Wichita eagle., 1890-02-02
sUNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Slips, scions. Sprouts. Shoot. and slIs.

Hutchinson captures the next meeting OF
| the q. A. R
Del Valentine is S5 years old, and be.
longs to the young crowd"
Reed, the speaker OF the house. is report
ed to have snubbed Anderson, OF Kansas.
The state treasurer has been appointed
and great many aspirants see another
| opportunity lost.
Three tons of beet seed have been or
dered from Germany by the Medicine
Lodge Sugar Works company.
Rev. DR.. Hendy, president of the college
of Emporia, dedicated the new PreSbyt ter
ian church at Argonia last Sunday.
| The Kansas colonists who thought Mex
| leo preferable to this state. like runaway
boy, have returned, and were glad to DO 1t.
The Santa Fe's earnings for the third
week in January show an increase or S9o,-
600 over the corresponding week last year.
The annual meeting of the State Eciec-
tic Medical society will be held at the Of
fee Of DR.. Martin, in Topeka, February 4.
Governor Humphrey recognizes the farm
ers by his appointment OF Sims as treas
urer. This probably is the first OF series.
There are twenty-three ex-kansans in
the Washington legislature. Colonel j..
w Feighan, of Emporia Is speaker OF the
house.
J. X. Hudson will not be candidate
against Mr.. ingalls,. The alacrlty with
tions was amusing.
The grip is not through yet. A circular
giving a lengthy analysis of the symptoms
and characteristics of la grippe has been
prepared by Kansas physician.
A paper comes forward with the infor-
nation that Ingalls, speech contains 10000
words. There is more than one way of
criticising a speech among Kansas editors
The Swedish minister to the United
States is named Grip. This information
at SO late a day shows that there are some
things that are overlooked even by the
humorists.
The Manhattan Republic intimates that
Congressman Anderson will soon talk on
the transportation question. Ii he does
depressed agriculture" will get some In
formation, says the Gazette.
Another land mark is gone. The old
army building at the corner OF the plaza
in Fort Scott is being torn down. Some
of these days the authorities will ask the
old Pawnee rock to move on.
Taxes have been paid in Kansas this
year more promptly than for several years
ance will average 10 per cent less than in
any previous year. This shows much
better condition of affairs throughout the
state than was supposed to exlst.-Atchi-
son Champion.
An Atchisou county farmer who has
been marking his hogs with the usual cuts
and Sits in the ears has been losing many
of them Notwithstanding. a good many
earless hogs in a close neighborhood lead
l. hr6 had hnn
stolen and their ears cut off, SO that they
could not be identified. He has now made
up his mind to brand what he has left
some 800, as cattle are branded.
Louisville Times: Ingalls, is the most
brilliant and the most accomplished man
in the senate As lawyer he falls in-
finitely below Edmunds or Morgan; as
political economist he is not to be COM
pared with Beck or with Sherman; as a
politician, German or Quay is worth Il
dozen of him; as an orator, Blackburn or
VOORHEES, outshines him, but there is some
thing about HIM that commands public
attention.
Philadelphia Press: Among the ire
sistables of the navy is DR.. l.. NJ. Ruth,
whom Mrs. Cleveland called the 'hand-
somest man in Washington" He is an
authority on women's dresses, and it is
said that he once expressed surprise that
women as bruno as Mrs. Cleveland should
wear violet One day after Mrs. Cleveland
had heard this remark he met her at a re-
ception, and as he shook her hand he mur-
INJURED:
The violet gown"
Yes" said Mrs. Cleveland, 'but it shall
never be worn again" And it was not.
DR.. Ruth had charge of the Harrison in
augural ball. He has been best man at
fifty weddings and will preside at a num-
Der of the gay atfairs of the next few
weeks.