The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-23
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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Thanks. Sergeant Jennings. This is something
''Phiianthropist'' against your name we en-
ter:
We love to have a weather prophet strike it
AS you have this time-j1st about the center!
OF course your stove isn't up.
There was dance in Smoky Row
Friday night No arrests.
There are now twenty-five cases Of
diphtheria in Topeka and vicinity.
The gun calling in the straw hats was
fred Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
s. R. Wharton has resigned his job as
organizer of Republican league clubs
Painted on the window of North To-
peka confectionery is SHAY and Feed"
Phoenix. Arizona, has a society similar
to the ST. Ananias. 1t is called the
Muuchausen club
For the first time in many days pedes-
trians selected the sunny side of the
streets this morning.
The tomato vines and white duck
trousers have both lost their usefulness
since this mornings frost
"Jesus is the Drunkard's Friend" is
, the inscription on one of the North To-
,, peka Salvation Army walls.
The state school fund commissioners
have purchased $4,000 of Reno county
per cent retundlng bonds
The Ninde Chautauqua circle will
meet at the First n. E. church this even
ing to organize for the years work.
E. S. McClintock has resigned the
Office of Royal Prophet of the Ancient
Order of Pyramids and DR.. ]. E AIinney
is elected
How we do welcome summer when
winter comes to an enc, but it always
wears its welcome out, and it did the
past two weeks
A Kansas avenue druggist says two
men dipping the same spoon into the
same five cent ice cream soda is the
latest sight he has seen.
A big sandbar formed along the north
bank of the river above the bridge last
week A North Topeka man says it is
made of sand blown into the river
Four umbrellas were turned inside
out by the wind Sunday morning within
a block of the transfer station. Ono
blew up and lodged on the phone wires.
A drayman says that when he crosses
the Kansas avenue bridge with heavy
load, it reminds him of the suspension
| bridge at VInewOod. It is an awful sus-
| pense.
Topeka people who have been grumb-
| ling over the hot weather are ''growl-
ing" today over the cool Wave. They
| say it kept MarshalPs band from playing
at Garfield park.
MIR. William Beer, formerly librarian
of the Topeka free library, now located
at New Orleans, is hunting for a lost
! library that was last seen in warehouse
in Possy, France, in 1887.
P J. Norton, private secretary of B.
Lantry of Strong City, is in Topeka. He
says MIR Lanlry is confined to his bed
and will probably never get out again, a
partial paralysis of the lower limbs nav
ing taken place.
| What a lot of stupids we have among
our court oficiaIsl Mcintosh dragged
away from his wife on their wedding
night and thrown into jail and six
months afterward it is found he isn't
guilty. Somebody ought to be arrested.
Go down to the court house and see
them administer justice(?( Lawyer Dom
stole several hundred dollars aud ne is
let off lightly because he is a lawyer.
Mcintosh, who is innocent. is kept in
| jail several months and finally let GO
/ without even an apology. Can such
things inspire respect for the courts?
4 number of boys who have been
drinking up the ice water at the electric
plant go elsewhere now. Fine wires
lightly charged were laid on the floor
around the water tank and when the
small boy connected with the tin cup
and the wire there happened such war
dance as would make a Sioux Indian
| green with envy.