The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-23
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! The foot that rocks the cradle
Rules in Kansas Edgerton;
For the mayor, Mrs. Kelly,
Has brand new baby SON.
Topeka denies that it wants the whole
state to help il entertain the Odd Fellows.
There are several things Topeka can do
without the state.
The fellow who declared there wasn't
any fish in Kansas streams was pulled into
the Arkansas river last Sunday, by a ten
pound bull-head.
Kansas doesn't get up in the morning 10
watch the circus unload for nothing. A
Mcpherson man has invented a machine
for pulling spikes.
Harper is TO have a new bank and its
capital stock is $50, 900. The city Of
Harper will give medal 70 the man who
doesn't think it is going TO boom.
1t is gossip in the government building
OF Topeka that J. X. Hudson, of the Cap
for overcharge on legal publications.
Senator ingalls, announces that his 20
litical novel will be a ripper" An
nouncements like this make Grover Cleye-
land drink his whisky without water.
\ piece of poetry is going the rounds
under the head of ''The Wells Secret.
A great many people have read it expect
ing to find a keg of beer, and have been
disappointed.
The city council of Caldwell has cut
down the salary of the city attorney from
$50 to SO year. Several of the lawyers
down there can not be blamed for signify
ing their intention of retiring from politics.
Joseph Cook told his audience at Hays
City the other night that it was the most
intelligent looking body he had seen since
LEAVING RnSfnn The raanyla of HqEG (Ir-
are not much impressed with the lecturer
as humOrist
The Kansas mathematician who started
out last summer to compute the number
of grains of corn produced in Kansas last
year has used up half dozen boxes of pen
ellis and hopes to have his work completed
during Harrison's administration.
The wire worm is said to have appeared
in AtchisOn county, and is seriously in
juring the wheat in the eastern part of the
county. As Atchison is a great place for
politics the question naturally suggests
itself, why don they pull them"
Sixteen years ago a man lost gold watch
on farm near Lawrence. The other day
it was found in a comparatively good state
of preservation by plOwman who was
working in a corn field. This ought to sat
isfy everybody that this is a good year.
1t is related that after a sermon by Wis
iting preacher in one of the Atchison
churches recently, the regular pastor cleo
trified the congregation by giving out the
hymn beginning: Art thou weary, art
thou languid, art thou sore oppressed"
Senator Ingalls, says all newspaper talk
that his visit to the state just now is for
political purposes is a mistake. He says
he will have ample time to look after poll
tics when congress adjourns: If ingalls, is
stirred up any he does not intend to show
it.
1t is said that Tom Moonlight is 500
poorer than when he accepted the position
of governor of Wyoming. Thisis not given
to show that Mr. Moonlight is q failure in
politics. but TO demonstrate that aman has
no business leaving Kansas and going after
false snaps.
The Hiawatha World announces that no
more Citizen " Justice" ''Veritas" or
PRO Bono Publico,'' articles will be
printed in that paper. The World, how
ever, will still give complimentary men
tions for donations of choice watermelons
and cord-wOOd.
The Cincinnati Enquirer has wonderful
memory 1t says; \ ''snore preventer" is
advertised in New York. No one viii be
lieve in it. The only real remedy ever dis
covered was that of a Kansas wife who put
a hot potato in the distended jaw of her
iege lord. 1t cured him, and killed him.
On the $40 acre farm of Ex-Governor
Click near Atchison, there is not a single
horse. The governor believes in mule
power, and uses those animals exclusive
ly. But this doesn't imply by any means
that there is an affinity between the mule
and Democracy.