The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-12
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Take your hat off as you pass for he is
lord of the manor.
Mr.. Morrill, probably now regards it as
Pshaw-nee county.
Farmer Smith has captured Shawnee
county and Shawnee holds the capitol
building.
''It is now proper time for the ''Morrill
withdrawal Item TO rouse up again and
disport itself in the sunlight.
Senator Perkins has been chosen the
Kansas member of the Republican co n
gressional campaign committee.
81 have always made it rule" Jerry
Simpson remarked to friend recently,
ito speak twice before l think"
Kansas must raise $4,000 by May to
insure building at the worlds fair. l. is
not thought that the rifle will be made.
The east is slow They have just got
onto the fact in New York that melo-
drama in the west is called "a cry-baby
show"
Senator PETER says, on second thought,
that neither Harrison nor Cleveland can
be elected and be guesses he will run for
the presidency himself.
1t would now be in order for Funston as
measure of reparation, to invite the
Washington staff of correspondents to
drink with MIN and then call for water.
George Peck, Ben Simpson, ID. A. An
thony and T. z. Baker are already NEIL
toned as delegates to the national conven-
ton. ingalls, is said to want to go rs a
delegate-at-large, also.
Senator ingalls, voice will be heard in
every part of the state this fall. 1t is a
good deal to be plain Republican Repub-
lican, but it is better still to be fighting
Republican Republican. .
1.-The sensational orator is not in it with
me-" said the Kansas cyclone rs he picked
up house and turned it upside down and
frightened the occupants half to death. "at
least so far as moving house to tears is
concerned"
An Atchison man, who resides away off
in an odd corner of Ed Howe's fertile
brain, is something of an artist and is
painting an original picture of the devil.
The painteris brunette and he is making
the devil blonde.
Jerry Simpsons speech of free trade was
a disappointment to his friends. jerry
had whispered around a week previous
that be was going to make a great speech.
He did and it fell fat. People refuse to
take Jerry seriously.
John Peter St. John he's made thirty
speeches in Kansas, much to the disgust
of the Republican prohibitionists, the
pleasure of the Democratic and Alliance
prohibitionists and to the great delight Of
the Prohibition prohibitionists.
Ii the Alliance wants anything it wants
free silver. The Democrats of Kansas are
unanimously for Grover Cleveland for
president. Cleveland is the outspoken
enemy of free silver. This is another de-
monstration Of the consistency of fusion.
John A. Anderson. United States consul
general at Cairo. Egypt, has concluded to
return home. He will leave Cairo April
II, and stop few weeks in London. Since
Mr.. Anderson took up his residence in
Egypt he has been in ill health. and he
has suffered great deal from an operation
necessitated by an abscess.
Professor - will not meet his classes
today" Seeing the above notice in the
college lecture-room, mischievous
student erased the ''c'' in Glasses" The
professor discovered the change and car
ried on the joke by erasing the 81" This
story has been told of Professor John
Stuart Blackie, of the University of Edin-
burgh; but he has recently denied its au
thencity.
Who is that man with the lordly strut
and insolent arr Is he a travelling Duke?
Not that.
Why does he bear down on his neigbors
with naughty pride? Is he millionaire?
Not that.
What then?
He was the man who lived in the desc
late track of the cyclone. For years he
had gone with his family, at the approach
of a storm, to his cellar for cyclones. Long
had he borne the jeers and jibes of his
neighbOrs. But meekly withal, he always
repaired TO the cellar, while his friends
stood by and joked at his cowardice. Last
week, the funnel-shaped monster bore
down on the village; people were killed,
crippled and injured. He alone with his
family, safe in the cellar, came out of it
all without hair touched or so much as
scratch on the finger.
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