Wichita eagle., 1890-01-03
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4. C. Gazette: It is said that Bill Hack
| ney will retire from literature.
| The Abilene Reflector thinks the com
end with naught.
Frederick Drought, who recently died in
Kansas City al the age of 101, was one OF
the first settlers of Kansas.
The people Of Beloit are considering the
for salt. coal, gas, gold.and silver.
The seven Kansas congressman are con.
nected with fifteen committees. This av-
erages two places to each member.
1t is now unlawful to kill prairie chick
ems or quail, which concerns Kansas MIN
rods no less than it does the game.
The Santa Fe road now requires a per-
NIT from headquarters IN order for a sta
ton agent to purchase box of matches.
They have gone so far towards resub-
mission at Lawrence that citizen of that
place has already invented a measuring
faucet.
What Winfield thought was an earth
quake the other morning was only Bill
hackney, reading the dispatches. says the
Emporia Republican.
In 1874 a girl WAS born in Dickinson
county, Kansas, and short time since the
court granted her divorce and gave her
the custody of the child.
Some day it will happen, but apparently
not soon, that soprano who gets an en-
core from Kansas audience will not re-
spond with "Way down upon the Swanee
river"
The highest average daily wages paid to
the employees of any Institution in the
United States, are paid to the working
MAJ Iy,f ma or ArcYan n
dotte county.
Prof. Snow. of the state university at
Lawrence, says that this has been the
warmest December for period Of twenty
one years, during which time he has kept
an accurate record. Snow should have
told Blake this before.
Wine is the rule in Washington. A
Washington item says there is only one
man there in public life who dares to give
public dinner without wine. He is spot
ted. The gay spirits avoid him. This Is
not our John j. Ingalls,.
Atchison Globe: Prohibition has accom-
plished one good: it has taught many men
to write their names. Since the drug store
application blank has been in force, many
an old bum has learned to write who here
tOfore could not make a letter.
With the first day of the new year the
calls upon its patrons. And it makes
very clever beginning, too. In the words
Of the Pirate of Penzance, may the Daily
Shelter always cast shadow"
Schleimann be9ain again to excavate at
Hassarlik in November. He expects to
bring to the surface many classic wonders.
1t is hoped little mite that our FREUD,
the esteemed antiquarian, will some day
make the tabled coal mines of southwest
Kansas yeild.
Kansas City Star: The sisters of Charles
Dickens place wreath of holly upon his
tomb in Westminster abbey at every
Christmastide AL the world should re-
member Dickens at Christmas time. He
did much to make the world happy and
cheerful. He, more than any other mod
ern author, has hallOwed the holly and
mistletoe.
Justice Brewer on Kansas: SIN my boy
hoods geography, Kansas was put down
as a part of the great American desert,
and yet she has made the wilderness bud
and blossom as the rose. This year, out
from her plains, she has wrested ESQ, DOC, 900
bushels of corn and $4,000, 900 bushels of
has never yet been turned. But grander
far than any material development has
been the pathway which she has lined
with school house and church. Go where
you will through her borders, and there
stands before you the open door of the
school house, in whose portal is the ever
present Yankee schoolmarm, priestess of
virtue and prophecies Of knowledge and
glory; while the spires of her thousands of
churches attest the universal faith 10 Him
for whose worship our fathers crossed the
sea. 1t is no wonder that in the past of
his state every Kansan glories, and in its
future believes. This is the home of the
modern pilgrim. Here is the real puritan.
Plymouth Rock has been moved from
to Kansas. and from this
state henceforth shall flow the ideas to
rule the continent. 1t is honor enough to
have lived in Kansas and been a part of
her history, and though my work in the
future must largely be in Washington,
shall continue to write my name, with
gratitude and pride, of Leavenworth,
Kansas"