The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-22
sUNFLoWER s1LHouErTEs

A juryman down in Harper county com
plains that the other eleven fellows huns
the jury
Senator Perkins is truly an American
He once belonged to crack amateur bass
ball club of Illinois.
Beiva Lockwood is to lecture on 'Politi
cal and Social Life at Washington to the
Chapman high school.
j. r. Burton will make the principal
speech at the young crowd banquet nexi
Friday. His subject is Political Con
! tracts"
| A portion of John J. Ingalls, speech on
the race problem in the senate can be
heard in Washington by dropping nickel
in photograph
A niece of John Brown, divorced wo
man, isin want at Atchison. A woman
| whose relatives assisted in hanging John
Brown is assisting her.
OF course the Democrats are not going
| to fuse with the Alliance, but it would be
more assuring if they would issue week
ly declaration of independence.
Ben Clover wrote a friend in his district
that boulevard trains, with the platform
between the cars all covered over, ran be
tween Washington and New York City
twelve times day.
A crowd of Kansas public men in a con-
versation at Topeka recently all agreed
that the greatest and most common mis-
take of politicians was the fault of seeking
office too early in life.
Sunny Kansas" in 1891 contained 166
clear days, H. half-clear days and eighty
seven cloudy days. There were fifty four
entirely clear, sunshiny days and forty
three were entirely cloudy.
As a matter of fact, Judge Theodosius
Botkin is an unusual man. No otlfer man
with name like Theodosius could have
gone to Stevens county and have remained
unshot as long as he has already.
Jack" said the managing editor of the
New York daily, "have you written your
scare heads YETI" NO." said the tele-
graph editor in his usual tone, "the dis.
patches from Kansas are not in yet"
About IS per cent of people wear their
heels down on the outside, 10 per cent
strike the heel squarely, and per cent
10000 wears the heel down evenly all
around.
A western exchange of historical turn
announces that George Washington was
born on Friday, the Mayflower landed on
Friday, the Declaration of Independence
was signed oil Friday, America WAS dis
covered on Friday, Bishop Perkins was
appointed United States senator on Fri
day
Ario ~ I'd - 1srrh nj Nv
weighing bag when empty and again
after it had been inflated. The result of
this experiment caused him to announce
that air had no weight IL Aristotle had
been Il politician he would not have had to
recur TO an experiment. to discover that
bag of wind had no weight
Charles Moreau Harger of the Abilene
Reflector writes one of the ablest edtori-
al pages III Kansas. The great object with
an editorial writer should be not to write
too much or too brilliantly, but to strike
the golden mean, which insures him a
constant, regular reading audience. This
is Mr. Hangers strong point. His editori-
al page gives the readers the idea of care
full selection aud thought, and ia coIse-
quently always read, which is more than
can be said of many a paper of more pre-
tensions than the Reflector.
The Atchison girl known as Jill the
kisser because she has Il habit of grabbing
men on the streets at night and kissing
them, has written note to Ed Howe. II
froze my nose the other night, while out
looking for Victims" the note says, "but [
will go on the rampage again as soon as
moderates. like TO kiss the
men, and this being leap year, L propose
to do it. The men are bowling about it,
and say it is an outrage the way I act, but
what is Leap Year for if it is not Il season
when girls may take liberties? They say
hat five policemen are watching for me in
citizens clothes. / have kissed three of
Them already, and will get the other two
before quit. l understand the married
are making great fuss because of
he way l act. If they don't want their
husbands kissed. they should keep them at
nome at night. / never break into houses |
some of the girls who are making II fuss |
about me like to kiss the men as we'll as I /
10, and they do it, too, except tha5 they
liss in parlors. The old married man who /
made such fuss to the reporters because /
kissed him. has been hanging around the |
anne corner as night ever since. But /
Ion't like to kiss old men; just kissed |
lin for fun"