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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-23
NORTH TOPEKA.

Items of Interest from the North side of
the River
Mr.. and Mrs Homer Washburn are the
parents of an infant son.
Councilman J. ID. Pattison Is home
from his farm for few days.
r B. WEIGH was one Of the speakers at
the Republican club meeting last night
The Good Literature Reading circle
viii meet at Q. D. SINNERS this even
d. S. Evans is building a $500 addi-
ton to his residence. 1929 Van Buren,
street.
Mrs G. w. Bean, who has been visit
ing here. has returned to her homein In
dependence.
It is announced that David Overmyer
will make a speech in Lukens' opera
house next Saturday night
Come every body and bring your friends
to the Weight social, musical entertain
ment and delicious supper. given by F.
A. A Wednesday evening, October "a
Novel attractions at the f. A. A. en-
tertaiDment Wednesday evening, October
"A, at A o. Z. w. hall, in Barrett's block.
Mrs. S. A. Thurston delivered an ex-
cellent address on the subject of woman
suffrage at the Republican club meeting
last night
II. W. Cheney, the dairy man north Of
town, is preparing to build a good house
on his property, corner Of Morse and
Harrison streets
Charles Nyman, a former citizen OF
North Topeka, who has been absent about
Eve years, has returned for a visit He is
now living at Mulhall. Ok.
Mrs. VIII Philbin, who has been visit
ing friends here, has returned to her
home in Horton, and was accompanied
by her sister. Miss Ida Cutbirth, Of Sill
yer Lake.
Miss Eta Garner is visiting her brother,
d. T. Garner, on her return from Vir-
GINA City. Mont, to her home Ia Den
yer, Ill She spent the summer in Mon
tana. and will remain here about three
weeks
Two tramps were teasing a little col
ored boy near the Rock Island ~" Sun
day afternoon when he pulled out a re-
volver and shot at the men making a skin
wound across the breast of one. The
damage was not serious but on complaint
of the tramps the boy was taken to the
police station where the charge was
Withdrawn and they we're allowed to 60.
At the French Bakery.
SO Kansas avenue.
Home made mince pies.
We make our own mince meat
SO Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-23

Victorious from the lakes to the Coast.
DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder took
highest hOnors at the Chicago and Mid
winter Fairs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-23

The New VestEbuIed TraIn Services
Via Chicago & Grand Trunk. Grand
Trunk, and Lehigh Valley railways. be-
tween Chicago and New York and Phil
adelphia, via the famous St Clair Tunnel,
Niagara Falls, and the beautiful SusQue-
hanna, Wyoming and Lehigh Valleys.
known as the switzerland of America"
offers elegant appointments and is the
most picturesque route connecting these
leading cities. Train leaves Dearborn
Station, Chicago, daily $40 p. m
Good work done by the Peerless
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-23

For out Of Thoughts interior sphere
These wonders rose TO upper arr
Could well have been written Of the
Worlds Fair. There DR.. Prices Cream
Baking Powder got the highest award
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-23

TO paint the lily or gild refined gold
would not be more superhuous than TO
attempt an improvement on DR.. Prices
Cream Baking Powder. Each IN its way
IS perfect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-23

10 lbs Fresh Rolled Oats .. S .25
4 lbs large Crown RaiSinS - 20
4 lbs California Sweet PruneS - .25
100 lbs Family Flour OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ito
5 gal key Vinegar Observation-Disclosures Ll5
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-23

At the French Bakery.
SO Kansas avenue.
Home made mince pies
We make our own mince meat
SO Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-23

3ood work done by the Peerlesa.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-23

At the French Bakery.
S15 Kansas avenue
Boston brown bread,
Hot at p N.
Every day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-23

EN RATEl
Fancy pears. IL lbs 81.
Choice pears. 9 lbs 81.
Fancy nectarines, 8 lbs 81.
Fancy peaches. 3 lbs 81.
Choice apricOts. Q lbs 81.
Fancy pruneS. II lbs 81.
RaspberrIes, ? lbs 45c.
Blackberries. 3 lbs 25c.
AIuscatel Faisins. 8 lbs CSC.
Seediess raisins. 5 lbs. pc.
Cluster raisins. 2 lbs, 25c.
CurrantS. 8 lbs. 25c-
Clean currants. 4 pkgs, CSC.
Grapes. 5 lbs, 25c.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12

