The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
Is Creeping Into the Loaf of
English Life
American Jockeys Winning All
the Races.
HEFAYORITE Triple
OF England About to Give Place
to Lager Beer.
English Papers Discuss Recent
Election In Missouri.

Copyright, 1899, by Associated Press.l
London, Sept. with SO many ma
teriaI signs of the increase of American
leaven in English life, it is small Won
der that the press and people are pay
ing special and in some instances hys-
terical attention to this menace to in
sular habits. The height of this feeling
is perhaps best illustrated by the re-
mark of an English jockey, who seeing
last Tuesday at Derby the American
jockeys securing all three places in one
race, muttered:
"Othello's occupation is gone
On the same order is the Globe $
comment upon the purchasing from
Pittsburg of gondOla cars for the Sou
dan railroad. 1t says;
No imperative question of time can
be urged here, as in the case of Atbara
and it is hoped that a full inquiry viii
be made as TO the facts"
In reply to an evening papers query
as to why the government has not
promised to help the farmers by secur-
ing the best American instead of Eng
lish machinery, an AnglO-Australian
writes;
Nobody in Australia would think of
using anything but American machine
~. 1t is all American from the reaper
and binder to the lawn mower and gar
den trOweL Many of the implements
are unknown to the English farmer. J.
Bull Will stick to the old groove"
nOIncement by one of the largest firms
of brewers in the United Kingdom that
they are going to make lager beer.
which has caused articles to appear
beWaiiing the threatened popularity of
the ancient national drink ale. Draw
ing attention to the increased use of ice
the Standard says:
The recent hot weather inclined the
Englishmen to sympathize with the IL
ritability usually displayed by Ameri-
it,
MISSOURI ELECTION DISCUSSED.
Excepting the small incursion of So
clety TOlk Thursday to see Mrs. Lang
try's first night in THE Degenerates,
London remains in the social dOldrums.
Partridge shooting commenced Friday
The birds are reported to be plentiful.
There is such dearth of matters of
international interest that even the re-
cent special election in the Eighth Mis-
souri, district for a successor to Con-
gressman Richard P Bland has been
utilized as the topic of the day. lengthy
editorials foreshadOwing all kinds of
possible political upheavals in the Uni
ted States.
A weekly paper again brings up the
May brick case, saying the injustice done
to Dreyfus is nothing when compared
to that done to Mrs. Florence May
brick. the American undergoing penal
servitude for life after having been
convicted of poisoning her husband.
basing its remarks on the old theory
that she ought to have been hanged or
freed.
The prevalence of the plague abroad
creates uneasinesS here and the author
tiles have taken a few regulation pre-
cautions at the ports. But the bulk of
the English are far too satisfied with
their sanitary security to seriously con-
slider the possibility of an outbreak in
this country.
PUNCHED WALES RIBS.
Many stories are current about the
Prince of Wales recent visit to Marien-
bad. where he was most democratic. It
is said that a Polish Jew sitting on n
park bench next to the prince not
knowing his identity began to question
him about what he paid for his rooms.
doctors, etc, ending with digging his
royal highness in the ribs and telling
MIN he looked too healthy to need the
water cure.
rounds about the new gun, made at
WoOlwich which is said to be so pow
erful that no range is long enough to
test it. so a new range is to be built
1t is seriously stated that the first shot
went out of sight and that it was i'm
possible to get the exact range But
the range was comparatively estimated
at 10 miles. AS the extended testing
grounds will not be ready for some time
II is said the gun is being shortened so
that 1t can be tested Immediately.
Public interest in both the Dreyfus
court martial and the Trausvaal crisis
rather tagged during the week and is
not yet keen on the yacht race though
the papers give good accounts of the
ShamrOck's dOings.