The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-30
SUNFLOWER SILHOUETTES.

A Wichita baby calls crickets "niggeI
grasshoppers.
The idea of the board of public works is
not to work the public.
The Kansas farmer has good ground for
feeling well-several acres of it.
Kansas has never before had such q
large stock of thrifty rainbows
A Sedgwicll county farmer says that too
much rain in Kansas is just enough.
The latest is that ex-senator ingalls, ex-
poets to succeed Plumb at the next sena-
torial election.
1t has been a long while since the dry
goods boxes looked as deserted in Kansas
as they do right now.
The nice things the papers are saying
about Sam Wood now would have ratified
him during his lifetime. He wasn't used
to them.
Mrs. Sam Wood is said to be a very
bright woman. Years ago she lost a
daughter and has always since been a spir-
itualist.
PETER is home again. He really needs
the rest He has been tagged by the anar-
chists and managers of museums all over
the east.
Sol Miller recently, on hearing that a
great many people were starving in India
for the want of bread, wondered why they
didn't eat pie.
The Alliance may some day run the
railroads of the country, but just at pres
ent their business in that line only extends
to following trains of thought.
Our Kansas farmer will soon have a
scheme He is going TO try to put 1891
corn crop in a 1890 corn crib.
Since his return Jerry Simpson is as
popular with the people of Medicine Lodge
as man could be who had gone east and
learn TO drink glass of water without
gulping
Ingalls, has gone back to Washington
again. This makes the third time since
his defeat. Morton has hard time, evil
IDENTIFY. getting onto the duties of vice
president.
Eghty-two thousand majorities make a
great difference. Two years ago, this far
before the state election, the next governor
of Kansas had been named and the nomin-
atiug speech prepared.
Butler county is almost solid for Bob
Moore for governor. There are mighty
few men in the country who haven't taken
q 'chaw" off the same plug of tobacco
with Moore some time or other.
The wheat fields all over Kansas are
hanging their heads. OF course it is the
weight OF the grain that does it, but it
looks like the wheat was ashamed OF the
uuearthly rumpus the farmer has been
kicking up in the country, the last year.
A EFarmers' Alliance man in Sumner
county who happened to stumble across
the fact that Jay Gould could buy all the
wheat crop of Kansas at 81 bushel and
still have $50, 010, 600 left, brooded over it
so much that he neglecie ed 70 cut his wheat
and il is knocked down by the rain and
wind and ruined.
The other day Jerry Simpson came into
his house from looking over his wheat
field There are Go acres OF L, and il is
simply beautiful He went into the house.
where his wife was getting dinner in the
kitchen, with something evidently on his
mind. He wanted TO saw something 70 her
apparently. He looked about nerEously.
Then he went 10 the front door and looked
ont. Seeing nobody near he closed the
door aud locked it. &Then he went back 10
the kitchen. shut and turned the KEY in
that door. Then the great calamity howler.
edging close up TO Mrs. Simpson, cautious
ly whispered: kansas is the most glorious
state IN the Union.