The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-20
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Salmon. pike and goldfish are the only
| fish that never sleep.
A photographer may never have an opin
on and still have his views Of subject
The thermometer has been below zero in
northwestern Kansas for three nights last
week.
Ed Howe will try his hand at lecturing
His effort will be defense OF IAN Ante
Mortem Statement"
To be fair. the trouble was not with the
Alliance leaders. 1t was the followers who
failed TO do their duty.
If, as some men claim, the Alliance Is an
epidemic, the little brush Kansas has had
must have been the vaccination.
Old DR.. Bohrer of Rice county says that
this republic Is humbug and fraud.
Old Bohrer's name is pronounced IN one
syllable.
Ingalls, held warm place in the senate.
PETER counts on only a very few friends
there; but among them he has d. w.
VOORHEES,.
There may be just the slightest touch OF
irony in the evident fact that nobody has
yet declared the late election to have been
a vindication of the last state senate.
Fame" said man yesterday, lis to
get the nomination for sheriff of your
county; notoriety is to be mentioned for
ongressman-at-large from the state. ;"
Last year Harrison Kelly's county went
Alliance. This year it went Republican
The people over there seem to have hard
time trying to get away from Harrison
Kelly.
1t is rather thoughtless to wonder at
Ingalls, inactivity in the last campaign in
Kansas when it is remembered that the
fight the Republicans made was hand-in-
glove with the Democrats.
Farmer Funston gives it out, with loud
bruit, that he does not want to be govern
or and furthermore will not accept the re-
nomination for congress, if rendered.
Plumbs place seems to be the attractive
point in Kansas politics.
'Dear, dear" said old Ebenezer Close
fist of Wellington, ''how the world pro-
gressses; they used to didn't have stoves
in railroad cars; now they have them IN
street cars, and have just been reading
of how a man has stove in his hat"
The latest number of the New York
Journalist has a full page portrait
of Charles Howard johnson, the success
full young artist who is doing such fine
work on Life, Judge, Harper's Weekly,
etc. Mr.. johnson is a Solomon City boy,
his father still residing there.
A Wichita boy asked his father what he
was going to get him for Christmas.
''Well my son." said the old man, ''times
are hard and 1 have just been getting an
old debt paid off-interest is high"
stop right where you are, pa" cried the
son: 'if you are poor, say so, but don't
give me a calamity howl"
Old Ebenezer Closefist of Wellington
has son not much brighter than his
father. who recently joined one of the
cheap detective agencies. The
first day he wore his badge he walked up
to a crowd and placed one man under ar
rest whom he overheard remark that he
intended to take life easy hereafter
George r. Peck had a suit of clothes
made while he was in London. He did
not try them on there, but packed them in
his trunk and brought them to Topeka.
The other day he tried to get them on and
found them too small. He spoke of it
down town after wards, and Bill Higgins
told him that it was because he is bigger
man in Kansas than he was in London.
On tombstone in the cemetery at At
tica, Harper county, the following pc
culiar inscription is found: Through this
inscription 1 enter my dying protest
against what is called the Democratic
party. I have watched it closely since the
lays of Jackson and know that all the
of our nation have come to it
through this so-called party. Therefore,
beware of this party of treason.
A Harper lawyer rushed wildly into the
office of his client and dropped hopelessly |
INTO chair. ''Great JehosaphatW he
groaned, 'but things look bluep
"Blue? They do?" questioned the eli !
snt, in surprise.
"Yes; blue;" the lawyer went on. ''It |
seems that in spite of all can do the |
Judge will decide the case in our favor. |
Oh dear!"
"Why, man, are you crazys" cried the
client in alarm. Decide in our favor? |
ISN'T that what we want him to dol"
'Nol NOT NOP' yelled the lawyer. |
Tt wont do at all-at ALI The other side |
will take it to the supreme court If they |
10, we're done for. Don't you under
tand?n
mo, don't"
Don't you know the name of the
udge?"
Eyes; Mckay"
'There's the dickens of it. He's ALI
Lnce. And great scottl man alive! don't
7ou know the supreme court always re-
Terses his decisions?"