The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-15
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! A tramp down in Sumner county who
stole slice of pie from an open kitchen
has been arrested for disturbing the piece.
Congressman Funston declared himself
for free coinage but opposed to the enact
ment of a free coinage law. This reads
backward with equal felicity.
Versatility is one of Kansas natural
products. Take the boys. For the last
month they have been swimming and
skating every week alternatively.
| Ex-senator Ingalls, said: 81 am not a
csndidate-not now" The question
among the politicians just at present. is
what limitation Of time Ingalls, puts on
! the word now
| As bright Kansas weekly puts it when
j. X. Cubbison made his speech at the
state league. it was just like that inevita-
BILE hour on Fourth of July night when all
the fireworks go off at once.
Drop another tear Jerry Simpson in
PRODUCED subtreasury bill. Friday, and
upon member from New York ridiculing
it, Simpson apologized for it by saying he
introduced it ''by request"
Ed Howe has given vent again to one of
his impossible longings. He says: "A
man hasn't any lap, like woman. We
always wish we were woman when
things are passed around at a party.
The Republican editor OF Kansas is fast
approaching the point where he will either
have to crowd out advertisements TO give
room for the calls to the different conven-
tions or be charged with disloyalty to the
party.
The average daily pay of railway en-
ployes in Kansas is 81 This includes
the presidents who get $50 day for pol
ishing the bottom of a leather upholstered
office chair and the section hands who re-
ceive S.. 10 for furnishing the bowl of
shovel
The latest, the very latest is from Wash
ington and declares that John J. ingalls,
will make the race for congressman at
large This leaves the office of secretary
of state the only place in the state that
Ingalls hasn't been accused of scheming
for
What is the greatest nation on earth,
pa?' asked the inquisitive Kansas boy.
well, my son, said the old man who
was a candidate for almost everything in
sight, Il should, by all means, say the
nomination"
This will not do, said an old man yes
terday who had got things slightly mixed.
Kansas cannot afford to go into competi-
ton with Chicago" with Chicago?
How's that" "Why, here I read in the
paper that Kansas has a world fair build
ing"
One of our congressman in Washington
watched an electric car shoot by the other
day. Strange" passer-by ventured,"
how that thing goes, isn't it?"
Eyes sir it is; and they tell me it runs
by lightning"
Yes, that's So"
But it seems to me to go like thunder"
William Pitt, the great English orator,
once brought the house of commons down
by comparing an opponent to Ovid's evil
spirit that hung over Athens when that |
place was in particularly prosperous
condition and weeped because there was
nothing to weep about This is good |
deal like the Alliance fellows will be dur
ing the coming campaign-they will howl |
because there is nothing to howl about.
Il is reported that the editor of coun-
try weekly received from a correspondent |
the following old Italian legend which, in /
good faith, he published and asked his |
readers for translation: aide deldi del |
Di casanza fl del Di cough Jump We rdi nun
Dill teldo gelaftos dIsportan Di disci rama
vevi dispun." In equally good faith Il
reader wrote that there came into his
mind, on reading it, a nursery rhyme he
had heard Of beginning "Hey diddle
iiddle, the cat" ETC. AS no other trans
ation was forwarded, this may have been
the right one