Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-17
KANSAS TOPICS.
What" inquiries Sol Miller, "does Mrs
Mckinley do to while away her invalid
hours-knit?" Nit!

tary OF the senate, was candidate for an
office before the last Republican convention
in Reno county. Upon being defeated he
hoisted the following motto at the head OF
his newspaper: This paper does not look
to the grounding for its weather, nor to Il
political convention for its creed" This
caught the Pops and Mr.. Watson is now
enjoying his reward.
That was a mighty weak card which
John Martin played when he declared that
free silver was only surface issue and
that the government should foreclose on
the Union Pacific railroad and hereafter
run it. Dave Overmyer had already
trumped the trick by declaring for straight
out socialism and the government owner
ship of everything.
When Colonel Brady. of the Lawrence
World, plunges his pen into the inkpot of
solecism something mighty hot is certain
to run of the end of it, as, for instance.
the following: "'Tis a pity It's, It's true,
but that It's true. It's true"
Judge ]. V. Beekman is moved by the
pardon of Anderson Grey TO boast that
during the past ten years he has defended
twenty-six accused murderers, of whom
but one is now in the penitentiary.
In the district court at Ottawa on Fri
day a divorce was granted Mrs. Issalona
Wise from her husband. who bears the
singular name of Prince Albert Wise. She
charged him with drunkenness and gam
bling, and it is gratifying in this connec-
ton to observe that there is nothing in
this arraignment to which his royal name
sake may take serious exception.
The Norton Champion declares that Miss
Lottie Boyd, who has come back from
course of study at Milan to electrify Amer
lea with her voice, achieved the melodious
rudiments of her art while singing snatches
on the upper Prairie Dog from Signor Bo-
vini's beautiful opera entitled 'Cooboss,
Cooboss.'
The Girard Press has hoisted Republic
an ticket for 1898 which contains the names
of all the last state officers with the excep-
tion of Governor Morrill, and Treasurer
Atherton. If it were left to people who
were really on the inside of the late admin
istration these are not the two who would
be dropped.
Leedy's troubles are already commenc-
ing. The Annie Diggs crowd are mad be-
cause his message said noting about woman
suffrage; the Prohibition women are hot
because he ignored that question, and that
Osage' county woman who wanted a Sec
tion against the wearing of corsets is said
to be just nothing short of frantic.
Joe Bristow says the railroads are not
becoming alarmed about the prospect of
adverse Pop legislation because they know
more about Pop statesmen than anyone
else except God.
There is q great deal more in Governor
Leedy's message than the remark that for
fifty centuries the dogs have been barking
at the foot of the pyramids, to reveal the
hand of Ed Little. That of course, was a
dead give-away, for anyone who has heard
Ed Little spout about Egypt will recognize
the expression; but the little verse at the
conclusion of the message is even better
evidence. Last April a Topeka paper in
vited a number of Kansas people to an
swer the question, who is the greatest
Kansan?" Ed Little was one of these and
his answer was the following verse, which
is identical with Leedys poetic finish:
John Brown of Osawatomie-he made our
soil so free,
Advanced the Kansas thought so high, for
all to see
His name calls such n paean forth, by
Kansas name and song,
Men know the trail to freedom runs away
from every wrong.
In explaining in a speech the other
day what he called the Increment" Sem
ator Householder overlooked the best Illus
tration of all. In Kansas the price of a
bushel of corn will buy just one drink,
but one bushel of corn will make four
gallons of whisky.
The election of Ethan Allen. a descend
ant of the Revolutionary hero, to the office
of probate judge in an Oklahoma county,
reminds US that Ethan Allen, the great
trotting horse, lies buried at Lawrence,
and, like other Kansas celebrities, is with
out a monument.
Tom McNeal says the best heeled man
he knows of in Kansas is Mr.. Stocking. of
Neodesha.
"a Horton woman" says the Headlight.
remarked as she picked her baby out of
tub of soft soap, that it was the child S
first lye."
The Goodland Republic boasts that the
sporting history of the town reveals but
one instance in which an outsider was per-
mitted to leave with more than he brought
in. OF late years, though, the game has
degenerated until white chips sell for 90
cents stack.
No less than fifty Kansas papers stimuli
taneously sprang the joke that the initial
wv" in Speaker Streets name did not
stand for Wall.
'"That man is going to lick me- said a
Harper boy to his mother, according to
the Wichita Eagle. What MANI" asked
the wife, who never saw her loafng hus-
band during the day why, that man
that sleeps here at nights"
The Wichita Eagle demands to know by
what magic Kansas gets a governors mes
sage which reads like Congreve, Goldsmith
and Byron. The esteemed Eagle appears
to overlook the fact that there is a literary
course at the Kansas state university.
r. w. Turner. ex-consul to Cadiz, finds
time in the intervals of his campaign for a
place at the Pop pie counter to write some
interesting pieces about Spain and her peo-
pie for his local paper. In a recent issue
he traced the present royal family through
a series of amours and misalliances which
are shocking. to say the least. After re-
citing that Eulalie. the princess who set
American society crazy during the world s
fair was the fruit of a morganatic mar
riage, he adds that .'she is famous in
Madrid for her masquerades in mems at
tire in vain attempt to outdo the esca-
pades of her notorious mother
"One day in the fall of 1862 says Colonel
Bob Wright. in the course of his reminis-
cences of life in Western Kansas, II was
approaching my hay camp, yet some two
miles distant, when a large, fat Indian rode
out of the brush on a peculiar piebald
pony, and by signs indicated to me that
he wanted to swap 1 asked him IL he
meant that 1onv No hn onSuered 'pot