The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-27
WHIM-WHAlIS.
A Hodge Podge Of City Talk and
Local Gossip.

Ueu ESSleSbouo mas Deen Struggling
with severe attack of the grip for some
days but was feeling better yesterday.
Judge John A. Riner, of Cheyenne, who
is sitting as judge for Judge Foster al
Wichita, married May Jillich an Atchison
girl.
The telephone is sometimes very funny.
One time yesterday it asked the editorial
rooms of the EAGLE if it had any fresh
case beer
Smedley Darlington Cooper, the oldest
| son of S. W. Cooper, celebrated his fifth
| birthday yesterday He is very much Of
man for his age.
Easter is becoming as much folly as
| Christmas The latest way to celebrate it
Is to send silver eggs to friends. with some
pretty jewelry inside.
An examination of applicants for admis
sion to the bar Will be held at the office of
Harris & Vermillion March IS. The ex-
aminations begin at 2 p. m.
Pork went up one day this week 81 cents
on the barrel and 100 cents the next Still
at the same time ham fell over cent on
the pound. 1t is a queer thing in supply
and demand. Butchers are not able TO ex-
plain the phenomenon.
There will be some big graduating
classes in Wichita this spring The grad
uate has already begun to work on his es-
say. The high school will have from
twenty-eight to thirty graduates, and
Prof. Nay or says the Lewis academy Will
have eighteen at least.
As for the coming municipal election the
colored sister is in it." They have regis
tered by herds and droves, in couples and
in coveys, and the white woman who has
been lying awake for week in anticipa-
ton of being as big man as her husband
on election day will have to be at the polls
early and fall into line.
Not only eggs are scarce and dear. but
chickens are also few and far between on
the market. The farmers cannot get in
town, the roads are SO heavy, and the buy
ers are slipping out on the trains TO the
little towns and supplying the market for
Sundays trade. Eggs are now twenty
cents dozen, and sixteen cents dozen by
the case.
Today is Good Friday This was the
day of Christ S crucifXion. Zone OF the
Macs" the Scotch rhymester, who is the
oldest poetical contributor to the EAGLE,
has poem on the day on the editorial
page this morning which Is worthy read
ing 1t was written day before yesterday,
dull, rainy, gloomering day, on "Glen
Mary" farm
There are now seventy-one prisoners IN
the county Jail, fiifty-one of whom are
United States prisoners. The Jail has a
capacity of $50 prisoners. The old crazy
| I m a
million dollars to build church, and who
howled so much to the discomfort of the
other prisoners has been sent home. He
became very sick and would not take
nourishment, positively refusing all food
A. W. OLIVER, who is back from illinois,
says that in the central part Of that state
be met several men who txpr Ssed the
opinion that now was most ausplclous
time to invest 10 Kansas lands, and thai
many were preparing to do so. He stopped
over one day in st. Louis and saw the new
bridge across the Mississippi, now opened
to traffic. He found all the streams be
tween here and Fit. Scott bank full.
The whole town presented a washed ap
pearance yesterday. The dingy houses
whose paint is Anticipated came out bright
ana CHEEKY. and the sidewalks were all I'll
for king in cleanliness. The genera
publication extended to the pavement
great deal of the dirt and trash on it beinG
carried away through the sewers and gut
tering. 1t only needed the sun to make
everything appear bright and new.
: Marshall Grimes of Oklahoma, came VI
with six prisoners from the TERRITORY
Wednesday ,yening Yesterday morning
he went back with four prisoners who arr
to appear before the supreme court a
Guthrie. They are up for horse-steallng
The United States marsha, has something
, of 2 bonanza himself Besides a goot
salary he gets 10 cents mile for himsel
and for the trans portation of each prisoner
Altogether he makes a neat little sum OF
mileage.
PASSENGERS to and from the West Sid
who had become accustomed TO the jump
off of the street cars at each end of tn
f bridge across the Big river, will now hav
to accustom themselves to the smooth
, glide over without the drop, the track
that had sunken down several inches IN
der the pressure o. the cars in passing OF
the bridge. having been tamped up TO
level again The warm natured ones, now
ever, still find the open ended car on eac'
alternate trip to afford them the full ben
r eft of the bracing breezes as they go west
< Patrick Macdonald. of Glen Mary farm
r was in the city yesterday. lie SAL
that the Alliance out in his part OF tn
county was not falling to pieces at al
$ He added that a few of the Democrat
: were pulling out, but that the NOV
/ wasn't general. The Alliance as whole
he remarked, were disguised with IN
, last legislature, but they did not regar
that as sufficient cause to throw up Ia
. sponge. He believed that the Democrat
would stay in the Alliance to manlpula'
il for the election of the Democratic Cal
didate for president in '92. Besides
= continued, there is something IN huma
f nature that keeps men from severlng tnel
: connection with secret society," anu
, they have once Joined 1t.
The delegation of colored brothers WI
called Yesterday with demands for poilt
; cal recognition for slop. in the way OF
\ little Office or two or promise OF Il
: same. and got the advice that Indepei
dence Is the truest insignia OF maulines
should also remember that the razorbac
hog. the yellow dog. the lop-sided tom ca
| despised of the world. the hard-featurt
: billy goat VINO nervously chews his toug
= ouid and splits at the world in unmitigate
disrust-all earn their own living and As
f | no odds. The fat shoat, the fat dog, II
fat tom cat aud the fat billy goat are wit
out self-reliance, have no object in If
e have no move on them, can't sing M
1 fight. are nothing under heavens excel
: what has been stuffed in'o their BELLE
e Let US be lean and independent.
Il \ dog that will observe Lint IS som
thing of a curiosity, but this city possess