The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-24

passing along he would yell, There's
my girl; hello Maud"
A Topeka young man who was mar
ried recently has all of the letters ever
written his Wife bound. They are type
written and in a copying book and
cover 1,5O0 pages. And his courtship
lasted only two years. Win he burn
the book ten years from now?
I dropped my pocketbook yester-
day" said an old lady to a downtown
clerk, 'sand it had a $40 check in it and
about SIS in silver. Now don't you
suppose the person who found it win
return it to me?" Wen, Topeka is
pretty near good enough to do that.
Lee Jones says that Duncan Harri-
sons story about w. J. Bryan appear
ing with Ada Grey in Topeka isn't SO.
He doesn't know Mr.. Bryan, he says,
but he knows Mr.. Harrison. Harry
Stafford also knows Mr.. Harrison and is
ready to back Mr.. Jones for any
amount
A Topeka young man who left home
some time ago because nothing suited
him, returned recently. 1t was sup
posed by his family that he had come
back cured of the habit of complaining
and a fatted calf was killed. But the
very first thing ne did was to object to
the way the calf was cooked.
Lewis Sells of the Sells Bros. has
plan for starting a wild animal farm
in California to supply the world with
animals for exhibition and burden A
speciality will be made of camels- Geo
Starr, who was the animal man with
the show here last summer, is now in
the old world securing well mated ami
mails for the farm
Mrs. J. w. Stutsman, an inmate of
the Topeka insane asylum was moved
from the asylum in Knights ambu-
lance and taken to her former home
near Overlook. She is very danger
ously i'll and must soon die, and her
family wished to have her at her home
where they could care for her She has
been Ill for many months
In an editorial in the last issue Of the
Kansas Medical Journal, attention is
called to the fact that ]. w. Leedy was
one of the senators in the last legisla-
ture who voted against the bill for
medical legislation. The editorial
states that it is the duty OF all mem
bers of the medical profession in kan
sas to vote to defeat all candidates for
election who We're opposed to the bill
A Topeka young man bought a bicy-
Gle recently. He didn't know much
about BICYCLES and one day when he
took it apart ne found some little balls
in the wheels ."Some idiot has been
putting up a job on me, he said, tits
mighty good thing found them bullets
before they ruined the Wheel" and he
threw them away. The wheel is in the
repair shop.
The Morgan sisters of Topeka are
just now singing at Hopkins theater,
ST. Louis, and have made a great hit.
A Topeka man who heard them re-
Gently says the audience almost refused
to let them go after one number and
encored them repeatedly They made
the same kind of a hit at Mr.. Hopkins
Chicago theater. He used to allow
them to go on occasionally to help fill
I'D an evening. but they soon got past
being padding"
Cliff Baker yesterday received a let
ter from a man in Flora, Ill. who also
bears the name of Baker, asking that
he secure for him a pair Of jack rabbits
as he wanted to use them for breeding !
and speculative purposes Topeka !
Mr.. Baker wrote his namesal1e that he /
was hardly built for jack rabbit hunt /
ing himself as his shape was never in !
tended for a runner SO he referred the |
letter to AL j. Arnold, who has recently /
ACQUIRED some fame as a 'possum hunt /
err. with the request that he get Judge /
Hazen and John A1ileham together and I
secure the Illinois man pair Of the I
animals he wanted