The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-21

strument Mr.. Sheldon sent him a
mandolin Friday.
A Topeka woman, in a communica-
tion to the State Journal, wants to know
if the Topeka committee intends to let
Ed Little walk in the parade as he did
in San Francisco.
The high school yell was ''plagiariz-
ed"from the Marmaduke Military acad-
emy where it was sung, shouted and
yelled with the name Marmaduke in
place of high school.
The cutters on Kansas avenue are
washed out nearly every morning, but
side streets, which look as if they had
not been cleaned this summer.
1t costs money everytime a person
turns around in a barber shop and now
without turning around it will cost 10
cents to have the back of your neck
shaved whether you ever see it or not.
Crook" Wright's place of business,
but not his present abode, has been
moved from First and Monroe nearer
the Santa F'e shops, but the proprietor
is still engaged in splitting rock for the
county.
DR.. r. S. Magee suggests that the
proposed drive from the city park along
the river bank to Gage park be named
Funston Drive" He says he is will
ing to give a personal subscription for
the work.
A Topeka man who has been out
through the western part of the state,
says that it looks more wintry here
than further west, because the trees
cut there have more leaves on them
than the trees here.
The Lawrence Journal calls attention
to Governor Stanley's versatility, which
he displayed by attending the Wichita
street fair, where everything went, one
day, and addressing a Y. w. G. A. con-
vention at Emporia the next.
The agricultural college football team
was to have played with the college of
Emporia today, but instead they sent
word that they couldn't play because
they were so badly crippled in their
recent game with Washburn.
The SMALL boys have taken up the
game of golf on the streets. 1t is a
common sight now to see a boy pound
ing a small stone over the pavement
with a crooked club for a brassie, yell
ing fore" at the top of his voice.
A bow-legged man with a peculiar
Toll to his walk has been watching the
State Journals bulletins closely for the
past two days. He is a man who used
70 follow the sea, and he took more in
terest in the yacht race than anybody.
A Topeka man who is always both
cred with Halloween fiends in his
grounds, proposes to string wires across
mis- yard this year so that the boys will
ard he will not have so much trouble
in catching them.
A Topeka woman is trying to keep
house on the samples that agents leave
she is succeeding remarkably well,
but she doesn't know that her husband
slips down to a lunch counter every day
for a square meal.
George Chapman of North Topeka,
German, and Frank Hoffman, of Me-
noken, a F'renchman, fought in the ar
mics of their respective countries at the
battle of Metz during the Franco-Prus-
sian war. Friday they CHANGED to meet
for the first time in North Topeka.
There are a lot of Kansas girls who
are in favor of bringing the Twentieth
home just as quickly as possible Ex-
perience shows that they must be got
ten away from the influence of those
California girls, or too many of them
may follow the example of General
Funston.
The street fairs in Kansas are all
over now, and the pickpockets will have
a vacation until the Twentieth Kan
sas receptions begin in various parts of
the state. The Topeka police are
watching for them and are locking up
all suspicious characters as fast as they
are spotted.