The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-25
WHIM-WHAMS.
A HOdge-Podge of City Talk and
Local Gossip of Rainy Day.

A HOdge-Podge or City Talk and
Local Gossip of Rainy Day.
The "whale show was drowned out
yesterday.
How many umbrellas have gone astray
since yesterday morning.
So
The Big Arkansas started on another
boom yesterday, rising steadily all day.
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The drop in the price of sugar is ex-
pected TO take place a week from today.
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This is the time of year that we ali for
get that April is April FOOLS day, and
get caught.
The juries of the United States district
court attended church in charge of bailif
Sunday morning
The first sunny day your neighbor's
chickens will all come over to see if you
have planted your g. a yet.
The blacksmiths are all in favor of the
jasperite pavement, in one way at least
A set of horse shoes will wear out three
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natural ground It makes business for
the horse-shoer.
The Wichita butchers say that their
trade is quite materially effected by the
lenten season. They say they sell more
fish and less meat, but that the sale of
fish did not make up for the decrease in
demand for meat.
A man said yesterday that he had dis
covered why the man in charge of an cleo
trio car always kept hi eyes on one side of
the road. Il is where the car casts its
shadow and he can see when the trolley
| slips off the wire.
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| This is holy week. Last Sunday was
Palm Sunday. Next Sunday is Easter. IL
is an earlier Easter than there has been for
years 1t will probably be too Geld for
pretty dresses and spring bonnets. Most
of them were out last Sunday.
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The registration for the city election up
to date is about $500. 1t is great mistake
| that great number of women are regis
| tering. The numbe: is not higher than
heretofore. The highest total registration
that Wichita ever had was nearly $780,
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Said florist yesterday: Break off a
limb from your apple tree, put it in water
in a window where the sun will shine on
it, and you will have apple blossoms in
few days. You can do the same thing with
lilacs if you will add little lime to the
water.
The new style of putting Town" on
local letters in lieu of "City." has its draw
backs. The way most people write
"Town" bears a close resemblance to
''Iowa," and the mailing clerks are apt to
send it off to that state. There have been
a number of such instances.
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There is man in town who is the vic |
tim of his name 1t is queer name and |
one that not half dozen people in a thou |
sand would catch right the first time. |
The people near his office have to correct |
people who ask for him every day under |
fifty different names. A great many, Of |
course, do not find him and it is claimed |
that he loses business on that account.
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Nobody was happier yesterday than the
boot and shoe men. There was a steady |
trade all day in rubber shoes and boots.
Some of the firms sold as high as a hun
dred pair of rubbers. In a day or two the
and shoe statesmen will strike
the town. They will have heard that
Wichita has had rainy day and will
come in to replenish the retail dealers
stocks. Nobody watches the weather
bulletins closer than the expert drum
mer" for a boot and shoe house.
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Yesterday was the day to bring out the
women. There is something in a storm
that the average woman cannot resist Its
spirit is in such contrast to that which
reigns within the confined atmosphere of
indoor life that the feminine slave frees
herself at bound to revel in the conflict
of unrestrained elements. There is an
abnormal anomalousness about that
woman who does not delight in an outdoor
elemental shaking up and weather-beaten
While the searching, dry
blizzard, spiteful in spits of snow is prefer
able, yet such days as yesterday are not
without their subtle, clinging, bedraggling
assurances. when elevated petticoats are
And speaking of petticoats.
what tubs full will confront the washer
woman this morning
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Many people have seen the big shed
erected over the chimney on the new post +,
office building and wondered at its pur-
pose. 1t is cap for the purpose of keep
ng the wind from blowing down the
chimney and destroying the draught
The fault is the architects, as
he chimney was not built high !
being right at the base OF the .
higher tower. which the wind strikes and
'edounds. This is said to be the trouble ,
With most OF the architectural designs for :
buildings in the west-that is-in not
building the fues high enough and placing .
hem in proximity to the towers. 1t will
,e remembered that the chimney on the
all had, after the completion of the main
building, to be elevated fifteen feet or
more. The architects don't understand our
ephyrs.
As the warm weather advances the re- e
rigerator has begun to look friendly and I
he base burner homely. AS is weil-known.
he natural ice crop was cipher this
winter wilkins, the Little River icemaD. !
las none on hand and neither has Huff of $
be Second street Chisolm creek ice houses. G
he latter gentleman had made great
Preparations for a big ice harvest, by a
making largs pond. into which water was v
Jumped For only few days the ice on
his pond permitted skating, but was not
hick or compact enough 70 cut or store
way. So there is no natural ice on hand
4 the city. The artificial ice manufac-
urers are looking forward 20 a bonanza.
,ssides the plant on the West Side, the =