The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-29
sUNFLowER sILHoUETTEs.
Kansas has again resumed her perennial

Kansas has again resumed her perennial
| Spring.
Chilli has quoted down and Stevens
county has the field to itself again.
a Kansas editor remarks that the Gle
menceau case had close but no clothes.
A western Kansas man sports necktie
made from the skin of rattlesnake, the
rattles being utilized as pin.
The Alliance is all right in Washington
Foster is emptying the houses spittoons
and PETER the senate chamber.
The young crowd is to prove at its ban
quet IN Topeka. tonight, a maximum of
gray matter inside the skull and maxi
| mum of gray hair without
Sam Jones said in his lecture at Ell
Dorado that when the Republican and
Democratic parties acts rascals the ALI
ance acts a fool and that fools always get
left
Jim Brennan, slayer of Sam Wood, has
been punished pretty severely after all. He
has decided to remove to Illinois A Kan
sas mau considers it pretty hard penalty
to be compelled 10 move back to Illinois.
Extract from Mrs Jerry Simpsons letter
on Washington society: James 6. Blaine
lives in a neat Prince Albert cottage and
is most frequently seen on the street in II
neat tight-fttiug Queen Anne coat"
Dogs in their natural state do not bark.
Barking in dogs is a habit due to domesti-
cation. Wagging the tail is another mode
of expression which the dog has acquired
through association with man, and being
an expression of friendliness is entirely
wanting in the wild canine.
Fred Collier of the Topeka Journal
makes the statement that Attorney Gen
eral Bradford, who was recently appointed
seal inspector in Alaska, is the only
United States official who will get 50, 500 {,
day for his services, and then explains
that the days are six months long in north
ern Alaska.
When Lie Halford, President Harri-
sons private secretary, appeared before
the senate with the war message. Vice
President Morton announced: Message
from the house." then quickly corrected
himself: Message from the president of
the United States" The congressional
record didn't contain any plumbers like
that when Ingalls, presided over the senate
Howard Murphy, Missouri Pacific en-
gineer running between Kansas City and
Hiawatha, has invented a coat of mail for
use by express messengers when attacked
by train robbers. The coat of mail is made
of perforated iron, and has contrivance
by which the wearer can discharge a gun
at the robbers while his hands are being
held up. Murphy is in dead earnest and
says his invention will be success.
ho.
of the wag about him, all the other AL
lance congressman think it is necessary
for them to say something cute. Wednes-
day old John Otis got to his feet and said
he congratulated the country that for the
first time representative of a
third party was permitted to &C.
cupy the floor of the house This was
weak. And as Otis looked around on the
sober faces, he seemed to realize it and sat
down with thud like piece of soft putty
dropped from fifth story window.
\ coal dealer was talking to a farmer
yesterday.
Look here. the coal dealer said, where
are you buying your coal, now?"
''Aint buying any coal, this winter, :"
answered the farmer.
Not buying coal:"
''No."
You're not burning corni'
"No.n
"Sunfowers?"
mo-
"Well what?"
'Do you remember last years peach
crop?" asked the farmer taking a fresh
chew of tobacco. cit was terrible big
one-thousands of peaches left rotting on
the ground"
well, what of that:n
why burn peach seeds in my hard
coal burner-beats S12 n ton nut-zize an
thracite. all to smash, makes very little
ashes and costs nothing"