The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-28
Pithy Pointers Caught in Conversations
Over the Tea-cups and Sharp Filings
at Our Town From the
State Papers.

! ing and the wife tore the pictures of her
| husbands father and mother from the
wall and threw them in the CRATE
| A Wichita woman is reading the proof
sheets of her book.
Oscar De Long, so well known in WITCH
tia, is to marry New York girl shortly.
From the Conway Springs Star.
Wichita has Tilden club, wonder who
it is stuffed for?
From the junction City Union.
A grand crocodile hunt is projected for
Marsh Mnrdock's Nile of America.
From the Atchson Globe.
II YOU have been in the habit Of calling
it "Witchita," quit it. 1t is "Wishita."
A man on North Topeka was standing
out in the rain yesterday sprinkling his
lawn,
Nobody understood why, but there was
a girl on the street yesterday with Jane
Hading veil on.
A Wichita father has forbidden his
daughter to ever set her foot in cab, IN
der any circumstances.
If you are really in polite society you have
banished the toothpick from the dining
room to the bath room.
There was another row this week because
young man presented his betrothed with
pair of fancy carriers.
A Wichita girl has made her bony neck
plump by rubbing olive oil into it nightly
for months and months.
A woman asked her dressmaker this
week to put one of those new-fash1oned
vestibule trains on her gown.
If you are a man, look out There is a
fair charmer in town and she is as I'M
scrupulous as she is pretty.
Two North End girls are quarreling
about which is the prettier. and the boys
want them to stand out in rain as test.
From the Salna Journal.
White horses have already been engaged
for the inaugural ceremonies of Governor
Murdoch
From the Topeka Journal.
Wichita no longer has her boom, but
this season she packed $4,000 more hogs
than the previous one.
From the Topeka Journal
A Wichita girl claims that she shot three
deer in the territory. The Wichita girls
seem to be Just like the Wichita men.
A Wichita lawyer says there is too mnch
gambling in town and there are as many
as thirty breakups recently on account
of it,
A girl writes to this office that young
man in this city is disgusting everybody
by the way he throws his photographs
around.
A Wichita man who has studied them
oil n
black slippers than in the fancy colored or
white ones.
The prettiest girl in Wichita is just now
taking backset for a newcomer who
wears tel back skirts and has head Of
golden hair.
At recent ball in this city grown
young man burst out crying because he
overheard two people refer to his sister as
'Annie Rooney
There came mighty near being fight
Yesterday because a man up on North
Main street insisted on a lady preceding
him up stairway.
A teacher at the High school recently
sent down town and bought enough chew
ing gum to go all around, and then let his
scholars have good chew.
One of the female clerks at a dry goods
store objected this week because a certain
man accompanied his wife when she
bought some new stockings.
A Wichita woman is in love with her
husbands brother and the husband who
is uncongenial will get legal divorce and
give the pair chance to be mated.
From the Hiawatha World
h. hat
c. Wood Davis, the man who prophesied
s. wheat, sold his wheat this year for II
cents.
From the Topeka Lance.
The aurora borealis that broke out last
week. is believed to have been the reflec-
ton of Marsh Murdock's gubernatorial
boom.
From the Newton Republican.
The appearance of Sullivan in Wichita
has inspired the youth of the Peerless
Princess to organize boxing club, named
for the big slugger.
From the Kansas City Journal
What struggle there viii be between
the goddess in the temple of fame and the
lorolei of the Walnut to gain Marsh Muir
dock when the bass begin to bite.
From the Topeka Capital Topeka is
one ahead of Atchison; lady's dress is
ca ed gown" there, while It's now called
''frock" in Topeka. At Wichita, they still
call it dress"
From the state Journal
The Wichita EAGLE pokes fun at our
Congressman Otis all the time, as if their
Congressman Simpson down there were
not Just as ridiculous. Topeka has some
local pride yet.
Prom IN. Topeka Journal.
A dispatch from Wichita says the Gar
field university viii be reopened. What
base deception turks in that little ''re.
Garfield university" has never had the
windows put ia it.
Prem the Ab,lens Reflector.
John Lowe Of Harrington tried a little
boxing with Sullivan when the big slug
ger was at Wichita The Harrington
Times says that he brought John l. TO
his knees once.
Prem The Topeka Lance
The girls in Wichita are giving what
they call waltz receptions, and hasten
10 say that at such affairs the round dances
only. are pursued. We call those parties
on ordinary occasions
Prom tie IA ham Tines
During the boom Wichita spread herself
all over the surrounding country. The
owners OF the suburban residences have
concluded that they are not ia Il. and are
moving their houses back 70 town.
Frs7u th= CE2>- RepaelirGn
In Topeka a LADY, dress Is called
>-lrccs ia Atehisoa they speak q Il IS
gown. in WichigA the people are Old