The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-03
Rress about IT, and now little Ambrose
has changed his name to Pantaloons.

In Hagenbeck's justly celebrated con-
gress OF animals there were at one time
IL ferocious carnivorous animals of diff
ferent species mixed up together in a
big steel cage. They sat around there
for half an hour, half Of them on the
Republican side and half on the Demo
cratic side Of the cage, looking fierce for
the purpose of earning their salaries,
but, in fact, perfectly at peace with
each other. There was also Pefferian
boarhound that seemed equally at home
on both sides
Seeing the senator from South Caro-
lima continually lingering about DON
Cameron's desk the other day reminded
me of the peace that seemed to hover
around Hagenbeck's.
When Senator Vance was i'll in the
mountains of his own state and dying
not far from his boyhood home, one day
Senator Edmunds climbed up from the
Black Mountain station and carried with
him basket of Vermont apples.
'I've been thinking of you a good
deal of late, Vance, he said, land try
ing to think Of AN excuse for coming
down here. remembered that at the
Centennial North Carolina took the
worlds highest award for apples. / had
some In my orchard that thought you
might like, SO have brought down a
basKetful that picked myself. P"
The stricken senator was good deal
affected by this, and then and there the
two senatorial warriors stacked arms to
eat apples and tenderly talk of their
peaceful boyhood in widely separated
states.
Senator Proctor sheds maple strip
every spring in the senate. He calls 1t
scattering sweetness on the desert air. !"
By doing this he has convinced the sem
ate that most of our genuine Vermont
maple strip" is made in Louisiana.
One morning in the house several
years ago every member found on his
desk little jar Of the finest and most
fragrant Of Lorillard's snuff.
Curiosity got the better Of discretion,
and before the prayer was half COM
pleted % states had voted on the Loril-
lard matter, while tears We're flowing
down the furrowed cheeks of as many
more representatives.
Congressman Humphrey Of Wisconsin
arose at the conclusion of the prayer and
moved that the little jars be taken away
from the house, as they were there in
violation of unbiased legislation, for
they were evidently placed there for the
purpose of influencing unduly the ayes
and noes.
The motion prevailed.
Life in congress is not so uniformly
sad as The Congressional Record would
make it appear.
Last summer mysterious crime &C.
CURED in K street, northwest, which was
never given to the public. On sultry
midsummer day a man might have been
seen glancing furtively about in that
neighborhood as if to see if any one
might be observing him, while under his
arm and partially concealed he carried
an inanimate, cold and pulseIess body.
The servant who saw him from the
window of an upper story near by
thought it locked like the body of de-
ceased dog. While she watched him
from behind a closed shutter he dexter
ously concealed his burden beneath the
shrubbery in the adjoining grounds and
fled on swift pinions, SO to speak, being
soon lost to view.
In couple of days the neighboring
servants began to complain of the odor,
and as the owner of the grounds wherein
the body had been deposited was away
temporarily it was suggested that the
boys who played OH the adjoining
grounds every day should get over the
hedge and secure the remains, so that
they might be entombed.
The boys crept up toward the shrub
berry with patent olothespins on their
noses, but could not approach nearer
than % feet, though they could see the
still, calm features Of the little pet