The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-07-19
cLAwlNGs FROM THE EAGLES TALONs.
MoRsELs OF FACT AND FANCY FucHED FROM
MANY SouRcIs.

Oiaut CObpiCtSis S'OiSh"oO"SN
Dom Pedro in London.
There are 5000 Mennonites located
in the Arkansas Valley.
The Republican committee has met
in Mississippi aud adjourned SINE die.
Gold is an eighth of cent lower.
Now is the time to get your teeth
filed.
Robert Ingersol says he learned to
say mean things by reading the reli-
gioas papers.
Large settlements Of Southern ne
groes are making their way to Kansas
and Colorado.
The Commonwealth exhibits tiend-
ish delight in lashing the victims of
civil service reform.
There is nothing that will change a
man SO much as great grief, unless it is
shaving of his mustache.
The New Orleans Picyuse asks !:
"What is home without cat?" 1t is
awfully, peacefully, beautifully quiet of
nights, dear.
The United States mint in Philadel-
phia has just commenced work upon
double eagles and trade dollars, for
which there is great demand.
Sears has succeeded in raising the
Sl5,O in Topeka for the water works
and is now east completing arrange
ments TO proceed with the work.
w. w. Bloss, editor of the Kansas
City Journal Of Commerce shot man
last Wednesday night. The man did
not die. The Journal regrets and the
Times bowls.
Col. ID. II. Anthony, of the Leayen-
worth Times, has sued Charley Miller,
United States Marshal, for libel, laying
damages at $4,000. Anthony knows
how it is himself.
1t is said Colorado has asked the
prayers of the world. Grasshoppers
first, then two editorial excursions,
and now the Kansas Legislature.
Heaven preserve them.
The Cincinnati Enquirer wants Sec
rotary Evarts to trade off Maine for
slice of Mexico-and then the Demo-
Gratis would be rid of Blaine. He is q
great eye-sore to the unwashed.
Little Tommy just locked six dogs
in the library, and then put ten cats in
at the windows-that was all. Now
he's wondering why boards have Mt
got soft places like cushioned chairs.
Freaks of Fashion-How to be la
mode: The complexion undisguisedly
disguised; square corsages-openly cut
to the heart; ball dresses-barely de-
cent; skirts-tied back with effrontery
1t makes a man feel mean enough to
bite his coat buttons off TO discover
that, when the collection box is only
two seats away, he has left his purse
in the hip-pocket of his everyday
pants.
Stanley Matthews says in regard to
Louisiana matters: 81 never made any
bargain with anybody about anything
at any time connected with Louisiana
affairs, and all assertions to the contra
ry are pure inventions"
The Commonwealth says that the |
Permanent School Fund Commission
ers cannot purchase any more school
bonds, as they are now two cents above
par. Within the last six months they |
have advanced III price ten per cent.
Mr.. Conway remarks that the Duke
of Wellington, when questioned about
the battle of Waterloo, never ventured
farther than saying, at was a ID big
fight" Gen. Grants reticence s,tbere-
fore, the tradition of British general
ship.
Eph. Holland, the ballot-box suffer
and repeater, who admits that he cleo
ted Banning and Sayler to Congress
from Cincinnati, has been sentenced
for doing it 10 fifteen months III the
Yet the men elected
hold their seats.
Now is the time for lovers TO get
spooney over ice cream, she taking
few pretty dabs at his vanilla, and be
borrowing a taste of her chocolate.
This process inspires confidence in the
lay when they will be throwing corned
beef and cabbage across the table.
Gen. Sherman still refuses to take
rom the Custom House the $500, 900
necklace that the Khedive of
Egypt gave to his daughter on the &C.
'asion of her marriage. The General
ays he "hasn't got the money to pay
State and city taxes" on the necklace
md Fitch doesn't wish to undertake it
IN his pay of Lieutenant III the navy.