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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-05

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22
KANSAS PARAGRAPHS

The assessors in Wichita have found
over sixty pairs of twins and the count is
still proceeding.
The Wichita Eagle thinks in time
beefsteak will be sold in boxes with the
bottom half way up.
A Garnett merchant is selling five
pounds of choice plug tobacco for 81 and
politics is taking a boom.
A Wichita man has done an unusual
thing for that town by shooting his ear
of. They usually shoot their mouth off.
A strange story is told in Arkansas
City to the effect that men have quit 60
ing fishing because of the scarcity of fish.
Burlington people are to have the first
try at a brand new merry -go-round
shipped directly from the mandatory
Wichita sent ten prisoners to the peni-
Tertiary this term of court There are
some things in which Wichita easily ex-
cells.
This is the time of year when high
school students seek out high sounding
airy for notices.
The serious problem whether boomers
should be called this or these is agitating
Emporia minds As BELTS the subject
opinion is divided.
Wellington has a blacksmith who
spends what time he gets from setting
horse shoes, dragging the horse hair
across fiddle strings.
The Owl club at Ottawa has organized
a band to join with the mosauitoes and
hot nights in driving away natures
sweet restorer sleep"
Some Fort Scott boys who thought
they had found a dead woman on the
banks of the Marmaton discovered later
that she was only dead drunk.
There are twelve irrigation ponds
within the city limits of Great Bend and
it is hard thing to get about nights
without getting your feet wet.
There is a promising field for young
men of good address at Sterling. Nine
girls will graduate from college there
this year and not one of them is poor.
The BARRIERS have challenged the print
ers at Hutchinson to a game of base
ball The printers are expected to do
put whiskers on the ball
Willis is not the place to go to show
your new clothes as the following item
indicates: "a couple of misses brought
a dude to town Saturday. He took the
train for Atchison, presumably to get his
white pants dyed"
| Conscience has not decayed in every
section A Morrill, man advertised for
! the return of fur robe which had been
! stolen from his barn, or the thief would
be arrested During the week he re-
ceived six robes sent him from parties
unknown to him. and letters telling him
where to find four more.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22
IN KANSAS sANCTUMS.

]. B. Wilcox. of the Strong City Der
rick, is reported to be young, handsome,
and unmarried.
Col. D. S. Elliott is erecting two story
building of vitrified brick as a home for
his paper, the Cofeyville Journal.
The Jamestown Kansan has been
merged into the Alliant, and hereafter
its patrons will receive their paper from
the COncordia Office.
The Peabody Graphic has been pur-
chased by Messrs. Mcclure s. Ayres,
two recent arrivals from Illinois. They
have changed the name to the Repub-
lican.
Fred Whiting, of the Florence Bulle-
tin, who is said to have more news
paper ventures on hand than he has
fingers. has started a paper at Cedar
Point called the Pointer.
In referring to the fact that he has
been in Wellington sixteen years, the
editor of the Mail incidentally mentions
that he walked into town from Wichita
with but ten cents in his pocket and all
his other possessions in a grip sack.
George Sipe, editor of the Altoona
Journal, is the Pooh Bah of the town.
In addition to occupying the position of
postmaster, principal of the school, no.
tary public, and trustee of the Congre-
gational church, he was elected mayor
at the recent election.
Young MIR. Kendall, who began the
publication of second daily paper in
Wellington. very wisely realized when
he had enough and gave up before it
lost him much. Wellington is not big
enough for two dailies, and promises
made to induce men to start papers are
rarely realized. 1t is better to publish a
high grade weekly than a poor daily,
aud that is what Mr. Kendall is doing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

