The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-10
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


wonder if ever rhyme was rung,
But the thought surpassed the meter!
,Wonaer II ever sculptor "5Oq - 7+
TIL the cold stone echoed his ardent
thought
Or II painter, with light and SHADE
The dream Of his innost heart portrayed
I wonder if ever. a rose. was found;
And there might not be a tairer.
Or if ever a glitrering gem was ground,
And we dreamed not of a rarerl
All, never on earth do we find the best.
But it waits for US in a land Of rest.
And a perfect thing We shall never behold
James Clarence Harvey in New Orleans
Picayune.
o. J. Shannon will go to California
Tor a six weeks visit shortly
Mrs. Hollcraft viii sell best carna-
tons soc per dozen, Saturday only.
These cold damp mornings are re-
ported by duck hunters to return good
profits.
explain the reason for today's snow
storm?
The new school building in North To-
peka viii be ready for occupancy in a
few weeks.
A snow storm after the small boys
begin to play tops and marbles is alto
gether out Of place.
When Governor Hanna saw the
cartoon of his eighty-seven hats he
was not mad as halter.
Harry Steinberg gives his famous
confetti ball tomorrow evening. Come
and have a good time and see the fun
Now that the legislature is history
the next entertainment viii be the
spring opening of the Sells & Downs
circus.
The high school is planning to put out
a track team again this spring. The
material is said to be exceptionally
promising.
Long Jawnv Howerton. of anti
OH
Rossville to look after his steers and
real estate.
A lot of the legislators who roasted
the Topeka hotels went home to get
their I'LL Of salt pork, navy beans and
spinach and tripe.
The frost which settled down on
certain candidates on election day
must feel to them even chiIlier than
this days snow storm
The frogs that have been singing for
the last ten days viii think that they
or the snow storm got the dates mixed
somewhere along the line.
This year the legislature will get
away without removing the dome from
the state house Two years ago about
all that was left was the state house.
That hunting trip OF BergundthaI's
to the Indian Territory, when he came
home without any game after hunting
for ten days, may have had something
to do with 1T.
legislature, out of the goodness of its
heart, voted money to repair the
state house steps and to resurface the
walks and driveways2
Senator Fred Dumont Smith antici-
pated a trip to Europe this spring but
If he keeps on fighting the trusts and
the OctOpuses he will not find time for
a sail across the pond.
Lieutenant Governor and Mrs Han
ma left today for Clay Center to visit
Governor Hanna's mother. When
they return they Will leave for an ex-
tended trip to the Pacific coast.
There have been a good many Home
Comings of Col Hucks" during this |
sentatives of the plain common people !
went home to Grigsby's station to tell |
what they did.
W. c. Steele. the boot and shoe man
of North Topeka, has presented No. 3
fire station with three handsome pic
lures. Captain Knott says that about
q half dozen more pictures are needed.
The medical college notes of the
Washburn Review says. Reed had a
call one night last week to attend Tom
my Hyatt's horse which was suffering
from a istula. Hyatt wished a con-
sultation before operating on one of
his family"
The following building permits were
issued yesterday by Fire Marshal VIII
marth: Davis, Welcome & Co, two
residences, lots 445 and 452 on Har-
rison street, costing each $4,000; J. w.
Boltz. residence. on lot 119 West Sixth
street, costing $4,000.
Rev. John A. Bright was not here to
sing Throw Out the Life Line" dur
ing the closing hours of the legislature,
and there is no one else who can sing 1t
as can Bright so the 'latOrs dispensed
with this usual ceremony Rev. Mr..
Bright is now holding revival services
at Fairfield, Iowa
Z. c. MacLennan, a country merchant
at Dragon, Usage county, met with a
slight but painful accident while driv-
ing in to Topeka yesterday. About two
miles south Of Pauline in striking q
deep rut in the rough roads he was
thrown out of his wagon and his left
collar bone broken. He is at his moth
er's, Mrs. K. MacLennan, 40 West
Tenth avenue.
DR.. F. H. Snow. of the university of
Kansas, has been selected from the
faculty of the university as one of the
lecturers in the spring lecture course of
the Field Columbian museum, of Chi
cago- With one exception, Dr. Snow is
the only speaker outside the Columbian
museum staff who will appear in the
course His subject win be. THE Fer
tilizati0n of Flowers by Insects
Chancellor Strong of the University
of Kansas. after his experience with the
present legislature, expressed himself
as follows: THE legislature is made up
OF unusually able and Iikeable men who
have great interest in educational af-
fairs in general and the university in
particular Very many of them are in
terested in the university because they
look forward to sending their children
here for their education"
When County Commissioner Sterne
was talking with Senator Miller. chair
man OF the ways and means commit
tee. to have the state re-emburse the
county of Shawnee for half the expense
of building the macadam road on Sixth
street in front OF the insane asylum
Senator Miller said. why should we
isn't the road already built?" The road
has been built some months but the
legislators could not very we'll vote for
brick turnpikes at Atchison and I.eav-
enworth and refuse this. and they did