The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-14
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CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
Some Things The Eagle Young Man Heard
in His Rounds During a Dull Week.
Kansas City Sta-: Persons desiring
| property in Wichita have do more than
sing song to get it, A lot on Main street
| in that city sold the other day for S11, 900.
| Persons possessing the.sanguine tempera-
ment look upon this transaction as the
| forerunner of Renaissance"
"Next to pork" said physician to An
EAGLE young man yesterday. ''the banana
| is the most indigestible thing person
can eat, and if you will notice you will
see them touched very sparingly by people
with weak stomachs. If you can digest
| them, however. and don't mind the often
sive odor, they are very nourishing and
one can make a meal on them that is in
every way equal to substantial lunch of
bread and meat
Don't you know" said local physi-
clan to the EAGLE young man last even
ing, that people drink entirely too much
ice water for their health aud comfort
The water itself does nothurt; but the ice in
it. Water can be made very fine for
drinking purposes in the following man
ner: Get a common earthenware pitcher,
the commoner the better, rs it will he the
more porous, wrap it all around, leaving
no inch of it bare, with wet flannel. Keep
the flannel wet and the water will shortly
be as cold as is good for drinking pur-
poses, almost ice cold"
''How to test watermelon" was the
subject of a manuscript reseructed yes
terday by the EAGLE young man from a
pile of papers left in Victor Murdock's
drawer in the EAGLE sanctum as a legacy
to the toilers he left after him. The manu-
script is too long to publish it in full; but
the following will show that the author
appreciated the luciousness of water
melon.
When you thump it with your fingers and it
gives heavy sound,
Like summer rain a-fallin' on the dry and
dusty ground,
Jes' get your Barlow ready an prepare to
And carve it straight an steady, till it opens,
red an ripe.
Then fold your Barlow careful, an take your
Put one half on this side O. you, the other half
on that;
Then take the biggest on your lap, an tear the
heart out, so!
An smack your lips an praise the Lord from
whom all bleSsin S flow!
Spring is usually the poetic season but
occasionally the muse inspire a man
when the mercury is at the highest at
tidue. A few days ago certain dining
room girl was passing Jake Cooper's car
riage shop on North Market street, and
recognizing young man whom she had
some reason to dislike, she turned up her
nose at him in a manner that sent the
cold chills chasing one another down his
back. Yesterday when the heat was I'M
hurriedly scrubbed off the following etfus-
ion:
OH for a car load of ice cream,
And a lake of lemonade,
A million fans all run by steam,
county or two OF shade;
Clothes as thin the gauZy tales
OF husbands who have Strayed!
Oh! for a blast from polar wave,
Or the frown of a dnlngrOOm maid.
The EAGLE young man heard a good
story last Wednesday from the lips of
Yank Owens at the expense of Judge
Campbell. AS is we'll known, Judge
Campbell was candidate for the office of
probate judge before the Alliance conven-
tiou, but unfortunately for the judge he
was union soldier during the war, and
he was, as matter Of course, defeated by
an overwhelming majority. After the
convention, SO Yank alleges, Judge Camp
bell ran across him endin a mournful tone
observed: "Well, Yauk, old comrade, 1
have no place left me to go to from now on
but the post" How is that, comradep
asked the Green mountain admirer of
Napolean. why" said Campbell, "the
Republicans wont have me, the Democrats
don't want me, and the Alliance has no
use for any man who has smattering of
book learning" That night, Yank says,
Judge Campbell was the first one at the
post meeting and the last one out.
A story was told the EAGLE young man
few days ago concerning one of the
Alliance candidates for the legislature in
this county that will bear repeating, and
it is said to be an absolute fact. 1t was
long time ago that this man had on his
farm lot of Plymouth Rock chickens,
and at that time they were about the only
chickens of the kind in the county AS
consequence there was a great demand for
the eggs and the Populist, having monop-
oily on them put the price up to 81. 90 a dozen.
This was too much but he wouldn't bulge
an inch in the price: he had the monopoly
and he proposed to keep it, The conse-
Quence was that he was compelled to sell
many of the eggs at Mount Hope for 10
cents per dozen. OF course several persons
got onto the fact OF his selling the eggs for
a dime dozen and instead of going to him
to buy the eggs at Sl.00 they went to
the store, bought them for 10 cents, and, of
course, thought they were smart. This
thing got noised about good deal and the
storekeeper had boom in Plymouth
Rock eggs. In due time every old hen in
the county WAS setting on these eggs and
kept setting on them till they were finally
compelled to leave their nests in disgust
An investigation was made and it was
found that before the eggs were sold to
the storekeeper they were partially boiled
SO that no chickens could be raised from
them. That egg monopolist is now run
ming for office AMI there are enough of his
parboilcd egg victims around Mount
Hope to defeat him.
at is not generally known among our
western ladies" said a member of the
Cooking club yesterday to the EAGLE