The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

the Santa Fe shops here.
The grading, paving and curbing done
in Topeka has cost $1,054, 839.
Salina will send over fifty wheeImen
to the bicycle meet here Friday.
There are 131 members of the League
of American Wheelmen in Topeka
Two Western Union messenger boys
are training for the bicycle races.
The Copeland hotel is the official
league hotel in this city for the L. A. w.
China asters which resemble chrys-
authemums are in bloom in Topeka gar
dens.
There should now be an epidemic of
appendicitis. The grape season has
arrived.
Extensive improvements are being
made in the store room at 500 Kansas
avenue.
Charles Gault has moved his law Office
to the rooms occupied by Overmyer &
Mulvsne.
One nice thing about brick sidewalks
ia that you can't lose any money between
the cracks.
81 caught cold last night" said a m an
this morning. Chorus of anxious in
quiry: "Where?"
Seventy five new members have been
initiated in the A. Q. .. w. Immediate
relief association.
Ex-Chief of Police Fl. c. Lindsey
shipped carload of horses to PhiIadel-
phia yesterday.
The Topeka clearing house association
has agreed that the banks shall close at
noon on Friday.
". j.. Costigan, E. H. Shows editor, is
taking elocution lessons from popular
instructor in the city.
Some of the bicycIists have adopted
the Becky Sharp" whistle, or rather
'ring." It's effective.
A Topeka young man has his collars
made to order, and they are just three
and one half inches wide
Justice Grover has had but three crimi-
nal cases since March. One of them
was Grandmother Bishops.
The Kansas City Star contained a cut
and short description of Oscar Woolver-
toms pneumatic tired buggy last week.
No building permits have been issued
since Aug. 7. There is soon to be a
fresh start at building operations how
ever.
The handkerchief that was used all
day may be said to have been in the
swim-and so was the user most of the
time.
Charles Gatewood, formerly of To-
peka, has been adjudged insane at Dali
las, Texas. His insanity is the result of
brain fever
Art Hunt who used to be the cham
piOn bicycle rider of the state has arrived
from Ottawa. He drove through with
party of friends
Kansas avenue loafer was overheard
telling another that a Dutchman named
hud Oh r
Morrison's play of Faust"
Cantelopes this season have proven g
delusion and a snare, and housekeepers
are wishing the Rocky Ford variety
would come to the market
The pharmacists train consisted of
baggage car well stocked with bottled
refreshments presented by Kansas City
friends, and five sleepers.
The lantern amusement has again
come into vogue among the children in
the southwestern part of the city. Parades
take place every evening.
State Accountant Challinor has COM
plstsd the examination of the State
university books and reports every
thing in frst-class condition.
"Well." said Topeka man last night
at meeting where parliamentary rules
were ignored, II wish some one would
tell me what l am talking about"
If the bicycle fad keeps growing as
fast as it has within the past few years
the primers will, doubtless, read: ed,
do you see the man on the wheel?" etc.
Sergeant Jennings issues $50 maps
every day, and 500 bulletins each week.
The office in the Colum bian building is
the central Office for the state of Kansas.
The indicator at the fire department
headquarters got out of order on Sunday
and Nels Anderson tinkered with it yes
terday morning. It is now in working
order.
"Kid" Taylor, a colored lad now in the
city prison, claims that he lost pair of
trousers during his incarceration. The
prisoners call him penny Game Tay-
Ior"
The house where the poker game was
in progress Saturday night was not at
the corner of Thirteenth and Lincoln,
but about half block to the south. on
Lincoln.
DR.. c. A. Mcclure has gone east with
the family of A a. Robinson whose Httle
daughter Meta Is quite sick She was
taken to Orchard Beach, Me. in Mr. Rob-
inson's private car.
Officer Gaines is said to be man es-
pecially adapted to detective work. His
beat is "man at large" and he wears cit
liens clothes. He makes more arrests
than any other patrolman.
Attorney General Dawes says that in
counties where the county clerks refuse
to make the extensions for the State uni
versity levy he will bring proceedings in
mandamus to compel them to do so.
A Topeka man who is now in Colorado
Springs says that the people are not
throwing money around this summer as
they usually dc. To use his expression:
They are not jarring loose ss of yore."
In the new Santa Fe hospital, with the
Sturdsvant hot air blast aud the Johna-
ton heat regulator, the temperature in
the rooms may be kept at certain point,
while the air may be changed every 10
minutes.
Topeka man who did not catch on