The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-18
SUNFLOWER SKINNER.

Nobody has suggested that the Leaven-
worth Sun went under to give Moonlight
a chance.
Dan Anthony says there will be the
devil to pay" This is Colonel Anthony's
way of putting Cy Leland on the credit
side.
Judge Pfeffer says he admires ingalls,,
but then Pfeffer will have to go it little
stronger than that before he can get back
into the fold.
Tolstoi, the author of ''Kreutzer Sonata, {"
is seriously ILL In his way he has done
as much for Ludwig Beethoven as Senator
Ingalls, did for old Masiilon.
Speaking of the individual tastes of our
delegation at Washington, it has recently
come out that Senator Plumb has tooth
for that culinary anomaly "a roasted
Fry"
The Manhattan Nationalist thinks that
only newspaper man ought to be state
printer. That's the way Jake Stotler'
still hunt" keeps cropping out over the
state every day.
A dispatch from Fredonia says: Mrs
Lease has set the town on fire" 1t is just
however, until Johnny Gilmore gets his
next issue out.
There is only one trouble about mention
ing Jim HallowelPs name to an old sol
dier-he is likely to retain you all day tell
ing you what he saw the Colonel do in
the war with his own eyes"
Brady, of Salina says: Opportunity
makes more men than ability" In view
of the recent victory gained for Colonel
Phillips, such an announcement is start
ling in so young an editor as j. Leeford.
The subject of Web Wilder's address to
the students of the state university last
Friday was, THE Best Books" In Webs
opinion the bible lays it over all other
books. This will probably call out new
set of circulars from several New York
insurance concerns.
1t will be noticed that Presiding Officer
Ingalls, in interrupting the squabble
between Plumb and Frye, the other day in
the senate, interposed just right to give
Plumb the last word. Still you will see
in the papers occasionally, that ingalls,
and Plumb are not good friends.
Thomas Keene is playing Louis XI in
Kansas this fall. Louis N in his time
was a hardened old office leach, who be-
longed to the ring and used to take off his
hat devoutly every time "Notre Dame"
was uttered, in the same breath that he
ordered some wretch's head to be cut off.
1t is said that Dan Anthony enjoyed the
play keenly when it showed at Leaven-
worth.
The writer who has made the longest
and most determined fight on Senator In
gals, strange as it may seem, is personally
one of the senator's greatest admirers,
and thinks the state would make a great
mistake by retiring him. His instructions,
however, were to fight ingalls, aud being
only an employe he loaded his guns with
the most available ammunition and fired
away, This does not refer TO the Atchi-
son Champion, nor General Rice, nor
Senator Rush, Judge Stevens, nor Jay
Rats Burton, nor Whoop Tomlinson, as
for that not 10 any Democrat.
A story comes waited in on the southern
zephyrs. 1t is told by the Oklahoma peo-
pie on their poor relatives in western Kan
sas. 1t seems that a settler by the failure
Of crops and poor management found him
self destitute, and on pouring the recital
of his tribulations into pious neighbours
ears was admonished TO pray for pro-
visions. Accordingly he 'sot' his mar
row-bones down on the ground and,
nothing stinting, proceeded: "Oh, Lord,
please send me barrel of flour, and a
barrel of potatoes, aud barrel of sugar.
and a barrel of rice. and a barrel of salt,
and barrel Of pep per-Oh h-Il." he said,
that's too much pepper The story's
old. but it ) good