The Topeka state journal., 1895-09-25
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

soap" Curtis has quit talking politics.
There are 1874 city electric street lamps
in use.
The high school will have football
team this fall
A. L Snyder, the Topeka plumber, is
! back, but not to stay
The county commissioners have ad-
journed to next Saturday.
Shawnee county is now caring for
thirty-two insane patients.
The cold wave had the effect of check
ing the spread of diphtheria.
Ex- Policeman Gaines spends most of
his time at the police station.
Cranberries have made their appear
ance in the markets since the frosts.
The Shawnee county horticultural So
ciety will meet at Wakarusa tomorrow
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Jansen left today
for two weeks visit to salt Lake City.
"The Nevels case won't be tried until
after election" is the prediction To-
| peka man makes.
| Lawyer w. E Dom's four months i'm
| prisonment in the county jail has not
affected his dapper look.
| A "keep off the grass" hunting sign
near Topeka reads, mo shooting aloud"
! Will have to use air guns
The equal suffragists claim that the
men have "gone back" on their pledges
for assistance to the creche
1t is reported that B. w Dunn is rap
| idly growing worse at the asylum. Rela-
tives are here looking after him.
At least one Topeka lady is not al
lowed to suffer from loneliness. Yester-
/ day afternoon she had SO callers.
A bicyclist coasting down the Quincy
street hill today tried to rest his limbs
over the handlebars He is still alive.
It's getting towards the time of year
when the Santa Fe office boys spend the
noon hour looking into tailors' windows.
Next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day in the district court will be devoted
to the city cases. There are % of them.
One of the sights to be seen yesterday
was man standing shivering on the
sidewalk eating ice cream from a wood
en- dish.
The railroad freight agents are talk
ing about making the rate on cattle at SO
! much pound instead of by the car as at
present.
The real estate offices in the city are
decorated with corn and other products
of Kansas now, for the first time in sew
eral years.
Harry Hibben is fishing with party
Of friends at Wakarusa He came to
town yesterday after supplies and
brought in load of fish.
The Ancient Order of Pyramid mem
bers will have social, dance and supper
at their hall tonight, 7O4 Kansas avenue,
with no admission charge.
Dr. Brownfield attended the Populist
league last evening and modestly re-
ceived congratulations on his proposed
congressional nomination.
"a
avenue spends all his time hunting pins
Yesterday he found twelve in a vacan
store room above Fifth street.
A conductor who runs on the cemetery
and West Fourth electric line says the
least number of passengers he has car
ried in one day was 118, the most 80.
DR.. J. c. Stewart has pet calf that al
the children of the neighborhood try tt
ride The calf generally rebels anC
scatters the children all over the yard
A crowd of quite young men arount
town who talk much about being "sweIl
ought to realize that nobody can be yer,
swell on $40 month. There are no rea
swells in Topeka. 1t takes money. an,
very young men don't have it.
The court house officials contemplat
a raid on the cellar before moving. 1t
full of confscated wines aud liquors
By law it ought to be poured in tn
sewer.
Justice ]. L Guy is wearing a lape
picture of Asa Bushnell of Springfield
Ohio, Republican candidate for gov
ernor. The judge says Bushnell will bt
elected, sure.
A case for the society for the prever
ton of cruelty to animals may be fount
on lower Monroe street A family
. starving calf to death in order to sel
the cows milk.
Conductor Campbell and Motornee
Randall of the electric railway hav
: gone to work for the Santa Fe as freigt
: brakemen. They will try the work, an
: if they don't like it, will take their oil
. jobs back.
The pickaninny band with Evangelii
Whitman room and bunk at 112 Kanss
avenue. They have cots around tn
: room and make life miserabls for eac
other, sticking pins in the mattresses
hiding each others clothing, etc