The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-04
WHIM.WHAMS.
A Hodge Podge of City Talk and Local
Gossip.


Mrs. AL Biting gave reception yester-
day afternoon.
A prominent Wichita citizen is figuring
IN divorce suit at Carthage, Mo.
Most of the Italians in town sympathize
with their native country in the present
muss
The past winter was all spring, and the
present spring SO far proves to be all
winter
a chair car went through on the RocE.
Island yesterday which was named the
"Chritine Nilsson"
Duck-shooting is way above par 1t has
improved wonderfully in the last week.
hunters say it was never better.
rom now on up to next Wednesday, -
sad a cigar dealer last evening, my re-
ceipts VIII go up over 30 per cent"
The butcher shops in Wichita receive
SAT- water fish from Galveston that have
oniy oeen out OF the sea thirty-six hours
The roads have all got into good shape
again and if the sky is clear the merchants
expect big trade from the country today.
L am doing my own chores this week, y
sad well-to do citizen yesterday. MY
hlred man Is out getting & day election
eering.
Thursday was Thomas Jefferson's birth
day, but only few of the local Democrats
were onto the fact and it was not celebrat-
ed in this city.
Forty thousand dollars has accrued in
the Wichita postotice during the last fiscal
year from box rent and the sale of stamps
and stamped envelopes
1t Is said that apropos of the city cleo
ton next Tuesday, there will be a process
slo1 OF 800 Alliance wagons from the
country come into town.
/ NO Wichita man waits for the war news
/ more impatiently than Mr. A G. Walden.
Mrs. Walden and her mother, Mrs Ores
chaux. are in Florence, Italy.
! HE busiest places in town are the seed
stores. You have TO wait TO be waited
/ upon Next 10 seed stores come the estab-
Hshments that keep fishing tackles.
There is young society miss in town
who positively asserts that there was only
| one new bonnet at a certain church in
| town last Sunday. OF course that one
was On her own head
There IS one man in town who is doing
no gardening this spring. Last spring,
ne says, he put in a row Of peas and before
the summer was over he figured up that
each pea cost him at least five cents
The E. 5. A. will find that the poll
with which they would poll hasn't got
the longitude Of u broom handle when it
comes TO a political scrap with an aggre-
CATION of trousers, breaches and pants
New kinds of wild ducks appear in our
creeks and lakes every year. 4 Wichita
sportsman killed a duck of an entirely
new variety the other day, and none of
the local sportsmen are able to name it.
There seems to be doubts in the minds
of some as to just who H F. Goode Is.
who is running for the council in Fourth
ward. 1t is Frank Goode, who has been
connected with S. W. Cooper for the past
four years.
Shortly after Pecora, the Italian muir
derer was sentenced here, he said that the
first thing he would do after he got out OF
the penitentiary would be to come back to
Wichita and kill two gamblers here,
whom he named.
The lilac bushes have begun TO put out
their green They are two weeks late
The peach trees were in bloom the first
week in March last year. They are
month late. When they do come, however,
they will burst out like shot. The buds
are not injured at all, and the air will be
fun Of fragrance and perfume.
A Wichita man who has just returned
from Chicago says that there are more
suicides, cases of starvation and despond-
eucy in that city than you can shake
stick at He says the city is overstocked
with laborers. He ayers that there ara 100
applicants for every job, if it is only to
carry bucket Of water across the street.
Sugar did drop Il now costs the con
sumner a little over cent less than it did
before the tariff was taken off The retail
dealers are uncertain as TO how long the
price will remain so. They say the sugar
combine is liable TO put it up at any time
Some of the grocers are now selling
eighteen pounds of granulated sugar for
dollar. At this rate everybody can afford
sugar in their coffee.
There are all kinds of schemes for ad- |
vertising The dramatic company playing |
at Crawfords offers a prize of SO TO the !
child who can make the most words out |
of the name "Eunice Goodrich" One boy /
has taken an unabridged dictionary and /
looked through the letters that occur in /
this name and claims to have 500 words. /
He may or may lot get the prize. Any /
way, he has done s25 worth of work.
The Big rivers current has become as
erratic as the seasons weather. Thursday
evening it was rising and had almost /
reached the high water mark of the past
twelve months, and by the time the state
ment was in print and before the early
morning reader, the recalcitrant old
stream had fallen several inches and was
still going down at rapiy rate. Probably
by this morning it is rising again.
For few days now the town will be full
OF pennies. There Is always more than
plenty four times a-year. The cause OF
this s that every quarter the small sur
rounding postoffices send IN their surplus
cash to the Wichita postoffice, and the
pennies come in in thousands done up il
-able-salr sacks and bags made out of old
calico dresses. These pennies are deposited
BY the postofices in the banks and
finally find their way TO the merchants
with whom they are most always in de-
nand.
June the twenty-sixth, the day set for
he execution of Adams and Beldeu, comes
IN Friday. There is an organized move
nent in all the courts Of the United States
% sentence men 70 be executed on some
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