The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-28
WHIM-WHAMS.
A Hodge Podge Of City Talk and Local
Gossip

Most OF us VIII dye tomorrow, but there
| is no cruel fate about it,
Hon. William Grieffenstein came up
from his Indian territory ranch yesterday.
The proprietor of hardware store says
that he has already received orders to take
down heating stoves.
The front was being torn out of the old
Mosbacher place yesterday. A new
recessed one will be put in.
The engagement Of Miss Phoeba NJ
Goldberg. of this city, and Mr.. Adolph T.
| Mendelssohn, of Milwaukee. is announced
Yesterday was glorius day of sunshine
and soft spring air, following four days
| and nights of clouded skies and saturated
gloom
A Wichita girl who has only been mar
| ried little over two years has figured out
| that she has already made over one thou
sand biscuits
| There is one store on North Main street
that accumulated six extra umbrellas dur,
| ing the late torrents. People would come
| IN and leave them.
Some hunter killed long-necked pure
white swan yesterday. which measured
nine feet from tip to tip. 1t Is on exhi
Dition at Johnson's meat market
| What's the matter with your wifei''
| asked citizen of farmer today, upon
| hearing of her illness oh" he replied
she's got this new disease the vallse.
| guess"
1t is estimated that there have been more
people from Oklahoma in Wichita at diff
terent times this winter than there has
been in all the preceding time since thai
| country was opened.
The town is said to be full of petty
thieves, They steal everything. big or lit
| tie. The West Side seems to be a favorite
| held for their depredations. One man lost
three slxty-pound pigs night before last
| The citizens over the river are talking oil
organizing shot gun quarantine.
A tailor said yesterday that the style il
| Prince Albert coats was going to change
soon. He said it had already taken place
in London and it would not take it long tC
travel westward The new coat will bt
shorter in the waist than usual and longer
in the skirt, reaching below the knees
They will be preferable in rough goods.
The Great Rackensack RACES There i:
a greater volume of water rolling dowr
between her banks and over her low
islands and wide sand bars, than at any
time for many months, if not for years
| The Arkansas is more navigable stream
today than the Missouri, and Wichita de
| mands that the Arkansas be made a baSins
line for freights.
A Wichita physician says he has pa
tient who recently had his hand cut off,
and he often complains that the fingers o
the missing hand itch The doctor says
he once knew a man who had leg cut off
and while he WAS still in bed, be Otter
complained the toes on the missing foo
were crossed and cramped and painful
He was always asking the nurse to fix hi!
toes, although his toes were buried.
A. c Dickson is up from Galveston
Speaking of Galveston's horses Mr. Dick
son said that until recently Galveston wa!
not particularly marked byits fine equine
specimens, but they are improving fast
1t is fact that the best horses in Kansas
come from Wichita. One Wichita team
was sold there last week for over a thous
and dollars He said the same team would
not have brought over five hundred here IL
Wichita.
A bride, a beauteous bride, artistically
clothed, dressed in the very touches o
Dame Fashions latest mandate, who's
walk thrilled and whose dimpled smiles
Just weakened whole ranks of loungIne
bachelors, was the admired of many stree
strollers yesterday. Nobody seemed t.
know who all this graceful majesty ant
swaying sweetness WAS except he wh'
sided up so very close to her and looked
so mighty happy.
Secretary H. G. Pierce returned from tn
conference held by the new state grain In
spector at Kansas City, on Tuesday ant
Wednesday, No grade was determined
upon Whether the Kansas grade shoul'
be higher or lower, or just the same will
Kansas City and Missouri, is the question
The ST. Louis grade is higher grade thar
Kansas City, and shipments OF kansa
City's No. have been known to fal
below all grade in the st. Louis market
which is disastrous to the shipper.
Mr.. Dilday travelling agent and CORES
| pondent of the EAGLE, who came in from
the west yesterday, says that he was IL
eight-foot snowdrifts, and that it is waite
and snow and mud all the way from on
end of the Wichita and Western railwa.
line TO the other. The wheat fields are
solid mat of green and growing, and tn
region south of the Great river expects T.
reap bigger harvests and make NOR
money in 1891 than at any time since tn
settlement of the country.
Miller Smith and William Smith, VIII
was up from the territorial line yesterday
buying goods, say that large numbers o
ca tie are being held and pastured on tn
strip. They are principally cattle tina
were punched from farms and sent dow
in time TO evade taxation, so Mr.. Smit
SAYS They do not pretend to hol
their herds to any specified range, bu
drive them about from point to point a
though moving through the territory.
The Wichita hog market has been OF
several days as to receipts. but on as t
prices. Our local packers would like a
least from one 10 two thousand more @
the audari variety daily
O, the hog the wel-hred hog,
With ped gree filing Il catalogue,
Over the corn field. over the farm.
Under the fence. into the barn,
! Grunting.
Roofing alone.