Wichita eagle., 1890-01-15
sUNFLowER sHADow1NGs.
Seeds. Slips. scioas. Sprouts. Shoots and slis.

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Seeds, Slips, scions. Sprouts, Shoots and Silver,
They tell of man out in California who
has green whiskers and he is not an Irish.
man, either.
The papers are accusing Judge Foster OF
using poor grammar. The only ready way
to avoid this allegation In Kansas is &c
write in cipher.
The married daughter of Mrs. Jefferson
Davis lives at Colorado Springs and her
mother is not coming to Kansas to live.
This ought to satisfy the Kansas papers.
There are now 13I active camps of the
Sons of Veterans in the state and the num-
Der is being increased every year. for, in
deed, most Of the veterans go on producing
ons.
There is a family of nine children at
| Leroy, whose aggregate weight IS 1878
pounds. If they were all weighed at once,
the scales probably thought that it was a
horse on it.
Somebody put bug into Uncle Jerry
Rusk's ear as to the demands Of the public
| upon his official person and he has an
nounced that the influenza sis vegetable
growth in the air."
New York Sun: IT'S devoutly to be
wished that the Hon. John James ingalls,
will not make his speech on the southern
question so hot as permanently to discour-
age the coy cold wave.
A Lawrence girl has fallen heir to an
estate, and the people who do not like it
| add just that much to their regard for in
| tellectuality and An equal amount to their
contempt for opulence.
| Miss Wanamaker is the best dressed
young woman in Washington. Claiming
| that distinction himself among the
masculinity, J. Rats Burton will probably
ask for knock down"
There were only go copies of the first
edition of 1bsen's "a Dolls House." and
four of them were taken III Topeka, In
conjunction with Quinine this book is said
to be very good for the grip.
| 1t has been fully two years since SER
mon has been preached in Ivanhoe, Has
kell county, and the people ont there only
retain the memory of that pleasurable SEN
satlon OF being read to sleep.
Detroit Free Press: A few years ago the
word Joint" as applied to drinking sa-
loon, was hopeless and to many unintelli-
glble slang. Now the western papers have
dropped the quotation marks from it.
The city of Augusta starts off with the
new year 1890 in good shape She does not
owe dollar and has money in her treas
ury. Thanks to the present administra-
ton for this condition of things.-News.
The Welsh for beer is cwrw. With a
disposal of the always preceding ''zwei,"
this ought to spring into popularity with
| Kansas joints, as it IS almost Impossible
| Tor the novice to pronounce "cwrw" above
whisper.
| Kansas City Star says ''the county COM
missioners of Reno county paid out during
scalps." The only objection with the
Stars statement is that in Reno county
there was ''naught before O."
There is this difference between banquets
| in New York and in Kansas. In New
York no wine is allowed after 1 O'Clock,
while in Kansas no wine Is allowed till
after that time, unless the guest sees fit to
bowl up little before his arrival. in which
case it is none of the hosts business.
Ex-Governor George Z. Anthony has
| been farming for fourteen years, and be
! says that his investments in this direction
| have been more satisfactory than any
| other he has made during the same period.
He is now getting thirty-five cents bushel
| for corn by feeding it into stock. Mr..
Anthony, by the way, stands up behind
one of the most Respondent diamonds in
the state of Kansas.
1t is proposed that the new seal of Geary
county, Kan, shall have in the center a
picture of General Geary kissing his dead
war does not furnish a more touching in
cident. A boy at the age of II eniists and
at 90 is first lieutenant of the famous
Knapp's battery. AS the father. briga-
der general commanding division, was
about to lead what proved to be one of the
most desperate and heroic struggles of the
whole war; the son falls before his eyes
with bullet in his forehead. He dis
mounts, kisses the boy, mounts again and
leads on to duty with wonderful fortitude
skill aud bravery. Father and son con-
tributed equally to the name of Geary.
DR.. Il. Dewitt Talmage says there never
was a more wonderful instance of duty
performed under such awful circumstances
as when Geary left his dead boy on the
field and led his troops to victory.
Ex-Governor Nehemiah Green was elect
ed lieutenant governor of Kansas in 1867,
with Samuel J. Crawford at the head of
the ticket, and when the latter resigned in
1869 Mr.. Green succeeded him and Occu-
pied the guberhatorlal chair for three
months. The list of Kansas governors,
which remained unbroken for so many
years, has been depleted at rapid rate
since the death Of Thomas l. Carney two
years ago. Governor Martin followed last
fall, making an interim of but few
months between his demise and
that of Governor Green. The gov
ernors who still survive are
CEdTIeS IlOUIuSOu, SIdNlOTu,
James NJ. Harvey, Thomas A. Osborn,
George T. Anthony, John p. St. John,
George w. Click and Lyman Z. Hum
phrey. With the exception of Governor
Harvey all of them still reside in Kansas,
and are in active life. Charles Robinson,
the first executive of Kansas and its senior
governor, is still in vigorous health, and
has before him the promise Of many years.
Governor Green's public career was limit
ed to his service as governor and lieuten-
ant governor and to term in the iegisla-
lature in 1880. He was clergyman by
profession and preferred the ministry to
politics. He made a good record as
public official and was greatly respected as
private citizen.
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