The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-15
SNAP Shots AT HOME NEWS.
MT. Jennings hez saved the corn
Fl the gunner amt to hum.
Bur eZ fur saving the country;
trust that to the street corner bum

The fireman at the Jefferson street sta
ton are cleaning house.
Coxey is to be pitted against MarshalPs
band tomorrow evening.
The work on the new sidewalks will
probably commence next week.
The city street force is making nightly
repairs on the Kansas avenue bridge.
SNOWFALL bush is in bloom on Clay
street for the second slime this season.
Simon Greenspan has not given up his
scheme of licensing the drug stores.
The electric cars in Kansas City run
thirty miles an hour. In Topeka they
run eight miles.
Those who will attend the Corbett-
Fitzsimmons mill are already having
their hair clipped
The new Populist paper is to be called
The Co-operator. 1t is to make its ap-
pearance September l.
A Topeka man who does not smoke.
saves all the cigars that are given him
until his wedding day.
A Topeka wheelman has bell on his
wheel that he got for Christmas pres
ent sixteen years ago.
There are twenty-five prisoners in the
county Jail. The sole sick one brought
his ailment with him.
The Topeka women who have their
hands swathed in bandages are those
who have been canning fruit
George W. Crane has captured a five
year contract for furnishing the schools
OF Anderson county with readers.
Ex-PoIice Captain Peter Gish will be
city editor of the new Populist daily,
which begins business September /.
A young man was seen at work fully
ten minutes before Office hours at the
Santa Fe general offices this morning.
The fate of the man who was struck
by lightning at an early hour yesterday
is solemn warning against early rising.
Clerk sharitt, of the United States cir
cult court, will arrive tomorrow from
his visit to Block Island, on the Atlantic
coast
The W. 4. L. Thompson hardware
company had 1000 kegs of nails on hand
when the price went up from $3.50 to
$40 a key.
A prominent Kansas avenue attorney
put in three hours moving away load
of hay in his barn. 1t saved him twenty
five cents.
Callers at the governors Office these
days find the door to the inner room
standing open, and can see that the clock
has stopped.
Captain John Gardiner is doing the
milkmaid act while his family are away
from the city. His cow gives two gal
Ions of milk.
Several cantsloupes belonging to a
Kansas avenue commission merchant
fell from a wagon last evening and the
newsboys had feast.
Sergeant Jennings made a run on his
bicycle a few days ago, while in Usage
county. He fairly flew, making four
miles in fifteen minutes.
E. W. Tatman has returned from Dali
las, Texas, to look after business matters
here. His mother, who has been seri-
ously i'll, is slightly improved.
W. D. McKinstry. who was formerly
urer, has returned from Galveston, where
he has spent the past six months.
A young lady of this city boarded a
train at the Union Pacific depot for Solo
mon City and rode to the Rock Island
depot She got on the wrong train.
Sam Harper, wealthy Menoken town
ship f1rmer, sold six hogs on the market
for $50. At one time in the summer he
had given them up to die with cholera.
A Topeka man who has just returned
from the mountains with vision of ruin
Gus hotel rates haunting him, has Zig
ured out" why "Mah0met didn't go to the
mountain"
An Atchison man who was at the state
house today remarked that he had often
heard about the sign "keep off the grass, :"
but this was the first time he had really
seen one.
After each heavy rain the street COM
missioners have to hunt up the ''washed
away" board crossings at Fifth and Polk
while the passers by swim over or go to
the next street
j. W. Watson, who was sentenced to
the penitentiary for snatching a pocket
book in 1889 for seven years, has been
released, and has returned to Topeka to
make an honest living.
People who were up in time to know,
say that there was partic ularly beauti-
tut sunrise yesterday morning. A larger
number were probably able to enjoy the
sunset, which was also very beautiful.
1t has been said by a wise man that a
girl of sixteen will dress like girl of
twenty, and a girl of twenty-five will
fore girl will be twenty tor nine years
or more.
A sweet sixteen miss is practcing six
L00u nOUTs a OdJ Oh d oOuS duO OduCc ACT
she will do at the female minstrels bene-
fit to the Orphans home. As the benefit
is three weeks hence, her folks are al
most frantic.
An observing woman who is visitin Q
in town thinks q fact worthy of notice
that there is not one grocery or market
on the west side of Kansas avenue be-
tween Sixth and Eighth, and not one dry
goods store on the east side.
Mr.. 81. Robinson's fine Great Dane dog
King William died recently. The gen
tleman who shipped Mr.. Robinson
Prince George, the dog which died al
soon as he arrived in Topeka, very justly
bore the loss himself. Mr.. Robinson viii
import two more new dogs soon.
LOUIS HECK TO STAY HERE