The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-01
suNFLowRR s1LHouETTEs.
. At a recent church entertainment in
Troy, Sol Miller's town, the following
item was seen on the programs:


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Troy, Sol Miller's town, the following
item was seen on the program;
Miss Fisher
Put Me in Ny Little Bed"
Accompanied by the Pastor.
It is really getting time to rejoice when
several political meetings in Kansas have
been failures on account of the rain.
The best politician in Atchison told Ed
Howe yesterday that Farmer Smith will
be nominated for governor by the Repub-
licans.
Ben Clover by his little nap at the ex-
pense of tree silver has proven how much
more fitted he is for the police force than
congress.
John P. st. John says Morrill, is all
right, but that he is dead set against
Farmer Smith and will take the stump
against it.
Billy Buchan admits that Funston will
be renominated and says that this is a
poor year to turn down farmer and turn
| up lawyer.
This is the time of the calender whue
| the political farmer instead of cultiyating
the soil, cultivates the acquaintance of
| ward strikers.
There are only four Jewish synagogues
| in the state: One in Topeka, one in Wich-
! ita and two in Leavenworth. The total
membership is about 400.
The Topeka Lance now questions Sena-
| tor Ingalls, ability as an orator. The next
/ thing the Lance will discover that Ben
Simpson is no. politician.
| John P. St. John says in his speeches
| that Mrs. Lease did more to elect the five
reform candidates TO congress from Kan
sas than any forty men in the state.
| A black cross appeared on the moon the
| other night. The same thing occurred be-
| fore the cival war, and the old men with
white hair and long boards says it means
war again soon.
Rumors are pretty thick, so the one re-
| lating that the Democrats will drop Click
on Attorney General Ives for governor.
should not be treated too harshly.
Congressman Baker and Glover went to
the top of Washington monument the
other day and Baker became quite dizzy.
so much so in fact that when he reached
the bottom he stamped his foot on the
ground and exclaimed, Il tell you Ben,
am glad to get on vice versa again"
Walt Whitman contributed poem en-
| titled ''The Trumpeter" to one of the
early numbers of the old Kansas Maya
zine. He also attended the quarto-cen
tennial of the organization of Kansas ter
ritory, held at Bismarck grove in 1879.
Edward Everett Hale was also there.
The Democratic central COMMITTEES of
the Fourth congressional district met at
Emporia last Monday. A convention was
called to meet at Emporia May "a The
general sentiment was against fusion if
Mr.. Otis is nominated by the Alliance.
Harrison Kelly would be still worse. A
straight ticket is likely to be the outcome.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, in az GRAFTON on
General Sherman, delivered before the
New York legislature, quotes Sherman as
having said, not long before his death:
81 am proud that Ben Harrison is our
PRESIDENT; that Foraker. Hovey, Fifer
and Humphrey are governors of the great
states OF Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Kan
sas, all my boys"
A man who was driving along country
road, pulled up where another man was
blowing and when that person turned
around, exclaimed in establishment:
Great Heavens, Jack is that you? What
are you out here blowing for? You haven't
quit law, have your"
"Well, no; not exactly. You see Pm
going to run for county attorney this fall
and Pm making farming record"
1.-THE second day out" said the narrator,
'the SUI was shining brightly, and we
were blowing through the water"
Hold up there" put in the politician.
you say you were plowing?"
Eyes. We were"
"And you're Republican, amt your"
''Yes"
and you amt out for any Officer
Not that know of.
''Well, this is interesting. Go ahead
with your story
Buffalo" Jones, who now lives in Nc
Cook, Neb, where ne is breeding buffaloes
claims the distinction of owning tho larg
est herd of buffaloes in the world and no
one disputes the assertion. Mr.. Jones re-
Gently returned from England, where he
had taken ten of the animals, disposing of
the lot for the neat sum of $4,000. At
the McCook ranch the buffaloes are fire.
quently substituted for livery horses, the
novelty more than anything else, prob
ably, making them in constant demand,
especially to eastern visitors.