The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-08
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Bernard Kelly. pension agent. is lying
critically i'll at his home in Topeka.
1t is not believed that the rumor that
Mr.. Morrill, will withdraw, bears the
official stamp.
A little singular, but the marked Repub-
lican gains in the Kansas municipal cleo
tions is remarked.
Noble Prentis used to say 4" Ten nights
in bar-room' is nothing compared with
one night in ten bar-rooms."
One of the chief anxieties of the old bar
nacles is not who will be governor and
govern the state. but who will govern the
governor.
Kansas is getting old. Two young men,
% and q years of age, who were born in
Atchison, We're elected to the city council
of that place, Tuesday.
Senator ingalls, says he is not candi-
date for the United States senate, and as
hecontinueS to shave his chin whiskers
off, people ought to believe him.
After all Kansas has reason to congratu-
late herself that when Sleepy Ben Glover
has opened his mouth in this congress, it
has been, not to talk, but to yawn.
Many years ago it used to be said of the
Kansas wind that it blew SO hard that 1t
would blow an Indian up against che side
of a barn and hold him there till he ar Ied
to death.
Il wish" said the wife of the local poll
tician, shat while you are making up
states down town. you would think to
bring one home with you. Johnny's old
one is broken and be needs new one"
a Kansas orator recently quoted Cicero
as an authority in favor of paternal gov
eminent and said his exact words were:
''Vox Del, vox populi, modus vivendi.
pluribus unum, persona non grata, ne
plus ultra"
Senator Perkins has written personal
letters to members of each of the churches
that have forwarded protests against open
ing the worlds fair on Sunday, stating his
sympathy with the movement and pledg-
ing his support.
The old crowd of Kansas editors have
spent the last twenty years hopping onto
one anothers' necks, and now when every
body supposed they were perfectly cal
loused, Stacey sues Sol Miller for libel.
Kansas aud Kansas men are all out Of
sorts.
Whewl In the speech of "the Honorable
William Baker of Kansas" on free cola
age, that gentleman quoted from John
Stuart Mill, Ricardo. NJ. Wolouski, Baron
Rotbschild, Allison, Doubleday, Daniel
Webster, Horace Greeley and Professor
Loveleye.
While great hue and cry is being
raised about beating Farmer Funston for
the nomination for congress, practical
politicians say that it cannot be done, and
the men who are trying it might just as
well direct their energies to fill gopher
hole with water.
While riding with two young men in
Pottawatonlie county last fall Fred Nj.
Stanley announced his intention to take
the train tor Illinois He did so and had
no communication with Kansas acquaint-
ances till the other day he saw that those
two young men had been indicted for the
murder of himself. He has started to at
tend the trial.
''Now, here's Biggs," said the man who
was fixing up the slate of delegates for the
state convention. what are we going to
do with Biggs? He wants something. but
he is so terrible ignorant. Why, he don't
know a line of reading and writing and
never went to school day in his life"
'I've got it," said the ringleader, send
him as an uninstructed delegate"
In Kansas the air that will just affect
column of smoke from a chimney is a
zephyr" the air that Will rustic the
leaves on the trees is breeze" that
which sweeps the streets clean wind"
that which takes mans hat off every
time he rounds a corner a gale" that
which blows the side of brick building in
is "cyclone;" and that which twists tel
egraph poles out the ground, water out
wells, and picks chickens, is Il tornado"
Charles Robinson's History of Kansas
will appear today. A gentleman who has
read it says it is history with big ''H."
For the information of the young crowd
George Martin INDUCES in "reminiscences:
Charles Robinson was free state leader, "A
rival to Jim Lane and John Brown. The
history of territorial days has been made
in the interest Of Lane, and Robinson has
been kicking ever since for change. He
was the first governor of Kansas. They
say that in the entire book he scarcely
gives an opinion of his own. but confines
himself to the record, and that he smashes
a great many Kansas idols. The book will
excite great deal of interest, and in the
next four months politics and religion, Ca
lamity and everything else. may set aside
when the Lane men come out Of the brush
and roar.