Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-01
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| Webb Wilder will have something new
| to insert in the Annals" headed, IA hor.
rible expose"
| 1t is now necessary to explain that there
| is such . thing as being IAN attorney to
| influence legislation"
| potato day. in the Fort Scott schools
resulted in III bushels being collected for
distribution among the poor.
| At the Christmas frolick at the deaf and
| dumb asylum at Olathe they had few toy
| drums and tin bugles for luck.
| The report that Dick Walker will resign
fearfully like something Is gong TO hap
pen to Kansas.
( An Atchison woman applying for di-
vorce set forth in her petition that a for
| tune teller had revealed to her that her
husband loved another.
The Emporia Republican says: 1t was
too dry in Western Kansas to raise much
| OF a crop, but it never gets too dry TO raise
| county seat night there.
According to Major McKinley's predic-
| tions all the nessary internal revenue and
tariff measures will have been enacted by
May l, 80, at the farthest.
A Franklin county man raised 11,0o0
bushels of corn this year, and has bought
| 5000 bushels more. He is feeding $50 head
OF stock and has twelve children.
Buffalo Jones, of Garden City, has pur-
chased another herd of buffalos at a cost
OF So, 600. Out at Garden City, when It Is
not irrigation, it is Buffalo Jones.
w. S. Gilbert, after seeing the first per-
Torrance of the Gondoliers, went TO In
dia for holiday, and the popularity of
'Pinafore" In Kansas goes on unretarded.
j. Ralph Burton may now take time to
lay aside his resonant waistcoat and
checked pantaloons and tell in plain,
simple manner what he did with that
S9S1.e5.
Audacous la grippe holds the car OF
Russia in one hand and Senator John j.
ingalls,, of Kansas, in the other. The equi-
poise of the planet is thus restored.-New
York World.
Lucien Baker says the express horses of
Leavenworth are bow-legged hauling beer
and whisky. One drug store in that town
within four months sold seventy barrels
of whisky.
The litterateur Of the Topeka Journal
says: 1t was Wichita woman who
sho thought it would make a nice Christ
| mas book for her little girl.
At Judge Brewers banquet at Leaven-
worth Monday, George X. Psck's name
was in the list of guests, while ingalls,
was absent, Little things like this please
the Emporia Republican nightly.
A Washington correspondent says that
Mrs. Ingalls, will serve punch and cham
payne at her New Years reception. 1t
will be safe TO predict that the Kansas
contingency in Washington will call.
Lots of people who wouldn't recognize
him when he lived in Kansas will be
pleased to note that Buffalo Bill and his
Wild West show have progressed on their
European tour as far as Barcelona, Spain.
Mr.. Bush, of Cawker City, recently
transferred carp from an original pond to
a new one. Some over year ago he put
fifteen carp in the original pond, and there
are now thousands of fish there weighing
from one to three pounds.
1t Is certainly safe to say that Kate Field
had no reference to Mr.. ingalls, when she
spoke of senators who manifest propen-
sity for sitting around on their splnes. !"
There is probably not a man in the United
States who is doing less of that this year
than Ingalls,, unless it may be Senator
Allison, of Iowa.-Kansas City Star.
E. +. Fuller, president OF the Quenomo
Mill company, claims to have Stradiva-
RUS violin made in 1725. He says he cap
tured it in the south during the war. The
instrument bears this Inscription. An
tonious Stradivarius Cremonensia Facie-
bat Ammo 1725." This inscription is still
plainly visible. although musty with age
and ready to crumble at a touch. II this
is true the violin is worth small fortune.
The biggest thing in Kansas at present.
says the Atchison Globe, is the terra Gotta
street curblng invented by Governor
Smith, of the Soldiers home at Leaven-
worth. 1t is cheaper than stone, very
much handsomer, and probably as good.
1t is in practical use at the home, and
heavy wagons back against it without
chipping. Governor Smith is the inventor
of the curbing, and he has better thing
than prospect for the United States SEN
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