The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-12

Easter feathers all IN curl,
But the sweetest things the Easter girl.
Some of the store windows look like
illuminated barn yards.
The Shaker medicine company will
play Topeka next week.
The architects complain that building
is scarce in Kansas this spring.
There will be a council meeting to-
night to dispose of the dam question.
The street railway employees have
commenced wearing their white hats.
The costumes, what there are of them,
in the Elks' ballet will be red, very red.
Police Matron Thorpe had colored
crazy woman to take care of last night
Dean Millspaugh conducted Good
Friday services today at Grace Cathedral
Justice F. NJ. Grover says it cost him
$6025 to be reelected to his present
office.
The first new straw hat of the year
was worn today. But the wearer was
not a swell.
This is Good Friday. Little boys who
have read Robinson Crusoe can tell you
all about it.
Mrs /. E.Thorpe has taken to writing
poetry since she was relieved from duty
as police matron.
Yesterday the first dog tax for this
year was paid. Four people paid the 81
tax and were given tags.
The National Reserve Association will
give free entertainment at its hall at
418 Kansas avenue this evening.
Good Friday caused all the Catholics
in to wn to go to church. The occasion
is made an extremely impressive one.
It is now time for the old-fashioned
little boy to make arrangements to eat a
dozen eggs for breakfast Sunday morn
ing.
What has become of the boy who
poured pokeberry ink on his mothers
favorite hen so she would lay red Eas-
ter egg?
Eugene F. Ware, who founded the
Fl Scott public library, sent it a check
for 800 few days ago for its magazine
department
1t is understood that the salary of Fire
Marshal Wilmarth is to be reduced from
81, 800 to $500. This will be an un-
popular cut
Governor Thos A. Osborn issued. the
first ArbOr Day proclamation in Kansas.
Major 7. J. Anderson was mayor of To-
peka at that time.
A Kansas avenue confectioner offers
five pounds of candy to the lady guessing
Tie u6dE6sG the weight OF al Ed6L0E egg
he has in the window.
Some of the men who wanted to be ap-
pointed city engineer and were disap-
pointed allude to the appointee IS ''Mr
Barnes of New York"
Superintendent Davidson of the city
schools is to have charge of the county
institute in Shawnee county this sum-
mer, commencing June 3.
One of the best appearing carriage
horses in town formerly worked on the
old horse-car line. He worked his way
up with the aid of good pull
A very large number OF the handsom-
est advertisements that ever appeared in
a K ansas paper are to be seen scattered
| through this issue of sixteen pages
Major E. G. Ross, who succeeded Jim
! Lane as United States senator from Kan
sas. and has since been governor of New
Mexico, is here visiting Col. c. K. Holli-
day.
Two of the Capital ball players have
! been disabled and they are thinking of
| begging off and asking that the game
with the JOURNAL be postponed indefn-
itely.
Miss Margaret Horne who sang in some
of the leading churches of Topeka last
fall is now in Kansas City and sings reg
ularly at the Central Presbyterian church
in that city.
One might enjoy riding these evenings
| if itwere not for the smoke of burning
rubbish which fills the air. In the
larger cities these so-called s'bonfires"
are prohibited
Since Lewis Kingman went away the
salary of the city engineer has been re-
duced from 50. 500 to $1,000 year. That's
enough to pay man for chopping the
streets all to pieces.
Last night at the band concert at
! Crawford's, the cornetist tried to play
! sweet Marie" but the other fellows in
terrupted him with discords so much
that he had to quit
The smallpox scare at Ottawa will pre-
vent the women of that town from dis
| playing their new hats Easter. There
will be no church services.
Notwithstanding our sixteen pages to-
day, the JOURNAL is compelled to omit q
mum Der of advertisements for our best
patrons. Several columns of news mat
ter are also inavoidably crowded out
Makes a Common In Turkey.
CONsTANTINoPLE, April IL. = The
| impending arrival of the American war
| ships San Francisco and Mar blehead off
the coast of Syria has created sensation
in government circles here. The United
States minister. Mr.. W. A. Terrell, reply
ing to a question on the subject said