The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-10
JAYHAWKER JoTs.


Wichita is putting on airs because
two citizens Of that town are witnesses
in the HillmOn case.
A thief up in Clay county stole the
bible from a church. He evidently be-
Heved in a free gospel.
A Burlington druggist rejoices in the
name of Puffer He should have been
a country newspaper editor.
Whenever a partisan paper succeeds
in electing it's favOrite candidate, it
prOnOunces the result "a landslide"
The dog catcher in Atchison caught
only 10 dogs last month and sausage
made a corresponding advance in price
Ed Howe is greatly worried over
DeWey's matrimonial venture He is
afraid the admiral viii be hen-pecked.
Bent Murdoch calls William Dean
HOWells the story writer" That's
enough to make the Kansas literary
set pass resolutions.
An lola young man had a long talk
over the telephone with his Chanute
girl the other day, and his father cheer
fully footed the bill
The Republicans are now patting Carl
Browne, the COXeyite, on the back He
has been talking expansion at EmpOria
and waxing it to the PopuHsts.
The Sixth district hen must have
been working overtime. A single com
mission firm at Downs shipped lao 900
eggs to the eastern market during Oc-
tober.
The wives and daughters Of Kansas
farmers will come in for a generous
share of that two million dollars worth
of silks that was imported from China
this week.
Judge" Margrave, of Fort Scott, eel
ebrated the forty-ffth anniversary of
his arrival in Kansas last Tuesday. He
has been justice of the peace during
the entire time.
a Lawrence man has a hat which has
been worn for q years. He is prob
ably deaf and dumb and can not talk
through it, which accounts for its wear
ing properties.
Demosthenes is one of the corps of
correspondents of the Eureka Messen-
ger, but he has changed his style some
what from the days when he used to
crate in Athens.
Pap Eckert, who watches over the
fraternity down in Cowley county, says
there are only two unmarried newspa-
them have been exposed.
A formerly-of son man who now
lives in London, calls himself ElWynn
Barron. Just think of such thing as
that from Ed. HOWe'S town! The Lon
don man has written a novel.
lola Register: Lawrence is quite sot
up over the presence of Dr.. Jockichi
Tackimfne, the Jap who invented Taxa
Diastase, in the classical burg. The
town girls will be calling him Jok be-
fore a week has passed.
The latest from John J. ingalls, is that
he continues to improve down in New
Mexico, but it is not stated whether he
has yet increased the length of his
horseback rides to more than fifty miles
per day.
Wichita Eagle: When the lola com
pany reached that city the older women
kissed the soldiers. The girls stood
around and waited to be kissed and so
far as the public has knowledge, were
disappointed.
Ernest Jordan. of lola, has a pair of
nickel spurs which he picked up near
MaIOlos, and which formerly belonged
TO some FI1p1nO officer. He has loaned
them to General Funston to wear dur
ing his next campaign when he goes
back to the Philippines.
Eighteen months ago, just before
Fred Funston was appointed colonel of
the Twentieth by Governor Leedy, he
delivered a lecture in Hutchinson to an
audience Of Is people, on his Cuban ex-
pertences. He shivers now whenever
he thinks Of that reception.
The Wellington Journal says a man
in that town actually worked against
the county high school proposition be-
cause last year he paid his taxes with
rabbit scalps; that this year the county
was too poor to pay the county, and he
had to pay his taxes in cash, $1.87.
The people of Lindsborg have to listen
to the senior class at Bethany college
get off this yell ''Rickety, rackety siz-
bOOm-rah! Century bethany, Tah-rah-
rah. Razzle dazzle, Cicero boom! Cen
fury Bethany, give US rOoml RazzIe
dazzle, out of sight! Century Bethany,
we're all right"
Professor Penny. of the State uni
versity, has arranged to take a party
on a European excursion next summer.
The entire cost of the trip from New
York and return viii be only S26O-5O and
the itinerary will include Scotland. Eng
land, Holland, Belgium and France. in
Guiding two weeks at the Paris exposi-
ton.
There are a whole lot of defeated can
didates in Kansas just now who feel
as they remember the votes that were
promised them, like David did when he
made his celebrated statement. All
men are liars" David must have Just
completed an unsuccessful race for
sheriff of Jerusalem county, when he
made that statement.
Charley Scott prophesies that when
the little Filipino boy, who came over
with the Twentieth, returns to Luzon
full of Kansas ideas on farming, re
IigiOn and politics, he will get himself
elected dictator within thirty days.
Charley must have an idea that some
body is going to haul down the flag
over there, If dictatOrs are to be elected
nv the DeODle themselves