The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-23
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

The Kansas Santa Claus carries palm
leaf fan.
The precocious Kansas cherry tree is
swelling its buds.
The Alliance will amend it to: ''rhree
cheers and bull calf. "
| Mckinley is said to think almost as little
of Plumb as VOORHEES, does of Ingalls,
Luther Challis' best thoughts on Ingalls,
are found in the local page of the Cham
pion.
There is one nice thing about rain this
time Of year. 1t doesn't save the corn
crop"
Kilgore's boots and Simpsons socks are
a pair to draw to-particularly in the
morning.
In another six months the Alliance pa
pers will be bowling at their delinquent
subscribers.
President Harrison probably sees now
where he missed it by not putting Senator
Plumb in the cabinet.
The usual Inauguration ball at Topeka
will not be given next month. The ALI
ance is not in sympathyiwith "hoe-downs. Fl"
A man wanted to bet yesterday that he
could 20 around the world while Mrs.
Lease was making few remarks on the
situation.
This weather is not unprecedented in
Kansas-oh, no. People who read alma
macs will tell you that the winter of 1885
was identical.
1t is good thing for the editor of the
Abilene Reflector that he did not live in
Shakespeare's time. He might have criti-
cized the Bard.
Senator Ingalls, is full of unique sur
prises. Everybody was certain he would
fight the election bill, but he comes out
and upholds it,
Congressman Otis will probably be very
popular with aid committees. They will
expect him to be familiar with the milk of
human kindness.
Bill Higgins pronounces the boilers in
the state house unsafe. If this is the case
some members around the building may
go higher than Campbell.
1t wasn't Kansas congressman who
said he was trying to get ''life-sized
statuette of President HARRISON" but the
Kansas members laughed.
The Kansas excursionists are passing off
as capitalists in the south. AS good por-
ton of the party are newly married gentle
men, they are surely not beaos.
A Cawker City man has voted the Re
publican ticket for fifty-two years aud
never scratched ticket He is of sterner
stuff than the $1,000 majority is made of.
Senator Ingalls, is opposed to the pro-
posed ''cloture' rule of the senate and re-
fuses to attend the meetings of the COM
mittee, which is thus deprived of quo
rum.
When people start in to read long ed
itorial in the Atchison Champion they are
not sure whether it will end up with
compliment to st. Jacobs Oil or a jab at
Ingalls,.
The people along the banks of the Mis-
sissippi river are looking for something eX-
traordinary in the way of a spring rise,
next year This will make Mr.. Mckinley
extremely tired.
A comparative stranger in politics who
was recently introduced To Jerry Simpson,
as one of the Kansas delegation at Wash
ington. asked Jerry if he would be in the
house. ''Of course" Jerry replied, do
you think | would live in a barn."
Jerry Simpson received recently from
New Jersey manufacturer, an elegant as
sortment of silk, wooden and cotton
hosiery. The congressmaB-ele elect studied
over the situation a while, picked up well
thumbed copy of the Mckinley bill, and
expressed the cargo back to Jersey City
with the following note: Sir; Our fore
fathers refused TO drink tea because it was
taxed 3 per cent, and held Il tea party in
Boston for the purpose of getting
rid of the stuff. / have just fin
ished figuring up the tax upon these stock
ings and find that it amounts to &c per
cent. / will wear no socks until the tax is
taken off.