Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-28
Daily eagle
MARsHAIL NJ MURDOCH. Editor.

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MARSHALL NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.
man with hair two feet long is trying
TO lead the Oklahoma movement. mat
settles it.-Topeka Journal
That's what his friends seem to think.
Wichita prides herself on hams.-Tope
ka Journal.
And for every ham there is shoulder
and for every shoulder side. Its the
whole hog, my dear sir, if you please.
In view of the very prompt and salts
factory manner In which Admiral Luce
brought the Haytian affair to termlna-
ton, it is suggested that that officer be
sent with his feet to convenient sta
ton off the Canadian coast.
The Christian (Campbellite) church
loses one of its most distinguished min
listers in the death at Cincinnati Wednes-
dav of the Rev. Isaac Errett, editor OF
the Christian Standard and lifelong
friend of the late Pre- ident Garfield.
Persons having surplus of sympathy
on hand might well bestow little of 1t
on young Mr.. Russell Harrison. There
are a good deal easier lots in life than to
be the great-grandson of one president OF
the United States and only son of an
other.
The New York World learns that Mr..
George II. Vanderbilt is now the owner
of about , 1000 acres OF fine mountain
land near Asheville, n. G., and that the
Ashevillians are agog with curiosity as
TO the motive of the purchase. Mr..
Vanderbilt. like Brer Tar Baby, amt
sayin' nothin.
Colonel Lamont says that the Philadel-
phia story about Mr.. Cleveland's inten-
ton to settle at Orange, \. j., is "a bud
get of bosh." Still the redoubtable de-
higher fails to quiet the public expectancy
by vouchsafing the desired information.
And yet the world goes round, and yet
the world goes round.
~Charles S. Gleed as a representative Of
the newer element in Kansas politics
ought to receive the appointment of U.
S. Attorney for the District of Kansas.
For brains, probity and fidelity his equal
has not been named in that connection,
and as for his preferment being in the
way of any of the old time line suckers
we do not want to hear it mentioned.
The fire fiend has succeeded in getting
in his work so far this week with terri
bic success and consequences. The ca
tastrophe at Cincinnati, Monday, and
the Marblehead, Mass, Wednesday,
where the losses aggregated nearly a
million and a half of property and
throwing out of shelter and employment
some twenty thousand people. are
enough to mar the pleasures of all as far
as the incidents are known.
s'Obey the laws and quit monkeying" is
proclaimed by the Wichita Eagle TO be the
duty of all good Democrats. Is that in
tended for Colonel Tomlinson of the To-
peka Democrat?-EmpOria News.
We prefer not being too personal. For
a Democrat the Colonel is wonderfully
clear-headed and conscientious withal.
However, it is an undeniable fact that so
far as talk and platforms go whisky
would be an unknown traffic and prohi-
bition and sobriety universal but for the
Democrats and NGssourians.
Senator Farwell's suggestion that the
salaries of the chief Justice of the United
States and his associate justices be
doubled provokes the Philadelphia Rec
ord to laconically remark that many
man receives larger salary for wreck
ing a railroad company or managing a
trust" The remark might be construed
as something of a slur at Uncle Sam and
an impeachment of his court, if every
body did not know that neither are in
that line Of business.
eIn view of the meager majority in the
next house., writes the Boston Journals
Washington correspondent, 1.-THE posi-
bility of member being detained at
home by illness is a matter of import
ance Statistics show rate of mortality
among members about double that of the
average death rate Of the country. There
are several members of the present con-
gress who are absent on account of sick
ness, among whom are Senator Beck and
Mr. Mills and Mr. Forney of the house
The secretary of war has issued gen
eral order directing that, when not pre-
vented by actual service, all the availa-
BILE infantry, cavalry and light artillery
of the army shall devote a part of each
summer TO practice marches, encamp-
ments, maneuvres and other field oper-
ations, Stimulating the operations of &C
tual war. For this purpose the available !
forces will be assembled in as large bod |
les as practicable. having due regard to |
economy and to the location of Indians |
who may need watching.
tits good news that arrangements are |
TO be made for special and striking ex-
hibit of Indian corn and its products at |
the Paris exposition next year One of |
the features will be an American kitchen /
10 show the Partisan bakers the art and |
mystery of making corn bread, johnny
cake, hasty pudding, etc. The sooner
Europe learns to eat these palatable and /
wholesome preparations, the better for
her people, especially the poor ones, the
better also for her farmers of the great /
corn growing states.