The famous salt lake of Aalia Paakai.
near Honolulu, occupies the crater of an
immense tufa cone, whose ejecta covers
several square miles, and are especially re
markable for containing numerous aggre.
cations of crystalline grains of pure Divine
The lake is just at mean sea level, and is
scarcely mile distant from the ocean, hut
there is evidently no free communication
with the waters of the sea. During the
dry months crusts of salt are deposited,
sometimes six inches or more in thickness,
on the bottom of the lake, and the salt has
at times been taken out for use. In the
rainy season the salt is wholly redissoved
The crust of salt is ut the present time
from one to three inches thick, and the
water is of course, saturated brine
1t is interesting to note, however, that it
does not correspond in composition with
the waters from the ocean. Like the Dead
sea, the lake contains an excessive guam
tity of calcium salt. The interior of the
crater basin is crusted in many places with
deposits of carbonate of calcium, proving
that it was at one time occupied by high
ly calcareous water, probably of high tenn
perature. have given in connection with
the results of my analysis, which extends
only to the constituents present in large
amount, an analysis of concentrated sea
water from the salt works of Kakaako and
an average of number of analyses that
have been made of the waters Of the Dead
sea-
These latter sometimes contain a larger
proportion of solids than the average fig
ure, but in no analysis that have seen has
the quantity been as large as that found in
the water of Aalia Paakai.-Cor Nature
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12
lightning as a Photographer.

On examining the field glasses used at
the observatory on Mount Arle, situated
near the summer resorts, West Baden and
French Lick it was found that one of the
field glasses had an impression of flowers
in both lenses, like "A negative. 1t must
have been caused by lightning, as the
glass was left on the upper platform of the
observatory and the impression is of such
flowers as are growing on Mount Arle
The quality of the glass is not impaired at
all, though the impression seems to go
clear through the lenses. Mr. Buerk, the
proprietor of the observatory, cannot ac-
count for this freak of lightning otherwise
than the electric action on the flowers and
lenses.-Louisville Courier-J ournal.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12

Judge |. w. Boulware, of Fulton, is one
of the best known criminal lawyers in
Missouri, but has forgotten many of the
good things he learned at Sunday school
His granddaughter, four years old, came
to pay him visit the other day. She ar
rived in care of the conductor about II
O'Clock in the evening, tired and sleepy
from an all days journey. Her grand
father awkwardly but successfully pre-
pared her for her couch, and with an at
tendant sent her to bed, while he settled
himself to study. Presently he heard sobs
from the child's bedroom, and entering
asked in grandfatherly tones what was the
matter Grandpa, I've forgot my prayer"
well, never mind the prayer tonight; 90
TO bed and go to sleep" But" persisted
the little miss, mamma and papa will not
let me go to bed without saying my pray
er, and I've forgot it," and she sobbed
again. well, daughter, never mind to-
night; tomorrow night you may say it
twice." replied the kind hearted grand
father.
Still the sobbing lips replied: mo, no; |
must say it. You start it, grandpa, and
I'll remember it," great silence fell
upon the household; great beads of cold
sweat started out upon the perplexed brow
of the head of the house. He couldn't
think; his mind was chaos. Finally, with
heroic effort, he began; MARY had a little
lamb mo, no, grandpa; that isn't it, T"
protested the troubled little appealer
Then frantically the judge began again.
"Rock-a-bye baby in the tree top mo,
moo" came from the child, and the next
moment she was fast asleep on her knees.
jefferson City (Mo.) Tribune
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12
Stone Cornice Gutter.

