The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-20

man stopped TO WATCH Der. lne girl went
in the house and got her big brother who
came out and requested the stranger to
move or"
The patent office report shows that this
week where a Wichita woman has pat
ented corset stay. Another young woman
in town is said to be working on a device
for keeping narrow skirts from bagging
at the knees.
There is a girl up on North Emporla
avenue, who is really taking lessons in
China painting, piano-forte instruction,
landscape painting, German and French.
She is an only daughter
Preston Plaindealer: "Fll shut up and
you put up" is motto in Wichita barber
shop.
''The greatest dread of my life, said 3
well known school teacher yesterday lis
to appear before my pupils with any
change in my wearing apparel. They see
me every day aud are quick to notice the
least alteration. If wear new necktie,
they cast significant giances at one an
other and giggle. 1t makes me very I'M
comfortable One morning, last week.
appeared iii a new Prince Albert coat, and
they broke out in applause"
Topeka Lance: Wichita has more eligi-
bic young men than any town in Kansas,
ined bachelors.
A Wichita young man took a Boston
visitor to the opera house the other night
and between acts apologized for the way
the people stared about. "These people
are good enough" he explained, but of
course they seem rude to you" My
friend" answered the Bostonian, don't
run down your town; people stare at one
another in every opera house in the world. "
Topeka Journal: Wichita lawyers argue
their cases on the street cars and travel is
rapidly falling of.
Four Wichita old maids, very old old
maids, are engaged to be married. One is
40 years of age.
Kansas City Journals: Home made wine
is being advertised at Wichita at 35 cents
a gallon.
The fashion of turning the back of the
piano away from the wall and toward the
room is now an established one, and can
be seen in one o. two Wichita parlors.
Parsons Sun: Wichita comes to the
front with the birth of babe with shat
tered arm. Wichita never ceases to ad-
vertise.
A Wichita minister recently prayed for
the restoration of harmony in the execu-
tive board of the church.
Atchison Patriot: Mayor Carey of Wich-
tia is quoted by San Francisco paper as
saying: "Wichita is the toughest town on
earth"
The finest formed woman in town has
slept from childhood without a pillow
under her head.
There was peculiar and beautiful phe-
nomeuon around the moon at O'Clock,
Saturday morning Those who saw it
said it resembled the suu-dogs around the
sun, but was highly colored and shown
with phospherescent light.
Emporia Republican: ''Who cares"
says Mrs. Lease, ''if the people can get
whisky, so it is pure and they have the
money to pay for it?" For governor on
the Democratic ticket, Mrs. Mary Ellen
Lease Of Wichita.
A Wichita man says that he don't want
any more babies. He says every time he
wants to kiss his wife now, he has to wait
for her to take lot OF pins out of her
mouth.
Atchison Patriot: While St. John is
snubbed in most of the Kansas towns he is
made lion of in Wichita
A woman called on her lawyer this
week and wanted divorce because when
she started to play the piano her husband,
who sits in the study, would always get
up and slam the door between them.
Topeka Journal: There are eighty prls-
oners in the county Jail at Wichita. A
great many of them are United States
prisoners
There is a delivery wagon driver down
Oh East Douglas who has three gun
wounds on his body. silver plate in his
head and a rubber intestine; he is deaf as a
post, and WAS struck by lightning. He is
very old, bat happy as a lark, and dogs
aud horses learn TO obey him very quickly.
Salina Journal: 1t is about time for an
other Wichita man TO turn up missing.
There is a family OF girls in town who
have all been very pretty between the ages
Of Is and 20: at the latter age they begin
10 get homeiy. One of the girls is now 10
and very beautiful, but none of the men
want to marry her, for fear her face will
change as did her sisters.
Kansas City Star; 1t is officially an
nouuced that Marsh Murdock's notices
will measure forty feet in the EAGLE's
new nonpariel.
Four young wives were talking the other
evening at party and they all agreed that
posed marriage TO them, that they had
really been the ones who proposed
Topeka Journal: Professor Snow an
nounced the name of the new wheat in
sect a few DAYS ago, as the isoso matritici-
erorocephalatitus. and Victor Murdoch
has been revelin. in the word ever since.
leap year Incident: She to his father
(nervously) "I-er-I wish-er that :, I
came to ask II | night marry your son. )"
His P5pa-"Dear mel What have yen 20
support husband on'"
Lawrence Record; Bill Allison Of coun-
ty "A" Oklahoma, was IN Wichita this
week, Abou,half of his friends saiuted
him as Jake Stotler.
A man writes TO the EAGLE and wants 10
know why ii Is that just before girl sets
down TO the piano TO play. she will always
toss her handkerchief on one END OF the key
board We don't know
Abilene Reflector: Women down at
Wichita take young men to raise. y
woman OF e. has married boy of 70.
A Wichita man is so superstitious that
ne wouldn't marry his fAEce until be
found out what shoe she put Oh first in
the morning. He maintains that person
who puts on his left shoe first is doomed
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