Wichita eagle., 1890-03-09
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Seeds, Sips. scsons, Sprouts. shocti and Sissrs.
State printer is about the best paying
Office in Kansas it is said.
There are fifteen cities in Kansas ope-
rating street railway lines.
A farmer in Franklin county is taxed
cents on real estate and 80 on dogs.
The personal pronoun, ''our' doesn't
appear before "Ingalis" in the AtchisoI
Champion any longer.
There's many a thing said in the AL
lance columns that the editor does not
hold himself responsible for.
/ For the past ten days the old soldiers at
the Leayenworth Home have been dying
nearly at the rate or one day.
! President Harrison, it is said, played
poker when he was a senator. He Was a
good player and not to be bluffed.
| If winter does linger in the lap of spring
| it is only 10 pay her back for the way she
lounged around on him last November.
| Sharon Robinson, the bank robber shot
| at Meriden, turns out TO have been an ex-
postmaster AZ Homewood. This explains
| his recklessness.
| Mrs. Schmidt, the mother of the Nc
Pherson county ''guadrUples," is the
/ mother of twenty-five children, eight Of
which are twins
| There it talk of citizens alliance TO be
organized in Atchison 70 cooperate with
| the farmers alliance. This VIII probably
| take in Mr.. Click.
| The talk going on just now in the rural
| press about raising castor beans would
| seem to indicate that the farmers are bent
| on working off the present gorge of corn.
| The Winfield newspapers are publishing
| the pictures of the farmers alliance. le
| still fingers il the eyes of IA few that the
| farmers alliance was TO keep cut OF poll
| tics.
at the penitentiary coal mine there was
16S, ,S2S bushels of coal hoisted during the
month of February. The total output
since the siaking OF the shaft is 10, So. .Oit
bushels.
William Weaver. of Durlin North Da-
kota, Is In Kansas for the purpose OF buy
ing buffalo. His idea Is to cross them with
Polled Angus cattle. He and Bison Jones
OF Garden City should form a trust.
A proposition is TO be submitted to the
voters of Mcpherson to vote on the sale of
the city water works 10 company. Nc.
Pherson has found some unsatisfactory
things in running its own water works.
Tim Mccarthy and Hamilton both state
treasurers resigned and took positions on
the Santa Fe, but il is not likely that the
present treasurer Sims has an eye on any
similar post. He has been mentioned as
senator.
One of the greatest evidences that Ben
jamln Harrison is a success as president
is the everlasting bombardement of Rus
sci Harrison by the Democratic news
papers. 1t is poor way, TO attack man
through his son.
The Abilene Reflector is publishing n
batch of stories of early days in Abilene
and the memories of the citizens are so
diversified that by the time the story is
fully corrected and annotated it is about
as uncertain as preadamitic history.
Edgar Allen Poe has been great aid to
matters OF an occult nature. Timothy
Harrington denies the statement that
Archbishop Walsh was chiefly instru-
mental in discovering the key to the
cipher kilograms which he read in the
house of commons. 1t was Edgar Allen
Poe's tale, 1.-The Gold Bug" that assisted
HIM in deciphering the kilograms. There
is no doubt that his Mystery of the Rue
Morgue'' has given many valuable hints
to the police in reaching clue by course
of pure reasoning.
An exchange from Kansas town tells
the following: \ funny story is told on a
young married man in this city. He was
married a little more than Il year ago and
is the proud father of a baby few months
old. He bought very ella borate baby car
riage soon after the arrival of the heir, and
last week the happy father and mother
walked down Ninth avedue, pushing the
carriage with its precious freight. The
sharp eyes of the husband were watching
to see the effect of the procession on the
general public, and he noticed that people
would gaze amusedly as they approached.
and, in most cases, laugh outright as they
passed Hubby got nervous and glanced
at his wife and himself to make sure that
there WAS nothing out of gear in their per-
sonal appearance. The laughter contin-
ued, however, and at last the father re-
quested the mother TO walk on ahead for
half block and return, instructing her to
observe closely and see if there was any
occasion for hilarlty. She complied. and
she neared the carriage on the return
trip her eyes bulged and her face famed as
she saw on the front of the vehicle a pla-
card which had been overlooked when the
carriage was bought. and which bore the
inscription, "Our Own Make" This is
equal to the mistake of A prominent Wich-
ita lady who in the hurry and furry of
the moment, got the order of things mixed
and tied her hustle on the outside of her
skirt, which she did not notice until she
had run long gauntlet upon the street of
wide grins and loud outlaws.