The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-19
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The officers at Fort Leavenworth want
to spend 100000 this year In new build
| ings-
The Messenger is now large enough tc
| cover the largest kitchen table IN Mime
! apolis.
Habit never gets such hold on man
! that he can get his night-Shlrt on right IN
! the dark on cold night.
| Jake Stotler is so busy. it is said, that he
/ didn't know spring had come until the
man the next door started up the milk
/ shaker, last week
! The corn cob pipe mandatory at Sedan
| is said to be the best paying mandatory
| in the state, and it doesn't care whether 1t
| is protected or not.
| The Lawrence Journal Tribune publishes
more short paragraphs now than ever be
| fore, and short paragraphs are what the
majority OF people prefer.
Wellington has grain dealer who will
| not ship car Of grain on sunday. Nhen
a Wellington man gets that religious you
can bet times are prosperous.
1t is said that the settlers in the vicinity
of the PaWnee Rock have carried a great
deal Of it away for building purposes. The
Historical society should look into this
Senator Plumb said the other day that
there is In circulation now about SO per
capita, and most people without that
amount are inclined to blame Jay Gould.
This Is time of the year when the man
who is true Kansan at heart takes IN
finite pleasure in going out and spying out
the rows of new corn just peeplng from
the earth.
Hayerhill. Mass. Senator Ingalls, birth
place, will celebrate the 250th anniversary
of its founding on July ), this year. 1t Is
expected that Senator Ingalls, Will deliver
an address on the occasion.
The junction City Republican is con-
fident that John A. Anderson will not be a
candidate before any convention for con-
gress this fall. But the Republican did
not include the senate in congress when 1t
said this.
The side fell out of tho Lincoln county
Jail recently, and one lone prisoner walked
out and stretch ed himself and then just
flew to Nebraska. This is the only official
announcement of departure from Kan
sas this spring.
What will you have to drink" a man
asked his guest in Kansas restaurant.
Il guess ri have glass of beer" the
man replied. well" the host replied,
looking hOpelessly at the waiter, you'll
have to guess again"
Says the Salina Republican, decidedly.
From this date forward no tickets will be
received at this office marked 'COmpl-
mentary." 1t is all right to give the news
papers show tickets but the fact must not
be advertised III red ink"
VIII White of FL Dorado, and Vernon
Kellogg, of Lawrence, ale contemplating
issuing book together TO be called Bird
Notes and Elder Twiggs." Senator In
gals should be asked to suspend judgment
on the best book in the English language,
until this appears.
Lawrence JournalTribune: Just as the
marriage ceremony was completed New
York bride burst into tears with the OK
clamation that she had married the wrong
man. A great many girls lind that out
soon after marriage, but it Is seldom one
acknowledges it so soon.
The New York Star says in reference to
Senator Ingalls, World review: Mr.. In
gals fellow senators Will never rest until
they learn from him definitely how, in
what is termed "his respectable but mod
est boarding house in the West End, = he
managed to crowd sixteen different pieces
of costly furniture, including billiard
table three sofas, two setteeS, three lounges,
and six easy chairs into one small room,
and still leave space for fourteen different
changes of costume III a three-quarterS of
an hour interview.
A new story is told on Jim Lane in con-
neCUlOn with Judge burnett OF Lawrence.
Burnett was originally plain Mr.. Burnett
and was a state senator from Douglas
county. He was the sworn enemy of Lane,
and Lane was up for reelection. The two
did not speak, but Lane one day got six or
eight of his men together and told them to
address Burnett as Judge" and to eX-
plain, if he asked, that they heard Jim
Lane say that he was going to make
Judge" Burnett judge of the district
court of Colorado. Burnett refused to be-
lieve at first, but the Lane men were posi-
tive, and finally ne consented to an inter
view with Lane Lane met his ancient
enemy cordially, and placing his hand on
his shoulder said in his impressive way
that he had seen his President Lincoln
about his old friend Judge Burnett, al
the president had consented to appoint
him judge of the territory of Colorado.
Burnett was not lawyer, but he didn't
think of that; he was completely. carried
carried away by Lanes apparent honesty,
and when the legislature met to elect a
senator he voted for Lane. To this day
Burnett is known as Judge" Burnett,
although he never got to be judge of Col
orado.