Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-12-12
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Even Jokes can die-the plumbers
bill" stronghold Of the funny papers for
instance.
"Those who have steers to shed, prepare
to shed them now" is the way Kansas
exchange puts it,
The New York Star says there is as much
use for national university as there is
for national circus.
The Joints are so very tight at Atchison
that man with a bad cold can go right
by without suspecting the existence Of one.
Be it said to their credit. they have
eliminated the line about jeff Davis and
the ''sour apple three" in the Kansas song.
John Brown was hung thirty years ago
Monday. the End, but it will take as many
centuries to call halt audible enough to
stop his soul
Johnny Gilmore informs that Neodesha
has Winebrennerian preacher-but he
doesn't say what his sentiments on result
mission are
The habit of lying in bed late Sunday
morning will afford lots of people in Kan
sas the chance Of lighting their fires with
Kansas City papers.
For some reason Mrs d. c. Haskell has
resigned her position as matron of the
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several are rumored.
If there had been less intermarriage be-
tween Kansas men and Missouri women
there would be far fewer Democrats In
the Sunfower state.
A colony composed of number of Law
renee people is being made up and Will
start for the new state of Washington
shortly after the holidays.
E,pnorio po,,hI;oo,, Tho Avnoricap
people are always equal to great emergen-
cles. 1t didn't take Leavenworth long TO
restore the pontoon bridge.
An Atchison man says he has discovered
place few miles above that city where
the Missouri river can be waded. lie IS
more popular than a pOntoOn bridge.
Emil Firman, of France, has not been
heard from Tor some time. 1t is a great
wonder the Topeka papers have not already
obtained his sentiments on prohibition.
John Wanamaker is looking so pale ana
haggard that Uncle Jerry Rusk inadvert-
emily alluded to him as Wan Johnnyma-
ker at the last cabinet neutrality-suspicious.
News.
The action of the state officials toward
prohibition reminds one very much of that
grasping old sinner, Louis XI. of France,
taking off his greasy old cap at every men
General Thomas Ewing, the first chief
justice of the state, has accepted an invi-
tation to deliver an address before the
state bar association at it's annual meeting
to be held in Topeka in January.
1t has leaked out that the ladies' club of
FredOnia put the tables and chairs back
in the corners and indulge in wrestling
matches. What is called the "back hair
hold" is the most popular, it is said.
Speaking of the effect Of buckwheat
cakes Oh the epdemics, it is not particu-
larry complimentary to community to
mention the popularity of buckwheat and
the prevalency of dirty finger nails in the
same breath.
1t is now reported that ex-Queen Isa-
bella proposed to Buffalo Bill and was re-
fused. Several OF his old 'pards" who are
still splitting tobacco juice at the grocery
store cat, out west, can't see what Bill
means, nohow.
Jackson, the negro, should lick Sullivan.
1t would, perhaps bear good results.
Pugilistic fanatics and devotees would
have to transfer their worship to a big
black brute, and it might be revelation
to some of them.
An Ell Dorado man keeps live snake on
his Office table. 1t is not altogether a
pleasant plan but it obviates the calls of
the fellow who comes IN, sings maudlin
song or two. upsets the ink, and then falls
asleep, and whom all strangers happening
along take for your brother.