The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-28
sUNFLOWER SILHOUETTES.

Even the wind is blowing about our
corn crop.
John j. Ingalls, is still Republican and
a still Republican.
Police statistics say that there never
was bald-headed tramp.
The only thing Kansas has in the way of
nubbins this year is the Democratic party.
Mrs Lease does not wear an Alliance
circular. Hers is all wool and yard
wide.
There is going to be some bad work done
at the Alliance caucus with the corn
knife.
What does it profit man if he saves
the country and lets his own wheat crop
go 20 waste?
1t had grown quite popular to call the
United States senate the "house of Lords"
until PETER was elected
1t is reported that Dan Anthony is going
to Europe. This is from A. G. Stacey and
is probably not confidential.
There is a man at Lynn, Connecticut,
who has two sons named Kansas-Nebras-
ka Bill and Lecompton Constitution.
When the Kansas crowd secured the
place of national lecturer at So, 900 a year
for Willis they surely got something for
nothing.
Senator Plumb mas been down to Cape
May getting pointers from Harrison as to
the exact conduct Of a president on his
summer vacation.
More corn will be strewn along the
country roads in Kansas this year from
overlooking the wagons than was grown
in a whole farm last year.
If PETER should ever get to be president
of these United States, it would go a great
way towards modifying the prejudice that
exists against monarchies.
There is little doubt that Jerry Simpson
wants to succeed Plumb in the senate. He
is one Alliance man who has got some
thing and is found wanting.
Kansas soil yields seventy-five bushels of
corn to the acre, but if gratitude were
taken into account, it ought not to yield
single bushel to the belly-acher.
a farmer near Garden City attacked
column Of grasshoppers with seventy tur-
keys. The grasshoppers soon had enough
of the turkeys and the turkeys enough of
the grasshoppers.
1t is wrong to expect Judge Mckay to
know anything about laws that were pass
ed by Republicans years ago. IL is the
laws passed by the Alliance Legislature
that he is up on.
Ex-senator ingalls, told an Atchison
Patriot reporter that James @. Blaine was
always a nervous man, being easily
frightened into the belief that he was sick.
He was also very particular about his per
sonal appearance. Mr.. Ingalls, and Mr..
Blaine spent a few weeks together at Hot
Springs, Ark, few years ago. Mr.
Blaine's blood was out Of order and he had
blotches on his face. This annoyed him a
great deal and he kept himself sick worry
ing about it. Mr.. Blaine thought he had
Bright's disease several years ago and
went TO see an eminent Paris specialist,
who informed him that he hadn't the
SYMPTOMS of the horrible malady. !
Mr.. ingalls, thinks Mr.. Blaine's present
illness was brought on by worrying and
frettng about things.
4 tramp, emaciated and ragged. sham
bled into a Union depot restaurant at
Kansas City the other day. He gazed
about him with hunted look and begged
a bite from the man behind the counter,
who asked:
Been out in Kansas. eh9''
The tramp nodded as he made a big
horse shoe in a pie
Pretty hard time, I reckon"
Dreadful Why, haven't tasted moth
ing for five days"
Wouldn't the people hand you out any
thing:'
4 suppose they might have, but I /
couldn't afford to ask"
Couldn't afford to askfr
That's it. I guess you haven't heard /
or the shortage of threshing hands in Kan
sas. II I'd asked for something they'd Of /
Ierec me work. Day before yesterday a
man followed me two MIKES trying 70 get
me 10 JOIN his threshing outfit. I've been
on a constant strain for three weeks, and /,
M done with that state forever. No more
Kansas for me
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