The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-07

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One Wichita doctor has not been to bed
once this week.
There is a girl in Wichita who can kick
eighteen inches above her head.
A North Topeka family had s6-roast of
| bear for dinner one day this week
The prettiest girl in town IS wearing a
dress that she hes made over four times.
A girl on East Second street has received
a valentine already from New York city.
The rain yesterday closed up cracks in the
earth that have been open since last Au-
gust
The highest electric light in town hangs
! from one of the corners OF the packing
house.
There is cir! in town SO long and gang
ling that the boys have nicknamsd her
Chill"
A doctor who knows says that children
who don't like fat should be forced to
eat it.
A motorneer says that the corner seats
in a street car are always the first to be
occupied.
Wichita is the only town in the state
where the hotels have six o'clock dinners
on Sunday.
There is house over in Riverside called
the bungalow 1t is fitted out in regular
Calcutta style.
The course of the public discussions at
the y. NJ. c. A. ere not as well attended
as was expected.
1t is said to be fact that all the girls
who were born in Wichita and are now
grown up, are pretty.
A Wichita man is excited because his
| friends want to bet him five to one that he
will be the father of twins.
There is controversy now on over the
state as to the pronunciation of Wichita. !"
| The Indians pronounced it "Ouichita."
An intelligent woman who is a student
! of her own sex says that woman prefers
to be kissed by a man with mustache.
| From the Kansas City star.
Wichita needs calaboose. The plain
drunks have kicked the old one full of
| holes.
| From the Kansas City Star.
The greatest regret Wichita man has
at dying is that he must offend one or the
other rival undertakers.
| From the Kansas City Star.
! Wichita has cold water club. This
confirms the report that good whisky can
no longer be obtained in Wichita.
! From the Chicago Post.
! The bitter county seat war between Ar
kalon, Hugoton and Wichita. in Kansas,
again shows signs Of breaking out.
| From the State Journal
| Wichita is not in line. She has no BIZ
chloride club. Wichita won't have reform,
not even with hypodermic syringe.
| Last Sunday, in the choir of one of our
churches the tenor sat and fed caramels to
the soprano all during the ministers open
! ing prayer.
! Probably the most unfortunate man in
the state lives in Wichita Though he is
past fifty and poor, the babies keep coming
to his house.
| One Wichita woman made fun of
another at party recently, and the next
day the other woman wrote her letter,
cleaning her out for it.
A miIkman took half-pound of butter
out of his can the other day, after driving
over the Douglas avenue jasperite pave
ment for distance of four blocks.
From the Mulvsne Record.
|
the cure Of drunkenness. Wichita is GER
tainly an inviting field for the bi-chloride
! business.
/ From the Kansas City Journal,
Foreign attorneys who venture in the
Botkin district are bounced upon to act as
Judge pro TEN. Ed O'Bryan of Wichita is
| the latest victim.
| From the Kansas City Gazette.
A pot of gold was dug up near Wichita
| It contained $50. O00 and was buried by an
old skinflint named Wise His heirs will
dispose of it. The liar again.
| From the Topeka Journal.
Wichita claims TO have a 13-year old boy
who can write 40 words of shorthand in a
minute Take note of the fact that this
statement comes from Wichita.
| From the Topeka journal
They say the correct pronunciation of it
! is "Wishita." Thash the way evbody pro-
nounshes it, after being entertained by the
/ Wichita fellows for few hours.
An indignant father this week tore a
new-fashioned dress to pieces and forbade
| his daughter to get another one like it. 1t
was a tie-back and the ''old man" consid-
! cred it vulgar.
A good many people still believe in love
powders. \ South Side girl lately gave a
man love powder on the advice OF a friend,
who posted the man and the way be acted
! scared the girl nearly TO death.
From the Emporia Republican: Colonel
| Murdoch OF Wichita is finding good use
/ for his old boom town-lots. He had them
! sowed in millet, and is now running for
governor on his farmer record.
| 4 man weighing 200 pounds was on the
streets yesterday with his wife. who did
not weigh more tLan eighty pounds, and
every time he wanted 10 buy anything he
/ mad TO coax her TO let him have the money.
! From the kansas City Journal
/ A Wichita man has just found a pot OF
/ gold worth SIS, 900. that WAS buried by his
grandfather a dozen years ago There is
still hope for the heirs Of the late Captain
/ Kidd
/ From the Topeka Journal.
Wichita has adopted novel plan Of en-
! larging herself without covering too much
! territory. The houses IN the outlying sd-
ditions are being moved within the corpo-
ration line
| From the state Journal.
| The Wichita fake artist reports the find
! ing pot of gold in Sumner county con-
tanning SS1,0o1 Il ought to be given him.
! Then be could retire to private life and
! stop writing lies.
/ From the Arkansas City Travee-
During the boom Wichita spread her.
! self all over the surrounding country. The
owners OF the suburban residences have
/ concluded that they are not in IL. and are