An ingenious instrument is used in Italy
for the cutting of stone cornices, holdings,
balustrades, etc The general features OF
the machine are very similar to those OF
the ordinary metal planning machine. The
stone to be operated upon is firmly clamped
on the bed, to which reciprocating mo
tion is impaired by suitable mechanism
The cutting tools are carried on saddle
plate capable of horizontal movement upon
slide by means of screw and handle.
The slide is, in turn, capable of vertical adj
justment on slide pillars by means of bevel
gearing and screws. The machine turns
out sixteen feet of cornice, well finished,
in twenty minutes.-New York Telegram.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12

In Marianne North's ''Recollections of a
Happy Life" is a description of tame
snake.
Its mistress would sometimes twist the
pretty bronze creature in the great plat of
hair she wore around her head and once
threatened to go down thus decorated to a
dinner party of rather stiff people,
But one of the snakes own eccentricities
serves to distinguish it among all other
reptiles of similar nature which have
served as pets.
1t was as fond of glittering things as it's
mistress herself, and when she took off her
many rings and placed them on different
parts of the table it would go about col
Letting them and stringing them on its
1.-the body. Then it would tie itself in a
knot, so that the rings could not be taken
off until it was pleased to unite itself
again
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12


He was a doctor OF the advanced school.
He laid his finger on my pulse, and with
his watch in hand gave it a fair start and
observed il carefully all of the way around.
Strong, -, he said in moment. Then
he consulted IA card that was covered with
figures and continued THAT equals g.
and he placed that number on slate
Put out your tongue. Goodl That is "A"
he said.
"Inches?" | asked.
How is your appetizer" he inquired, ig-
noring my question.
Equal to the supply"
THAT makes 204, he replied
Can't You reduce it little?" asked,
but failed to get his attention.
Cold feet?"
YES" | answered
Three" he s1id
mo, two" replied, to correct him.
He set the three under the other figures
He then placed thermometer in my
mouth, which he afterward consulted in
connection with the card. "A good 1913"
he said
"Impossible' suggested mildly.
He wrote down the l9S and asked if
had headaches.
Sometimes in the morning, after being
kept late at the Office" | answered.
-Four" he said.
Isn't that rather low" asked.
do you smoker" he inquired.
Eyes"
Ten" he replied
NO, two for ten" said.
He put down the ten.
do you sleep well2" he asked.
THAT depends upon the baby" | an
swered
we won't consider that" he said
you had better call it $780," suggested.
He added together the figures that he
had placed on the slate. THAT makes 1876"
be said.
us that the amount of the bill?"
asked.
"Billp' he replied That is the number
of the prescription. | want you to know
that medicine with me is no longer an ex-
pertinent, for have reduced it to mathe-
NAUTICAL certainty. Every symptom has it's
number, and the sum of these numbers in
dicates the medicine that is needed have
worked for fifteen years in formulating my
prescriptions and perfecting the treatment,
but | have it now Your bill is ten dol
lors."
understood that number, and left the
office feeling relieved and deeply impressed
by the doctors learning. Harry e. Fulton
in Harper's Bazaar.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12

Famines were formerly much more com
mon than during the last half century, and
many notable calamities of this nature are
mentioned by historians. Not including
the seven years famine in Egypt men.
toned in the Old Testament the first great
famine noted in history was in Italy, b. c.
436. Thousands or persons, driven mad by
want, threw themselves into the sea and
rivers to escape from further suffering. In
A. D. AZ there was a great famine in Egypt,
and another in Rome and the vicinity in
A. D. 262. In PIP famine prevailed in the
British islands, and people ate grass, roots
and the bark of trees; thousands died in
Scotland from privation in A. d. 3O6 and
over 10000 persisted in Britain four years
ater.-Proyidence Journal
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12
Ancient Swiss Families.

From the very nature of the case all
Swiss nobility is more or less ancient, and
is, therefore, still venerable in a republic
which has not yet cast off all reference for
historic tradition. The Valais. for in
stance, contains very ancient noblesse,
some of whom, as the De Sepibus and the
De Cocatrix, bear Latin names, whether
or not they claim a Roman descent And
a Roman descent assuredly is claimed by
the Bernese family of Lentulus, who affil-
late themselves to that most illustrious
house of the Gems Cornelia.
In conglomerate nation like the Swiss
the fountains of honor have been numer-
GUS. Some of the nobility owe their dis
tinctions to the empire or to the dukes of
Austria; some to the dukes of Zahringen,
the founders of Berne and Fribourg; some
to the dukes of Burgundy; some, who
were Huguenots, to the kings of France,
and some of the more modern ones even to
the kings Of Prussia.-Temple Bar
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12
Tall Girls Responsible.

