The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-19
sUNFLowER .s1LHoUETTEs

The young crowd will receive new assur-
! ance from the fact that the new khediYe
of Egypt is only II years old.
Professor Snow estimates that his chinch
bug remedy has effected, on an average, a
saving of S1S7 for each farmer who has
tried it.
Mrs. Lease is keeping so quiet that the
opinion prevails that she is laboring under
the delusion that the lemonade season is
not over.
It now appears that Judge Botkin's in
dignation was not fully aroused until
some one sent out the report that he was
going to resign.
John j. ingalls, is always writing liter
airy articles that nobody ever sees. 1t is
now said that he is preparing lengthy
article for Harper's Magazine.
A law library in Stevens county is made
! up Of a volume of Blackstone and copy
of Smith and NELSON'S great work on How
to Ventilate the Human Form.
Hebbard, the Alliance statistician, has
such passion for figures that one day he
inadvertently directed letter to Wash
ington, d. c., to Washington, Co.,"
The Reno county Alliance had session
at Clarendon, January Il, and only about
sixty members were present: last year the
county meeting was attended by over 800
PETER introduced bill in the senate for
the propagation of blue grass, the other
day, and the presiding officer referred it TO
The finance committee, from force of
habit.
Richard l.. Walker, the United States
marshal for Kansas, has been in Kansas
politics twenty years, and claims that he
never has yet submitted to newspaper
interview.
The news is daily expected from Wash
ington that the spittoons in Representa-
tive hall are kept in good shape. You can
always depend on a Kansas man to do his
work well.
The first day Judge Botkin was in To-
peka he was closeted with Governor Hum
phrey for three hours He arose to 90 just
about the time the governor had decided
in his mind to call out the militia again.
The announcement that DIR. Graves, the
Denver murderer, was formerly Kansas
man, was superhuous after it came out
plainly in the trial that he bought the
whisky at drug store
A woman bought fifteen buttons in
Girard dry goods store at a ceat apiece.
Next day she stopped in for some skirt
braid, costing four cents, and for payment
she presented three of the buttons and
cent.
Kansas is undoubtedly for Blaine. Har-
rison is all right, but it will be pretty hard
to grow enthusiastic about man who
could see his way clear to appointing a
Missouri man governor of Oklahoma be-
fore a Kansas man.
j. i. Bristow is now the editor of the
only daily paper in Salina. Brstow is
sharp writer with a sensible, steady
groundwork to back his brightness, and
the Salina Republican shows marked i'm
proyements in entering upon its enlarged
field.
A tramp, on one of the recent cold
nights requested the police of Atchison TO
allow him to sleep in the Jail out of the
cold. The next morning the turnkey
awoke him at 8 o'clock, and he came out
of bed kicking like bay steer. He said
his regular hour for rising was 10 o'clock,
and lie didn't like it broken into.
\ selection from the Congressional Rec
ord:
Mr.. Henderson-Mr. Speaker, the gen
tleman from Missouri Mr.. Dockery]
speaks at considerable length about the
billion-dollar congress. and it is not orig
inal with the gentleman from Missouri. l
will say it to his credit. We have heard of
it before.
Mr.. Simpson-You will hear of it again
Mr. Henderson-Yes; the liars are not
all dead yet.