The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-14
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| Major L. n Morrill, of Hiawatha is pres
! ident of two national banks.
Frank McGrath has hung out his sign
as real estate broker and money loaner.
! According to the Kansas City Journal.
two men in the Third district have
| formed a ''triumvirate-"
Kansas wanted Blaine. Some of the
disconsolate still hope that a postscript to
the letter may come later.
Harper's Bazaar credits a Kansas man
with saying that the United States is
"bisected in two" by the Mississippi river.
There is man in Wichita who is so
stingy that he makes his children learn to
take long steps so their shoes will last
longer
Lent is approaching. But it will not be
observed in Kansas. That was what was
responsible for the Alliance. There had
been too much lent.
Have you heard this? 1t is strictly
authoritative that ingalls, will head the At
Gibson delegation to the state convention
and is candidate for the United States
senate.
Ed Howe has discovered that Kansas
they locate their towns, but they always
seek out the best spot in the vicinity for
the cemetery.
A Winfield woman paralyzed the man
ayers of the Western Union telegraph
office the other day by paying s45 for an
eleven word message to Chill without
roaring about it.
The intricacies of the English language
are very confusing 1t is getting to be
known in Congress that Jerry Simpson
will not stand much. Still he is on his
feet most of the time.
The Kansas people who broke their
necks trying to get glimpse of John Sui
livan, are mostly the same people who
voted to retire John j. Ingalls, from the
United states senate.
A great state is Kansas. Many Kan
sas editor will consume the entire morning
writing an editorial on unprecedented
Prosperity" and then go home to dinner
of cold boiled cabbage and sorghum.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago News discovers that Jerry Simp-
son is fast talker, speaking as many as
100 words minute. Nobody who every
Jerry has kite-shaped mouth.
A manuscript nearly forty years old was
taken from the basement of the Atchison
Champion Office yesterday. 1T was written
by John \. Martin, and was a record of
the proceedings of the first board of county
commissioners of Atchison county.
Can anybody explain why this is so?
Customer of Newton Grocer-"Can l get
a sack of Newton four?"
Newton Grocer-"No sir, all Newton
flour is shipped to Winfield. But 1 can
give you Winfield flour"
Kansas has long since stopped dis
tinguishing between fame and notoriety.
John L. Sullivan S special was SO besieged
going through the state that the porter
had to be instructed to stand on the back
platform and announce in a loud voice
that John L. was drunk and could see
no one.
Here is story of the last congress:
One dull day in the senate Mr.. Blair was
walking up and down behind that august
body, his head bowed in meditation. In
gals sat in his seat, casting his lyn4's eyes
about for something to break the monot.
ony. There was only Blair.
''See Blair?" asked Ingalls, of his neigh
Dor
"Well?''
''He thinks he's thinking" quietly re-
marked the wit.
A reporter for a New England paper was
canvassing congress last week TO see how
it stood on the tobacco habit. Late in the
evening he ran across Jerry Simpson.
Mr.. Simpson," asked the scribe, how
does the Alliance stand on the tobacco
habits"
1--WE are for it, young man."
For it, Mr.. Simpson,
"Yes, sir; the Alliance only got one
place here in the distribution of snaps
and if it hadn't been for the tobacco habit,
Mr.. Foster, one of our leading lights,
would either have had to starve or walk
home,n