Wichita eagle., 1890-03-08
sUNFLOWER sHADOwINGs.
Seeds. Sips. se;0ns. Sprouts. Shoots and sHu

The Atchison women propose to have
jobs as pension enumerators ana have or
ganlzed to get the positions.
The state penitentiary only lacked $50 OF
paying expenses last month.
The Troy Chief says that ben Harrison
has been doin' OF it one year"
Andy Felt wants to be governor of Kan
| sas. There are great many throughout
tie state similarly effected.
1t has been decided that that geological
meteorological trio, the March hare, lion
and lamb are totally unreliable in Kansas
Pearl hardening. for use on the finer
| grades OF paper, VIII be another product OF
the Medicine Lodge plaster and cement
works
If you take too much anti pyrin you will
| nave ''diniethy loXychinocine. and after
| this gets coiled about you i6 is no easy
matter to disengaSe yourself.
The man who cannot stand Il practical
joke warns up all through March at the
thought of what he will do to his friends
Il they trouble him April The first.
There are people in this state who firmly
believe, and not without cause. that the
sufferers of western Kansas are principally
affected with an ache in the stomach, the
result Of overlooking.
Farmer Smith. Of Mcpherson. has not
been heard from for some time, but let
none grow solicitous that he is somnolent
politically. He has his eye on Railroad
Commissioner Green place.
Several things will have to be done yet
before . governor is appointed for Okla
homa. Aaron Jetmore has not yet been
mentioned for the place and Henry
Booth has put in 40 application, says the
Emporia Republican.
The Atchison Champion which has
given vent to some sentiments of a rebel
lions cast, says; ''If the politics of Kan
sas is revolutoniZed within the next year
or two, it may be charged to The machine
politicians, who by their methods have
precipitated it.
Bishop Fink, of Leavenworth, has re-
ceived White Cap notice threatening TO
blow up every Catholic church and every
priests house in his diocese if he does no.
at once take certain action in a trivial dis
pute concerning the location OF a cemetery
1T Wamego.
Since the entry of the new Republican
postmaster at Atchison it has been brought
TO light that out of daily average of
eight hundred persons who call for their
mail at the delivery window at the post
offices, not one in ten receives 4 letter.
This is probably the reason, that only one
out Of ten put the stamp on the right
coraer OF the envelope.
Wellington has man with an outre
mishap in his life, for which be nor any
one in particular is to blame unless il is
Providence, and Providence would hardly
entertain any ili-feeliug towards man By
which he would be deprived of those pres
ents, and pleasurable pats on the back by
which his age is enumerated and other
annual festivities. This man is forty
years old and has only seen ten birthdays.
He was born on the 18th of February.
A Coffey county farmer took GOO head of
cattle belonging to q New Mexico cattle
company about eighteen months ago, to
feed. He was to get eight cents pound
for all he put on the cattle. About two
months ago, or less, accounts were squared
up between himself and the cattle COM
pauy, when ii was found that the amount
due him was equal to the present market
price of the CATTLE and $4,000 over. The
owners OF the cattle turned the herd over
to him and gave him a check for ST, 900.
In an Omaha church recently, Sam Jones
shouted: ''lS there Il man present who
never spoke a cross word to his wife?"
The silence was becoming oppressive. Peo-
pie looked here and there. Every husband
present wanted to get uD but did not dare
to. But the sadness that had possession Of
Jones' face vanished a moment later when
a round faced, good humored man rose
Jones, there is one man who never spoke
a cross word to his wife, The good ma
tured man smiled bland smile and said: |
NO, sir, / never did; I'm a bachelor" " |
Then he put on his hat and calmly walked I
out of the door
Miss Anna H. Shaw spoke at Atchison |
Tuesday night. She is woman suffrag- |
ist. In her address she said THAT /
while men would not give women the !
iOi,I RI bey 10 hni nati nj
blems all of female figures; the goddess of /
liberty, the goddess of justice, and SO on. |
Even the eagle which emblaZons the ma |
tional coat of arms is the figure of fe- |
male eagle, although the men did not /,
know it when they painted it. 1t is the |
American eagle-he shreks' no longer, |
but she shrieks.' \ Wisconsin regiment |
carried Old Abe,' a bald eagle, all through |
the war, and he was brought back and |
placed in the state museum at Madison. |
Verses We're written about old Abe and !
the men were very proud OF the famous /
fowl. until one day he went to LAYING eggs,
and 10 and behold, odd Abe was hen"
What town Will allow the allegation?
De Wolf Hopper, i'll the New \ Ork Sun,
says: THE strongest encore ] ever receiv-
ed was when | WAS playing in Kansas
town. | had sung song without IL hand
without symptom OF applause; and |
retired 10 my room IN despair and COM
menced changing my clothes. When more
than half way on the road to puris natura-
ibus-no encore there either, please-the
stage manager came to my room, yelling,
Hopper. Hopper! They're encoring you
quick" l threw on something and stag
Iered on. Sure enough, although some
1ne else had been talking for over three
minutes since / had left the stage, the ar
ience had suddenly woke up and discov-
cred that | had sung something funny,
md they wouldn't let any one else utter Il
sound until | had repeated my efTusiou
gain aud again, and still some more"