PUT two extra lifts on the heel" accom-
panied an order to u shoemaker
Tally another victim of the tall girl, q"
the shoemaker remarked.
How is tlalt?"
why, there are so many tall girls now
adays that the average height of men must
be raised. Up to few years ago the low
est heel was the rage, but now the heel is
decidedly higher figure it between half
and three-quarters of an inch. 1t is all the
growth of recent years 1t isn't the fashion,
either, for you'll not find the high heel
among tall men. It's only among the lit
tie fellows who try to add to their height
by ever so little. But even half an inch
counts in a mans height A few years
ago a man of feet 6 was seldom over
topped by a lady. Now the man of feet
is not infrequently looked down on.
don't suppose any city in the world can
show so many tall girls as are to be seen in
Broadway, Fourteenth and Twenty-third
streets these days They are not thin girls
either, but well proportional and solidly
built, which makes their height all the
more exasperating to an understood man.
You see, by adding little to his heels and
to his hat, man just under the average
can lift himself up to it"-New York Sun
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12
A PluckY Greyhound.

A circumstance which l should say was
IN uncommon one in the annals of shikar
happened the other day. A gentleman
while out shooting in the Eastern Dun in
a canebrake started a leopard and cub.
Among his dogs which were beating was
a powerful English greyhound This dog
drove off the leopard and killed the cub
This same dog also killed very powerful
lungoor (gray monkey one of the largest
size, standing fully 8 feet 8 inches or 4
feet.
One Of the spaniels had cut this lungoor
off from the tree for which it was making,
and it turned upon the dog and bit it in
the neck very severely, its tusks being as
large as a small leopard's 1t then tried
TO strangle the dog, when the greyhound
came to the rescue. 1t caught the lungoor
by the nape of the neck and with one
crunch killed it.-Asian.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12

There is hardly anything so bad that
wise person cannot get some good out of
it. Indeed, it is one of the principal marks
of philosopher that he reaps an advan-
tage even from misfortune.
A little Boston girl had for some time
wanted dog. Finally she was taken very
i'll with pneumonia. One day, when she
had begun to get better, she told her man.
ma how very much she wanted dog, and
begged her to ask grandpa to buy her one
Mamma answered that grandpa did not
like dogs and probably would not be will
ing to buy one. Then seeing the little
invalid look sadly disappointed, she said:
"Wait till you get well, my dear; then
we will see"
"Oh, no." answered the child, whose few
years had taught her a little wisdom, ''the
sicker | am the more likely he we'll be to
buy it for me. Boston Herald.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12
Highest of all in Leavenng Power-Laest U Govt Report
RHaI B Bs.kIs,:
ABSOLUTELY PURE
ABSOLUTELY PURE
A storm ON Pixies Peak.

It's no fun to be on top of Pixies peak in
q storm. 1t is an experience that few care
to have. won't forget mine of two years
ago. A party left Manitou for the peak one
sunny day in July, when a storm was the
last thing that would suggest itself. We
took a carriage at Cascade and started for
the summit. The vehicle was strong
enough to have carried lotion gun, and
was slung on strong leather straps like a
stagecoach We all enjoyed the superb
scenery and reached the signal service
station on the summit in good order Be
fore we had been there an hour a thunder
storm broke over the mountain. The
women took refuge in the station, and we
men threw ourselves fiat on the huge
granite powders
The rain came down in torrents, but it
was not in it with lightning can laugh
now, but | did not then. The lightning
struck the summit time and time again
until the whole thing seemed to be a mass
of blue fire that sprang from bowlder to
bowlder and enveloped the place It
blinded me. Every moment | expected to
be struck, and | was afraid to yell to my
friends for fear that the fluid had killed
them. My hair stood on end, horrible SEN
Stations chased themselves up aud down my
spine at each clap of thunder and they
came at the rate of million minute.
Unless you have been through it your
self, you cannot imagine my feelings as
lay there nearly drowned, awaiting to be
electrocuted. When the storm ceased it
took me fully ten minutes to realize that
/ was alive. No one was killed, hut six
mules had been struck by the fire from
heaven.-Interview in Chicago Inter
Ocean,
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12
Tanning Leonards in India.

