The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-07
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

| Bluff City had its first fire last week
This is good example of what the alb
'sence Of fire department will do.
The Neodesha Register wants to know
where Boston Corbett is. 1t thinks it is
about time for him to kill Wilkes Booth
| again.
There is movement on foot to secure a
| portrait bust of Susan B. Anthony No
body has ever yet gone this far with
Brother Dan.
1t cost an Emporia student s1O3 and a
jail sentence to try to be a ''masher'''
Flirting in EmpOria, as ever, is only
sanctioned among the older people.
The effect of the Topeka Democrat S
''Ingalls Reviewed" is beginning to be
felt. The Democrats of Ellis county en-
dorsed ingalls, in convention Monday.
Butler and Atchison counties both claim
to have the woman who made the most
butter in the past year, but the fact that
the Butler county woman has red hair is
greatly in her favor
An Atchison paper in writing up scan
dal refers the reader TO the bible in several
places. This is not good plan. The peo-
pie who devour fragrant scandals, as a
rule, do not keep bibles in the house.
The Bender business, II it keeps or, is
likely to amount to something. Mrs. Eliza
Davis, who lay in the Labette county Jail
so long under a charge of being Kate
Bender. says she intends suing the county
for damages.
President Clover. of the Farmers Al
lance has been rather quiet OF late. Mr.
Glover is probably smart enough to re-
member that it is the forward flower of the
clover field that first demands the atten-
ton Of the bumble-bees.
Sol Miller criticises the custom of kiss
ing the bible on taking an oath. Mr.. Mil
Ter should not be judged too harshly for
this. He was probably thinking of Sam
Lappin and numerous other irreverent
fellows who have broken oaths.
1t may not be generally known that
FrOntenaC, Kansas, coal is being shipped
in large quantities to Great Britain. where
it has been found to be the best in the
world for certain manufacturing purposes
which require particular kind of coal.
The work of Mr. Firman, our commits
sioner to the Paris exposition, is bearing
fruit. says the EmpOria Republican. 1t
was only last week a Frenchman of in
telligence and means came over to reside
in Kansas with his family. 1t was Mr..
Firman.
Oxford has an orchestra with sugges-
tive name Peanut orchestra" Any body
who has witnessed the heart-rending at
tempts of an orchestra to rise above the
cracking of peanuts in the audience in a
Sumner county theatre will at once see the
suggestion.
1t is estimated that the Pasteur mode of
treatment for the bite of the mad dog has
saved over 200 lives in five years. Mad
stones, however, are still the popular rem
edy among kansans Mad-stoneS in Kan
Sas are held in some such reverence as rev.
dictionary spinning-wheels are in New
England
The Indians at Haskell university play
baseball with the white boys of the Kan
sas State university. As it is clearly an
impOssibility to entirely wipe out race
prejudice, it might be timely preventive
for the Lawrence educational institutions
to secure the services of a Chinaman for
umpire at once.
'Pottawatomie county has eleven news
papers, and Pottawatomie county is the
only one in the state that is building an
addition to its poor house." says the To
peka Journal This may be construed as
a slam at the ignorance of the people of
this county or reflection on the aptitude
of the newspaper men. You can take your
choice without paying any money.
The Kansas City Gazette thus strikes
the chief justice of the United States
blow from the shoulder. 1t is indeed
strong argument against the original
package decision. The paper says: "Chief
Justice Fuller looks good deal more like
a calvary officer than the presiding judge
of the United States supreme court"