The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-02
JAYHAwKER Jors.

A four-leged chicken is the latest
novelty at Moundridge.
Very naturally Mr.. Parrot, Of Clay
county is a public talker.
Topeka has decided that her slot ma
chimes must gO-on running.
High water has been making quite a
run on the banks Of Solomon again this
week.
McLouth boasts that it got out of debt
without the aid Of revenue from the rum
power.
It seems fitting that DR.. Buck, of Hor-
ton, should select the Indian Territory for
a location.
Lawrence will turn out zen masse'' to
the ball game today, between the Indians
and Bloomer girls.
Atchison doesn't object to bar rooms six
days in the week but Is fussinS about
open Sunday saloons.
Augustus getting pretty sporty with
croQuet tourney and merry-go-round GO
ing at the same time.
Kansas beef steers are selling for $780,
Why not arrange an aerial race between
beef and Santos Dumont-
Is the senatorial fight in Brown county
responsible for the decrease in population
the past year Of 700 souls?
Lightning Is no respecter Of conditions
One flash bowled over thirteen cent
hogs near Galena this week.
Beef has fallen at Atchison. The well
was forty-six feet deep and the animal
was taken out in tabaloid form.
Is this day of miracles? A Pratt
family advertises in the want columns of
the Union for a bright little girl.
The Congregational church at Sabetha
has given a social with free refreshments.
Is the world coming to end?
Summer has gotten far enough along at
Sabetha to justify the merchants in adj
xrap ffcir, ctr hot OF hu1
With confidence hiatt Is childlike and
bland Helen Kimber announces that Kan
sas women will be voting in 1904.
That Leavenworth lover with a tenden-
cy to shoot might be given a march to
the halter rather than to the altar.
Editor Howe bushes to acknowledge
that several Atchison citizens have re-
ceived green goods circulars lately
Strange to say the Hays City pest house
patients protest against small boys MAX
ing rifle target out of the building.
A mother pig in Pratt county besides
raising nine youngsters of her own
nurses two calves and shepherd pup.
Newton citizens are investing in Cal
ffOrnfa oil stock. Better profit from Ar
kansas City's recent foreign speculations
As if it wasn't warm enough Herington
has appropriated funds to search down in
the bowels OF the earth 1900 feet for hot
air.
Wellington's cup of happiness is filled to
overlooking. Their new electric light
plant exceeds that Of Wichita in mellow
ness.
potatoes kept the wolf from the door,
of Editor Shedden, of Frankfort, this
week.
Bootleggers and petty thieves bother the
Holton officers but 1t naturally follows
like dogs tail. that the jails are doing
business.
The Emporia man who shot his brother
after taking one drink now realizes that
a peck Of trouble can often come from
pint flask
An Osborne county man bet that he
could ride a calf around the lot but the
money he won didn't pay for setting his
broken arm
on a rock but now he builds it on the
sands of Manhattan Beach and calls it a
seaside hotel.
Life in Meriden is Of such an Arcadian
nature that the sole duties Of the town
marshal consist in cutting the weeds
along the highway.
Anthony claims the banner brass band
of the state because they have two more
men than Marsha1Ps. With them its
numbers not notes
The Socialist colony at Fulton is can
ming Is acres Of tomatoes Let it be not
ed that nothing Is better for a torpid
liver than tomatoes.
The race between the weeds and the
corn won't be in 1t with the Atchisou
county sprint between Seaton and Wag-
gener for the legislature.
The Waubaunsee man who swallowed
and successfully masticated a large brass
stick pin Is thinking of taking to the
road as the human ostrich.
Thelecture league of Osborne has barred
out an Uncle Toms Cabin outfit A the
atrica1 manager Ii known by the company
he Keeps In that community.
An Uncle Toms Cabin production was
so villainous at Great Bend that the au-
dfence. show hungry Al they were, left
before Eliza crossed the Ice
All the politicians admire the frankness
of Charley Curtis and admit that there IL
nothing undermined about his methods