The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-20
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! SUNFLOWER SILHOUETTES.
1t is worse and worse. Ben Clover arose
Thursday to make a correction in the
congregational Record.
Twenty-Five years ago, March IA, biz
zard prevailed over Kansas. A woman
and girl were frozen to death at Solomon
City.
We'll, said politician yesterday who
was reaching for superlative, if PETER is
a statesman, ingalls, is Unitedstates-
man"
junction City's candidate for governor
presumably has a preference for the
adage: BE sure you're Wright, then so
| ahead"
Col darn you,i said one man who was
quarreling with another Oh the street yes
terday, II wish l had you in Stevens
| county,
| Sol Miller demands that the newspapers
| quit printing Surgeons picture. In tue
estimation of Mr.. Miller. Spurgeon is the
ugliest man who ever lived
Several of the members Of the Kansas
| Sons of Veterans are over 30 years of age
| As the years roll by it may be necessary to
have the Sons of the Sons OF Veterans.
! Il see Jones, the Alliance orator, has
gone in training for the fall campaign"
Gone IN training!"
"Yes-put himself on diet of tongue "
Remenyi, the violinist, snubbed his FL
| Dorado audience by refusing to respond to
an encorr He had evidently heard some
body about the town try to pronounce his
name.
| An Iuka hen is fond of taking a drive in
| her owners buggy occasionally. She
hides under the seat, aud always lays An
egg as payment for the trip. This is said
| to be really so.
The only private bill introduced by
jerry Simpson calls for an appropriation
| of $4,000 and a gold medal for Thomas
Harter Of Grant country, for services as a
scout IN the union army.
The Republican who attend an Alliance
meeting out in Kingman county recently
where Mrs. Lease spoke, came mighty
near being mobbed for saying that Mrs.
Lease mad such an open countenance.
1t is said of the wife of an Atchison
pollution who died several months ago
that when the doctor told her her husband
was dying, she moaned: Poor Bill; he
wont get to know who was elected presi-
dent.
There is a tall slender tower on John J.
Ingalls, new building in Atchison. 1t is
claimed that if this tower was covered
with long grey ulster and capped with
soft Stetson hat, you couldn't tell it from
It's owner.
Z. w. Howe will shortly issue another
quarterly. 1t will be story OF the wild
and woolly west entitled 'Hatsx Ranch"
Some day. Nh. Howe will strike the popu-
lar chord again, and his name will be
greater than ever.
A Gardner horse the other day rested
his fore feet on the sill of kitchen win
dow and ate three freshly baked pies. Up
to date this horse is the champion Kansas
pie eater. Most Kansas men can eat three
pies, but they have some thing to wash it
down between pieces.
Seed corn smoked side by side with
hams, and for the same length of time,
will grow, it is said, as readily as I'M
smoked grains. The advantage of the
method lies in the fact that gophers, mice
and blackbirds will not touch it. The re-
ceipt is homemade, having originated in
Kansas.
When critics desire to compare orations
of former day with those of the present
time. they take our own John j. Ingalls,.
A Boston paper, in eulogizing Roscoe
Conkling, says he spoke without premedi-
tation better than john J. Ingalls, talks
after consulting every synonym in Web
ster and Worcester But that is little
steep.
Senator PETER introduced a bill Friday
which provides that each male immigrant
coming to this country be taxed 800. the
idea being to restrict immigration. Such
a law, several years ago, might have been
worth something. PETERS ancestors
would never have got into this country,
and Kansas might. today, have different
senator.
Jim Brennan. the slayer of Sam Wood.
recently undertook to run the little town
of Minco. in the Indian Territory. A
friend got into a quarrel and called on
Brennan to help him out Brennan rush
ed into the crowd flourishing fine A re-
volver. Just at this point big Irishman |
present knocked Brennan down, coolly |
took his revolver and sold it, next day, |
for s..
Every paper you pick up has story |
about Jerry Simpson. OF course, but few |
of them are true, but they go just the |
same. This is the latest 1t seems that |
at one time in his life, Simpson was en-
gagged for years in saving logs in the
northern timber country. The other day |
while he was setting in the Riggs house
at Washington and doing, he fell asleep
Just then an electric car whizzed by and
our congressman jumped u his feet aud
yelled: Back her IN bows she's struck |