The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-03-30


This rain will cause the flowers to
bloom in the spring.
We enjoyed the first thunderstorm OF
the season this morning.
There is a crabapple tree on Van
Buren, street in full bloom.
Alonzo Wardall made a speech at the
Populist league last night
Most of the church choirs are now
practicing Easter anthems.
The Saturday Night club will meet at
Judge Furry's Office tonight
About one Easter lily in one hundred
will bloom for Easter this year.
Mr.. A A Robinson left yesterday
afternoon for the City of Mexico.
1t is to be hoped August will not be as
hot in proportion as March has BEEN
Jesse Shaw, secretary of the Topeka
Water company, is very fond of flowers.
DR.. H. A. Goblin who is to preach at
the First d. E. church tomorrow is in
the city.
Ii there Is one bore worse than another
it is the man who has a penc liant for
making puns.
1t is said that the initials of a. O. Viii
son, the temperance agitator, stand for
aqua" Wilson
One drug store, which believes in TAX
ing time by the forelock, has put out an
ice cream soda sign
The people on Kansas avenue were
startled yesterday by the sudden appear
ance of street sprinkler.
The breakfast roll at the police station
this morning read: sixteen males. seven
females, one bum, one baby"
Possibly the "Icelander's" prowess as
prize fighter, is due to his ability to
keep cooP in the prize ring.
The ". c. T. .. will meet Monday
afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of
Mrs. Swearingen, 903 Clay street
c. Z. Baker busted off his open street
cars yesterday with feather duster and
sent them to the four corners of the city.
The doubters of the arrival of spring
will observe that s'Stump" has opened
his lemonade stand near the Keith block.
Judge Guthrie's Republican League
club for the First precinct of the Third
ward will be organized at the Copeland
tonight
Warren Foster, formerly editor of the
Hutchinson Gazette. is now editor of the
Inter Mountain Advocate, of Salt Lake
City, Utah.
A small building on the fair grounds,
used as sleeping place for horsemen,
was burned yesterday afternoon. Loss
about $50.
City Attorney D. c. Tillotson will speak
at the Liberty United Presbyterian
chuch tomorrow evening on 'sThe Bible
as Literature"
The street force is being enlarged 1t
had dwindled down to such insignifi-
canoe that it was in danger of being called
the street farce.
A disastrous prairie fire swept over
large area in the southeastern part of the
county Thursday. A large amount of
hay was destroyed
The handle of a spading fork prop
eriy operated will make more blisters
than an old-fashioned slipper The man
who says this knows.
J. W. Parr is putting in an irrigation
plant Oh his farm, two miles east of To-
peka, and expects to be ready to irrigate
forty acres within ten days.
Ex-Governor John P ST. John, who is
in the city, says ministers can be
whipped into line on election day but
liquor men have to be bought.
new time card will go into effect on
the Rock Island, April 7, which will
make some slight changes in the arrival
and departure of passenger trains.
Joseph Marshall, an independent can
didate for councilman in the Fifth ward
made speech at a Democratic rally at
the Flambeau club rooms last night
Mrs. William Warren, of 1852 Buch-
anan street, has received a package of
the real shamrock from the old castle
of Ferns" in Wexford county, Ireland
Policeman Mcdowell was hurt last
night in alighting from Santa Fe train
in the South Topeka yards He was
badly bruised but no bones were broken.
The announcement in last nights
JOURNAL that book beer is on tap in
Missouri, had the effect of CT eating a
heavy Kansas City passenger traffic to-
doy.
Mrs Ballington Booth will be enter
tanned at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. J. P.
Griswold during her stay in Topeka. She
is to be here and speak at Hamilton hall
April 9.
'fThe old-fashioped man who used to
drive street sprinkler up and down
Kansas avenue" made his appearance on
a new-fangled watering cart yesterday
afternoon.
A lamp exploded in an upstairs bed
room at the home of A. B. Packer, 1921
East Tenth street, last night. The bed
ding was set on fire, and the damage to
the building will amount to about $50.
Charles r Young has received a letter
from the sheriff Of Cloud county. who
says that Young is not and never has
been fugitive from justice, and there
never was warrant issued for his ar
rest as charged by Captain Wait
A Topeka man, who has been studying
French to be up with the Trilby craze,
yesterday went into a restaurant to
paralyze his friends by giving his order
in French. In just twenty minutes the
waiter returned with seven kinds of po-
tatoes
The sporting editor of the JOURNAL ia
in receipt of a challenge from the sport
ing editor of the Capital for a game of
base ball between the two forces. The
challenge has been accepted and til g
preliminaries will be settled by a con-
fere ace committee. The pub ic may OK
pect an interesting if not a scientific
game.