The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-02
SUNFLOWER SILHOUETTES,

The opera house at Harper is being re-
| built.
A Nortonville firm sdvertises for 100, 900
dozen eggs There seems to be no more
excuse for idle hens in Kansas than there
| is for tramps.
Don't be in too great hurry to get oct
| and don your winter clothes. We are to
have six weeks of Indian summer before
the autumn days are past.
Two men have been arraigned before the
court in Topeka for violating the civil
rights law. Their assurance Is almost as
| great an offense as their overt act
The Topeka papers cite readers to the
dam site as a sight Of the city, and the
profane Atchison Patriot observes that
folks would dam sight rather see the
dam than the site.
The readers of Kansas papers will no
doubt be gratiiled to know til at the Seventh
Day Baptist general conference at Norton
is progressing swimmingly-and that
the event Will soon be past.
The fifth anniversary of the founding of
| Goodland will be celebrated on Sept. 5, in
grand style. II is expected that it will be
| one of the largest gatherings that ever
! took place IN northwestern Kansas.
The Grand Lodge l. o. o. F.. OF Kansas
| Will meet at Fort Scott on Oct 10. A
military parade will be conducted during
the session of the grand lodge and the
cantons of the order il Missouri have been
| invited to participate in the parade aud
prize drill.
Madame Janauschek, who plays Meg
Merriles better than any one else will ever
be able to play it. is making another fare
well tour OF the country She is now in
Kansas City. This is her eleventh tour,
and she appears to be faring as well as
ever
State Superintendent of Instruction
George ". Winans says compulsory ed
ucation law that can be enforced is badly
needed in Kansas. and the need of it
should be so thoroughly agitated that the
next legislature will take the matter in
hand and give US what we want.
The hateful postmaster at Atchison
changed the Sunday opening hour from y
to o'clock, so that the office is now open
ed from 10 to II, and now the dear girls
have no excuse to go from church around
through town and incidentally exhibit
their stylish outfits.
Suspended in Forest park, Atchison, is
an historic bell. The local papers say the
bell once did service on all the ferry boats
at that place, and when the J. c. Morrow
sank at Yankton, loaded with government
goods, the Sioux Indians shot many times
into it. The bushwhackers, too, in 1864,
shot holes III it, yet it still has clear aad
reverberating sound.
A movement is on foot TO have the boys
and girls of Kansas raise enough money to
provide fine drinking fountain to be
placed in front of the Kansas building at
the worlds fare A praiseworthy enter
prize, everybody will say, and if the
Fourth party Prohibs were accused of any
political designs in the scheme it would
probably make 'em boil over.
Brigadier General Henry Prince who
committed suicide in London the other
day was post commandant at Fort Leaven-
worth at the beginning of the war and is
the same man who was arrested for kid
mapping and harboring slaves. 1t took
long time for old ''retribution" to over
take him.
= Peoples party orator in Lyon county
drove three miles out OF his way to avoid
passing field of corn in which the stalks
were twelve feet high. He kept saying to
himself, "the darned corn keeps growing,
and the blarSted Republicans are Growing,
SO guess I'll be going" ana he went.
The politics of the man who registered
at a Kansas City hotel as from Kansas,
and the one who signed just under him as
of the Earth. is easy enough to catch. AS
there is only one other place the fellow
who made - opposite his name. think
ing to disguise his political identity, made
a h of q, mistake.
The grand lodge of the colored Masons
in session at Atchison last week, elected
the following officers: Grand Master, q.
w. Smith, Topeka deputy grand master,
Benjamin Wilson, Wichita; senior grand
warden, J. ". Stewart, lola: junior grand
warden, J. H. Glass, Leavenworlh; grand
treasurer, J. B. Moore. Lawrence; grand
secretary, H. II Curtis, Baxter Springs;
commissioners to the Worlds Masonic
assembly, which meets in Chicago in 1898,
g. w. Smith, G. II. Langston, IL II. Cur
lis, w. B. Townsend aud Jose ph Jones.