day, and hundreds of them from all
over the United States will be on hand.
A feature of the occasion will be the
grandest ball or reception that hospita-
bic Atlanta is able to arrange for.
In speaking of the interesting exhibits
the committee expects to secure, the
chairman, Mrs. W. L. Peel, says:
''The organization of the various pa
triotic societies has done much to aid
u.s. Owners of beautiful historic things
now realize that in so far as looking at
and generating and admiring them
they are to certain extent the property
of all. This spirit has enabled us to do
with ease what would have hitherto
been deemed impossible We will dem
onstrate the entire history of colonial
Virginia from the pipe of peace smoked
by Powhatan and Captain John Smith,
loaned by the Cabell family to the last
act which rendered Virginia free, when
the proudest nation on earth bent the
knee on Virginia soil to a grand Vir-
ginian. We have relics of Patrick
Henry, never before loaned, and from
North Carolina will come some lovely
Ashe relics, and a beautiful portrait of
the lost Theodosia Burr, said to be the
only one in existence Georgia, South
Carolina, Kentucky and other states
will be well represented. and from
Louisiana will come many dishes and
vessels of beaten gold or silver, rare old
portraits and gorgeous costumes left by
the old Spanish grandees and French
marOuiseS -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

sign. It is As feet high and % feet
square, and the walls are built Of gran
lite foot thick and are REINFORCED by
IN inner brick wall two feet thick. The
Lomelike roof is a frame of iron, cover
ed with terra Gotta. In the crown of the
dome is a skylight, through which the
midday sun throws a flood of radiance.
There are no windows, and the only
light falls from above. The floor is laid
in mosaic, with large bed of flowers
in the center. The arch shaped entrance
to the colum barium in guarded by an ar
tistic but very substantial metal door,
and watchmen will be constantly on
guard about the building to prevent
ghouls from breaking in and carrying
away the urns.
The building is so planned that wings
may be added at any time, but it is be-
lieved that many years will pass before
the 1000 tiny rooms in the oolumbarium
will be filed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22
LIFE OF A LOBSTER.
How the Poor Fellow Struggles in
Changing His Coat.
USES OF HIS TENTACLES AND TAIL.
He sometimes Loses = Claw in = Fight
but Doesn't Mad 1t Much.

He sometimes Loses = Claw in = Fight
but Doesn't Mfnd 1t Much.
BANGOR, Me-, April $3.50 little is
known about the lobster and so very
erroneous are the popular ideas as to its
food, mode of life, etc., that | think
story of the life of a lobster as it is
lived on the coast of Maine, the great
est lobster ground in the United States,
perhaps in the world, should be inter
esting as we'll as valuable to all lovers
of this toothsome crustacean. When
the eggs are extruded from the female,
betw cen the months of April and Sep.
TENDER, they are already fertilized by
the male. They are covered with Wis
cous secretion, which causes them to
stick together, and also to the long,
fine hair, or swimmerets, of the abdo-
men. The number of eggs varies from
1000 to 10000, and after they are a
few days old the skin of the egg
changes, and the young lobster is able
to swim.
They are now prey for many kinds
of fishes and do not even hesitate to de-
your each other. But the carapace. or
shell, soon begins to form, and after a
very little time the young crustacean
finds his way to his natural home at
the bottom of some shelving rock. The
shell is formed in very curious man
ner. 1t consists of a mucous emulation
from the body of the lobster itself and
contains a large proportion of calca-
reous or limy matter. This she'll is so
inelastic that when the animal grows
its covering becomes too small, and the
process of exuviation, or shedding this
she'll. takes place. generally once 81
year, until tho animal is full grown,
after which it does not exuviate, SO that
we sometimes find old Holsters whose
shells are covered all over with barna
Giles.
This process of exchanging the she'll
is accomplished with great pain and
difficulty to the lobster, as the increas.
ed limbs have to be drawn from the
now too small shells of the claws, legs,
etc. When the exuviation begins, the
shell of the body of the animal splits
down the back to the tail, and tho
semiliquid flesh is withdrawn from the
shell. Then the lobster drags itself for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22
SENATOR ISHAM d. HARRIS. OE TENNESSEE
ASANDBAGGING LOVER.
Instead of Marrying Her He Raped Mr.
Fischer on the Head.

