The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-25
sUNFLoWER sHADow1NGs.
1t is almost time for the corn steplad6
item to appear.

1t is almost time for the corn step-ladder
! item to appear.
| Kansas is logically lucky. AS soon as
people quit burning corn for fuel, the
price began to 20 up
! Harrison Kelley probably wonders what
kind of a speech ne could make II his op-
pOnents wouldn't laugh.
An Arkansas City firm viii give a bed
room set TO the couple who VIII get mar
ried in their show windows.
There is a church row at Olathe This
will last just as long as the men OF Olathe
| insist on building the kitchen fires.
The highest elevation in Kansas will be
the state house dome. The next highest Is
supposed TO be the published valuation OF
Kansas newspapers.
1t is stated by Mr. Hickman, of the Jar
vls-Conklln Mortgage company, that ten
mortgages are now being paid off in Kan
sas where one Is being made
More trees have been planted in Kansas
this spring by half than ever before at any
one time in the history of the state. May
their shadows never grow less.
The council proceedings at EdgertOn
were recently interrupted while the presid-
ing member put the baby down and went
after a stray fy with a wet towel.
\
We're recently shipped from California TO
LeavtnwOrth, where they will be re-inter-
red. The fort where they were buried hts
been abandoned.
The committee appointed by the de-
partment commander OF the Kansas q. ~.
r. for the purpose Ofsecuring the location
of the nOtiOnal encampment, viii meet III
Topeka, April %.
The head waitress at the Arcade eating
house at Newton drew $50 at the last
drawing of the Louisiana lottery. The lot
terry will now remove Newton from the
prize list for $50 drawings.
The Kansas City Star says John n
Reynolds is a fire-eater by nature. The
Star probably comes to this conclusion by
reasoning that a man who had experienced
two hells, could be but little else.
A missent mail package was received at
the Abilene postoffice the Othey morning
addressed TO David B. Hill, Albany, n.
Y" The queer part OF 1t Is that Hill had
no relatives or friends i'll Abilene who
claimed the package
The Lawrence JOurnal-Tribune now
gives away an unabridged dictionary to
each and every subscriber. This could be
construed either as an insinuatiOn that the
paper is addicted to sesquipedality or as a
reflection on the vocabulary of the Douglas
county citizen.
George Martin claims that in the fight
he is making in his Kansas City Gazette
on Mexican ore he is being assisted" by
James G. Blaine. This emphasizes the
Kansas" in Mr. Martins place of resi-
dence more than anything else he has
done.
The daughter Of Moses Harmon, the
publisher of the Lucifer, at Valley Falls,
says that even though her father should go
to the penitentiary, the publication of the
paper will not stop, as she viii continue it
herself. The Lawrence Tribune thinks it
is too bad that such loyalty and deep filial
love should be wasted upon an object so
unworthy.
a dealer in sewing machines at Law
renee had in his shop second hand ma
chine which he had vainly tried TO sell for
S2j. The other day he succeeded in trad
ing it for a mule and then turned around
and traded the mule for a horse which is
worth 800 and received so TO boot. The
Louisville COuriers attention should be
called to the relative value of a horse and
a sewing machine in Kansas.
The society at the fort" had fox hunt
near LeavenwOrth last Saturday. All the
horses tails were cropped, the ladies wore
English habits, the men corduroy and
CATERS or duck and top boots; there was
hunt breakfast" and meet" on the
top Of a hill near the fort There were
leapiug OF bitches and hedges and scraInb-
ling through "copses.' and everything
was as Englishy as could be except that
there was no fox.