The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-26
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The sad-eyed. hollow-cheeked Office il
Kansas is out seeking the man again.
a Finney county bee keeper got fifty
| five pounds of honey per stand from hi!
bees last season.
1t seems that there is only one thing
longer about PETER than his beard ant
that is his speeches.
| The buffalo is not yet extinct. Buffalo
steak can be had at thirty-ive cents 4
pound in New York City
A Winchester contains sixteen shots
Out in Stevens county this leaves foul
shots in the gun after the jury is disposed
of.
A Garden City woman labors under the
delusion that she owns the town and tries
TO collect toll from the people who travel
the streets
! The senate has set apart Saturday, Feb
20, as the day upon which special services
in memory of the late Senator Plumb are
to be held in the senate.
Senator PETER seems to have harbored
the illusion that the Congressional Record
for this session was going to fall short OF
the usual standard of size
Ed Howe sees a long way into the aver
age human being. He sys you can f1atter
any man by telling him that you know
him TO be a man who is not easily fat
tered.
Stevens county history and the Winches-
ter rife, which plays such an important
part in that history, have some points of
similarity. History repeats itself and so
does the rifle.
Kansas never fails to keep up the ex-
element. People used to break their
necks to get into the senate chamber
when Ingalls, spoke and now when PETER
speaks they break their necks to get out.
There may be some doubt that the Re
publicans will have Barker for candi-
date for governor, but it is a settled fact
that the Alliance gubernatorial candidate
will be u hawler.
a northern Kansas farmer who grew
tired of his monotonous existence and
yearned for a life of excitement got his
wish the other day. He was presented
with hog having five feet, his wife gave
birth to twins and his eldest son and the
hired girl eloped, all within twenty-four
hours
A man in Labette county has been re-
christened. He applied to Governor
Humphrey for notary public commits
sion, and the governor sat down on him
hard and refused for the reason that he
had called many old soldiers pension
paupers." This mans name was Dennis.
Now it is Dennis.
William Smith, said the Kansas Con-
gresham to the visiting constituent at
Washington, ''let me introduce you to
William Jones'" Don't let me trouble
you," replied the constituent. No
trouble at all, Gays the statesman and,
then with a twinkle in his eye, 81 am used
to introducing Bills"
Mrs. Jerry Simpson took the whisk-
broom the other morning and started to
brush he husbands coat, when Jerry res
cued the garment at a bound and cried in
startled manner. ''Heavensl don't brush
that coat!' "Why, whyH asked the wife.
"Mrs. Simpson" said Jerry looking aus
terely over his glasses you would never
make n politician. I've got to make the
fall campaign in that coat and I've been
letting the dust accumulate on it two
months already"
The program of the 'literary features"
of the young Republicans banquet ON
next Friday evening at Topeka, is not per-
fected as yet, but the following named
toasts will be responded to; Kansas"
Frank G. Crowell, of Atchison; "Some
Young Fellows" E. c. Little, of Abilene;
kansas and the Republican Party" J.
K. Cubeison, OF Kansas City; News
papers," c. F. Scott, of lola; Young Re
publicanism." George l.. Douglass, of
Wichita; Our Foreign Relations" w. A.
White, of Kansas City, Mo; Politicians
and Statesmen" G. S. Finch, of Lawrence:
political Contracts" J. r. Burton, OF
Abilene; Politics and Patriotism" Phil
p. Campbell, of Pittsburg; Mystic Socie-
ties" L. P. Greer, of Winfield; "McFlim-
sey for Congress-" Chester l. Long, of
Medicine Lodge; 'What are We Here
For" T.. B. Wall, of Wichita. The ad-
dresses are limited to five minutes in
length.