The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-02

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'Salve'' is the word that adorns the en-
trance to q number of residences in tn
city and not one in ten knows the meanin,
of the word
Speaking Of talent, q Wichita man
years Of age learned to ride a bicycle il
fifteen minutes.-Kansas City Star.
The wedding that has been announced
at least dozen times in the last two year!
will positively appear" in the next few
weeks.
On the day that Barnum visited Wichits
the school children devoted themselves en-
tirely to the study of natural history and
physical culture.-Kansas City Star.
The edict has gone forth in society that
the boys must wear pearl colored kid
gloves and the girls must stop wearing
sunflowers in their hair during the coming
winter. So goes the last relic of good old
border days.
| Wichita papers are putting q new cigar
factory recently started there and say the
cigars are real easy to puff, which &C
counts for the pufinR.-Kansas City
Journal.
| Speaking of metropolitan airs, a ladies'
gymnasium can now be found up on Main
street, where the fair ones eau box and
skip the rope to their hearts content.
At Wichita a wedding is not considered
thoroughly swell unless the groom and
| the lady's trousseau are both imported
Kansas City Star.
The first university extension lecture
next Friday evening is being anticipated
with much pleasure in educational circles.
An old fashioned colonial party will be
given Oct. ID by the Columbian club. The
girls are expected to wear all their old
laces and grandmother gowns, while the
boys must tuck up their tronsers, put on
their sisters stockings and powder their
hair. Queen Isabella, with full retinue
of servants, will be there to lead her
knickerbockered friends in the grand
march.
By a recent order of the postoffice de-
partment, private boxes for the collection
and delivery of mail when desired are to be
put on every house in the free delivery
district of the United States, which Of
course includes Wichita. The boxes are
put in by the department at a cost of 81.
with no further expense rs long as they
remain in position. The system has been
tried in st. Louis and proved most sue
cessful.
Kansas City Star: A Wichita boy who
went out to the cisrern in the dark to get a
drink was attacked by vicious raccoon
and severely lacerated. If people in Wich-
tia will persist in drinking water they
must take the consequences.
There is one family in the city that en-
ploys . colored woman driver just to be
odd.
Emporia Republican,: The EAGLE claims
that Wichita girl was offered the job of
being Queen Isabella for tho Barnum
Columbus show. That is one way the
EAGLE has of inducing young men to
locate in Wichita.
Wichita is going to deal in University
extension this year. It's the only kind
she hasn't yet tried. Professor Blake Of
the State university will start a course OF
lectures on electricity.-Leavenwor
Times.
The term Of the United States court
which has just adjourned cost the govern
ment over $4,000.
The Wichita EAGLE admits that Yale
and Harvard colleges may measure up
with Garfield and Paramount universities
as schools of higher education.-Kansas
City Star.
The Wichita EAGLE admits the provin-
cislism of that city by making note OF
the fact that the ushers of the theater
there have just adopted the rule of COM
polling patrons who come in while the cur
tain is up to wait until the act is conclud-
ed.-Kansas City Journal.
''Spook" has made an estimate o; the
result of the approaching state election.
Ii is official and will do 70 bank on. Here
it is: The census bulletin gives Kansas iu
June 1890, 3>3,00o voters. Add to this
/, 900, the increase caused by Immigration
and By those who will cast their first vote,
making total of 800 600 voters. 1t is safe
to count On poll of $40, 600 votes.
Now take the Robinson and Willis vote !
combined which amounts 10 l1S,oo0 and !
deduct &c. 900 which will be lost by of Re- |
publican Resubmissionisis and disgruat- |
led Populists going back 20 the Republi- |
can ranks. Now give TO the fusion ticket |
the whole Of the natural increase. noted /
above. I, go aud you have 49, go as toe /
fusion strength.
Now so back to the vote to be polled So
NO and subtract the l65, COO fusion vote
aud about 2, oe0 Prohibition vote and you
nave the Republican vote. which is eo3.-
90. Then subtract the fusion vots from
The Republican vote and it gives vou S.
90. which is the Republican majority in |
he state this year.
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