The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-17
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

A Missouri paper publishes a lot OF
squibs under the heading ''Sol Miller's
Musings"
The man who wants to confer an ever
lasting blessing on Kansas can do so by
finding process for making sugar out OF
dead-beats.
There are so many rhymes with his poet
opponents name that it is wonder
Farmer Funston does not. attack Eugene
Ware in verse.
A mathematician has figured out for the
benefit of fishermen that the cork. of a
gallon package" is about the correct size
for the common mudcat.
The Atchinson Patriot is authority for
the statement that the Leavenworth
Times has joined the Atchison Champion
and the Emporia Republican
Samuel Peters was not insincere in his
resignation. He will form law partner
ship with Mr.. Ady. 1t said the firm will
be Peters & Ady after June L
In 1877 Webb McNall was doorkeeper in
the house of representatives at Topeka, but
lots of the fellows who passed by him as
puffed-up legislators are still wearing
collars.
Henry Inman is out in the papers again
telling some early day "reminiscences. 1t
would be interesting to know, since the
tornado has forsaken Kansas, if Mr.. Inman
still blames it on the sun.
There are apprehensions that the white
hat Senator Ingalls, wears at funerals is a
work of art, says Murat Halstead He
ought to be photographed in forty atti-
tudes with that hat. Where did he get it j?
A story comes that the boycott of the
Farmers alliance in an Indiana town re-
suited in the suspension of the county
newspaper. The Farmers alliance seems
to have struck Indiana in more violent
form than Kansas.
A deserted emciated child with a copy of
the Kansas City Times in its hand was
found wandering about Morris county the
other day. The exact condition of per-
son left to his God and a Missouri paper
is difficult to determine.
A party Of fifty Swedes left Lindsborg
this week for Sweden under the charge of
the Rev. c. A. Swenson. They will be
gone until September, and when they
come back they will be pretty certain to
bring lot more people with them.
ingalls, has written an article to the
New York Sun on the death Penalty'' in
which he says that death is inevitable"
The temerity of our senior senator in tax
ing chances of arousing Charles Carroll
Carlton again, is something dreadful
Captain George Richey, the new post
master at Leavenworth, was born in Sum
in nd h. =, -
years old. His father was the Hon.
Thomas Richey, who represented the
Eleventh district of Ohio in congress two
terms.
Congressman Morrill, does not want to
go to the senate in the place of Senator In
gals. In this Morrill, shows his good
sense. There are lots of men in Kansas
not as able as Morrill, who would be so in
discreet as to take so brilliant a mans
place.
Judge W. L. Parkinson, of Fort Scott,
is in Belgium. He reports that BRUSSELS
is a nice city with waterworks, a good bus
line and all modern and ancient APP
pliances. He also notes the difference be-
tween the beer gardens OF Brussell and
Fort Scott. that is, there is no Missouri
line there. But of course he would rather
i've in Fort Scott.
Prof. William James. of Harvard uni
eersity, has been appointed superintend-
ent of the census of hallicinations" in
the United States, and he asks the cooper
alton of all persons interested in the sub
iect. The object is to gather a mass of
facts for the consideration of the physical
,ongess to be held in England in 1892 Prof.
James will furnish the necessary blanks
IN application. If Prof. James will take
Webb Wilder's annals of Kansas he will
ind an endless assortment of cases of men
who once thought the government could
lot get along without them, but who have
since learned that it was hullicinatiOn.