The chetah is tied in all directions,
principally from thick grummet Of rope
around his loins, while hood fitted over
his head effectually blinds him. He is
fastened on a strong cot bedstead and the
keepers and their wives and families re-
duce him to submission by starving him
and keeping him awake. His head is
made to face the village street, and for an
hour at a time several times day his
keepers make pretended rushes at him and
wave cloths, slaves and other articles in
his face. He is talked to continually, and
women's tongues are believed to be the
most effective antisoporifics. No created
being could resist the effects of hunger,
want of sleep and feminine scolding, and
the poor chetah becomes piteously, alb
iectly tame.-"Beast and Man in India"
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12


Much confusion has arisen from con-
founding the common laurel Q4aurus cera-
sus, or laurel cherry with the famous
laurel of the ancients O.. nobilis). The
former was not introduced into Europe
until 1876. Its leaves contain the potent
poison, prussic acid. whereas the leaves of
l.. nobils contain a fragrant aromatic oil
used in confectionery 1t is to this, the
true laurel, that we apply the term bay,
and we use it as poetical term for an
honorary crown or garland bestowed as a
prize for any kind of victory or excellence:
Beneath his reign shall Eusden wear the bays
We apparently get the word bay through
the Latin bacca, a berry from the French
baye, or, as Hollands "Pline" has it.
THE bales or berries tBacca) that it (the
Roiall Laurelh beareth." Hence also the
term bachelor is supposed by some to
be derived from the ancient practice of
browning candidates for honors with bay
leaves and berries, whence the term bacca-
laureus and laureate. Those who were
found worthy of the honor obtained the
laurel of bachelor or the laurel of doctor
(Laurea baccalaureatus, Laurea doctora-
tus). In the Scotch universities the act
of comforting degrees is, or was, styled
"laureation," and a chaplet was used in
some of them. In the ages of chivalry the
bas chevaliers, or men below the degree of
knight, were admitted to serve by being
crowned with a chaplet of laurel berries,
and were hence called baccalaurei. Notes
and Queries.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12
Benefits from Running.

Running is the great beautifier of figure
and movement, it gives muscular develop
ment, strong heart action and free lung
play. The muscle comes where it ought to
be, the shoulders go back, the loins hold
the trunk we'll balanced, and the feet take
their correct positions. 1t was running
which made the Greek figure. The more
active tribes of American Indians have
been runners from time immemorial, and
from the chest to the heels they are much
more beautifully built than the average of
white men. Running people have usually
the firm but elastic texture which is the
beauty Of fiesh.-London Tit-Bits.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12


An Australian paper said very humor-
Ously, "Rudyard Kipling landed ON this
island at IL O'Clock and at 1915 he had
formulated an Australian policy"
YES, that is very funny" said Kipling,
but it is not true. This is how it was: A
young reporter cornered me just after
had landed. treated him kindly, hut
said firmly that | was not to be inter
viewed
~ have no thought of interviewing
you,' replied the reporter with a touch of
sadness in his voice. i ask a much great
er favor than that
1t turned out that the reporter was a
man with a theory who had been persist
emily sat down upon by his superiors on
the press. He had an Australian policy
that he knew would be of the greatest
benefit to the country. No paper would
print it. His modest request was that
Kipling would let him put forth his theory
as the scheme of the young novelist
"They will print it," he said, IF give it
as coming from you"
"All right" agreed Kipling, fire
ahead"
So the young reporter got in four mortal
columns telling the people of Australia
how to run their country.
Il never read the article" continued
Kipling, "but there must have been some
amazing theories in it, from the storm it
raised. | hope that young man realizes
my forbearance in standing all the un-
merited abuse heaped upon me for it,
Detroit Free Press.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12
An Apt Statement.

When the late bishop Of Carlisle was
once preaching in aid of hospitals in the
abbey, he upset a glass of water placed for
him on the pulpit before he had begun to
speak. The water trickled down the neck
of an unfortune young man sitting below
and the bishop, who was quite unconscious
of the mishap, began his sermon, strange
to say, with the words, Accidents will
happenr'-Pall Mall Gazette.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-05-12

When Jones was at Oxford he was a
most excellent fellow, and only had one
enemy-soap. He was called Dirty
Jones. One day the wag Brown went
into his rooms, and demonstrating with
him on the untidy, slovenly and dirty
state of everything, said:
Upon my word, Dirty, it's too bad;
the only clean thing in your room is the
towelp-London Tit-Bits.