The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-07
HEARD AND OVERHEARD.

Facts and Fancies JOtted Down in the
Daily Note Book
There is nothing in the world worth
losing a friendship for.
A Topeka girl whose sweetheart lives
out of town and often disappoints her
about coming is considering proposals
for a new one That is she is looking
over the recommendations of applicants
for the place.
Sweet peas-the kind you will eat next
month-are in bloom in Topeka gar
dens.
One of the ballet girls of the recent
amateur performance is very properly
referred to by a visiting young lady as
the ''Pick of Topeka"
These are the days when one carries
off ones neighbours fan unconsciously.
A Topeka paper describing swell
party says: each gentleman was distin-
guished from the other guests by car
nation "-Emporia Gazette.
This description was not in the Jour-
NAL
There is nothing on earth a man will
hide from as he will from the woman
who wants to tell him all about her fuss
with another woman.
A man who had learned that discretion
is the better part of valor walked up Kan
sas avenue on a recent windy afternoon
WlLn ven over MS 1aC0
Miss Kate Field, one of the brightest
of American women, will hereafter be
connected with a Chicago paper. Her
first work will be as correspondent from
Hawaii.
A Topeka little girl with al magma
ton says she remembers when she was
in heaven, whence she has been taught
all babies are sent to earth. Asked why
she left the lovely place she describes
heaven to be, she replied, "Oh, the
angels got tired of me cause l cried to
see my mamma"
The occupants of buggy driven four
blocks on Harrison street last evening
heard 'Amorita" being sung in ten diff
ferent homes.
There is novel and unerring barome
ter in town. The ceiling of the Mer-
chants National bank says down before
every rain.
Last evenings rainfall was twelve
hundredths of an inch.
There is young man in town who
dances in all the crowds, from Oxford to
Assembly.
The old fashioned man who is para
doxical enough to say he is powerful
weak" lives in Topeka.
The anglomaniac who insists on turn
ing up his trousers in dry weather should
learn to roll under the frayed edges and
wear neat shoes.
There is h brave woman in town. She
has the courage and bad judgment to in
vite uncongenial people to the same
dinner party.
A keep off the grass sign on the cor
ner of Ninth and Jackson street throws
shadow almost large enough to hide
all the grass in the Immediate vicinity.
1t is suggested that the number of
/ ladies desiring to visit the state house
! dome has grown since it develops that
only handsome guides shall be ap-
| pointed.
Capt. John Seaton and Col. Alexander
Warner will hold another reunion at
! Atchison May Both. 1t is said that each
of these gentlemen is the others ideal
candidate for governor in 1896.
Hiss Louisa Mills, of the Emporia
Gazette, whose experience as d news
paper writer dates within the last year,
is rapidly advancing in the excellence of
her work. Her clever description OF
"How the Women got out the Gazette"
and an interview with an Egyptian
mummy are samples of her good work.
Miss Mills began right by doing local,
special social, interviews, everything.