The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-17

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ago one Brown walked away from Wichita
and returned in six months with growth
OF whiskers so that his wife nor his horse
could recognize him, and now DR. Brad
ford, of Mulvane, close TO Wichita, is gone
no one knows where. In the meantime
once again-all the ventriloquists, tele
pathists, fortune tellers and other quacks
from all over the country viii volunteer
to tell this mans neighbors and family IL
what musty vault or Doggy pond his body
can be found.
Last Sunday the EAGLE published lot
of items taken from paper sixteen years
ago. Judge Nessly, who was learning
his trade in the EAGLE Office then, and is
still setting type here, says he set up every
one of the squibs.
Topeka Tribune: Since Wichita secur-
ed the state convention, she wants a re-
served seat on the ticket for one OF her re-
spected citizens. Nothing equals Wichi-
ta's nerve, except the boy who always
wants more.
E L. Mackenzie OF the Mirror. is the
| seventh baron Of Belmaduthie by right OF
inheritance
Saline Journal: Life in the regular
army is considered preferable to dra ggin g
out an existence in Wichita by forty-two
men who enlisted from the Peerless Prime
ess last week.
The water in the river is getting warm
and the colored people are preparing for a
| baptizing.
move in Wichita high life cannot under
stand why Lent was fixed on the disagree
able early spring, when sunshine and bon
net weather are so uncertain
A reputable citizen sends this in and
| says it is really and truly so: During the
recent cyclone scare in this city a prom
inent society lady took refuge at the home
| of friend. They were all, with bianched
faces, discussing what could be done TO
| insure some degree of safety, when the
| lady above mentioned suddenly exclaimed:
Il have on white stockings! Heavens and
earth! I'll be disgraced for the rest of my
life if I'm found dead with white stock
ings on" So she hurried home and put on
pair of handsome opsn-worked black
ones. She has since learned that plaid
stockings are the latest fad and sent east
for pair, and now awaits with perfect
resignation the coming of another cy-
clone.
Newton Kansan: Our jovial friend Har-
ry Sharp, the Santa Fe agent at this city,
was in Wichita yesterday. Among others
interviewed by him We're some clothing
merchants. and as the day was warm, he
laid his overcoas across a stack of pants.
While hanging up his coat, on his return
to the Carey, pair of pants dropped out
of its folds, and to say that our friend was
abashed is putting it very mildly. Some
of the boys appear TO have il In" for
Harry, as he is the victim of many jokes.
Deacon Jones: This warm weather re-
minds me to ask where do the boys today
go swimming? The town is built up along
the river banks and there doesn't appear
to be any place for the youngsters to
splash and dive. On the Little Arkansas
river there used so be three famous places.
One called the Umbrella was a little bay
of quiet water overhung by large wal
nut tree whose branches were in the form
of an umbrella. This was near where
Grieffeustein's residence now is and re-
sort of the smaller boys. Above Thir-
teenth street was another hole" called
"the Ladies'" This was so named from
the belief that several women were IN the
habit of bathing here, though nobody
ever actually saw them. Half way be-
tween the Umbrella" and the Ladies
was another swimming mole called the
Rope" This was the most popular place
among the boys, and was so designated be-
cause long rope was attached to high
limb on which the boys swung out and
dropped. This was deep hole and sew
eral swimmers were drowned there. don't
know how it is now, but years ago the
boys never asked one another to go swim
ming, but always neld up two fingers. No
boy ever mistook that sign. and every sum-
mer evening you could see troops of boys
coming home with their hats of so their
hair would dry and the folks at home
would be none the wiser.
Norman Advance: \ Presbyterian MIN
lister in Wichita was discharged because
he kept dogs. That was "dogond" mean
in his parishioners.
Politics and society are getting dread
fully mixed in Wichita. a committee OF
two men were appointed this week, but
the man who appointed them did not
know that neither had spoken to the other
for three years.
lola Register: Many years ago it used
TO be said OF the Kansas wind that it blew
so hard that it would blow an Indian up
against the side OF barn and hold there
until he starved to death. Wichita |
EAGLE. That story is even mora than |
many years" old. One of the chroniclers |
of the Coronado march tells of mighty |
wind that come upon the expedition when |
il was somewhere in the vicinity Of Wich- |
ita and which lifted up horses and men |
and blew them against the face Of steep /
hill aud held them there for tie space OF 1
three hours.
4 Wichita doctor has a medicine for !
stage fright aud says shat be sells a good |
deal Of il TO amateurs.
Neodesha Register: IT'S said that Wich- !
tia has a young man who would rather /
die than ride in a street car opposite a |
pretty young lady. No opposite for him. |
He probably prefers TO sit by her side aud 1
help hold her bundles
a Wichita doctor says tight lacing de-
stroys the sense Of humor in women. Full, /
free laughter depends upon perfect de-
velopment and exercise Of the respiratory
AhAI4Cl - AlC>S &9u " STEEL
aud whalebone. laughter becomes an I'M
possibility With loss OF the art Of
laughing comes a loss OF the sense of
lumor. This doctor cites rs an instanee
that the girl in Wichita who leces tie
most, cannot see joke after it is explain
II to her.
Mulvane Graphic: A medicine fake
from Wichita, held forth Monday night,
o slim audience, on Hardy's corner.
Being novices in the business, they alb
-uptly closed their entertainment, and
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