The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

June 10 will be chiIdren's day at the
city churches.
The Christian church made $40 out of
the complaint" social
The giraffe with the circus eats hay
off the top off its cage.
Every man that needs a nickname has
been christened "COxey."
1t is as much fun to see a big circus
unload as it is to see the show itself.
Nothing is so inspiring as a railroad
mans contempt for another railroad
Gen. Sanders will return to Topeka and
organize two companies of wealers here.
1t was a Kansas City girl who recently
wore $3.50 worth of violets in one even
ing.
Judge Doster of Marion is in the city
after absence from the state of sew
eral weeks.
What-a magnificent thing it is that the
biggest temper always belongs to the
littlest man.
A Fifth avenue cigar store has on ex-
hibition a mounted cannon made entirely
of rolled tobacco.
A large audience listened to an excel
lent concert by MarshaITs band yester-
day at Garfield Park.
After trying for three years Ringling's
circus has come to Topeka when the
weather is at its best.
Adams house in North Topeka does
'sIand office" business.
The old SUNDAY Sun" was sold on the
streets Saturday and Sunday without fear
of police interference.
The sub-senior class of the high school
will occupy the upper boxes at the Grand
on commencement night.
George H. Evans commenced work on
the court house site today with about
dozen teams and scrapers.
Percy A. Stockbridge, a champion
crack-shot with a rifle, gave an exhibit
ton at VinewOod park yesterday.
Adjutant General E. L. Connell, of
the Sanders army says he was once a re-
porter on the Kansas City Journal.
A lone man in covered wagon has
been camping in the woods back of the
Reform school since last Tuesday.
The Dispatch band gives a free con-
cert every Sunday afternoon near the
corner of Eighth and Kansas avenue.
If the Sanders army had ca1nped on
the fair grounds what a snap it would
have been for the street Car company.
The Sanders wealers will receive regu-
lar army rations while camped on the
Fort Leavenworth military reservation.
A day of this kind makes man wish
he was a boy again so he could run after
the parade without sacrificing his dig
nifty.
A good many Topeka people have
changed their opinions of the COxeyites
materially since the Sanders army visited
Topeka.
The commonweaI songs published in
the STATE JOURNAL threaten to become
popular Nearly all the little boys are
singing them
A Topeka young man took several
snap shot pictures of the Sanders army,
and will try to sell them to the Frank
Leslie magazine.
The sixteenth convention of the Tope-
ka district woman's foreign missionary
society of the Methodist church will be
held at Overlook May 80 and 81.
Tonight occurs the semi-annual meet
ing of the Christian Endeavor society, at
the Central Congregational church.
There will be a business meeting fol
lowed by a social.
The monthly meeting of the Women's
Home Missionary society will take place
at Westminster Presbytery church
Wednesday afternoon. Subject: ISLAM"
and the "MormOns."
Patsy Mccarthy, Topeka compost
tor. has fallen heir to half of estate
which is valued at 100000. An aunt of
McGarrity's died in Paris leaving her
estate to Patsy and his sister.
Whenever the high school teachers
miss hoy from school, they always dis
patch messenger to the ACADEMY OF
Science (Coughlan's billiard haIl.) And
the absentee is often found there.
A Topeka girl recently found pack
age of her mothers old love letters, and
now has a weapon to WELD when her
maternal parent says anything against
the attentions she receives from young
men.
Miss Whipple, the clerk at the post
| Office general delivery window, has given
| Postmaster Arnold her resignation to
! take effect tomorrow. 1t is said that she
will marry an estimable Kansas City
| young man.
Miss NJ E. Hedrick in a missionary
| address at the Kansas Avenue M. Il.
| church yesterday morning said: "Men
! will work for $1.65 a month and keep a
/ family of five on it in Calcutta. That is
/ what comes of free trade"