The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-10

alone, and an old man whom she did not
know, stopped her and told her she was
| looking badly and must take care of her
| self.
Kansas City Gazette: A Topeka singer
was very shabbily treated at Wichita.
Look out for war.
The latest piece of gossip is about ''char
ity" and ''ingratitude, and you are not in
the swim If you haven't heard it yet.
Kansas City Journal: The Insurance
men who focked into the tornado district
Immediately after the Towanda disaster
are great set 1t is said that they have
done thousands OF dollars worth OF bust
ness since the unfortunate occurrence.
Every sort of enterprise Is being insured
against cyclones and wind storms. The
| principal industry OF the little own used
| to be very excellent stone quarry. This,
| in the boom days of Wichita, was great
J institution and employed several hundred
men. Recently, however, the quarry has
not done so much business. This did not
deter an enterprsing insurance agent, who
had listened to the cyclone lies and wit
messed the freaks of wind force, from going
to the owner of the quarry and earnestly
destruction by the wind. And the funny
part of it is that the owner really thought
of doing so.
| There is little woman in town who was
once the wife of one of the most promi-
nent congressman in Wash ngton today
| Though they parted years ago they still
! love each other, and some day may become
reconciled.
| Towanda Herald: Nearly all Wichita
J made what preparations they could to re-
ceive the cyclone last Tuesday, even the
schools being dismissed early in the day
The storm did not come. We didn't ex-
pect our cyclone. II came.
The old man in the play last night IS the
Oldest active actor in the United States.
| Towanda Herald: The Tuesdays EAGLE
says hat the cyclone increased the
Heraid's circulation, which Is undouoted-
| " the fact, for even the last three years
| file is gone.
! A Wichita girl goes down to the depot
every day to firt with the conductor.
Neodesha Register: Wichita captures
the Peoples party convention on June 18th
That city has always enjoyed the reputa-
ton of being windy" and said rep. will
certainly be well deserved on that day.
| People read novels to find roms nee,
while it can be found all around them in
real life. There is a young Englishman,
who has lived in Wichita a number Of
years, who left rich father and a palatial
home in London years ago to try his own
| fortune in America. 1t was against the
fathers wishes and be has never forgiven
his son. He occasionally sends him money,
but never asks him to come home. The
Young man has since married, and the old
man writes for new pictures of his grand
children frequently to see how they are
getting along, and says he would like TO
see them, but he never INVITES his own son
| to return.
| Lawrence Journal: c. Wood Davis has
gone to Washington and tackled the OPP
ton dealers. A man who can clear the
sand burs from an Arkansas river bottom
farm is not afraid after he gets through
with that to tackle anything.
| A Wichita man who wants to marry
again is trying in vain to find a wife who
suits his grown daughter. Every time he
hears Of an eligible woman, ne takes his
daughter to call on her, but she turns up
her nose at every one of them.
Kansas City Gazette. A Presbyterian
preacher at Wichita took such fancy to
dogs that bis church people protested, and
| finally fired him. The preacher says the
more he sees Of men the better he likes
DOGS