The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-07
sUNFLoWER s1LHoUETrES.

Today many old kanSans Will look back
and think how often they thought it
would some day be Blaine and PUNT"
Il will try" said man who was
drenched to the skin, and stood shiverIng
in the midst of the wild devastation OF the
Harper cyclone, Il viii try to keep cool. !"
Every time the people of Kansas see a
bank of clouds On he horizon in the ever
ing now, they look in the papers next
morning to find what town had been pull
verified by a tornado.
If large refulgent rudlled glare should
appear in the direction CT Minneapolis TO-
night, ali the scientists in rhe world could
not convince the average Kansas Republi-
can that it WAS the aurora borealis.
The excitement over BIaine's resignation
was 40 where so great as in Kansas.
Among the politicians Of this state, the
idea o. a man rrsiguing one office before he
has the nomination Tor another, has long
been regarded as dreamy fiction.
4 private letter received from w. NJ
Rice at Washington, states that he had
successfully passed the civil service ex-
animation, had been sworn in, and would
leave Washington in day Or two for
New York, to assume his duties pernla-
nently.
Mrs. Leases forehead" wrote the cor
respondent to an eastern paper in his de-
scription Of the famous agitator, sis high
and broad, her nose clear cut and sharp,
her eyes bright and intelligent, and her
mouth needs no praise Of mine. 1t speaks
for itself"
Tom Ryan, our minister to Mexico, is
the only Kansas man of prominence who
is doing much talking for Harrison. But
as Mexico City is 2,400 miles from the
state and Mr. Ryan does most of his talk
ing in soft Castillian accents, he is COM
paratively safe.
John" said politicians wife yester
day, what is all this fuss over Blaine
about?"
"Why, haven't you heard, he's re-
signed"
"And is it such rare thing for man
to resigu?"
The Kansas editor who suggested John
j. Ingalls, for vice president under James
g. Blaine with the anticipation Of the
presidents early demise, could learn a
well-known lesson of vital teDacity and
human disappointment by looking at
Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales.
Bishop Ninde has been ordered by the
Methodist general conference to locate in
Detroit, Mich. Bishop Vincent will take
his place at Topeka. Bishop Vincent is
the head of the great Chautauqua assem-
bly, and as such has become we'll known to
many thousand Americans
1t is current talk in Washington that
the Standardization row is nothing more
than Il hen fight between Mrs. Blaine. Mrs.
Elkins and Mrs. Harrison. For the salts
faction of the Kansas politicians, who are
not up to this new feature i'll national
politics, it is said that Mrs. Perkins and
Mrs. PETER are among Mrs. Harrison's
cohorts.
Bishop Vincent, the head of Chautauqua
assembly of the United States, will live in
Topeka. Kansas is monopoliZing the
political, educational and moral forces Of
the country. II is not improbable that
the Kansas atmosphere will commence to
work on Bishop Vincent and, in the course
of four years, the Chautauqua assembly
Will put IA national ticket in the field.
Blaine has made IA mistake, said a
simple minded Individual yesterday. "ie
has today more popularity III hansas than
he will ever have again
"What, don't you think he'll be nomin-
ated?'
"Oh yes, he'll be nominated and elected
and then he'll fall down trying TO distrib-
ute two hundred postoffices among the
thousand aspirants in Kansas"
The character of the old Illinois courts,
in which Abraham Lincoln practiced, was
very primitive. In one case Il livery stable
horse had died soon after beiu-, returned,
and the person who had hired it was sued
for damages. The question turned upon
the reputation of the defendant as hard
rider. A witness was called, a long, lank
westerner.
How does Mr. So-apd-so usually ride -
asked the lawyer.
Without a CLEAN of intelligence the wit
ness replied:
"A-straddle." sir"
"No, no." said the lawyer, Il mean does
he usually walk, or trot, or gallop?"
"Wal," said the witness, apparently
searching in the depth of his memory for
facts, when he rides a walkin' horse he
walks when he rides a trottin' horse he
trots, and when he rides a gallOpin' horse
lie gallops. when'-
The lawyer was angry. 81 want to know
what gait the defendant takes, fast or
Slow"
oval" said the witness, when his COM
pany rides FAST ne rides fast, and when his
company rides slow he rides slow"
II want to know, sir" the lawyer said,
very much exasperated, and very stern
now, chow Mr. So-and-so rides when he is
alone."
Wal" said the witness, more slowly
and meditatively than ever, when be was
alone | WANT along and don't know"
The laugh at the questioner ended the
cross-examination.
A Wichita bcyclist who had gone to
Wellington on his wheel passed through
Mlivane at o'clock in the moaning, and
wanting some refreshments. knocked at
the door of house, where he saw an open
window.
Voice (from within)-''Who are you"
Cyclist-"A traveller"
Voice-"Then travel"