The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The next few weeks will strain many
a pocketbook.
The time for fling election statements
has closed.
Senator A. L. Coleman of Centralia,
w. H. Harris, janitor of the west wing
OF the state house, is sick.
Attorney General Boyle has gone to
Eureka on legal business.
Private Secretary Lewis has gone to
Kansas City on business.
The state house officers have been pho
tographed within the past week.
John D. Milliken, of Mcpherson, is ar
guing a case in the supreme court to-
day.
General Gordon, who Iectured here
tuesday evening, gets $3.50 for each lee
Superintendent Stryker has returned
from trip to the southeastern part of
the state.
Every. time a blizzard comes along
somebody says that it is the coolest
storm in years.
There were several witnesses up from
Newton attending the Stacy trial In the
federal court.
People who claim to know say that
the usual crop Of Christmas weddings
is getting ripe.
A. E. McCoubrie, assistant superin-
tendent of insurance, is visiting at his
home in Olathe.
Representative Ed McKeever is sched-
uled for q. speech at the Kansas Day
club banquet this year.
Judge w. P. billiard, chairman of the
board Of railroad commissioners, Is Wis
iting relatives in Virginia
One Topeka boy has already begun
to figure on borrowing his sisters stock
ingS to hang up on Christmas eve.
The letter boxes in the west part of
town are being repainted. This time
they are given a silver color with red
letters.
The course of the pompadour contin-
ues upward. By next season it will re-
quire a two-story hat in order to cover
it at all.
Lincoln J. Carriers Remember the
Maine" will be the attraction at the
Crawford theater next Thursday even
ing, December Is.
A Topeka bachelor has made the dis
covery that when a girl gets a new ring
she has to fix her hair a great deal
with her left hand.
A Topeka jeweIry store keeps col
lection of old coins and paper currency
in its sidewalk showcase for display.
They attract considerable attention.
Ed Little wrote home from Honolulu
that there were only two things to mar
the voyage from San Francisco to that
place. There were thirteen women and
a black cat on board the ship.
A book agent struck the state house
Thursday afternoon, but nearly every
one was out of humor and he received
the marble heart every place he went.
The engine and dynamos of the new
electric light plant at the state house
are automatic oilers. Not a particle of
oil or grease is in sight and none drops
on the floor
A Topeka girl claims to have made
the discovery that a piece of sandpaper
tied to each of the ankles will produce
a good imitation of the sound made by
a SIS silk skirt.
Judge Botkin, ex-department COM
mander of the Kansas G. A. R. has re-
Gently received his discharge from the
army, in which he was an assistant
adjutant general
Volume III of the University Geolog-
ical Survey has just been published by
the state printer and a large number of
copies have been turned over to the sec
rotary OF state for distribution.
Some people say that If Gillett had
succeeded in being elected to the legis-
lature he would have mOrtgaged the
state house to eastern capitalists before
the session was half through.
The young people Of the Second United
Presbyterian church gave a Japanese
social Wednesday evening. The prin-
cipa1 feature was a Japanese wedding,
and refreshments were served in Jap
anese style.
The following question is being debat-
ed in a literary society in Topeka: Why
should the government impose a stamp
tax when 1t is able to run a 1aSt mail
for the benefit of Kansas City papers P
Leavenworth Times.
Railroad Commissioner Campbell is
preparing to have his house on his
farm out in Stafford county remodeled
so that it will be ready for him to move
out there as soon as the Republicans
relieve him of his job.
An eastern insurance paper this week
contains a picture of a tombstone which
it calls 1.-The Lone Prairie Grave" On
the tombstone is engraved, ''Hic %
JAG McNaIl. Erected 1898, by the Ad-
miring Agents of Kansas"
This is the time of year when the man
who holds a pass, and who is afraid it
will not be renewed, spends all the time
he can in riding on the train in order
to get all the use he can out OF the
pastebOard.
t w Caffey, of the state auditors
Office, has picked out job for himself
as soon as the new administration steps
in and let's him out. He will be book
keeper and accountant for W. A. Swan,
a Pittsburg mine operator
A man with experience warns the
capitalists who are contemplating fitting
up a new hotel in Wichita on the
strength of the rush there in the past
few weeks, that the rush will die down
shortly and the storm center will be
transferred to Topeka
Use sale of seats for the engagement
of Digby Bell in THE HOoseir Doctor
opened this morning, and the former
comic opera star will probably be greet
ed by large audience on his appear
ance at the Crawford theater next TueS-
day evening. Regular prices will pre-
vail.
The clerk of the district court out in
Haskell county writes the secretary Of
state that he doesn't spend much time
in his office because business is slack
A communication from the secretary of
states office to him remained unans-
Wered for couple of weeks on that ac-
count.
The Insurance Report, a Denver in
surance journal, contains a cartoon this
week showing the state Of Kansas as
young woman with drawn sword ana
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