The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-14
SLABS AND SLAMS.

Kansas City Star: Wichita is to have
! bicycle jobbing house wichita is a
| great place for wheels"
Marion Record: The Wichita Eagle
has rendered half column of advice to
| Bill Cook. 1t was sent by mail.
Topeka Journal: A Wichita. girl is get
ting so awfulIy nice and proper she is
about TO lose all her friends They know
it is a bluff.
Atchison Champion: The failure of a
wholesale whiskey house at Wichita
shows how dangerous it is 10 attempt
to build q city so far from water
Topeka Journal: Some tramps at Wich-
I tia have been arrested for peddling
! pants No town can become truly great
where her hoboes call them that.
/ Oklahoma Journal: The New York
Recorder, the Chicago Inter-Ocean, Kan
! sas City Journal and Wichita Eagle are
! for free silver. We keep good company.
! Peabody Republican: Half the popula-
| ton of Wichita went a mile out of town
! the other day, TO see an irrigation plant
/ get in its work. and was caught in a
drenching rainstorm.
Eureka Herald: A Wichita nan has
/ invented a flying machine which he is con-
fident will work Doubtless mis- first prac-
! teal use OF the machine viii be TO fly
away from Wichita
Alva Review: The western Republi-
can papers have laid Mckinley and De
pew on the shelf for 1896 and are looking
around for fresh victims. They should
tackle Marsh Murdoch.
Guthrie Leader: 4 Wichita musical
critic suggests that pianos are too large
and thinks they should be made much
smaller. Too many pounds are taken
out OF the average piano, as it is.
Kansas City Star: The failure of a
big wholesale liquor firm in Wichita
simply means that it is wholly impossible
TO educate anybody in Kansas up to
decent and respectable brand of whiskey.
Augusta Press: The Eagle says that
money makes the mare go and admits
that she is stationary in Wichita. Has
the Eagle forgotten about Wichita being
the Peerless Princess and all that sort of
thing?
Kildare Journal: The editor of the
Eagle says we fear a conspiracy has been
formed in Europe to crush out Kildare.
There is more truth than poetry in the
thought for Europe has already crushed
Wichita.
Caldwell Advance: The Wichita Eagle
says that Queen Lii of Hawaii, has been
a constant reader of that paper for some
time. That accounts for the recent up
heaVal and revolutionary methods of the
eX-queen.
Leavenworth Times: Wichita is get
ting so good that wholesale liquor firm
there has gone to the wall from lack of
patronage. Score one on the pious side
of Wichita's account. 1t Will be the only
score on that side.
Manhattan Nationalist: Mrs. Leases
son has been drawing a salary ''as-
sistant matron' at the deaf and dumb
school. The boy seems to have all the
pretty feminine ways and domestic quail
tiles of his gentle father.
Topeka Capital: Wichita people must
be Tesorting to drug store beverages since
that saloon failed. The postmaster has
published a card urging people TO be more
careful and mail their letters in the letter
boxes instead of the scavenger boxes.
Oklahoma Times-Journal: The politi-
clans of Kansas who are running the state
administration. take no heed of the NOR
row, except when warned by Marsh Muir |
dock who predicts harvest of whilr- |
winds. 1t is a great pity that more |
newspapers of the state are not as fearless |
as the Eagle.
Kansas City Mail: a Wichita minister |
announced that "Trilby'' would be the |
subject of his discourse last Sunday. An
hour before the time arrived there was (
such a crowd in front of the church that (
the streets were completely blocked. The |
sermon was not preached. It is said !
that the police prevented the church doors I
being opened.