henry Inman has written a new
book POO pages called In the Van of
Empire" 1t will be issued at Kansas
City, The story deals with Major humans
fayorite theme, early pioneer life IN the
west.
The Coldwater Echo on the defeat of the
mugwumps in Comanche:
They smole a CHASTITY smile,
And many a wink they wunk,
I'm sure it was no pleasant thing
To think the thoughts they thunk.
Next July Marion county will be TWEEN
ty-nve years OLD. Inc event IS 10 Do ceie-
brated by ouarter-centennial celebration
on the 4th of July. Preparations have be-
gun for it by the appointment of commit
tees. The promoters Of the affair expect
to make it important enough to attract
visitors from many miles around. and are
counting on not less than 10000 people in
town next Fourth.
The sugar mill erected by the American
Sugar company at Minneola, Clark county,
Kansas, has proven success. This COM
pany is the Adamson patent for roasting
the cane before extricatlng tho juice, and
by this means many of the difficulties
heretofore experienced in making sorghum
sugar has been overcome. The process is
simple and economical. and the sugar pro-
duced is of an excellent quality.-Echo.
There are SOP inmates in the Ossawato-
mie insane asylum and 733 in the Topeka
asylum. The number of pupils at the asy-
lun for the blind at Wyandotte is SO. The
number Of boys in the reform school at
Topeka July /, was POS. There are lob in
mates of the asylum for the idiotic and
imbecile youth at Winfield. The number
of boys and girls at the soldiers orphans
home at Atchison is 10a, and there are "a
girls in the industrial school for girls at
Beloit.