The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-20
SUNFLOWER. SILHOUETTES.

The Fort Scott wheelmen are construct
ing quarter-mile cycle track at the fair
grounds there.
| The Salina Sun says that the number of
lemons used at a piccnic is no indication
of the amount of squeezing done there.
The annual tournament of the State
TENTS league will be held at Abilene early
| in October. A very successful meeting is
| looked for
The great German event, the eighth an
nual convention OF the Kriegerbund, will
| take place at Kansas City, beginning Aug
20 and ending Aug. a
The deadlock which has been on in the
,Atchison matrimonial market for the past
two weeks was broken Wednesday, the
probate judge issuing marriage license
The dog that loses his master is wit hout
friend, observes an exchange. Aud it
might have repeated the statement adj
versely and said with equal pertinence, the
master that loses his dog is minus friend
The AtchisoD Globe has been accused of
writing too much about girls. The Globe
jaws back with Nv hat in tie world could
you find nicer TO write about ?" Write, Ed
The Minneapolis Messenger says that
proof that women hate men must be
sought where the men are not so fascinat-
ing as they are in Kansas. That's tough
Oh Mrs. Laura Johns husband in SaIina
The usual order of giving ticket to the
show was reversed by the Cowley county
Pops in tier treatment OF Winfield in
nominating candidates for county officers;
i. E., they gave the county seat no show on
the ticket
This exhibit of jealousy is from the To-
peka Capital: Lawrence papers had bet
ter stop prating about the great progress
iveness and superior culture of that berg.
The only pair of white shoes within the
city limits is worn by the town pIasterer.
The rainmaker's secret is out An in
quisitise boy at Atchison watched one ut
Atchison the other day, and ali he did was
to kill blue racer snake and lay it on its
back. 1t is needless TO say rain came with
in twenty-four hours.
II wish l had gone into politics instead
of dom this" said the prisoner to the
sheriff, ''cause then nobody but the oppo-
sition would have found ont that | was a
horsethief. The way it was both sides got
onto 1t, and now I'll have to serve my
tiine''
An Atchison man, whose wife is away
for the summer, registered at the Byrum, !
where he takes his meals, ''B. o. Vine, |
widower, gone to grass" Perhaps he !
thought some of the waiter girls would |
see the register and bite. but no one did; !
they evidently thought him too sappy to |
be good.
The owner OF house in Topeka posted |
card on the front door with the inscription
of This house for sail" upon it, He sat /
down on the edge of the porch and while /
there a l0-year-old boy passed, and on /
the sign asked the man when /
will she sail;' The prompt reply was, "As
soon as some fellow comes along that can /
raise the wind"
The Atchison elevator company has for
a Waterman a young man who is a deaf
mute and has no legs. yet 1t Is said he
catches every grain thief that Games on the
premises. To catch a thief is
the height Of his ambition, aud when he
gets hold Of one he is Ike Corporal Tanner
said he felt at the encampment Thursday. I
that is. good. from the top OF bis head /
clear down to-as far as be goes.
Leavenworth Times: News comes 70 !
the effect that Walt Mason, formerly iele-
graph editor o. the Times. has bsaced up
aud Is about 10 get married and go to Eu-
rope. Before he was with tie Times be
was engaged 20 a Young lady somewhere
in the East, bus Waits migratory and
other habits caused the match TO be
broken off, and The young Iady married
married another but WAS soon widowed BY
he death Of her husband, who left her
aEse amount CT money. Walt wrote q
poem about bis broken heart and lost lie.
I bis reached the Young widow and she
" rote TO Waiter TIE suit was renewed
! nd her are n, b.. n, arrset