Wichita eagle., 1890-02-23
sUNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Slips. soions. Sprouts. Shoots and sli.

Seeds. Slips. Scions. Sprouts. Shoots and Siiyers.
The citizens of Cheney are going to sink
a salt well as soon as they can perfect ar
| rangements.
The man who is too old to receive valen-
tines is forever claiming that the custom
has fallen into disuse.
[. It. Wells. of Rocks county, has rails
ed 5, l55 bushels of small grain this year
from an area Of 32o acres.
1t is lucky for Kansas that the hog is q
hog. II he wasn't hog he wouldn't eat
| the corn, because it is so common.
Garden City, Kan, is to have Touring
mill with capacity of $50 barrels per day.
| A mill has been needed at that point for
years.
| No wonder they make such big thing
/ of preserving time" Barber county has
| Ill scres of black berries and l57 acres Of
| raspberries.
/ Charles Howard johnson, the New York
| artist whose work commands good price
! from Puck, Judge and Life, was raised IN
Dickinson county.
! An exchange SAYS that when Bill Nye
said Ladies and Gentlemen to Law
renee audience the other night the house
| roared with laughter.
The Lawrence Journal called Bill Nye
William Adjacent" 1t was good ouib-
bic, but the majority OF the exchanges
didn't see the joke. 1t just struck one.
The editor of the Valley Falls Lutifer is
enjoying his annual arrest at present. So
far as the year has gone. we have passed
by none Of our regulation annual items.
The national banks of Kansas represent
a capital of SIS, ,22222, 2222 430, with a surplus and
individual profit fund Of s., 22225 2S6. So, and
an aggregate Of 81. $40. 512 81 Of individual
deposits.
An exchange SAYS that what the month
OF February lacks IN number 1t makes up
with Importance. 1t has grounding day.
st. Valentines day and George Washing
tons birthday.
Riley county will vote on the first of
April OH IA proposition to vote SIS 600 for Il
new court house. A county with the popu-
lation and wealth of Riley ought to do
better than that.
The report that ''some of the girls in the
"SDider and Fly" company carried away
the premium for beauty at the Paris ex-
hibition'' is probably due to Bill Nye's
presence IN the state.
Rory Moore, the new assistant state
treasurer, gives his superior bond of
$500, 900, and now if Mr.. Moore will state
what bond his assistant gave, the bond
item will have been worked for all it is
worth.
A congressman from Maryland is named
Mudd, and rising young student .in the
University of Maryland Is named Cloud
RalnWater. The best way, it seems, to
get out of this difficulty, is for one or the
other to prove an allbl.
The planters of ChautauQua and Mont
gomery counties are ginning their cotton.
1t is said to be of a high grade and has
paid at Il rate of $40 an acre for production,
This will open a profitable line for the
farmers of southern Kansas.
Associate Justice Brewer has presented
the LeavenworGh county law library with
$50 volumes of law books. Besides the
intrinsic value they are worth something
as property once belonging to a man who
was self-made, and who made u good job
OF it, too.
Leavenworth is represented in Wash
ington at present by Colonel Anthony,
Hon. j. Z. Legate and eX-Mayor Neeiy.
The Sun says 1T certainly is q comfort to
know that, while these three gentlemen
put on belligerent airs toward each other
at home. they are bosom friends else
where, especially in Washington
Kansas City Gazette: There are now
1860 cases awaiting attention on the su-
preme court docket. 1t will be four years
from now before the last case on the pres
ent docket is reached The court is now |
along at the rate of about 400 cases
ii year. But there were received this year |
$50 new cases. Four years hence. when |
the cases now pending are disposed of, |
there will be over {, 900 cases oD the docket. |
That is what the situation will be unless |
relief is afforded.