The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
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| SGNFIOW Eli SlLHOUEIIES.
Our PETER is the American Prince OF
Walls.
The supremer court at Harper has been
crushed.
There will be no combination for the
| Republican party to work this fall.
BY the magnanimity of the last legisla-
ture one month from tomorrow will be a
holiday. Labor day.
Outwardly an Alliance picnic has the
appearance of a camp meeting revival.
But it don't revive.
1t was an Ell Dorado belle who added
?. on her invitations.
Mrs. Lease says: 1.-THE third party will
elect president in 1892 Stick a pin
here" A hair-pin, probably.
The wheat corner idea permeates the
rural community. The country maiden
has taken to hold back skirts.
Congressman Baker is fast becoming
the most popular Alliance man elected
last fall He talks less than any of them.
Billy Buchan is in Washington. Most
everybody long since relinquished the idea
that he did more to elect PETER than any
other man in Kansas.
Next to the Democratic party, the peach
orchards are worse split up, broken down
and generally shattered than any other
one thing in Kansas.
There are great many men in Kansas
who are treasured of their capacity for
congressional life from the fact that they
are able to wear congress shoes.
1t might be matter of discretionary
Importance if the Kansas Alliance besides
holding its wheat would demand that
its political leaders hold their tongues.
1t now comes out that Senator Plumb
wore black Prince Albert when he called
on the president at Cape May that was
nothing less than light winter overcoat.
A Wichita painter is busily engaged on
a peice of art work for Christmas pres
ent to friend. 1t is a portrayal of a Kan
sas Christmastide and is entitled Bring
ing in the Yule cob"
\ dilapidated urchn who had just
begged the remnant OF an apple from
better dressed boy on the street yesterday,
observed that the applecores were TURF
BILE big this year.
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thusiastic admirer of ex-senator Ingalls,
to friend who had remarked that he was
inconsistent in his conclusions. Just
look at that language"
1t is said to have had an actual occur
renee Mt Wellington that rich old codger
there recently remarked to a friend that
be was going to build condition to his
house so he could be more hostile.
The two Kansas men who have crossed
the ocean this summer and have written
of the voyage. Dr.. Cordley and Charley
Scott, were neither of them sea sick. The
LawreBce Journal thinks it viii take
something bigger than the Atlantic ocean
to make man sick who went through
the Kansas campaign last fall.
A Topeka merchant noticed a suspicious
character, one day, week before last,
lurking about in front of his store Final |
iy he stopped and demanded, What do |
you want?' ooh, nothing" said the !
man Keeling a little well, said the
merchant sizing him up, you'll find it in |
the third story Of that building in the !
next block. The Democratic party of !
Kansas is holding its convention there"
\ dusty tramp came up to fence where !
4 Kansas farmer was running a lawn !
mower. Wiping his sweaty forehead with |
his ragged sleeve, he remarked, with Can- /
ciliatory grace:
Cutting your lawn ehE'
Yes, said the farmer. and there is !
one thing that always puzzled me: why /
IS it that they call this blue grass when it /
IS not blue at allE"
That Is strange " DOuiered the tramD
But this world is full Of strange things,
snd he added automatically: Now you I
look green, but find you are not so at all /
"a very reflective man, on the contrary" !
And a half hour later, Is the tramp went /
his way with his stomach full OF sweet /
milk and black berry pie, aud an old over /
coat, with a pair OF mittens on his arm /
the only things the good old farmer could 1
spare-he thanked his stars for the herit- /
age OF glib tongue.