The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-16
suNnowER SKINNER.

The Kansas City Times is greatly excited
over the so-called plagiarism. That is al
there is in it.
1t seems to be beyond the power of thu
prohibitionists to get the original package
in tight box
Silence is golden" and Cliff Baker
state printer, has large supply in fol
campaign purposes
Ii the price of corn keeps on going up
| there is going to be boom in the paddock
business in Kansas.
Mr.. Turner probably wishes now that he
had done the same thing that Sam Peters
did-resign before hand.
Speaking of plagiarism we have hunted
| Masillon clear through, but we don't find
anything abot 'blue grass"
Among the creditors of George W.
Crane, the publisher, is the Topeka Gene
terry association, with claim of $1,000.
The supreme court of Kansas has decid-
ed that bicycle vehicle This is the
way our supreme court goes on plagiariz
ing from Noah Webster right along.
The Kiowa county alliance has decide to
put full county ticket in the field and
the county politician has put in two acre
| field of corn and joined the alliance.
A Kansas City paper finds fault with
| Webb McNall's grammar. McNal Is
! probably sorry now that ever made q
practice of reading Kansas City papers.
The defeat of Turner should warn the
other congressman that there are lots and
lots of new babies in their respective dis
trictS that have never been kissed by a
| congressman.
Newton has an unmarried lady % years
! old who says she never had proposal.
| The trouble was that she was entirely too
old when hammocks got to be considered
recherche in Newton.
At the home place. seven miles east OF
| Medicine Lodge, Saturday evening, May
! 10, Mrs. Alice Stockstill, wife of Thomas
B. B. Stockstill, dropped dead at the sup
per table of heart disease or apopleXy.
| She was well known in Barber county.
| Passing by Oklahoma appointments for
a moment, Kansas is becoming a great
| hog country. Judge Talliferro, at Medi-
| cine Lodge, shot at cat the other day and
killed two hogs. This is only one of the
many illustrations of how the pOrcine
| family is outdoing the feline in prolifcacy.
| A tornado struck Jefferson City, Mo,
the other day and lifted the roof off the
state capitol. 1t is now said that Judge
Metsker is afraid to go back to the state
for fear of being accused Of witchcraft.
Missouri is little old-fashioned in some
of her ways and there is no telling what
might happen.
An Abilene editor was robbed of SIS the
other night The fact that he doesn't
play poker and that he has told the story
to several others besides his wife gives
forth the suspicion that it is somewhere in
the lining of his pajamas. The papers
that have been insinuating that an editor
was held up by foot-pads, are s1urring that
profession in an uncalled for manner.
J. F. O'ConnOr, the editor of the En-
poria News, before its consolidation with
the Republican, takes an editorial position
on the Fort Worth, Tex, Gazette, begin
ming June l. Texas, some of these days,
will begin to realize what journalism is.
Mr.. O'Connor, next to Mr.. Norton, of the
Newton Republican, could probably quote
more Shakespeare than any man in the
state of Kansas.
The Newton Republican calls attention
to the fact that two days after Senator In
gals eulogium ON Congressman Burnes
appeared it published the following para
graph:
"What he said is very beautiful, but
much of the sentiment bears strong resem-
blance to that contained in a sermon on
immortality by Massilion, the great
French divine of the time of Louis the
Fourteenth"
1.-The Republican adds: ''The sentiments
expressed have been common property
since the time it was asked whether the
man who dies will live again; and those
sentiments have been dressed in every
phrase, in every tongue that has been the
vehicle of intelligent ideas. Two men
could not speak of death and Immortality
and be less similar in words than Massil-
Ion and Ingalls, were"
The first alumni catalogue of the
academic department of the state univer-
sity has Just been issued. 1t was complied
by Prof. Wilson Sterling and gives the oc-
cupation and present addresses of the
gradutes of the institution. The first class
graduated in 1873 and the alumni roll has
reached the number of 233, of whom 146
were men and 81 women. Six graduates
have died, leaving 227, who are scattered
in all parts of the United States and one
resides in China. Sixty-four of the gentle
men have married and ~ of the women.
The alumni are classied according to their
occupation as follows: Teachers, 30; en-
gagged in domestic duties, As; lawyers, 81;
civil engineers, Il; journalists, 10; minist-
ers. Il: students, 10; physicians s; mer-
chants, 6, farmers, 6; druggists, ); bankers,
3, and the rest are engaged in miscellane-
Gus pursuits This catalogue does not in
cIude the graduates of the special depart
ments.