Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-29
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.


Del Valentine has been chosen a regent
of the state university.
A sunfiower social at this time of the
year must be rather seedy.
Twenty-one years from today and Kan
sas will be celebrating her jubilee.
The quietest people in the state at pres
ent are the enemies of the Farmers ALI
ance.
Caldwell is having post-office agitation
to pass away the time until the strip is
opened
The last legislature passed an act grant
ing bounty of $40 for every acre of trees
planted this year, 1890.
The Topeka Republican is no doubt very
much obliged for numerous obituaries, but
it is not dead yet, thank YOU
The latest abuse of Mr.. ingalls, comes
from he fact that he has been silent as TO
his opinion about Ben Harrison.
The Atchison Champion figures it up
that by the first of March 8, ZOO, 900 of
Kansas farm mortgages Will be paid OFT,
even with Is cent corn.
The gentleman eloper from Atchison has
returned, and the editors there who pub
lished the scandal At present sit with their
faces towards the door.
Candidates for congress in the Seventh
district now number nineteen, so you may
imagine what the number Will be when
the contest gets "het UP"
The Courier-J ournal and Chicago Tri-
bune are both taking great deal of inter-
est in Kansas and her men. As usual,
Kansas will profit the most thereby.
The Wellington Mail is sorry la grippe
did not take the car of Russia instead of
grand old Adam Forepaugh; we could
have spared the car so much easier.
Four degrees below zero is the lowest
record made by the mercury in the state
so far this winter. A low temperature is
the only thing that is not successful in
Kansas.
Fortner, the Manhattan treasurer now
in Jail, who thought he would be a hero
by refusing food. has succumbed, and
now partakes of his eggs, pancakes and
coffee as regularly as the common prison.
ers.
Dick Blue was the only Kansas visitor
on the floor when Ingalls, made his speech,
while the rest of the contingent were
crowded together in the gallery. Richard
probably only wanted to know how 1t wonld
feel to be there.
When a young man by hard work is
lucky enough to obtain a job in some bust
ness establishment the local papers an
nounce that he has accepted a situation
This IS carried so far that an Atchson pa
per mentions citizen as having accepted
a term in the penitentiary.
The committee appointed BY the state
senate last winter to compile and codlfy
the laws relating TO powers and duties of
state officers, has been in session at Tope-
ka. Senator Hardness, of Clay Center, is
chairman, and the other members are SEN
ators Murdoch. Moody, kimbal and N. &.
Kelly.
Russell has been improving her fire
apparatus A tank has been made and put
on wheels and viii kept filled with water.
The tank will be taken along with the en-
gines and used to refill them when empty,
at a fire, without loss of time. A Kansas
town may somtimes be without money,
but it Is never without ingenuity.
"Many Of our readers remember the fes-
tive cowboy preacher, George w. Rasure."
says the Anthony Republican, who
preached and prayed while he kept one
eye open for business. This oleageneous
aggregation of hypocrisy obtained the
equity in more than =, 500 acres of land in
Harper county, and while he now quietly
enjoys the protection of his father-in-
laws home in Sweden the men whom he
robbed are compelled TO rest on a sheriff s
deed for the right to whatever margin
may remain In the property.
The Pleasanton Herald tells the follow
ing: Father Whitman has IN his possess
sion wonderful hen egg. When placed
in the palm of the hand it Will roll over
and over and finally stand upon its little
end, that being the heaviest, and the large
end the lightest 1t is called the mag
netic egg, and DR.. Peare gives it as his
opinion that the yolk has settled in the
small end and that the other is filled with |
air. We have handled the egg and can |
vouch for the statement. IL is a wonder |
ful phenomenon