The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-17
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Charles Dickens, the novelist, created
1.l25 characters.
Mrs Lease has a speaking acquaintance
with most of the people of Kansas.
Ed. Howe says the women have already
begun to walk fast on account of Christ
mas.
Miss Smith-"what is this hear, Mr..
Slywinkss Your daughter rode bare back
to the ballp'
We had an eclipse Sunday night Like
all other lines in Kansas, the astronomers
business is looking up
A Coneordia man received dispatch the
other from Jerusalem few hours before
it was sent. by the clock.
1t is to be hoped that John Willis, as a
great many more of his class. will stop
pulling wires and pull weeds.
The Alliance has lost good deal of
ground in Kansas, but it is not the kind
that yields anything to the acre.
| Not drop of rain fell In the United
States Sunday before last This is the
first time this has oerurred in eighteen
years.
Mr.. Slywinks-"Yes, indeed. started
that report myself She went in a cab in
one of those decollette dresses. De you
seer"
Ex-senator ingalls, says he was some
what disappointed in Major McKilney's
speeches because ''they did not show
| great degree of versatility"
The next move for the Alliance is to alb
rogate the third party idea. The Alliance
must fix up fences. and, properly enough
as an agricultural order, will. hedge.
There are some men in the state who
will never believe that the Republicans
would have made such gains in Kansas,
had Senator Plumb went on his proposed
European trip.
ingalls, used to be the idol of Kansas
Republicans. Click was the idol of Kan
sas Democracy. Jerry Simpson was the
idol of the Alliance. But the idol business
is now out of date. The idol IS idle.
People think the weather of the last two
or three days is unusually severe for this
time of the year. On the 5th of November
1851, the ice in the Missouri river between
Kansas and Missouri was frozen so hard
that teams crossed on it.
Somebody walked in on old Closef1st at
Wellington the other day, and found him
chiseling away at the motto In God We
Trust" on several silver dollars. This is
strictly cash store" he explained, ''and
am not going to make any exceptions"
The Kansas Democrat is great fellow.
1t may take some time, but he finally gets
the laugh on his enemies. Last year be
joined the Alliance and beat the Repub
licans. This year he joins the Republicans
and beats the Alliance. Some times he !
goes it alone and beats himself.
A woman went into the telegraph Office |
at Guthrie and as she drew the blank to-
wards her, said: Il told my husband to |
order a motto banner in Wichita. It's to |
be used for our Sunday school room but |
forgot to tell him what the inscription /
was to be or how large / wanted it. "If |
send him the particulars how soon will he |
get the messagei" 'In about ten min |
utes, answered the man at the key. This
was the succinct message she sent: ''Mr.
Smith, Wichita. Uuto us child is born,
two feet wide and eight feet long. Mary.n
Arthur Capper's interview with Mrs.
Henry Ward Beecher: Mrs. Beecher said
a good deal about the great interest her
husband took in the early struggles in
Kansas. At that time, she said, he was
guile young man, but he enlisted in the
cause with all the fervor and earnestness
of the Oldest abolitioDist whenever he
took up public question he entered into
the fight with all his might, but don't
think l ever saw him quite so intensely in
terested as when he was doing what he
could to make Kansas free state"
The corncob pipe factory at Sedan is one
Of the only four in the United States, the
other three being at st. Louis.
No., Wichita, Kan, aud Greenwood,
Neb. The cobs, which are OBJ
tained from the Collier variety corn, come
rom Missouri and are heavy, hard and
'woolly." The stems used are of Arkansas :
swamp cane or reed. The cobs are cut the
light size by circular saw, and then pass
IN TO the boring machine, which hollows
,ut the bowl with a lightning movement
twisted drill makes the hoe for the !
TEN, and the bowl is then sandpapered
md vanished. About 1900 of the pipes :
ire made by the four factories every day I
"This man that was talking about"
aid the Narrator of singular tale of forti
ude, ''was standing on viaduct when he
vas kicked by mule, fell forty feet to
he ground and then rolled into a large,
moking limekiln and when we picked !
i'm out his jaw was fractured by the kick, .
e had both arms and one leg broken in !
he fall, and his body was frightfully {
urned by the lime When we pulled him r
ut he was ghastly sight and somebody +
Poor fellow, he's dead >" n
lie opened his eyes and said firmly, :" No, c
ir, we're not dead, then gasped and fell G
ack lifeless." {
"Pshaw," said one of the listeners. n
othing wonderful about that. l knew Z
hat man myself" 4
"You didF' from the chorus. s.
'Yes." said the man, Il recollected him n
be minute our friend told how he declared t.
9 was not dead. He was the editor of an 5
-lliance paper out in Kansas. O