The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-30
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

The legislature meets two weeks from
today.
Salt has been found near kanapolis, at a
| depth of $40 feet. The vein is 240 feet thick.
The Christmas supplements of the Kan
sas weeklies all seem to be red, this year
There was not a hotel in Topeka that
set as many plates Christmas day as the
State Journal.
One of the Alliances "stay law" seems
to demand most of the staying" from the
| old politicians.
Major Mckinley gets up in the morning
by cand!e-light. he probably wants to
see the sun rise.
The joke has been carried too far. A
Newton man names John 2. st. John as
/ ingalls, successor.
Jerry Simpson is shying clear of Topeka
this week. The school teachers of the
state are in session there
Billy Mckinley is the name of young
| printer on the Caldwell Journal VINO Is
trying TO raise mustache.
Ever since the Alliance began to talk
insurance, Web Wilder has been wear
ing holey socks TO take his mind of the
thought of it.
Senator Ingalls, has engaged frooms at
the Copeland hotel at Topeka, with fire
escape at every window and a hand-gren-
ade on every wall.
Gen. Rice speaks Indignantly of levi
athan falsehood." 1t is not often that the
general can get himself down to swearing
according to Webster.
Ill AoIi n IN
has tooth for noodle soup" He viii
have plenty after the legislature decides
the senatorial question.
President Harrison's health is said TO be
as good as might be expected after he had
appointed man to the supreme bench
who was not from Indiana.
The most unique compliment Senator
Plumb has yet received was Luther
Chaliis' remark that Senator Plumb
doesn't wear a red necktie."
When Senator Ingalls, sends reporter
out the front door with an interview he
also sends a messenger boy out the back
door with telegram containing denial.
Mrs b. II. Clover, of Cowley county,
told quilting party the other night that
her husband was lust as brutal, just as
dirty and just as mean as any OF their hus-
bands"
1t is decidedly necessary that Kansas
have big crops next year, so that the farm
ers can spend lots of time next winter
watching the antics of the men they have
elected to congress.
Jerry Simpson is said to have once
crawled into railway coach on his hands
ana knees, because he read on car door
plate that Passengers are not allowed to
stand on the platform"
Il suppose l would vote for that lodge
bill if was in Washington" Jerry Simp-
son said the other day, Medicine Lodge is
where l live, you know, and I'd have to
stand by my own town"
The brakemen on the passenger trains
running into Topeka have instructions to
report to headquarters every time an in
dividual with pair of red mittens tied
together with a long string passed around
his coat-collar, gets abroad.
Cranks are circulating a petition pray
ing the legislature to enact a law requir-
ing the state printer to adopt the short
method of spelling" already in vogue
among certain class of illiterate school
teachers. The new method spells it dia-
log, definit, roset, program, fotograf,
subpoena The most sensible objection TO
this plan is the remark of the fellow who
was asked what he thought Of leaving off
the "ue" in words like harangue, dema-
gogue, etc. what" he said, and have
''gl' spell glue"