Wichita eagle., 1890-03-11
sUNFLowER sHADowINGs.
Seeds, SIPS scions. Sprouts. sheots and sis.rs

\ SeecSI S3oss Scions, SofoSts, Shcoks ana Sassrs
| The Farmers alliance store will open at
! Usage City next week with a capital stock
of $50, CO.
! Puck says western man explosiyeiy
asserts that the census of 1880 is libel on
| the great west. In fact, it is.
| The Kansas State university has eight
| more Rocky mountain goats than any
other Institution or museum in the world.
| Senator Plumb is writing great many
| letters. 1t is almost an exception to find
a weekly paper without a word from
Plumb.
The Lawrence Journal is of the opinion
that the Haskell institute and Superin-
! tendent Messerve do not deserve what the
papers impute.
Among his noted acquaintance George
Martin numbers Buffalo Bill. He des-
cribes him as ''genteei, modest fellow in
| buckskin breeches,
Now they say that John a. Anderson
viii be the farmers candidate for senator.
This would indicate that Samuel Peters
has no designs that way.
4 Kansas weekly exchange came TO this
Office this week with a column of Missouri
news. 1t was sort O queer like" for a
Kansas paper to do anything like that.
when notified that the Aschison Champion
was hitting some great unnamed. was to
take off his glasses. wipe them and elacu-
late, "Psh.
Congressman Peters is opposed to the
squandering of money IN the erection of
public buildings. The Interrogation, what
is il that Peters wants. becomes more
obstruslye every day.
And some one individual begins to real
ize something from the Alliance already
The Kansas State Farmers Alliance has
made contract with A. Harold, of Man
haitian, to purchase no feed mills but his.
In length of recent lengthy dissertations
on the tariff between the states and Mexico
from the Democratic side, repUbllshed In
the Kansas City Gazette, it almost admits
of the propriety TO ask who that paper will
support for president in 81.
Kansas has perhaps got more mills than
any other state in the union, In proportion
to population. The states milling cspac-
ity is almost 3,o00,000 barrels Of -four per
annum. 1t requires $1,000 coo bushels OF
wheat to make that much flour.
The Atchison Champion compliments
Senator Plumb but this doesn't argue
that the EmpOria Republican will compli-
ment Senator Ingalls, in return. Local
courtesy between the homes of the senators
doesn't work through that channel any
longer.
The price of type has gone up 20 per
cent because antimony is also used in the
manufacture of smokeless power. How
ever, delinquent subscribers are notified
that the newspaper can blast just as hard
with type at the present prices as at the
old price.
The Peabody Gazette is informed that it,
costs ouly 90 cents to be cermated in Paris.
1t is only fair for the Gazette to come out
received any word that our French repre-
sentative. Emil Firmsp, has any designs
on his own life?
The students at the State university put
up job on one of the professors recently
by getting him mixed on the roll call.
The name McGinty was surreptisiously
added 10 the list, and the professor, after
calling the name once Or twice, innocently
inquired if anyone knew where McGinty
was. The uproar that followed opened the
eyes of the professor, and he dismissed the
class with the remark that he did not
suppose that any member of the class WAS
bright enough to thus get the best of him.
1t appears from the Washington dis
patches that there are 80 015 kansans, who
by their signatures affixed to petitions,
have formally protested against the pas
sage of any bill by congress In regard to
the observance of the Sabbath or any other
or ecclesiastical institution or
rite, or the adoption of any amendment to
the national constitution providing for
the giving of any preference to any relg- |
louS sect above that of any other, or that |
IN any way sanctions national legislation |
upon the subject of religion.