The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-03
sUNFLowER SKINNER.

| 1t is a great wonder that some of the
| prohibition organs have not presumed SO
| far as to designate the jim jams as supreme
| court snakes.
Some papers claim that the only thing
suggestive of water about Prohibitionist
Troutman, of Topeka, is the first syllable
of his name.
While there is half dozen or more as
pirants for his place, Sam Peters has not
| yet given public intimation OF what
promotion he is to secure.
Ira Collins has his pole away up in the
branches Of the persimmons tree of the
| First district and he is standing on the
shoulders of the G. a. r.
Clark county didn't have any local can
didates for the congressional nomination,
! but it didn't take it long to decide on what
outside candidates deserved its support.
Recent whisky prosecutions have cost
| Shawnee county thousand dollars. The
| hypocrisy of prohibition alone is bad
enough for the people TO stand, without
paying for it.
The Topeka Capitals threat that Kansas
would inyert its great majority if congress
didn't hurry up the Wilson bill, doesn't
seem to have frightened our national
| legislators bit
Judge Foster has just rendered a deci-
sion TO the effect that the supreme court of
the United States knows his business, At
torney Welch, of Topeka, to the contrary,
Notwithstanding.
Webb McNall tells the farmers he will
be great friend TO them, but he hasn't
been sufficiently impressed with the idea
himself to comply with that request OF
| theirs to resign that SO day Office.
The Atchison Champion says that the
Farmers Alliance will be the John l.. Sui
livan OF Kansas this year. The new editor
whoever he is, is no great shakes on meta
phors. John L. Sullivan is bully and a
brute.
Ex-Governor Robinson says give the
Democratic nomination for governor TO a
younger man, but Tom Moonlight doesn't
want it. The chances are consequently
that the nomination will be pressed on
Robinson.
They say that the farmers have got it
in for'' Sol Miller In the absence of
county election or any other convenient
rumpus, Sol Miller will be as much pleased
over this announcement as if he had heard
that Sam Lappin had again returned or
that Baby Mckee had fallen down the
white house steps and bruised his infantile
proboscis.
Kansas drinkers swallow their original
packages behind a screen. The Courier
Journal thinks this timid and bashful
practice will gradually cease as the Kan
san becomes more accustomed to his free
dom. The Courier-Journal is informed
that it is not timidity that necesSitates the
screen in Kansas. The facial expression
that accompanies swallow of Missouri
whisky is something that no man cares to
make public.
small fragment from the Washington
meteor is said to look almost exactly like
the broken end of a piece of carbon, such
as that used in the arc electric lights.
About the only difference is that it is of
coarser grain and contains small particles
of mineral such as iron, copper. nickel and
silver. The largest piece of the meteor
itself weighs 1SS pounds, and is shaped like
an egg with a fiat side. The man who
claims to own it by right Of discovery has
it on exhibition, charging ten cents to see
it. He had a telegram from a New York
scientist Saturday evening, asking him to
name a price for it. He has already been
offered $500 but asks $1,000. Chancellor
Snow, of the state university, wants it and
has told the man that the state will give
more for it than anybody else. The man is
doing very well with it at present, his re-
ceipts from people who are curious to see
it being S15 or $50 day. He expects to
take in 800 on the Fourth of July.