The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-20
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cOhb ~. w PAAAN'PSA 1870 - Shs
| he will be left.
Topeka citizens are talking of building
a gubernatorial mansion.
A clown i'll one of the circuses travelling
through Kansas, makes himself up tC
look like Jerry Simpson.
The west bank of the Mississippi river
is nearer Kansas at present than it has
ever been before in its history.
Z. Jefferson Coolidge. the new minister
to France, was once president of the Atch-
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad.
The last thing John Anderson did before
he left Washington for Egypt was to cal
| on Senator Plumb and bid him good bye
A baby in Sumner county Is only three
months old and has begun to talk. Its
| father and mother are both Alliance ora
tors.
kin will take in Jim Brennan. the slayer
of Sam Wood, as law partner, in E.
Reno
A letter came to the Topeka postoffice
| the other day addressed to George w.
Eightquarts." 1t was delivered to George
w. Peck
One of the officers of the Kansas militia
recently sent a dispatch to the war depart
ment al Washington saying that lie had
been attacked by General Debility.
The colored delegate to the national con.
vention at Minneapolis, from Kansas, is
the first ever chosen from northern state.
Oklahoma, the child of Kansas, sends an
Indian delegate.
A Topeka man has written to Senator
PETER and tells him that the wind in Kan.
sas is blowing harder than ever this
spring. He advises him to glue his
whiskers on, before coming home.
Here, I haven't got cent" exclaimed
a Kansas editor, ''and the devils to pay"
"Johnr' said his wife deprecatingly.
"Wcll, the devil IS to pay-there stands
the little fellow now, waiting for his
wages"
Jerry Simpson was Kissed in the house
the other day. But that is all right. Jer-
ry will come back to Kansas and tell his
constituents that Christ and the apostles
were Kissed, stoned and spat upon, and
they will applaud him.
Say, mister" said a newcomer to Kan
sas man. as he held onto post TO steady
himself "does the wind always blow this
way"
Not always answered the Kansan, as
he yanked his hat further down over his
ears. ''It sometimes blows the other way"
There are many people now living who
will have only one birthday to celebrate
for nearly twelve years to come. This
strange circumstance is due to the fact
that they were born on Feb. %. and to the
further fact that the year 1900 will not be a
leap year.
Saturday is the seventy-frst anniversary
of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte. The
sharpest thing ever said in America about
Napoleon came from the lips of Il Kansan
John j. Ingalls,. II have yet" he said,
to meet an American who does not regret
Waterloo"
81 see that the Germans are organizing"
said man yesterday. The next will be
the Irish, then the Italians, and the Rus
SLAMS, and it will finally get to that point
when the parties will have to nominate a
native American for state auditor to con-
ciliate the American vote"
The Plumb Monument association is
making preparations to take up a collec-
ton on next Memorial day in every town
and city in the state. The e. A. r. posts
in each town will have charge of the col
lections, which will be used in the erection
of monument to the memory of the late
Senator Plumb.
Dear, dear, you lazy thing" said the
Kansas house wife to forlorn tramp,
why don't you go to work."
"NNell, man," said the tramp plead
ingly, there amt much dong in my
business at present"
Your businessi Pray, what is your
business?"
Pm rainmaker, NAM"
The Germans of Kansas will hold con-
vention at Lawrence June 6, to organize
for political purposes. The main object
is the repeal of the prohibitory law. Every
German who is not a voter will be urged
to become a citizen, and vote. 1t is esti-
mated that there are a. Germans in
Kansas.
Two men were standing at little dis
tauce from Senator Iugalls and surveying
him.
Il tell you," said one, "Ingalls talks
straight from the shoulder"
Yes" said the other, as he looked at his
long legs reaching far up into his Prince
Albert coat, land l would say that he
walks straight from the shoulder, too.'
You can't believe everything John J. In
gals says. The other day he boosted to
crowd that he could eat any thing he
wanted with impunity. The next day the
family doctor, Dr. johnson, came along
and told the same crowd of men that In-
gals couldn't eat single strawberry with
out causing strawberry rash to break out
all over him. But may be, 1t is the doctor
you can not believe.