The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-08
MOTHER GRUMPY TALKS.
Inferential Flippancies for Home Gossippers
and a Fusilade of filings at the
Peerless Princess From
the Press.

it would be indiscreet
Salina Journal: Over 100 cases OF meas
les are reported in Wichita. This does moi
necessarily indicate that the Peerless Prin
cess is 'measly" place.
There is woman who spends her even
ings in her husbands store on Douglas
avenue to keep another woman from
flirting with him.
Emporia Republican,: The report come:
from Mississippi that man has been found
there whose neck is so tough that he can
not be killed by hanging. The Wichita
fake artist has gone south.
The HAY ride" Tuesday evening result
ed disastrously. The wagon broke down
and the participants had to walk home.
Kansas City Star: The success of the
Wichita HyDatia club has excited the
women of other Kansas towns, and there
promises 20 be a food of base limitations
before the year closes. But they will de
ceive nobody. There is only one Wichita
and can be only one Hypatia club.
A pretty young girl drives milk wagon
IN the north part of town and the women
say they have no trouble in getting thelr
husbands to get the milk.
Lawrence journal. Junction City
wants police commissioners. Leaven-
worth and Wichita each had a set that
1t will dispose of cheap. on long time, if
they can get Governor Humphreys sigma
ture TO the bill of sale.
When the phonogroph parlors were here,
a Wichita singer who has great opinion
| OF her own voice, sent letter to the man
ager saying that she would sing in each
| monograph for $40 selection.
Kansas Ciey Star: Victor Murdoch
went on piratical cruise among the ex-
changes one day last week. His appropria-
tion of Frank Jarrell's Emma Abbot story
| on Frank Lynch was grand larceny.
A colored man and his wife had quar-
| rel the other day and the wife left him.
Before she went she piled all the furniture
| and clothes in the front yard and made a
bonfire of everything in the house The
| colored people believe she was possessed of
the devil
Lawrence Journal: The doctors and
undertakes are holding joint session at
Wichita. 1t is said that the undertakes
are making great kick because Of the
light work furnished them by the physic-
ians.
Deacon Jones: Do you want to know if
your child will be taller than you when
he is grown? Take his measure when he
is 8 years old. That will be half his
height when he is grown.
Topeka Journal: The Wichita district
court has handled thirty-one divorce cases
within the past three months. Topeka
can beat that
A Wichita woman who is talking of Civ
ing party says there are ten marrageabls
girls In town 20 every manageable man.
Kansas City Star: Mrs Toler and Mrs.
Todd will represent The Wichita Hypatia
club at the meeting of the federation of
women's clubs at Chicago. 1t is dollars to
cents that Mrs. Toler will get an Office
A Wichita man has struck upon novel
plan to get lannon's. He has written to an
eastern patent medicine association saying
that their medicine has cured him after
fifty years of agony, and enclosing his
photograph.
Kansas City Gazette: The Mcpherson
than the Topeka product.
a young man who has ambitions to go
with the older set. went to one of them
before a recent party, and asked him not
to guy him and to request his friends not
to do it either.
Salina Journal: A Wichita grass widow
invaded an insane asylum in order to
secure a husband. Just like the town.
Deacon Jones: When boy begins to
wash his neck without being told. it is a
sign be is passing into the ordeal of his
first love affair.
Arkansas City Traveller: The Winfield
Kelley institute is moving to Wichita.
One of the girls had a proposal on the
Pirates of Penzance trip.
Kansas City Gazette: A Wichita man
wants divorce because he was drugged
and forced to marry. Awful.
There is a member of the Hypatia,
whose eyes change to the color of every
dress she can put on, and remains that
color, till she takes it off.
Kansas City Journal: Victor Murdoch
will have to answer at the pearly gate for
this: IF il keeps on raining there viii
soon be enough water for Senator PETER
to drift back into the Republican party"
Hi Alden, Wichita's famous comedian,
has been discovered. He is hotel clerk
in Los Angeles. Cal.
Kansas City Star: The Atchison Globe
notes divorce suit fled by man because
his wife adopted the Mae" abomination
as her given name. This ought to be
warning TO the Wichita girl who has sub
stituted ''Elira" for the good old name of
her mother, Eliza. She should never
marry.
1t is now claimed that one of the greatest
catches" in town is likely to be secured
by young lady of another town who is
visiting here. 1t is all blamed on he"hay
ride
Lawrence Journal: There is a report in
circulation to the effect that the gambling
houses Of Wichita are to be shut up by
the authorities. This is a very proper
step, and in the right direction, and it is
to be hoped that some day Wichita will
recognize the existence of saloons and
joints and make a raid on them also
a contributor claims to have been pass
ing an open window on North Topeka the
other evening and heard this from a femi-
nine voice: ''Oh, do tell me what 10 wear.
mamma Shall l wash for low OF 8 high
neck dresss"
Colwich Courier: Two school teachers
stood conversing with the editor in the
Courier Office Saturday. Finally one OF
the school teachers asked the ether school
teacher if be Was going down TO Wichita
the next Tuesday evening to hear VIII
Carleton. Carleton, " replied the teacher.
who is he's" After the laugh had sub
sided the teacher explained that be