The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-16
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Parnell is liable to develop into the San
1 Wood of Ireland
All this talk OF irrigation looks like q
political salve for the farmers irritation
If Luther Challis finds shoe that won't
mt the Mckinley bill. he puts it on Ingalls,
State Treasurer Sims escaped cyclone
only TO be turned wrong side out by a
cheap, understood whirlwlnd.
Corn is worth nearly three times as
much in Kansas now as 1t was IN Decem'
Der, 1889. SO are the farmers.
Senator Plumb has evidently not for
| gotten Mother Goose's lesson Of "a diller,
a dollar, a 10 o'clock scholar.
Political affairs in Kansas had begun to
/ look strange until Tom Moonlight an
neuneed that he was out OF politics"
| The Horton Commercial has every rea
son in the world tosuspect that Jay Gould
! is about 70 gobble up the Horton street
railway.
| A prominent Kansas man describes Ben
Clover as "a fellow who would spit in the
| pan to see if it was hot enough To put the
! biscuits on"
Somebody calls Jerry Simpson the
Cicero of Kansas" IL will be remember
ed that in Cicero's time sandals were tied
to the naked feet
If the Leavenworth colonel really
feels so bad about the Cleveland letter ep-
isode, he will probably change the spell
ing of his name to ''Achers."
Tom Norton, of the Newton Republican,
is about the only editor in the state who
Will devour a grammar with the same
avIdlty as first-class ghost story.
John Willis talks about disrupting the
Democratic party in the south. Where
would John Willis have been today if
there had been full crop last summer?
The Alliance is getting down on the
body polite. Mr.. Shinn of Ottawa, has
been mentioned as senator. A suitable
epitaph for him would be ''Shinn-Bones. "
1t is said that State Senator Murdoch is
viewed with suspicion by the friends of
Mr.. Ingalls,, but not with the suspicion
similar to that conveyed by the act of the
late Senator Swearengin.
When Bill Nye was in Kansas he took a
dislike to Thomas Brewer Peacock and
shortly after that he fell out with James
Whitcomb Riley. This was probably more
Of coincidence than a consequence.
James Hamilton, formerly state treas
ureF, will sever his connection with
so many rumors of senatorial caprices
floating around, this was a very cour-
ageous thing for Mr. Hamilton to do at
this time.
An Arkansas City minister announced
last Sunday that no collection would be
taken that day, and the church was so
crowded that people sat in the aisles and
hung on to the fresco work on the walls to
hear him
Senator Hoar is the greatest leader
ever seen in this body" said Mr. Plumb
the other day to Mr. Paddock
What makes you think sou.
why, Hoar admits it himself"
Not only the postmaster general and the
state government have it in'' for Dan An
thony, but the railroads must join in. 4
spark from an engine set fire to piece of
meadow land last iweekgand burnt IN inn
mense amount of hay.
A Washington correspondent compares
Farmer FunstOn's face to smiles play
ground" This correspondent is supposed
to be the only individual on earth whom
Funston's appearance ever inspired into
pQetical expression.
Senator Ingalls, colored coachman has
proven himself something of an Arab AT
least he silently stole away one evening
last week. An episode that would bring
into public view at this time the fact that
Senator Ingalls, sports" a coachman is
unlucky.
Congressman-elect Baker, who hasn't
opened his head since his election is de-
scribed as an ex-school teacher of West
ern Kansas, good boxer and all around
athlete, a Methodist preacher. a prolx
talker and a fine pistol shot. He seems to
be III politics. what the artist" who can
play six different instruments at once, in
Guiding bass-drum, is in music.
The grasshopper is the Kansas bird of
state. 1t may not be generally known
that 1t has a poetical origin. The grass
hoppers are said TO have been human be-
lngs In an age before the muses.. When
the muses. came and song appeared they
were ravished with delight, and, singing
always, never thought of eating and
drinking until at last in their forgetful- |
ness they died. And now they live in the /
and this is the return which |
The muses. make to them-they hunger no /
more, neither thirst any more, but are i
always singing from the moment that /
hey are born, and never eating or drink /
ng; and when they die they go and inform 4
he muses. III heaven who honor them on /
Earth.