The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-25
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/ mere - gong 10 De Il DiOChduc VI 6uc
Salt River in few days
A Kansas museum Is going to exhibit
! Willis record in the chamber OF horrors.
If Demosthenes lived in Kansas he would
/ probably 20 into the pebble business on a
! large scale.
/ The New York World likes Mrs. Mary
Lease, but not enough TO interview her IN
twenty-nine different attitudes.
| The political situation in Kansas looks
very much like the leaders had succeeded
/ in making chaos out of confusion.
/ Several of the smaller Kansas weeklies
/ are still undecided as 20 whether ingalls, or
Harrison drew the big crow at Topeka
1t is something of a wonder that old man
Rice doesn't censure Senator ingalls, on
the principle that 1.-The good die young"
The Democratic orators are having a
great deal of trouble with the little pearl
button" Why don't they look under the
bureau?
The last Kansas legislature is nothing TO
brag over, but down in Oklahoma the doc
tors prescribe the legislature as a sure cure
for insomnia.
The result of the Farmers Alliance is
that the farmer gets a good deal more
Jam" at the picnics than he does on his
table at home.
Governor Humphrey scratched d. r.
Anthony back. u. r. Anthony hasn't
gained much by measuring hnger-nails
with the executive.
''Humph, said a western farmer as he
surveyed Senator Ingalls, long white over
coat, I'D like to know how he could fight
a prairie-fire with that"
Senator Rush by careful administer
ing of reticence to himself, will probably
be convalescent enough by next February
to cast his vote for Ingalls,
One of the most serious omissions of the
apostles OF despair, is that they never at
tributed Senator Ingalls, ready repartee to
the proximity of his mouth TO his ears.
"Grasshopper Christians" is the name
given by Methodist exchange To people
who, as it expresses it, ARE on the jump
in revival times and hide away the rest Of
the year"
A vote was taken on a train enroute to
the Topeka reunion the other day. One
hundred and sixty-seven were for Hum
phrey, eleven for Robinson, and they had
to 90 forward into an empty emigrant car
to get a smell for Willis.
The Pittsburg Herald speaks of Cover
nor Robinson as follows: Der erste
governor Won Kansas. Elm Mann unantaft-
barer Rechtschaffenheit und stets fur die
Rechte DIES Volkes eintretend." n great
many people in Kansas will find this I'M
answerable
Bishop Perkins is not Haunting the
bloody shirt at the Democrats in his dis
trict. He uses clean calico instead. He
says: when the Democrats went out of
power calico was 10 cents. Your wife
could get eight yards for SlUO That was
a Democratic dress. After the Republicans
had been in power twenty-five years we
had given to the people legislation so that
you could buy calico of better grade for
cents yard"
When Senator Plumb reaches the stage
and is seated ne surveys the audience not
boldly nor timidly. He purses his lips and
runs his fOrfinger across them vigorously.
When he first begins talking he looks at
the stage floor and holds his hands back of
him. But when he gets warmed up his
eyes and head are raised to this part and
that of the auditorium, and, by some
mysterious mechanism, probably under
stood alone by the senator and his tailor,
his vest parts and exposes the full front of
his shirt bosom. including the button-fap
at the bottom; and his arms at the same
time break loose from behind and make
spirited onslaught on an imaginary insect.
The more the senator means a thing the
tighter his lips come together and the
1, - 1
Senator Plumb is not graceful His legs
and his body are always acting independ-
ent of each other But his brain and his
mouth always act in unison. That is one
of the secrets of Plumb's charms.