Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-04
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The Farmers alliance claims member
| snip 10 Kansas Of 4O,OOO.
! Never transfer big raw oyster from the
plate to your mouth, neatly. 1t is not in
| fashion.
| Hartland INDUCED in a 1900 fire last
week. but Injuries like this are thrust on
the people out there.
! The housewife is giving way to the an
nual grief and misery over the death of the
frost-bitten geraniums.
The youngest gentleman of the family is
making his daily morning trip TO the river
to see If it is froze over and will hold.
Great Bend will likely put in city scales
| soon. They are going to the give result
mission sentiment, out there. weigh.
| The iceman's wife thinks the proper sea-
| son to dress is summer, but then the coal
dealers wife can present wonderful argu-
ments for winter.
| A society event at Atchisop, which the
Associated Press neglected to handle, was
the marriage on Thanksgiving night of
Senator Ingalls, colored driver.
A minister has just closed revival at
Mulyane and left for Palestine. 1t is
pretty hard to tell whether the joke is Oh
the Holy Land or the Kansas town.
Two worthy citizens of Dodge City en-
tered into debate recently whether IL was
re pluribus unum,' or ''veni, vidi, vici,"
that was mysteriously written on the
walls Of Belshazar's palace.
The Ness County News says the greatest
need Of western Kansas is more truth
telling" Out west it is safe enough to
say such things collectively, but it is not
polite to say it of an individual.
Ness City's tourists are compelled to
reach the city in way car and they make
all manner of fun of the railroad. The
News says the ''bobtail'' still continues to
arrive on time almost any time that suits
its convenience.
A woman at Topeka who applied for a
divorce the other day, told the judge that
she had been twenty-three years trying to
get her courage up to the point. Mean
while her husband had been pounding and
otherwise maltreating her.
K. c. Star: A western paper says that
the continued increase In the marriage rate
in the state of Kansas is one of the surest
evidences of its prosperity. That is an ex-
ceedingly delicate compliment to the state
normal school at Emporia.
A gypsy women laid her curse down on
a MissOurifarmer who refused her nights
lodging and within two weeks an uncle of
his died and left him $4,000 il hard cash.
But the most curious thing about it is
that it didn't happen in Kansas.
Ellsworth Herald: You may be lovely
girl, Myraline. and you may possess sutfi-
Gent talent to bring you fame and shekels;
but you will get neither from this paper if
you continue to send us stuff containing
such rhyme as 'lumbago" and Chicago"
Il am tired of living with such homely
woman!" exclaimed William Rush, of
Fort Scott, as he walked away from his
60 Ia 9TH <lnu CHI
was left with legacy of 900. and Will
liam hurried home to call her his angel
one, but she wouldn't let him in.
A number of horses were stolen from
Topeka last week. An association will be
organized there Wednesday for the pur-
pose of Offering rewards for the arrest of
horse thieves and the recovery of animals
"a vigilant committee. "California in
Early Days. books aud plays used in ex-
cess always work on community in this
way.
If the fire in the base burner goes out
don't spend the time and trouble to get
charcoal to start it. but get some glowing
Goals from the Kitchen range and put some
coal on them and then get down on your
KEGS, in an uncomfortable position, and
with wild eyed anxiety watch those once
radiant Goals grow duller and DINNER and
die out altogether. Experiences like this
make philosophers.
An exchange gives the following hint to
church festivals: Take nine reasonable
sized oysters-not too large-to each five
gallons Of water and tie them up carefully
in a cloth. If the fair is to continue only
three days cheese cloth will do, but if it
holds week and large attendance is ex-
pected it is better to use good heavy
quality of duck, so that the bivalves shall
not lose their entire flavor the first few
evenings The most satisfactory financial
results have been obtained from the above.
and there is local legend. pretty well
authenticated, which relates that youth
once murmured in an awe stricken whls-
per- after he had tasted such mixture:
II think detect a flavor of oyster.'