The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-18
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The Salina Republican thinks it vii
| not s'insist" on more than So, 600 publ,
building.
Murat Halstead says that Comedian
Cranes Senator is not at all like oul
Senator Plumb.
| The papers are all telling their idea of ar
ideal farmer, but none of them pick out
the farmer in politics.
| The farmers of Kansas will not have as
| hard time in getting their threshing ma
| chimes in order this year as they did last
Australian CLANS weigh 800 pounds. II
is now proper to advise again. Don't bt
| a clam" but above all don't be an Aus
| tralian clam.
The name of Col William B. Strong is
prominently mentioned for director general
of the worlds fair of 1892. Mr.. Strong Is
formerly of Kansas.
The Kansas institution for the education
of the deaf and dumb, which holds Its
| twenty-fifth anniversary June 8, graduates
four students this year.
There are those who attribute the defeat
of Turner to the fact that he appointed SC
many of his constituency to positions and
disgrunted SO many proportienally.
1t is said that Col W. p Tomlinson
recently said to reporter: Il am natur-
ally Republican and it would not cause
me to feel bad to be back in that party"
1t has become so in Kansas that when a
writer goes to throwing any scientific
terms, he thinks of Prof Vernon Kellogg,
of the Lawrence Journal, and consults the
dictionary.
When Senator Ingalls, comes home again
he will not stop even in Achison. Dan
Anthony is "'bilin.'" Not only at Ingalls,
alone, but at Plumb and Morrill,, too.
Now, whose rebellion is Dan joining?
The school board of Burlington decided
to admit no children below the seventh
grade to the commencement exercises of
the high school, This is robbing the little
children of very valuable incentive and
the point of the action of that school board
is not clearly apparent.
Senator Quay says that Eugene Wares
Admission of Hic Jones TO the Paint
Greek Bar" is the finest thing in rhyme he
ever read. The immigration bureau should
see Mr. Quay and ask him if he don't want
TO come to Kansas and see what else, be-
Soon the pretty stripped animal will be
q rarity. The zebra is rapidly becoming
extinct. The powers that be in Africa
should be notified of the existence of our
Buffalo Jones who is at present asking the
aid of congress to snatch the American
Bison out of the clutches of extinction.
Senator Ingalls, in speaking of the death
penalty say: 1.-THE legislature of Kansas
had adopted the ingenious device of order
ing criminals condemned to death to be
confined for one year after sentence to the
penitentiary, and then executed at the
pleasure of the governor. The result is
an accumulation of job lot of convicted
felons, whose lives having been iudicially
forfeited, instead of being abbreviated are
infinitely prolonged by improved scientific
sanitary regulations, and enforced good
habits, at the expense of the state"
The Lawrence Journal has turned to de-
scriptive writing. 1t depicts the coming
of a shower in that town: The black,
threatening clouds rolled up in heavy
masses from the horizon. The humid air
was heavy. The dogs ate grass. The hired
girl took the clothes off the drying line.
The forked lightning played and glanced
along the van of the cloudy cohorts. The
streets were deserted. The rolling thunder
became louder. The signal service ran up
the fair weather flags. There was no doubt
of it. 1t was going to rain. But a man
knit his brows. He gazed anxiOusly up
and down Massachusetts street. All ex-
pectant, anxious, he nervously clutched his
pen. Would it never come? Was there
miracle to happen2 A fearful peal of
thunder-the storm was about to break.
A searching look-ha-it has come, and as
the first sheet of gusty rain came swirling
down the Lawrence street sprinkler slowly
wobbled up the street, sprinkling the street
at the regular rate per sprinkle. The anx-
ious watcher closed the shutters"