The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

There are six babies at the county poor
farm.
| Our summer seems to be coming all
| in lump.
| Frank Herald now has his law office
in the city building.
r. B. Welch is transacting legal bust
ness in Osborn county.
Frank Doster is in the city comforting
with Populist leaders.
I Home grown strawberries will be on
/ the market next week.
! Seventy five horses are now in train
/ ing at the fair grounds.
The new straw hats have wider rims
1 than those worn last year.
| w. l. Lee will have three horses In the
races at Denver next month.
The Topeka district Nj. E. conference
will be held at Perry next week.
The new Christian church to be built
| in North Topeka will cost 81, 900.
A sign the east entrance to the state
| house grounds reads: "Free Grass"
The Rock Island pay car started out
on its reg ular monthly trip this morning.
All early apples were not killed re-
ported. Some varieties will be abund-
ant.
Frank Mileham and Arthur Massey
have horses in training at the fair
grounds.
with the office of the commissioner of
elections
There are lots of tramps in the city
and they make practice of begging at
the houses.
Chief of Police H. G. Lindsey has re-
turned from the meeting of city mar
shals at st. Louis.
There was something peculiar about
the show last night-the ushers were
quite QentlOmanlY.
Fresh cases of measles are being re-
ported to the health board at the rate of
four or five a day.
Since going to Leavenworth the San
ders army has discovered that Topeka is
a mighty nice place.
The senior class of the high school has
finished school and the members are pre-
pairing their orations.
A burglar made an unsuccessful at
tempt to enter ]. G. Samuelson's resi-
dence few nights ago.
Ringlings' circus wagons were hauled
across the Kansas avenue bridge twice
and the structure still stands.
The elephants and cameIs were taken
away from the show grounds and loaded
into the cars at o'clock last night.
Whenever you get to thinking how
hard you have to work remember the
circus band and stop complaining.
sit seems to me-" said a disappointed
man at the show, "that all the poor acts
and all the thin girls get into my ring"
1t takes Col. Vandegrift of General
Waggener's command to successfully
sQuelch the smart young man on street
car.
A little woman tried to shoe the hip
popotamus with her fan last night but
the beast snorted at her and she nearly
tainted.
The w. A. L. Thompson hardware
company has been given the contract
for furnishing radiators for the state
buildings
Whenever a question is to be decided
at the high school, it is usually taken to
Rev. J. b. Thomas of the school board
to be settled.
Don't say that any man can get a job
who wants one unless you know of one
yourself where the wages are at least a
dollar day.
down last evening on Tenth street be-
tween Tyler and Polk Where is the
''city electrician?"
The RingIing show left its wintering
quarters at Baraboo, Wisconsin, on Sat
urday, April 2Sth, the same day the Sells
show left Topeka
Perry Stafford has just received his
new Columbia bicycle. 1t is the lightest
framed wheel in the city and weighs
twenty nine pounds
The Jaws were out in force at the cir
Gus last night. They allowed the con-
cert man to announce the concert. What
is Topeka coming to?
Percy A. Stock bridge, the fancy shoot
er now in Topeka, shot ashes from a
cigarette in the mouth of an assistant,
taking aim from mirror.
A young man who can speak seven
languages was arrested last night for be-
ing drunk and insulting women. He for
foif a = in tod
A district court jury has awarded a
verdict of 81, 654.50 to Mrs. E. w. Crumb
of Burlingame, in a suit against the New
Hampshire Fire Insurance company.
A man at the circus last night earned
a great deal of admiration in his vicinity
by threatening to lick the popcorn man
who insisted standing between him
and the ring.
A large freckle-faced young man Gre
ated great deal of amusement on the
side last night by exclaiming in
a loud voice, swell, I'll be gol darned,r
after each act of the circus.
DIR. Reid Alexander has returned from
Galveston, Texas, where he attended the
national meeting of railway surgeons.
He says the Texas people have enter
tanning down to fine point
The Ringing Brothers allow no drunk
enness nor gambling on their show
grounds and the employees are not al
lowed to smoke on the trains, nor in the
tents during the performance.
The state school fund commissioners
are to advance but $4,000 on the court
house bonds at the first delivery Forty
thousand dollars will be delivered July
1 and the balance on January 1 next