The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-17
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
You should take surgeon with you.
Little man:
Aou are going to play base ball
Ii you can.
Youth get hit upon the nose,
Break your fingers and your toes,
For that's the way it goes,
Newspaper man.
Youn have crooked base ball fingers
Then galore.
1ou won't want TO see diamond
Anymore.
AS You lie two weeks in bed
Almost wishing you were dead
There II be sharp pains in your head,
And youu be sore.
The Ann Arbor glee club will sing to-
night
The United States grand jury will COM
plete Its work today.
The street railway track is being re-
paired near the bridge.
The East Side railroad to Vinewood
park has new engine.
A night class was organized in the 7.
N. c. a. gymnasium last night
The Capital young men are busy trying
TO fill up the holes in their bats.
Topeka Red" Laird will leave to- NOR
row to join Sells circus at Denver.
j. l. Marks, formerly of Topeka man,
died yesterday at Los Angeles. Cal
The Episcopal choir has been photo
graphed in three different positions.
The German Catholic church gave a
supper at Metropolitan hall last night
Capital council, Knights and Ladies of
Security, gave a rag carpet social last
night
The Municipal league will talk about
the Topeka waterworks at its meeting to-
night.
Miss Carrie Morgan has gone to Kan
sas City to take some special studies in
music
The best advertisement on the base
ball fence will be the one nearest the
peep hole.
There is more building going on in
Topeka now than there has been for sew
eral years.
marriage license has been issued to
c. II. Lerrigo and Anna Bell Barry, both
of Topeka
The millennium may come now just as
soon as it wants to- The women have
begun to wear sweaters.
Receiver j. c. Wilson, who is recuper-
ating at Excelsior Springs, is reported to
be much improved in health.
The annual meeting of the Presbyterian
Missionary union will be held this even
ing at the First Presbyterian church.
The county commissioners have ap-
proved the bonds of Justices or the
Peace F. NJ Grover and J. B. Furry.
Flower beds and early vegetables were
decorated with tin cans and bed clothes
last night, but the frost did not come.
The ladies of the Orphans Home as
sociation will hold special business
meeting at the home Monday afternoon.
The JOURNAL Capital base ball game
is to be called promptly at 4:30 p. N.
Cd Friday with Senator Sterne as um-
pire.
A Topeka man who attended the Grand
opera house last night is so prudish that
he wants the name of Clay street
changed
1t has been decided to play the jour
NAL-Capital ball game at the base ball
park on West Sixth street without charge
for admission
The woman who calls herself Lilly
Clay went driving about town yesterday
in an open hack with a sleighbell to ad-
yertise her show.
Mrs S. A Thurston is to address the
Republican Flambeau club and the
| Woman's Republican association at their
meeting tonight.
| The annual county convention of the
| ". C. T. L. is being held at Martin M. E
/ u.
the principal speaker.
s Topeka young lady who passed
through a grave yard last night in re-
turning from party, is Frustrated by a
nervous shock in consequence.
The Royal Ladies of the Select
Knights A 0. Q. W. will hold meeting
tonight at the residence of r. P. Pay, 920
| Tyler street, to install their officers.
l. A Gourdain, the New Orleans man
convicted of using the mails for lottery
| purposes, gave a $1,000 cash appeal
bond. He is said to be worth half mill
ion dollars.
The stage hands at the Grand caught
three or four fellows about town looking
in the dressing-room windows at the
Lilly Clay show last night and threw a
lot of dirty water on them.
Fire Marshal Wilmarth can't under
stand how the fire at Bert Snyder's house
got started yesterday afternoon. He says
the origin of the recent fire at w. Il.
Rossington's is mystery to him.
The county commissioners have or
dered some changes made in the finish
ing of the surveyors office in the new
court house. The room will be finished
for less money than the estimate calls
for.
The meanest man in town is the mer.
chant who refuses to pay the street
sprinkler man, because the street in front
of his store must be sprinkIed to be oil
any benefit to his neighbor who does pay.
Max Meyer, who has been employed in
the office of Receiver Wilson of the
Santa Fe, is now working for the Rock
Island superintendent of telegraph, a
r Lingafelt
JOHN E. MARTIN CHANGES,