The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-12
suNFLoWER s1LHoUETTEs.

There is an unfailing sign by which to
tell an Alliance paper. 1t is little two
line advertisement of the DuttOn house, OF
Topeka.
A Kansas critic says Thomas Brewer
Peacock, the Topeka poet, will be remem-
bered after Homer and Shakespeare are
forgotten-but not till then.
eve do not keep anything thinner than
cheese-cloth, said the urbane clerk, but
YOU can probably find one of Peffer's
speeches in the paper stall next door,"
Jerry Simpson is talking reputation
right out and the state of Kansas is bound
to suffer. Jerry has made himself famous.
He will now render himself infamous.
The Alliance by refusing to fuse with
the Democrats, shows that 1t Is drifting
back to point where it will fuse with
the Republican party with Resultant
81, 900 majority.
If there is one Kansas man who has
fallen in obscurity more than another in
the last year, 1t is Emile Firman, our rep
resentative at the Paris exhibition. Where
is he? Has he joined the Peoples party5
Scientists say that the deer cannot be
poisoned. The reason of this is that that
animal has no gall. Creatures without
gall cannot be poisoned. This is probably
what makes Mrs. Lease so apprehensiye.
j. ]. ingalls, says that no man ever
gained 81, 900, 900 perfectly honestly. Mr..
ingalls, has been commonly set down as a
millionaire But this statement would
seem TO fix his wealth at something like
S999, $3.50
The full horror of the Republican plot
to poison Mrs. Leases lemonade was not
realized until it was learned that it was
with sporotrichim gobuliferum, Prof
| SHOWS chinch bug cholera extract, they
/ tried to do it with.
Let me give you piece of my mind"
said Democrat who had been goaded into
passion by Republican on the street
yesterday. 'Iwon'thear of such thing, "
coolly replied the Republican, you need
every bit you've got"
Great Scottv exclaimed an old farmer
yesterday who had been listening to an
! Alliance man run down the state senate;
My crop is already too big to handle, and
! what would it have been if we hadn't had
a Republican senate?"
senator L
have seen Ingalls, sent back to the senate
than himself. The sun would probably
| stand still and the world whirl around
from north TO south before Jerry Simpson
could be induced to say such thing OF
Jim HallowelI.
Alta Sumner county Alliance the other
evening the orator OF the occasion saw q
dark lump at his feet and improved the
opportunity to work off metaphor I'VE
farmers" he said, shall crush out the old
parties. as / crush this clod of dirt beneath
my foot" But the clod of dirt proved 10
be a walnut 1t didn't crush worth cent,
but shot out from under his foot and hit
the chairman of the meeting in the eye.
! There was a loud laugh and the crowd
broke UP with three cheers for James q.
Blaine.
You fellows can't tell the truth if you
want TO" said an old farmer rather warm
" to the editor.
1--WE can't ell? Well, what's the mat
ter now"
Matter: Why, brought corstalk il
here yesterday and
Il said in the paper it was sixteen feet
high You surely don't kick on that.
| Only an eIsggeration. Perfectly !eslti
mate in newspaper k-exaggeration-'
Great Heavens, mani exaggeration.
That's what makes me bet That stalS
was eighteen feet high.
A man with an eye TO investing drove
over the northeastern part Of the state
last week In jefferson county he stopped
in front Of farm gate 70 make some in
ouiries. 4 tall man with sandy bear
answered his halloa How are you
cropss' the man asked
VERY bad. +" said the man, very bad n
deed You see, we have had too nancl
ram. the core. Is drow usd out Wont *
Uhlrd q a crop Then. there's besn
pest in my wheat, and haven't had tim
20 stack II and us being raiaed b1- To-
weeds have cIesr tz&el ny oats. and
won't bother with cutting 1neu-
Where do you livesn asked the man il
the buggy. who was somewhat surprises