The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-01
SUNFLOWER SKINNER.

Who are the men who want Prof. ]. H
Garfield to go to the senate from Kansas?
Mr. Grant, the horseman of Oswego, has
just sold Abdallah for fifteen thousand
dollars.
Two elegant mustaches have been pub
lished in q Chicago paper with our world
fair commissioners attached.
Congressman Morrill, again asserted that
he would not be congressional candidate
and that meteor fell. That ought to set
tie it,
Again it might be observed that the FL
Dorado Republican is not using any italics
in its advocacy Of the election of Harrison
Kelley.
of studying the dictionary. 1t will only be
little time at this rate until the Cham
pion will take up his over CATERS.
Verify, it is matter of much moot in
Kansas whether it is worse for q man to be
beaten at the nomination by the farmers
alliance or by them at the election.
The absence of Alex Butts in the Kansas
City Star for some time past has led to the
perhaps not understandable suspicion that
he is off being measured for his trouseau.
When the Emporia original package
dealer came in and gave Father Eskridge
an advertisement to put in the Republican
he looked shocked, but he didn't refuse it.
The Third district papers are not saying
anything about Bishop Perkins. If there
is rebellion in his district, it must be one
that brews quietly and stays out of the
newspapers.
Kansas farmers are rushing their har-
vesting by moonlight and getting their
grain laid by in the night. This gives them
a chance to study how to lay by the poll
tician in the day time.
Frank Greer, of the Winfield Courier,
has inaugurated quarrel with the sheriff
of Cowley county. This is the first rumpus
in the county since the departure of Will
lam Hackney and if it seems a little droIl
must be excused.
J. Leeford Brady, of the Salina Republi-
can. says that it is no disgrace TO have fly
specks on your hat. This may be all right
in Salina. But it is generally believed
throughout the state that Brady is bet
ter authority on babies than on etiquette.
Luther Challis, of the Atchison Cham
piOn, says if ingalls, goes to throwing mud
at the Champion it viii bury him under
the same material. 1t would be foolish to
do so. 1t would be better for the Cham
pion if it has any mud to sell it to she Kan
sas City Times.
Prof Jonas Cook, editor of the Harper
Sentinel, was married Thursday to Miss
Minnie +. Hart, at the home of her par
ents in Nashville, Kan. If the way to
reach a mans heart is through his stom-
ach. Miss Minnie acted most lovingly in
becoming Cook.
Farmer Funston. it is said has the most
beautiful following of postmasters of any
congressman from Kansas. And for every
postmaster he has five -disap-
pointed applicants. This enumeration
doesn't include Charlie Scott, of the lola
Register. II Is supposed that he Is defend
ing Funston for the exhileration of the
thing
The Emporia Republican Is against In
gals and affects 10 be the mouthpiece Of
the Farmers Alliance in that way and it
Is also the staunchest friend of Harrison
Kelley And now the Alliance Is not salts
fed with Harrison Kelley and have called
a convention TO nominate a candidate
against him. The convention meets at
Emporia August l. So 1t appears the Re
publican has too many irons in the fire.
Which one viii it take outs None, prOba-
bly,. 1t viii enlarge its fire.
Chas. T. Bichtel, of UdaIl, Kansas, has
invented an air ship which is illustrated
and faverably commented on in last weeks
Scientific American. It has two cylinders
adapted TO hold buoyant material and
connected by light frame beneath which
IS stretched a platform Of woven steel wire
supporting an electric or other motor
which operates two propelling blades.
Wings are connected with the outside Of
the cylinders, and can be pitched AT any
angle, the upward and downward being
regulated by the inclination OF the wings.
while the ship is guided 70 the right or left
by ne propeller wheels connected with the
motor.