Wichita eagle., 1890-03-04
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
Seeds. sips. se.ons. Sprouts, Sheets aod Silver

Mcpherson is talking OF building lac
tory to manufacture beet sugar
The railroad commissioners should be
elected by the people, says the Farmers
Alliance.
The man who likes the new two-cent
stamp will find a demand for himself ae
all the museums.
The Chicago Times adds a new one to
Senator ingalls, album of soubriquets-
''The Wasp OF the Senate.
The St. Paul Globe thinks the greatest
portion of the Kansas corn as fuel Is ourn-
ed in the fire of imagination.
Atchison Champion: The kind OF
stay law some Kansas farmers need Is to
stay on the farm more and IN town less.
\ fond father is under surveillance for
applving too frequently bIacksnake
upon his little children as rod uf cor
rection.
The Kansas silk station is at present
meeting with no more favor than that
other Marion county ins5itutIon-Mon-
sIeur Flrmau.
1t has recently developed in political Cir
cles that 1t is not discretionary when you
spy color on u kentuckianS 5 nose To see
whether it will rub of.
John s. Gilmore, editor of the Wilson
County Citizen, was married on the Z'th
ult TO Miss Florence Barton. The EAGLE
extends congratulations.
The Shawnee county Farmers alliance
numbers over 5000 members. Thls IS Il
pretty good showing, considering that none
of the members live i'll Topeka.
st. Joseph Gazette: Can it be that Sam
Peters, OF Kansas, is posing for the senate?
His opposition to the worlds fair, on the
score OF economy, means something.
Garnett Eagle: An Ottawa girl, unable
to walk q step for a long time was found
standing erect on the table the other day
cured. Christian science? No. Mouse.
Twentv-three cents in change and fifty
cents in stamps was ali that the receiver
found in The treasury of the Kansas Home
company at Topeka. And this is the kind
of companies that kick on Web Wilder.
The street car line as Wellington with
all of It's equipments was sold under chat
tel mortgage the other day for 81, 100, and
that aggravatiug old contoundlng OF the
milk bell and street car is gone for little
time.
Work at the marble quarry is progress
ing slowly out steadily. y solid block a
foot square and four feet long WAS taken
ont Wednesday and will be dressed by
Bramley and placed on exhibition.-lota
Register.
The Valley Falls bank robbery has in
some respects a queer aspect. Inc 1act
that a man would set the cashier free and
give HIM a chance TO alarm the authorities
while he was going through the safe would
indicate that be was of an unsound mud.
The military prison at Fort Leaven-
worth contains 423 prisoners serving Tor
desertiou. 1t the date OF the amnesty bl
covers their cases they will soon all be
liberated. After that there will be only
127 prisoners left, but it will not be the
state board of pardons' fault.
1t was not the Emporia Republican that
! said that the farmers of Kansas Will read
with supreme delight that Senator lugalis
/ has been appointed vice president pro TEN.
in the absence OF Vice President Morton,
out il was paper after the Republlcan 5
complexion.
The people of Ellsworth are about to Sc
| lect A site Tor a court house from SIX pro-
posed sites. The submitting OF so many
sites has aroused the suspicion that 1t Is Il
sly scheme to divide up the vote in such a
manner that the few friends of a particu-
lar site can rally and secure the selection OF
their site.
i female burglar entered a Polk street
residence at Topeka the other night, put
was frightened away before she rounded
up any sWag leaving behind her shoes ana
! bonnet. She had gathered up All the
! jewelry she could find and might have got
ten away with Ii If she had not yielded 10
the temptation TO Try 1t on.
The farmers OF Phillips county have de-
yised a novel plan TO tighten taxes. They
propose that every farmer who constructs
a pond one acre il extent shall be exempt
from taxation on forty acres OF bis land.
The scheme is TO make ponds 80 numef0us
that the rainfall will be increased.
/. c. Star: California hucksters are
securing Doulphau county aud buying up
all the chickens they CAR yet at g cents a
mound. An average chicken OF tue right
kind of breed will weigh, upon reach hin z
maturity, say, four pounds. \ bushel Ot
corn onght to produce fowl OF that size.
That makes at least - cents bushel for
cora, aud farmers can make money BY
growing i at that price. Moral: Raise
more hens