The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-29
sUNFLOWER sILHOUETrEs

1t was Kansas man who said he sup
posed the mermaids flirt with the swell>
| of the ocean.
Wah Sing and I'm Sung. two Chinamen
went up the street at Wellington the other
evening singing Lang Syne."
The announcement that Senator ingalls,
says ''deepo" and not "daypo' Is expect ed
to entirely reinstate him III the popular
| heart.
The name 'Sunfiower" is misnomer.
There has been nothing but rain this
spring, and that weed is growing as gaily
as ever.
A soft handed lawyer in western Kan
sas. who wants 10 run on the Alliance
ticket, is advertising for two rough har-
vest hands.
The once popular song "Wait till the
clouds roll by, Jenny" has fallen into dis
favor in Kansas There is limit even to
human patience.
Chief Justice Horton says Kansas is
now Harrison state in contradistinction
to Blaine state This may be so. but the
Republicans generally do not know it.
1t should interest Kansas to know that
the sunfower cultivation in Russia is
200, 600 acres; their mills produce 10000. 900
pounds OF sunfiower oil, and it sells for
SI,000,000 yearly.
John a. Anderson was the man who
raised the agricultural bureau to the rank
of cabinet position. In two different
congresses ne introduced the bill, and the
second time it passed.
Since Jerry Simpson has been in Wash
ington his hard hands have become soft
Treading bicycle does not roughen the
hands, though Jerry this year may run as
horny-footed son of toll.
The Linn county Alliance, probably,
does not know what it wants, but 1t
knows what it does not want. The county
convention instructed its delegates TO vote
against Mr.. Ives, no matter what office he
wants.
There is general complaint, national
in its extent, that congressional funerals
cost too much. The Kansas Republicans
this year are going to show the country
how TO bury five congressman and bury
them cheap.
The hills near Medicine Lodge contain
miles of the rock from which plaster of
Paris is made. There is enough of this
pure sulphats OF lime to make all the plas-
ter of Paris, dental plaster. etc, etc, like
IL to be needed in this country through
coming ages.
ITS a pity to let ali those old settlers
drown, said Mrs Noah as the ark foated.
They won't If they're truthful" said
Noah with a chuckle. zone of EN- was
telling me yesterday that this storm isn't
a marker 10 one lie remembered back in
47609a"
OF the twenty delegates from Kansas 20
the Minneapolis convention only eight can
be said, oy any stretch Of courtesy, 20 have
a state reputation. The rest OF the fellows
Of state reputation have 20 stay at home 10
n auage their campaigns
4 blind oeggar on the streets Of Atchi-
son Tie other day abused another man
whom &c had ASKED for some money be-
cause the man said be hsd none Il hare
had that racket pieyed on me before" The
blind man said You look ike the same
man who tod ne las; December that he
had no money"
Il an surprised at you" 50 id al eastern
relative 70 his Kansas brother.
"Why;"
Well, little while ago man came up
20 you and said that his brother had went
somewhere and you answered that Jon had
saw him. Didn't you know better than
thatsi
''Of coarse ! DID. bat I'm candidate"
Kansas as people Is turning into STATE
Of iGcoaociEsts. Ii Howe says TIA,
~GeOrge Washington Was aalng crate, refusing