The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-13
JoTr1Nes AND J1Na1Es.
Walls and Cute Conceits from q Distance-Cur-
sury Notes and Local Gossip.

who was beaten the other day for the
nomination by Clark in the Alliance con-
vention.
Three birds were caught in the electric
light globe at the corner of Hydraulic and
Douglas yesterday.
A Wichita boy who was sent away to a
military school stayed just one week and
came back home lank and lean. He claims
he was starved.
There is a young lady in town who is
still called Babe"
There are three Wichita young men
writing on the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
From the Emporia Republican.
A 10year-old boy in Wichita takes doll
to bed with him every night 1t is ex-
pected that he will grow up and marry a
woman like Mrs. Lease.
From the Kansas City Gazette.
Wichita we notice is complaining again.
The Peerless Princess" should join the
Alliance.
From the st. Joseph Gazette
A Wichita woman straps her baby on
her back when she goes on her bicycle.
From the Kansas City Star.
Wichita has a new curiosity in the shape
of a young man who has job in Kansas
City and sends all of his surplus earnings
back TO Wichita to buy property.
From the Kansas City journal.
Wichita street cars are to be provided
with electric headlights to enable the con-
ductors to slow up when cows are lying on
the track.
From the Kiowa Review:
Wichita has great deal of trouble with
her share of young America. The Peer
less Princess has large family of what
ha arr 40 latc
From the Kansas City journal.
Young ladies visiting Wichita are not
slow in copying local customs. A young
lady of Sedgwick, took i'm picnic there
the other day.
From the Topeka Journal
There is girl in Wichita weighing 200
pounds, called Birdie" Her parents
named her that when she was small and
lissome. This shows what awful mistakes
parents sometimes make.
From the Atchison Champion.
Wichita expects soon to become ''the
great grain entrepot of and for Kansas"
There is something really attractive about
that wonderful city's ambition.
From the Kansas City Journal.
A group of men around dead COW on a
MUCH frequented street in Wichita was re-
ferred to by one of Victor Murdock's re-
porters as being a very impressive sight
and the occasion one of "poetical moment;
yet amidst such there was laughter" The
reporter still lives.
From the Kansas City Star.
A Wichita farmer had field of oats this
season that turned out eighty bushels to
the acre. When it comes to agriculture
the Peerless Princess is out of sight
From the Arkansas City Traveller.
The Press agent at Wichita boastfully
says 1.-The Republican county convention
ignored prohibition" That was eminent
ly proper so long as the resubmissionists
ignored resubmission.
From the Topeka Lance
In Wichita the subject of dress reform
is being agitated extensively. We've
noticed that the girls there needed some
thing. The Topeka girls dress so sensibly
the thought of dress reform never agitates
their minds.
From the Geuda Springs Herald.
The Immortal J. N" announces that
he will ''lift the veil' in Wichita in the
near future We doubt whether he will
may have more behind the veil than j. n.
anticipates.
From the Kansas City Star.
The real estate transfers at Wichita last
Monday amounted to S66, 2S8. 1t seemed
SO much like old times that the galvanized
emblem of freedom on top of the EAGLE
office came near Hopping its wings.
From the Emporia Republican.
Even in Wichita and Leavenworth the
prohibitory law is now being enforced to
the letter. But the letter in these cities is
''iet her rip"
From the South Haven New Era.
A Mulvane youth recently went to Wich-
tia and made the return trip to Mulvane
in two hours. That's the way with most
people, they leave Wichita so fast that the
road smokes as they pass over it. The
Mulvane mans hair is said to have turn
ed perfectly white from the horrors he
witnessed in the city.
From the Kansas City Times
The farmers of Wichita are still discuss
ing the banking system, and there are in
dications that even the mostinexperienced
will in the end learn how to draw check
or apply for draft.
From the Abilene Reflector.
STRAW rides" are prohibited in Wichita.
The young men and women get too giddy.
From the Atchison Globe.
The EAGLE continues to print boom ar
ticles about Wichita 1t is the flag end of
the old habit acquired III l6S6-S7.
From the Kansas City Star.
A stuffed COW and picture of an ocean
storm, painted by Wichita woman. are
among the art treasures of the Peerless
Princess.
From the Leavenworth Times.
A Wichita woman had enough gall to
tell her pastor that she considered 1t incon-
sistent and unbecoming for him to wear
gold watch chain, and he was chump
enough to take it off the next Sunday and
throw it in the collection basket.
The moose which was purchased to hang
Eddie Belden of Wichita has been sent to
and will be utilized in the |
hanging of Charles Benson, the murderer |
Of Mrs. Mettman.
From the Salina News
When prohibition gets too strong for the |
fellows in Iowa they bundle up and go to |
Wichita.
From the Atchison Patriot.
A watch factory is trying to break into |
From the Kansas City Star.
The Wichita calaboose doesn't have as |
many occupants now as it did a few |
months ago. The fellows are pretty gen. |
orally paying their fines, which is regard !
ed as token of returning prosperity.
An immense flock of blackbirds few |
over the city yesterday morning. They |
appeared as big black cloud.
From the Fl Dorado Republican.
A crowd of Wichita girls went in bath |
ing in the Walnut last week and they |
went into a neighboring |
corn field TO dress. OF course all the |
stalks had ears, ami the whole field was
SHOCKED.
A crowd of men were conjecturing yes
terday as TO whether there was TO be a /
clock in the place for one on the new city /
'Well. we don't need il" said /
Wesley Morris. the attorney breaking into |
the conversation; ''our town is doing too /
much business on time already"