SAN FRANCIsCo, April g. = Mrs
F ischer, woman with two boys of and
years, formerly of Indianapolis. who
has twice crossed the continent in search
of the sweetheart who promised to marry
her. but instead of doing so struck her
with a sandbag and robbed her of $1,5U0.
still claims that ex-Sheriff Charles :.
Laumeister of this city is the man who
caused her all the trouble.
Mrs. Fisher tells how the ex- sheriff in
the guise of Fl. Cecil King courted her
in person and by letter, and then de-
spoiled her of packages of notes, after
first administering hard rap on her
head with bag filed with sand. She
even goes into details and tells of the
reception in indianapolis when she first
met Mr.. King. She tells of drives in
New Orleans, and has a big bundle of
letters that King wrote her, every line
glowing with loving ardor.
Mr.. Laumeister never was in New Or
leans, nor in Indianapolis. nor does he
resemble in cry way the description
Mrs. Fisher has frequently given of
King, but nevertheless she is firm in the
belief that the ex-sheriff is her recreant
and sand-bagging lover.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

The work of buying up support tor
the gold standard propaganda has be-
gun. The initial move is to control the
press of the country. When the policy
of leading papers cannot be controlled
otherwise, these papers are bought out
right Tho purchase of the Chicago
Times Herald is a case in point 1t is
announced that the paper under the con-
troll Of Millionaire Kohlsaat will be in.
dependent in politics but that it will adj
vocate the gold mo notary standard. The
adoption of this policy will leave it free
to support Mr.. Cleveland for the presi-
dency if the monometallists should de-
eide to unite upon him as their candi-
date. At present it is undoubtedly for
! Mckinley and would support him if he
should secure the Republican nomins-
tion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

state and they are on the right track to
do it.-Smith County Pioneer.
The more Independent the newspapers
of Kansas become the faster their infiu-
ence grows. A few years ago the Repub-
lican newspapers of this state were su-
pine; they all lay fat on their faces while
ignorant and swellhsaded local politicians
walked on their necks It is promising
sight to see them now cracking the whip
over the head of the mob who seek Office
merely to make a living out of it, and
steal as much as they can from the peo-
pie. This kind needs suppressing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22
RARE COLONIAL RELICS.
Many Of Them VIII BE on View at At
Ianta's Great Exposition.

Ianta's Great Exposition.
The colonial committee of the wom-
ans exhibit at the coming Cotton States
and International exposition is hard at
work interesting the women of the couh-
try in its proposed display. The Colonial
Danes and Daughters of the American
Revolution are heartily cooperating,
and when the exposition opens many
rare and valuable relics of colonial days
will be on view in Atlanta. AS the ex-
hibits will be placed in a fire proof
building many precious heirlooms will
be sent to Atlanta that were not on
view in Chicago Every state that has
colonial history worth recognizing will
be represented, and many will be hon.
ored by special state day celebrations.
On North Carolina day. Nov. z, for ex-
ample. the anniversary of the battle of
Kings Mountain will be commemorate
ed, and Virginia day, the greatest state
day of all, Oct. 10. will be- the anniver-
sary of the capture of CORVALLIS.
All Colonial Danes and Daughters of
the American Revolution have been in
vited to visit the exposition on Virginia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22
A THOUSAND TINY roMes.
San FranciscOs Co1umbarium For the
Ashes of the Crenated Dead.

