The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-08
SUNFLOwER SKINNER.
The ghost of the Colby cat will stalk
abroad today.

The ghost of the Colby cat will stalk
abroad today
1t is pretty hard to get ahead of Ingalls,
A fellow claiming TO be a new Christ"
has appeared among the Cheyenne In
dians.
A Horton county farmer declared that
Kaffir corn is no good, and the alfalfa in
that county went up another inch the
same night.
The average period of life in America is
about - years. This ought to show that
it is not the average mans fault if he fails
to be president.
1t is said that it takes two men to whip
the editor of a Kansas City paper. But in
| these days of the supremacy OF gunpowder
| he probably has to take back seat when
a smooth bore" appears before him.
There are those who would have you be-
lieve that Immediately after you have
broken a original package, you are liable
TO arrest for violation of the prohibitory
law. But such discrimination in favor
! OF big swallowers wouldn't do at all.
The Newton Republican is probably the
only paper in Kansas that believes that
'fddlers are thick in hades." But this
should not be taken as a general slam at
music. Editor Norton is the first man at
the front window when the brass band
passes
A mOnkey-faced bird, curious thing,
was discovered in Newton school house
last week. 1t has an owlish appearance
and the Republican notes that it has
wonderful similarity to the variety that
has been setting around the town since II
without ever seeing anything good.
Just before leaving France Emil Firman
had conferred upon him the decoration of
"Oficer d'Academie Emile should take
this one out and set it On the sunny side
of the house. We must diversity our
crops, and this might find a ready market
among the Kansas French contingent.
Daniel Anthony, of Leavenworth, will
deliver a series of speeches in Nebraska
for prohibition. Colonel Tomlinson, of
Topeka, will speak in the same state
against it. Nebraska is the state that had
frost just the other night The people up
there are now prepared for q siege of the
''pink-eye, ''glanders" or anything.
The new German army gun enables you
to stand off two miles and half and be-
fore your adversary has time TO realize
that he is shot, TO get around a convenient
corner 1t is great pity that this rifle
was not invented before our county seat
wars were at an end. The mortality
would only have been half as great.
The people of the state with infinite
pleasure read that the college yell of the
state anniversary is 'Rock-chalk-jay-
hawk" and that of Washburn college
"Yah-yip, ya-hoo-o-O." And vet you will
find college graduates who have the pre-
sumption to get up before an intelligent
public and speak patrOnizingly of the
COmanche Indian.
The LeavenwOrth Sun objects to the |!
way the Methodist minister there pro-
nounces 'squalor" The attention of the !
next conference shonld be called to this. /
That body, as all of US, knows that the |
tongue that rasps the chicken leg is not |
always the most expert with the English !
language, and will gladly see to a correc-
ton.
There is a socialistic church at Topeka.
This society believes that Christ came into
the world to set on foot forces which |
would bring about social revolution, and
that it is about due now. In fact, they are
it every minute. Hence the eX-
element in the church the other Sunday
when the minister forgot to take up col
lection.
Reverend Embrae, the Methodist minis
ter at Leavenworth, recently preached a
sermon which the Leavenworth Sun
auded to the skies and the Times of the
same place condemned in no unmeaning
terms. Next Sunday the same piece of
10th prOnOunces a sermon that the Times
publishes in full and the Sun jumps on all
,praddled out. There now remains moth
ng for the reverend gentleman to do but
start an Independent paper Such thing
n like circumstances has been done