The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-08
sUNFLoWER sILHoUETTES.


| governor running for congress this year
Anthony and Humphrey.
The most frequent objection to George
| I. Anthony is that he is too cold. This
may be because he is so full of cold facts
| The senate has passed the bill to convey
| to the state of Kansas 800 acres OF the
Fort Hays military reservation for homes
| for old soldiers.
ingalls, may be plagiarist," said an
admirer OF the ex-senator at Hutchinson.
but he has the greatest faculty OF selee-
ton on the globe"
An old Sedgwick county farmer says
Shanghai rooster is the ouly bird that when
you cut his head off falls in three pieces
TWO legs and head.
"Everything on this globe" said the
scientific lecturer. ''is 80 per cent water. ="
Hold on. there" yelled man on the
front seat; what about drouth?"
The Republicans at Hutchinson had
considerable courage 20 elect ID, K. King
presidential elector. The Alliance will
jump onto King with more bitterness
than prince
George T. Anthony is a thunder storm
all by himself in joint debate. This fact
| is likely to create stampede among the
asprants for the Alliance nomination for
the same position.
| The Minneapolis delegates from Kansas
are uninstructed. 1t could hardly be that
! the Hutchinson convention received Il
quiet tip that Jim Blaine was coming
| back on the track.
J. Z. Junkin. the editor of the Sterling
| Gazette, announces that he will pay the
! expenses of any citizen for course IN the
Kelley cure. His proposition has already
been accepted by three men.
':The Kansas man is at the head of the
procession, usually"
Yes; anyhow, have always done all l
could to put him there"
Indeed? What is your business"
81 am an undertaken"
"Have the fashions changed Sny In
mems clothes?' asked Kansas farmer.
''No, not materially" said the clerk.
I'm glad of It," said the farmer. 81
like the old fashions. However" and he
smiled broad smile, II do not object to
some change in the pockets"
sit would be good idea for the rain
makers to begin early this year"
why, you don't believe that they can
make it rain, do your"
No don't, but have noticed that it
always rains about two weeks after they
have quit trying to make it,"
George T. Anthony is peculiar in many
ways, one of his notions being that it is
| vulgar to have ones picture taken. He
| never sat for photograph. and IS the only
one of all the governors of Kansas whose
portrait, life size. does not adorn the CUB
ernatorial Office in the state house.
Ben Clover occasionally INDUCES in a
joke. He went into Washington res
| taurant the other day and ordered straw
berry short-cake. 1t was poor slice and
scarce of berries. Mr.. Clover viewed it
with disgust and then said: Young man,
| guess YOU better take this back and
bring me a little strawberry long-tcake.
History is not always just. Charles
Robinson plucks the laurels from John
Browns brow in his kansas Conflict"
John Brown, he says, was an adventurer
and repeatedly guilty of outlawry. But
John Browns Body" will be sung when
the "Kausas Conflict" will have been for
gotten.
George T. Anthony once bearded presi
dent of the United States aud made him
change his decision. 1t was during Presi-
dent Grants administration, and
Anthony was collector of internal rev
enue One day the Kansas delegation
at Washington came to the conclusion
that he had held the Office long enough
and decided to ask his removal. President
Grant granted the request The minute
Anthony heard of it he boarded a train
for Washington and went straight for
the White House, grip in hand, past all
the outer guards and foot-men to the
room of the president. He gave his card 10
servant there, II want to sea President
Grant, he said. fright now" He was ad-
mitted In half an hour his force OF char
acter had won the president and he came
out smiling. He was retained.
Ed Howe on the circus: Every press
agent of circus claims to be an "old
newspaper man" but most of them are
old liars instead Anyway, not one circus
agent in fifty has the slightest idea of his
business The time he should devote TO
the interest of his employer he devotes to
telling how he used 70 work on the New
York Trib., and how the proprietor always
came into his room and begged the favor
of his advice 4 man employed by e cir
Gus in any capacity soon becomes as wood
eu-headed as tobacconisJ's sign. There
is nothing but horse and animal in the
business The bill-posterS have swag-
ger, aud the ringmaster strut, and the
performers have no more idea OF politeuess
or decency than the trick dogs. The cir
Gus business has played out, and it IS be-
cause there never was the slightest inieiN
gence or decency in the business. The
same pack saddle and clown performances
are given 10 the ring year after year. and
made as long as possible IL order 20 allow
the pickpockeis with the circus 20 rob the
people. 4 little honesty and intelligence
in the circus business would pay better
Than a seyen-Iereea eisphant.