Ashes of the Crenated Dead.
That cremation is constantly growing
in favor in the United States is en-
phatically demonstrated by the recent
completion, near San Francisco, of a
substantial structure that it is expected
will one day hold all that is mortal of
1000 people. The building is called a
columbarium and has 1000 tiny rooms,
which are destined to hold urns contain
ing the ashes of persons who have been
incinerated. The little rooms or pigeon
holes have placards on the outside,
which will bear the name Of the de-
ceased and other facts for Identification.
The urns in which the ashes are sealed
are artistic vessels of pottery or metal
and may be removed from the inches in
which they are deposited. The tiers of
inches for the reception of the urns are
reached by means of bronze staircase.
The columbarium. the only one of the
kind in America, is the property of the
San Francisco Cremation society and is
a freproof structure of Romanesque de-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22
MARY LEASE On BICYCLES,
She Talks About Them But Doesn't
Ride on Them.

she Talks About Them But Doesn't
Ride on Them.
"Men are fast getting down on all
fours," said Mrs Mary Elizabeth Lease,
as man on a wheel sped by on the
Quincy street asphalt He was bent
nearly double, his face distorted and
firm set, his eyes standing out and his
legs moving like the eccentric of a steam
engine. She watched the spectacle until
it had disappeared down the hill toward
the Kaw river. and then went on: eff
present indications are worth anything,
the man of the future will be a rara avis,
and the 'clinging ivy type of woman
either will be out of date or will have no
sturdy oak to which to cling.
THE bicycle, which is doing more to
emancipate women from the thralIdom
of dress and custom than all other
agencies combined, is claiming man as
its victim. Note the erect position, the
freedom and the grace of movement that
characterize woman cyclist, especially
if she has the good sense to wear the
costume necessary for the exercise Then
compare her with the average man on a
bicycle the man who has just roll ed by.
for instance. He lunges forward, bent
to an angle of forty five degrees. and
uses his limbs not unlike a huge grass
hopper. This ungraceful picture Is max
ing itself manifest in his walk. He is
becoming stoopshouldered, and looks
down as if in quest of his feet"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22
a LOBSTER.

ward feebly, leaving the shell Of the
tail behind. However, so quickly does
the process of emulation 90 on that the
new she'll IS perfectly formed III few
days, and the lobster leaves his tenn
porary retreat
The manner in which Holsters move
is very ingenious. The legs proper are
the only limbs that are used. Tho tail,
claws, ETC., are kept motionless and in
such position as to offer the least pos
sible resistance to the water. During
this progress the long tentacles are con-
tinually moving from side to side, feel
ing the way and incidentally looking out
for enemies or danger. Should danger
be apprehended the lobster at once
backs with marvellous rapidity, in
which operation the tail is used in cases
of extreme urgency.
Although every body who has seen a
lobster must have noticed that one claw
is larger than the other, few persons
know the reason for this disparity Of
size or the real uses of the claws. Their
chief use is for the purpose of capturing
and preparing food, but they are also
used as instruments of attack and de-
tense.
It has been commonly believed that
their food consists of decaying or de-
composing bodies of fishes and other
animals, but this is entirely erroneous.
AS matter of fact, the lobster is very
careful in the selection of his food. and
unless his usual food is scarce or en-
tirely absent from his locality he never
eats anything that is not perfectly
sound. The natural food consists of
CLAIMS, mussels, small oysters and the
smaller kinds of shellfish, usually BIZ
valves.
The larger claw takes the place of
the molars in the higher animals. With
this the lobster grasps the bivalve and
brushes it, and then the smaller claw,
which is thickly set with incisors, is
used for dividing the softer portions of
the prey and preparing the food. While
the process of. crushing the shells and
preparing the flesh of the bivalves is
going on the little horns on the end of
the tail and also those on the thorax
show their usefulness by holding the
prey or food while the claws are doing
the Strengthening and butchering work
Connected with this use of the claws,
and also with reference to their utility
in defense and attack, it is highly in
teresting to observe the remarkable fac
ulty for repairing injuries which is
possessed by the lobster. For instance,
when a claw is injured, while crushing
shells or during a fight. the limb at
| once snaps off at the second joint, where
the diameter is least, and the animal
does not seem to suffer the slightest in
convenience from the loss. The limb
fills out at the next exuviation, but in
the case of full grown lobster the loss
is never supplied.
HOLSTERS are endowed with a very
well developed sense of smell. and for
| this reason they avoid as much as posi-
| BILE those parts of the bottom where de-
composing animal matter lies unless it
becomes necessary, through lack of their
natural food, to have recourse to that
unsavory diet. This sense also enables
them to discover the proximity of many
of their enemies. ROB. F.. WALSH
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

