The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-15
sUNFLowER sILHoUETTEs

The Kansas supreme court disposed o
700 cases last year and 500 new cases wer,
filed
the Kansas hens have been laying frozer
eggs.
The eastern papers are unit on giving
! Kansas foremost place in the bleeding
business.
Foghorn Funston is the only Kansas
congressman who attends to his own epis
tolary correspondence.
+, 1t has been found that, even where the
rainfall is normal, the production of the
! system of irrigation.
! II Stevens county ever has need of q
statue of Justice they will probably take
the blindfold from her eyes and put six
| shooter in each hand.
Ed. Howe of Atchison has slow delib-
e-ate man for a friend who takes two
| minutes 10 close the door after him and he
never calls only on cold, windy days.
1t is quite plain that monetary consider
ations have no weight with Judge Botkin.
If they did, he would have resigned the
county long ago.
Rev. Foster of Kansas at Washington
has been promised that if he does his work
cleaning spittoons we'll, be shall have an
early promotion to the position of second
assistant groom of the back stairs.
A Wichita man went to his doctor with
the grip. Drink quart of whisky, "ssid
the doctor. Look here, Doc" protested
the patient, "when did you turn homeo-
path?'
An old Kansas soak stayed with DR..
Kelley two whole months before a cure
could be effected. Shortly after he was
tested by a jeweler and pronounced
eighteen carat.
The story that Botkin intends to resign
has the appearance of falsity. If Botkin
Is going to resign he will find it safer to
first get out of that country before an
nouncing such an intention.
The report has got out in Washington
that Congressman Otis is cabbage farmer
instead of dairy farmer. The report arose
from the fact that his wife has had baby
and Otis is giving away the cigars.
Senator PETER is spending his time lend
ing millions and billions to the people,
while jerry Simpson is keeping his eye
cooked all the while lest some twenty -five
cent piece escape him. And at the end of
the session Simpson will leave congress,
feeling great deal better than PETER.
Congressman Davis introduced bill for
the relief of Jane Boiler for the death of
her husband, Felix Boiler, Dec. IS, 1885,
Boiler was city marshal of Ogden, Riley
county, and was killed by drunken sol
der while in the discharge of his duty.
Mr.. Davis asks relief in the modest sum
of 100000.
When Jerry Simpson was asked by an
anti-monopOly constituent why he did not
return the railroad passes sent him, he
made the characteristic reply: "Contemn
the railroad, believe in making them
give up everything we can and getting as
much as possible out of the damn monop-
olies."
A clown goes with the laugh. The
Alliance has been made fun of so much
that Jerry Simpson mas commenced to
it himself When it was arranged
in the house Wednesday to give both sides
two hours apiece for discussion, Jerry
bobbed up with a grin on his face and
asked if two more hours were to be in
Guided for the Peoples party. 1t brought
down the house and that was what Jerry
said it for.
A Pratt county Alliance man brought
suit against another man the other day on
a very trivial charge. see here" said a
friend, that don't amount to anything
what you bringing that suit for?" Leave
me alone" was the rejoinder. "Aint l |
always patronized the Alliance store? And |
now we got an Alliance judge, amt 60
ing to patronize him too? Stick together |
-that't my sentiments"
Life to railroad conductor is very ex
A passenger who had been |
kicking at everybody and everything on
the Santa Fe road, the other day was dis |
gusted also with the long wait at En- |
poria.
Conductor" he asked, sis this fast |
train?"
Yes, of course it is" snarled the back |
the conductor.
"Well, what's it fast tor"
Kansas has two public men who have |
very ancient Anglo-Saxon names-Senator
Perkins and Judge Botkin. Both used to
son was added, as in Scandinavia, Peter
son is found. In this connection Webster
,ays that "Perkin" means a weak diluted
cider, but it is scarcely probable that Gov
,rnor Humphrey had any such prohibition
prejudice in mind when be appointed the
1ew.senator.