The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-03
sUNFLoWER sILaoUETTEs.
Cheyenne county has its first tombste


erected to the memory of d. a. Gregory
Over bucketful of pennies are received
by the ticket seller at Forepaugh's al
every performance.
The Lyon county Republican convention
refused to indorse President Harrison and
Governor Humphreys administration.
An Alliance man told a Sumner county
audience the other night that he had nc
personal respirations for political Office
A Philadelphia paper says that after
| Farmer Funston's recent denunciation OF
the New York Voice, the putty around
| the capital windows was found to be loose
It is said that Senator PETERS eyesigh,
| is so bad that he has been compelled to
give up all newspaper writing and cannot
begin to see to the end of his own whiskerS.
Governor Humphrey is to be nominated
for congress at Pittsburg June 23d. II the
| signs are right, after November L. u
Humphrey will be governor and congress
man.
ri have noticed" said the Democratic
editor, as the manuscript went ker-plump
in the waste basket, that most of the con-
! tributors who favor fusion spell it foo
SION"
| The Third district Republican CONVEX
ton meets in Arkansas City, toaay, TO
| select two delegates to the Minneapolis
convention and to nominate presidential
! elector.
| Things are liable to get little mi xed in
| Kansas. There has been a Smith county
for a number of years. Now there is 4
| Smiths county. At least chat is the way
Mcpherson county is spoken of.
The delegates to Hutchinson from Els
worth county were instructed to vote for
John ]. Ingalls, The Office seems to be after
ingalls, and he will have to scramble into
the house and barricade the doors.
Papa" said the inquisitive son. what
are in the 'ins and outs OF politics" My
son" said the old man, "it is this-when
a Kansas politician comes out for some
thing aud fails, he always has it in for
somebody"
Colbert Caldwell, OF Mcpherson, died at
Fresno, Gala, aged 90 He was one of
Doniphan's men on the celebrated march
to Mexico. Doniphan commissioned him
to carry dispatches from Mexico to Wash
ington, when he was not IS years old.
The Alliance county attorney of Ottowa
county wants to be admitted to the bar
He has been notified twice to appear and
be examined, but he doesn't come to the
front. He is afraid he cannot pass. He is
is said to have tried it in Rice county and
couldn't make the rifle.
The young author of "Richard Harding
Davis" has been travelling in the west.
He says there are thousands of men III the
west. just rs able as barefooted Simpson,
noisy ingalls, or Farmer Jerry Rusk, who
would be just as well known as these men
if they had the opportunity. He roasts
everything he touches upon.
Senator Ingalls, said he did not want to
ride into congress in hearse, speaking of
succeeding Plumb However, a great
many people believe if ingalls, had taken
an active part in politics last fall, he
would have received it. TO continue the
vehicle metaphor, they are surry he was
sulky. But why re-hearse that?
Congressman John Davis has received
petitions on a dozen different subjects,
containing altogether $1,000 signatures. 1t
is remarkable what a lot of petitions are
sent to congress, and also more remarkable
how little attention is paid to them. AS
some one has smartly said, the best kind
of petitions to congress are 8 feet long,
more or less, and wear boots.
An experimental sort of girl, out in
western Kansas. sowed the seed from one
head of wheat four years ago. She har-
vested the crop with pair of shears and
sowed the amount received the next year.
h., r hor che 'La
third crop her father cut with grass
scythe, getting enough wheat from this
crop to sow forty acres last spring, which
averaged forty bushels TO the acre when
threshed, making total yield of 1000
bushels from one head Of wheat in four
years.
Still another person, and this was a
woman, who has been watching the little
specks of man at work on top of the dome,
conceived the idea that all that scaffolding
was merely frame work, inside of which
the statue was to be raised, and she ex-
pected SOME day to see it torn away and
mercury or ceres or something else stand
ing tip-toe on top of the dome. In reality
the lantern, although it does not look it
from the ground is thirUy-five feet high,
anu GD0 SldtuJc WHICH 10 W IL Is
to be fifteen feet high, thus making total
height above the apox of the dome of fifty
feet. The subject to be represented in the
statue has not yet been decided upon.
Since the iron work construction has
been going on over the dome of the state
house it has been very amusing to hear
the criticisms and comments that have
been made about it. The very first day
when the temporary frame work was
erected, says the Capital, folks begun say
ing that they didn't like the shape of it,
and thought it was ''going to spoil the
dome entirely" and each day ae the shape
changed it afforded an excuse for further
criticism. OF course everybody knows !
that this top knot is the lantern" but
great many persons, and learn ones, too, !
seem to have gotten very wrong under |
standing of what lantern con be. More |
than one man has been heard expounding !
on what a grand thing it would be when |
the light was started on the state house |
They could almost see il Illuminating the |
whole town. Now lantern. as the archi- /
tect uses the term. is an ornamental /
structure raised over the domes, roofs. /
etc, to give ventilation and light, not TO /
the world, but to the inside of the build /
ing. Where lantern is for the purpose /
Of giving light it is called a lantern light. /
That was an edifying scene at Nash
vile. a blood thirsty mob concluded to /
take the law into its own hands and az
tackled the Jail. Two innocent men in
The crow were killed, Is there any ex-
,use for such a mob: The law NAV not