SECRETARY MORTON gives expression
to the opinion that an International
agreement on ratio between gold and
silver is impossible, aud thinks we should
recognize gold as the only monetary
standard of the world. Haven't we? He
also says very truthfully too, that the
time has passed for straddlers and that
those who favor a sound currency and a
gold basis ought to say so. He incident
ally admits that this class is hopeIessly
in the minority.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

The investigation of Rogers of the
State university stops too short 1t
should take in the professors and pupils
of that institution. From what we can
see we should say that for an institution
of learning there is entirely too much
politics in it.-Bent Murdock's Paper.
The professors made bad mistake in
endorsing Rogers before he was exam
ined. There is entirely too much poll
tics among them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

IF the dives, gambling dens, saloons
and policy shops can be closed in Kansas
City and Topeka. the two largest cities in
the state, as the governor says they have
been, why can't they be run out of Atch-
ison, Leavenworth and Wichita? Surely
local sentiment was as strong against the
enforcement of the law in Kansas City
as it is in Atchison.-Garnett Eagle
(Repl
Do not ask these awkward and imperti-
nent questions of the governor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

THE Topeka JoUANAL is not doing the
Republican party any good by its con-
slant abuse of Governor MorrilL-Cof-
feyville Journal
1t is Governor Morrill, who is not do
ing the Republican party any good He
ia losing it about 10000 votes week at
the present rate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

The newspaper that criticizes the faults
of the officers of its own political party
as well as those Of the opposition is the
paper that is run In the interest of the
people. Right royalty have the papers of
Kansas undertaken the task. The news
papers can purify the politics of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22
BLUE AND GRAY MINGLE.
Union and Confederate Soldiers Parade
at Texas G. A. r.

OouIeu6FaIo 5OIuIeFN
a Texas G. A. r.
Waco, Texas, April 22.-Today wit
messed the beginning of the annual state
encampment of the G. A R of Texas
The comm ander- in chief, Lawler of
Rockford, Ill, and Adjutant General c.
be rendered reception tonight The
feature is the commingling of union and
confederate veterans.
A grand parade of about 1000 union
and confederate soldiers took place to-
day. The encampment will last three
DAYS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

A COUPLE of editors in Oklahoma have
their papers printed daily in the Coffey :
vile Journal office. The name of their
paper is THE Air" They probably call
it that because they are trying to live on
-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

Atlanta Constitution: Every speech
Mr.. Graves makes fixes his fame as the
orator of Georgia"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

" ---~4177- III --N.a-s US
CHICAGO. April 2f-For Kansas: Fair
and warmer tonight and Tuesday; vari-
able winds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22
OTIS SKINNER MARRIES.
The Well Known Actor WEEDS His Leading
Lady Miss Durbon.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. April 22-A pri-
vate dispatch received here today from
Otis Skinner the we'll known actor an
nounces his marriage yesterday to Miss
Maud Durben, leading lady of his COM
pany. The dispatch is dated Corning,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10
cents week to any part Of Topeka or
suburbs. or at the sane price IN any
Kansas town where this paper has ear
risr system.
By mail, three msnths ........S 80
By mail, enc year ............ $50
Weekly Edition, per year 1850. 80
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

Everybody takes the JOURNAL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-22

SUNDAY; no issue.
The total number of copies printed in the
three months named above, 739,669, divided by
n, the number of issues. shows the average to
be 9,6O6. This is a correct report of the issues
OF the TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL for
the three months as stated.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-01-30

PARIS, January 29.-President Fanre'a
message was read in the senate and
chamber of deputies yesterday. The