The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-30

pants, he refuses to admit TO ms moth
er that some other boy is wild.
Does any one ever drink out of cut
glass? Does any one ever become so
familiar with greatness and wealth
that he can eat out of cut glass and
enjoy his food?
PEOPLE YOU HEAR OF.
Rev. DIR. A. D. Mayo has returned to
Washington from his eighteenth an
nual tour in the south in the interest OF
popular education. He has Travelled B.
000 miles, visited the most important
schools in six states and given rs lee
lures to teachers and students.
James Marcellus HObson, brother
of the Merrimac hero, has by compet1-
tive examination won an appointment
at West Point. For four years past he
has been trying to secure appointment
at the Annapolis naval academy, but
could not overcome the opposition of
an unfriendly congressman
John Boyd Thatcher of Albany, well
known as a collector of American his
torical matters, has somehow acquired
four wampum belts of the Onondagas,
Senecas and other York state Indians,
and refuses to give them up, though 1t
would seem he got them without the
knowledge of the chiefs. One of the
belts is of the time of Hiawatha, the
famous Iroquois chief.
queen Margner1Ja OF Italy mas given
to those of her ladies in waiting who
have completed 80 years of service a
gold medal which will serve at once as
a decoration and as a mark of diStinc-
has a diameter of As millimeters. On
one side is portrait of the queen and
on the other the number xxx. and the
name of the recipient.
Luther Benson, the temperance ora
tor, who died the other day, was never
able to thoroughly master his appetite
for liquor. Drinking to him was not
habit, an indulgence, but a curse like
that of morphine fiend's. He ac-
knowledged that he was a drunkard,
and yet he was so constituted. the PEG
pie understood him so well, that he
could go on the platform and denounce
whisky without the slightest impress
sion of cant. He was pitied and loved
and admired at once.
Herr Szczepanik. inventor of the telec-
troscope, has just completed some in
VentiOnS which are likely to revolution
ize the whole of the textile industry,
affecting they do all it's principal OPP
erations. By utilizing photography for
weaving purposes he can in quarter
of an hour accomplish what it has ia
ken the designer months or years to
complete, according to the design. AT
the Paris exhibition he will have an
electric loom that will make silk hand
kerchiefs with a portrait of each pur-
chaser interviewer.
i
Commodore Schley Is one of 10 chill
dren. He is also the nephew of two
men, each of whom Is the father of the
same number.
Captain ]. II. Kauke of Wooster, o.,
has given over $4,000 in cash donations
in the past to the University Of Woos-
ter, and now DE has decided to it his
residence in the town, that cost him
10000
Miss Carey NJ. Carroll, who recently
appeared as one of the lawyers in a
case in Jackson county, Missouri, was
the first woman to graduate from the
Missouri state university of law, and is
the first to plead a case in Jackson
county.
Rev. Edwards A. Park, d. D., Ii.
D., of AndoVer, Mass, is the oldest liv-
ing graduate of Andover theological
was graduated from the latter institu-
ton in 1926 and from the former In
1881.
Miss Emile Wagner Of Baltimore,
formerly student at the Peabody con-
SerVatory and a graduate of the Wo-
mans college of Baltimore, has estab-
lished a conservatory of music in a
New York tenement house with the
idea of interesting the poor and ignor-
ant in music.
Letter from boy on board the Bos-
ton: when we just got word to stop
firing on our gun, Mr.. Robinson came
along and said: Let me give her just
one kiss for my WIFE The gun was al
ready loaded, he sighted it quick; the
shot hit a gunboat and carried away
the whole of her bow. I pity Mr.. Rob-
insons wife if that's the way he kisses
her"