The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-15
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

! When a metropolitan policeman pulls a.
original package the cork usually give
way.
Mrs. Mettman's ghost has appeared a
Leavenworth carrying a leg in one han,
and an arm in the other. There is one ad
vantage about one-legged ghost. 1t can
| stalk"
| Kansas has more miles of electric railTa,
than another state IN the union, but as Mr.
Turner of the Sixth district Will tell you
the shocks don't all come from tina
source.
Judge Metsker, of Topeka, refuses t.
run against Harrison Kelley for the con
gressional nomination. Mr.. Metskel
judges Mr.. Kelly too harshly; he Is over
scrupulous.
The report that portion Of the Okla
homa appointments will probably not b,
confirmed has bolstered the old Kansas
candidates up on the barb-wire fence of ex
pectation again.
The Ottawa Republican proves by its ole
files that corn was only y cents a bushe
in Franklin county in 1873. The farmer.
all thought that Kansas was going TO tht
"demnitiOn bow-wows," but it didn't.
A Topeka family moved their furniture
out of the parlor and started an Original
package store. The craze is, however, not
likely to spread as fast as the boarding
house fad during session Of the legisla
ture.
Senator ingalls, prophesied the coming
of new Christ, but he didn't say that Kan
sas would produce him 1t IS this that
probably makes the Emporia Republican
accuse the senator of not being loyal to
the state.
A. B. Campbell, who is to run for con
gress began his political career IN the state
of Kansas as penitentiary chaplain. But
there have been lots and lots of peniten-
tiary chaplains who never were candidates
for congress.
Notwithstanding that the operate troop
has done the state pretty thoroughly, we
have little exchange out which has
not seen the play and for its own saLisfac-
ton it would like TO know just what
''Pasha' did say
Eugeue Wares last poem tells how he
fell in love with princess on the eastern
shores of Kansas half million years ago. -
Mr.. Ware is probably the first Kansan
who has had the honesty To publicly con-
fess any former relations with the ballet.
The people of the Sixth district are in
terested in Lewis Hanback's behavior at
church next Sunday. Any such thing
as praying on one knee or singing with
the hymnal upside down will be regarded
a serious sign of a speeding back-sliding.
A Farmers alliance at Steubenville, O.,
wrote to Grover Cleveland asking what he
thought of the alliance movement. The
Emporia Republican says that Mr. Cleve-
land, after a reference to the encyclopedia,
replied that in his opinion the tariff was a
tax.
The Republican finds that Salina has "a
tributary territory as large as the state of
Indiana In its zeal for its town the Re-
publican is all right, but such compari-
son is odiOus Take some other dominion;
a state of the same size by any other name
will do as we'll.
The newspaper men of Butler county
met at FL Dorado last week and formed
AN alliance" There was no excursion
connected with this, however. A special
of two was appointed to bring
it into office in the composition bucket be-
fore the alliance" convened.
George Martin has a great deal of trouble
with names. This time it is not Kansas
City, Kan, and Kansas City. No. In his
Gazette, he says: we notice that George
W. Martin has succeeded to full ownership
Of the Fort Scott News. This name is copy
righted, and he win please put his name
g. Wash. Martin. We are quiet, peace
able spirit, and we don't want to be mixed
up with anybody else's wrangles."