The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-12

| apiece for the fish.
City Attorney Bird has had to post
pone the taking of testimony in the
waterworks case until next week on ac-
count of the absence Of Councilman
Nettels from the city.
People who stand around in the hot
sun watching the tennis games wonder
how the players stand it One of the
players says they do not suffer from the
heat so long as they perspire freely.
Many people complain that the boot
blacks are becoming a nuisance. They
will no longer take one refusal from a
man when they want to give him a
polish" but they try to force him into
it.
T. B. Brown, foreman of the state
printing office, has a lengthy article in
| the current issue of the Typographical
Journal on the condition of affairs at
the union printers home at Colorado
| Springs.
People who have thought they would
wait till late in the fall before taking
their vacations are getting anxious to
get away to the mountains, or some
| other place, since the weather has been
so hot.
It was rumored yesterday that the
Gath cigar sold for 5 cents. A reporter
saw Mr. A. T. Waggoner. at 731 Kan
sas avenue, who sells this popular
cigar in Topeka, and he said it did sell
for cents, but it was superior to many
40 cent cigars.
In some Topeka Offices since ice water
has played havoc with so many people,
buttermilk fills the Ice water tank Peo-
pie who like it say that it quenches the
thirst and is far better to drink than
ice water.
The Barber Asphalt company contin-
ues to promise to keep the pavements
IN good repair. The company has sue
ceeded in one thing since it took the
contract-a prompt drawing of its pay
for work it did not do.
Capital lodge Order of Select Friends
has -fa1 led fn1I
Therese Schultz, chief protector; Mrs.
Flora Shear, secretary and treasurer;
Mrs. Hobbs, chaplain; Mrs. Mishe,
marshal; Mrs. Rosene, inside guard.
A Topeka man who has been attend
ing the tennis tournament says that if
he was going again he would take two
sun umbrellas instead of one, so that he
could shade his feet. He says his feet
sun.
If it was size Custodian John Dudley
wanted when he had warning signs
painted to go in front of the state house
he might have had them painted across
the front of the building. Few political
appointees know when things are hid
eOus.
G. c. Clemens has lots of trouble with
reporters. He recently gave one an in
terview and it came out as a mani
festo,' to his great surprise. You can
slide out of an interview said Mr..
Clemens. but you can't get away from
a manifesto"
B. G. Young, one of the carriers of
the Topeka postofice, who, it was an
nOunced a few weeks ago. could not re-
! cover from a humorous growth at the
base of the brain, is much better and is
working again part Of the time. His
head still troubles him
Probate Judge Dolman tells his
friends that he is not losing any sleep
Colorado, but down deep in his heart
he firmly believes that he has a fortune
in them. They are located in a new
mining district near Salida.
The people who come back from the
mountains, where they have been en-
Joying comparatively cool weather. dur
ing this heated season, will wish they
hadn't when they get here. A person
suffers much more from the heat after
having been on a vacation.
Hiawatha World: Martha Lindley
had an offer of a position in the Topeka
schools with a salary of $50 a month,
Tuesday, but as she had first been
elected by the Hiawatha school board
she preferred to teach here and did not
| accept the Topeka school.
When Bank Commissioner Breiden-
thai calls for a statement from the state
banks 1t makes him a great deal of ex-
ira work in writing letters TO bankers
to get them to make the report cor
rectly. Before he got the last report
complete he had to write 700 letters.
Postmaster Guthrie has received a
request from the Lincoln Memorial So
ciety of Washington for the particulars
of the death of Boston Corbett in the
| Topeka asylum. COrbett did not die in
the Topeka asylum. The last that
was known of him he was in FL Paso
Tex, ready to cross into Mexico if
anyone should attempt to put him in
an asylum.
Postmaster Guthrie has recommended
for promotion Samuel Robinson and
! Isaac P. Groom, two of the letter car
riers in the postoffice. Their salaries
will be advanced from $500 per year to
$3.50, but their duties will remain the
same. 1t IS one of the rules of the de-
partment that after a carrier has served
one year, if his work is satisfactory, he
is entitled to an advance on the recon-
mendation of the postmaster.
Mrs. Thorpe requests the women of
Topeka who can do so to make and
send her articles of a baby's wardrobe
Thorpe" and will be kept in a "baby's
trunk, ready to be loaned to poor Wo-
men who have no clothing for their in
fants, and when outgroWn to be return
ed and loaned again to others. Mrs
! Thorpe now knows of nine infants who
| are needing clothes.
The following from a Salina paper
! probably explains why Official Handi-
! capper Ollinger has declared off the
! dates for the state bicycle circuit, which,
/ it was given out, was done ION account
| of sickness in Kansas towns The Sa-
! this evening for a recUperating trip
/ through the lakes of Wisconsin. He has
/ been sick for several weeks and takes
| the trip on the doctors advice to seek
/ a cooler climate
Why Not
! Go to FIT Riley with the special ex-
/ Gil 10 mi 20